Most cited papers in Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
What are the most cited papers in Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies?
The most cited paper in Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies is "Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning" (Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Lawrence Silver et al., 2015), with 31,206 citations. Next come "The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis" (15,905) and "Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain" (13,238).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 2,630 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 | 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 |
| 3 | Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L. Shulman · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Mar 2002 | 13,238 |
| 4 | An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function Earl K. Miller, Jonathan D. Cohen · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 2001 | 13,094 |
| 5 | A feature-integration theory of attention Anne Treisman, Garry A. Gelade · Cognitive Psychology | 1980 | 12,545 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Neural Mechanisms of Selective Visual Attention Robert Desimone, John S. Duncan · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 1995 | 8,421 |
| 8 | Updating P300: An integrative theory of P3a and P3b John M Polich · Clinical Neurophysiology | 19 Jun 2007 | 8,109 |
| 9 | The Attention System of the Human Brain Michael I. Posner, Steven E. Petersen · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 1990 | 8,001 |
| 10 | Dissociable Intrinsic Connectivity Networks for Salience Processing and Executive Control William W. Seeley, Vinod Menon, Alan F. Schatzberg et al. · Journal of Neuroscience | 28 Feb 2007 | 7,683 |
| 11 | The neural basis of drug craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction Thompson Gordon Robinson · Brain Research Reviews | Dec 1993 | 7,450 |
| 12 | Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task Barbara A. Eriksen, Charles W. Eriksen · Perception & Psychophysics | 1974 | 7,409 |
| 13 | The episodic buffer: a new component of working memory? Alan D. Baddeley · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Nov 2000 | 7,368 |
| 14 | Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Matthew Botvinick, Todd Samuel Braver, Deanna M. Barch et al. · Psychological Review | 2001 | 7,222 |
| 15 | Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory. Richard M. Shiffrin, Walter Schneider · Psychological Review | Mar 1977 | 7,177 |
| 16 | EEG alpha and theta oscillations reflect cognitive and memory performance: a review and analysis Wolfgang Klimesch · Brain Research Reviews | Apr 1999 | 7,054 |
| 17 | The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity Nelson Cowan · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Feb 2001 | 6,947 |
| 18 | Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis Michael D. Greicius, Ben Krasnow, Allan L. Reiss et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 27 Dec 2002 | 6,589 |
| 19 | Individual differences in working memory and reading Meredyth Daneman, Patricia A. Carpenter · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | Aug 1980 | 6,400 |
| 20 | Cognitive and emotional influences in anterior cingulate cortex George Bush, George Bush, Phan Luu et al. · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Jun 2000 | 6,323 |
| 21 | Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex Antoine Bechara, António R. Damásio, Hanna Damásio et al. · Cognition | Apr 1994 | 6,192 |
| 22 | How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body Agnella Craig · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Aug 2002 | 6,100 |
| 23 | Core affect and the psychological construction of emotion. James A. Russell · Psychological Review | 2003 | 5,945 |
| 24 | Saliency, switching, attention and control: a network model of insula function Vinod Menon, Lucina Q. Uddin · Brain Structure and Function | 28 May 2010 | 5,810 |
| 25 | Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search, and attention. Walter Schneider, Richard M. Shiffrin · Psychological Review | 1977 | 5,797 |
| 26 | Half a century of research on the Stroop effect: An integrative review. Colin M. MacLeod · Psychological Bulletin | 1991 | 5,570 |
| 27 | The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition. Timothy A. Salthouse · Psychological Review | 1996 | 5,564 |
| 28 | Anxiety and cognitive performance: Attentional control theory. Michael W. Eysenck, Nazanin Derakshan, Rita Santos et al. · Emotion | 2007 | 5,292 |
| 29 | Working memory: looking back and looking forward Alan Baddeley · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Oct 2003 | 5,262 |
| 30 | Action recognition in the premotor cortex Vittorio Gallese, Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi et al. · Brain | 1996 | 4,988 |
| 31 | An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment Joshua D. Greene, R. Brian Sommerville, Leigh E. Nystrom et al. · Science | 14 Sep 2001 | 4,642 |
| 32 | Thirty Years and Counting: Finding Meaning in the N400 Component of the Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP) Marta Kutas, Kara D. Federmeier · Annual Review of Psychology | 2 Dec 2010 | 4,508 |
| 33 | Attention to Action Donald A. Norman, Tim Shallice | 1986 | 4,403 |
| 34 | Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies Alan Baddeley · Annual Review of Psychology | Mar 2011 | 4,307 |
| 35 | Where Is the Semantic System? A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of 120 Functional Neuroimaging Studies Jeffrey R. Binder, Rutvik H. Desai, William W. Graves et al. · Cerebral Cortex | 27 Mar 2009 | 4,257 |
| 36 | Dual-Process Theories of Higher Cognition Jonathan St. B. T. Evans, Keith E. Stanovich · Perspectives on Psychological Science | May 2013 | 4,249 |
| 37 | The Neural Basis of Decision Making Joshua I. Gold, Michael N. Shadlen · Annual Review of Neuroscience | 23 Mar 2007 | 4,079 |
| 38 | The Reorienting System of the Human Brain: From Environment to Theory of Mind Maurizio Corbetta, Gaurav H. Patel, Gordon L. Shulman · Neuron | May 2008 | 4,043 |
| 39 | The neural basis of human error processing: Reinforcement learning, dopamine, and the error-related negativity. Clay B. Holroyd, MICHAEL G. H. COLES · Psychological Review | Oct 2002 | 4,031 |
| 40 | Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsion Barry J. Everitt, Trevor William Robbins · Nature Neuroscience | 26 Oct 2005 | 3,854 |
| 41 | Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition David M. Amodio, Chris Frith · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 21 Mar 2006 | 3,853 |
| 42 | The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman · Current Directions in Psychological Science | 31 Jan 2012 | 3,848 |
| 43 | The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging Suzanne N. Haber, Brian D Knutson · Neuropsychopharmacology | 7 Oct 2009 | 3,819 |
| 44 | Testing the Efficiency and Independence of Attentional Networks Jin Fan, Bruce D. McCandliss, Tobias Sommer et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | Apr 2002 | 3,794 |
| 45 | A process dissociation framework: Separating automatic from intentional uses of memory Larry L. Jacoby · Journal of Memory and Language | Oct 1991 | 3,774 |
| 46 | Specific impairments of planning Timothy Shallice · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences | 25 Jun 1982 | 3,742 |
| 47 | Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: an update Matthew Botvinick, Jonathan D. Cohen, Cameron S. Carter · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 3 Nov 2004 | 3,711 |
| 48 | Dissociating the Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Cognitive Control Angus W. MacDonald, Jonathan D. Cohen, Victor Andrew Stenger et al. · Science | 9 Jun 2000 | 3,710 |
| 49 | A social neuroscience perspective on adolescent risk-taking Laurence D. Steinberg · Developmental Review | 30 Jan 2008 | 3,646 |
| 50 | Is the P300 component a manifestation of context updating? Emanuel Donchin, MICHAEL G. H. COLES · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Sep 1988 | 3,627 |
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