Subfield · Cognitive Neuroscience
Most cited papers in Cognitive Neuroscience
What are the most cited papers in Cognitive Neuroscience?
The most cited paper in Cognitive Neuroscience is "Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning" (Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Lawrence Silver et al., 2015), with 31,206 citations. Next come "EEGLAB: an open source toolbox for analysis of single-trial EEG dynamics including independent component analysis" (25,692) and "[Japanese version of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory--a scoring system for neuropsychiatric disturbance in dementia patients]." (20,864).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 6,323 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Lawrence Silver et al. · Nature | 24 Feb 2015 | 31,206 |
| 2 | EEGLAB: an open source toolbox for analysis of single-trial EEG dynamics including independent component analysis Arnaud Delorme, Scott Makeig · Journal of Neuroscience Methods | 5 Feb 2004 | 25,692 |
| 3 | [Japanese version of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory--a scoring system for neuropsychiatric disturbance in dementia patients]. Nobutsugu Hirono, Etsuro Mori, Yoshitaka Ikejiri et al. · PubMed | Mar 1997 | 20,864 |
| 4 | Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches Owen P. Hamill, Alain Marty, Erwin Neher et al. · Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology | Aug 1981 | 18,543 |
| 5 | The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. George Miller · Psychological Review | Mar 1956 | 17,806 |
| 6 | A New Method for Measuring Daytime Sleepiness: The Epworth Sleepiness Scale Murray W. Johns · SLEEP | Nov 1991 | 17,509 |
| 7 | Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain N. Tzourio-Mazoyer, Brigitte Landeau, Dimitri Papathanassiou et al. · NeuroImage | 2002 | 17,037 |
| 8 | Neuropathological stageing of Alzheimer-related changes Heiko Braak, Eva Braak · Acta Neuropathologica | Sep 1991 | 16,612 |
| 9 | The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman, Michael J. Emerson et al. · Cognitive Psychology | Aug 2000 | 15,905 |
| 10 | An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest Rahul S. Desikan, Florent Ségonne, Bruce R. Fischl et al. · NeuroImage | 14 Mar 2006 | 14,405 |
| 11 | Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL Stephen M. Smith, Mark Jenkinson, Mark W. Woolrich et al. · NeuroImage | 2004 | 14,361 |
| 12 | Learning the parts of objects by non-negative matrix factorization Daniel D. Lee, H. Sebastian Seung · Nature | Oct 1999 | 14,302 |
| 13 | A New Depression Scale Designed to be Sensitive to Change Stuart Montgomery, Marie Åsberg · The British Journal of Psychiatry | Apr 1979 | 14,132 |
| 14 | Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex David Hunter Hubel, T. N. Wiesel · The Journal of Physiology | 1962 | 13,971 |
| 15 | Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L. Shulman · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Mar 2002 | 13,238 |
| 16 | An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function Earl K. Miller, Jonathan D. Cohen · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 2001 | 13,094 |
| 17 | A default mode of brain function Marcus E. Raichle, Ann Mary MacLeod, Abraham Z. Snyder et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Jan 2001 | 12,560 |
| 18 | A feature-integration theory of attention Anne Treisman, Garry A. Gelade · Cognitive Psychology | 1980 | 12,545 |
| 19 | Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems Edward Thomas Bullmore, Olaf Sporns · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 4 Feb 2009 | 12,340 |
| 20 | Complex network measures of brain connectivity: Uses and interpretations Mikail Rubinov, Olaf Sporns · NeuroImage | 10 Oct 2009 | 12,245 |
| 21 | FSL Mark Jenkinson, Christian F. Beckmann, Timothy E.J. Behrens et al. · NeuroImage | 16 Sep 2011 | 12,165 |
| 22 | AFNI: Software for Analysis and Visualization of Functional Magnetic Resonance Neuroimages Robert W. Cox · Computers and Biomedical Research | Jun 1996 | 11,706 |
| 23 | A synaptic model of memory: long-term potentiation in the hippocampus T.V.P. Bliss, Graham L. Collingridge · Nature | 1993 | 11,655 |
| 24 | Cortical Surface-Based Analysis Anders Martin Dale, Bruce R. Fischl, Martin I. Sereno · NeuroImage | Feb 1999 | 11,631 |
| 25 | FieldTrip: Open Source Software for Advanced Analysis of MEG, EEG, and Invasive Electrophysiological Data Robert Oostenveld, Pascal Henry Fries, Eric Maris et al. · Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience | 23 Dec 2010 | 11,541 |
| 26 | A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis Laurent Itti, Christof Koch, Ernst Niebur · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 1998 | 11,422 |
| 27 | Pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders in adults Maria Kleinstäuber, Michael Witthöft, Andrés Steffanowski et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | 7 Nov 2014 | 11,357 |
| 28 | Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease: a clinico-pathological study of 100 cases. Andrew Jerome Hughes, S. E. Daniel, Linda Kilford et al. · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry | Mar 1992 | 10,504 |
| 29 | FreeSurfer Bruce R. Fischl · NeuroImage | 10 Jan 2012 | 10,317 |
| 30 | Functional connectivity in the motor cortex of resting human brain using echo‐planar mri Bharat B. Biswal, F. Zerrin Yetkin, Victor M. Haughton et al. · Magnetic Resonance in Medicine | Oct 1995 | 10,242 |
| 31 | Determining optical flow Berthold K. P. Horn, Brian G. Schunck · Artificial Intelligence | Aug 1981 | 10,151 |
| 32 | The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity B.T. Thomas Yeo, Fenna M. Krienen, Jorge Sepulcre et al. · Journal of Neurophysiology | 9 Jun 2011 | 10,128 |
| 33 | The Brain's Default Network Randy Lee Buckner, Jessica R. Andrews‐Hanna, Daniel L. Schacter · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Mar 2008 | 10,047 |
| 34 | Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach Karl John Friston, Andrew P. Holmes, Keith J. Worsley et al. · Human Brain Mapping | 1994 | 9,877 |
| 35 | The Mathematical Theory of Communication Claude E. Shannon, Warren Weaver, Norbert Wiener · Physics Today | Sep 1950 | 9,856 |
| 36 | A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward Wolfram Schultz, Peter Dayan, P. Read Montague · Science | 14 Mar 1997 | 9,810 |
| 37 | Levels of processing: A framework for memory research Fergus I. M. Craik, Robert S. Lockhart · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | Dec 1972 | 9,656 |
| 38 | Measuring emotion: The self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential Margaret M. Bradley, Peter J. Lang · Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry | Mar 1994 | 9,653 |
| 39 | An argument for basic emotions Paul Ekman · Cognition & Emotion | May 1992 | 9,629 |
| 40 | Nonparametric statistical testing of EEG- and MEG-data Eric Maris, Robert Oostenveld · Journal of Neuroscience Methods | 11 Apr 2007 | 9,461 |
| 41 | Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised: A revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders Catherine Lord, Michael L. Rutter, Ann Le Couteur · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Oct 1994 | 9,189 |
| 42 | Whole Brain Segmentation Bruce R. Fischl, David H. Salat, Evelina Busa et al. · Neuron | 2002 | 9,165 |
| 43 | The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks Michael David Fox, Abraham Z. Snyder, Justin L. Vincent et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 23 Jun 2005 | 8,956 |
| 44 | Parallel Organization of Functionally Segregated Circuits Linking Basal Ganglia and Cortex Garrett E. Alexander, Mahlon R. DeLong, P L Strick · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 1986 | 8,635 |
| 45 | Emotion Circuits in the Brain Joseph E. LeDoux · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 2000 | 8,519 |
| 46 | Neural Mechanisms of Selective Visual Attention Robert Desimone, John S. Duncan · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 1995 | 8,421 |
| 47 | The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Karl John Friston · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 13 Jan 2010 | 8,331 |
| 48 | The self-organizing map Teuvo Kohonen · Proceedings of the IEEE | 1990 | 8,261 |
| 49 | Validation of the Insomnia Severity Index as an outcome measure for insomnia research Célyne Bastien · Sleep Medicine | Jul 2001 | 8,166 |
| 50 | Updating P300: An integrative theory of P3a and P3b John M Polich · Clinical Neurophysiology | 19 Jun 2007 | 8,109 |
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