Aina Puce

16.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
105 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Aina Puce is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Aina Puce has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 15 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Aina Puce's work include Face Recognition and Perception (40 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (27 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (24 papers). Aina Puce is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (40 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (27 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (24 papers). Aina Puce collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and France. Aina Puce's co-authors include Gregory McCarthy, Truett Allison, John C. Gore, Shlomo Bentin, Erik Perez, David I. Perrett, Anna C. Nobre, James C. Thompson, Ayşenil Belger and Marie Luby and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Aina Puce

103 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Electrophysiological Studies of Face Perception in Humans

1996 2.4k citations Truett Allison, Aina Puce et al. profile →
Face-Specific Processing in the Human Fusiform Gyrus

1997 882 citations Gregory McCarthy, Aina Puce et al. profile →
Temporal Cortex Activation in Humans Viewing Eye and Mouth Movements

1998 864 citations Aina Puce, Truett Allison et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Differential Sensitivity of Human Visual Cortex to Faces, Letterstrings, and Textures: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

1996 792 citations Aina Puce, Truett Allison et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Electrophysiology and brain imaging of biological motion

2003 547 citations Aina Puce et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aina Puce United States	45	10.4k	3.2k	1.7k	1.2k	928	105	12.0k
Chris I. Baker United States	52	10.0k 1.0×	2.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	152	12.9k
Kalanit Grill‐Spector United States	49	12.9k 1.2×	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.6×	906 1.0×	128	14.2k
Edward Awh United States	52	12.8k 1.2×	2.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	545 0.5×	1.3k 1.4×	115	14.3k
M. Ida Gobbini United States	29	10.1k 1.0×	3.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.4×	548 0.6×	57	11.6k
John–Dylan Haynes Germany	58	11.7k 1.1×	2.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	455 0.4×	467 0.5×	206	13.9k
Margot J. Taylor Canada	58	11.3k 1.1×	2.7k 0.8×	916 0.5×	804 0.7×	1.8k 1.9×	294	14.9k
George R. Mangun United States	59	13.7k 1.3×	2.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	362 0.3×	1.0k 1.1×	130	15.5k
Pietro Pietrini Italy	56	10.4k 1.0×	2.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	589 0.5×	638 0.7×	250	14.5k
Talma Hendler Israel	65	8.9k 0.9×	3.1k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	423 0.4×	818 0.9×	289	13.7k
Virginia B. Penhune Canada	45	9.3k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	2.3k 1.3×	297 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	101	10.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Puce, Aina. (2025). Finally putting the horse before the cart?. Cognitive Neuroscience. 1–2.

Pernet, Cyril, Marta I. Garrido, Alexandre Gramfort, et al.. (2020). Issues and recommendations from the OHBM COBIDAS MEEG committee for reproducible EEG and MEG research. Nature Neuroscience. 23(12). 1473–1483. 121 indexed citations

Varley, Thomas F., Olaf Sporns, Aina Puce, & John M. Beggs. (2020). Differential effects of propofol and ketamine on critical brain dynamics. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(12). e1008418–e1008418. 34 indexed citations

Hari, Riitta, Sylvain Baillet, Gareth R. Barnes, et al.. (2018). IFCN-endorsed practical guidelines for clinical magnetoencephalography (MEG). Clinical Neurophysiology. 129(8). 1720–1747. 102 indexed citations

Puce, Aina & Matti Hämäläinen. (2017). A Review of Issues Related to Data Acquisition and Analysis in EEG/MEG Studies. Brain Sciences. 7(6). 58–58. 133 indexed citations

Carey, Leeanne M., et al.. (2016). Same Intervention–Different Reorganization. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair. 30(10). 988–1000. 25 indexed citations

Puce, Aina, et al.. (2015). On dissociating the neural time course of the processing of positive emotions. Neuropsychologia. 83. 123–137. 29 indexed citations

Rossi, Alejandra, Francisco J. Parada, Artemy Kolchinsky, & Aina Puce. (2014). Neural correlates of apparent motion perception of impoverished facial stimuli: A comparison of ERP and ERSP activity. NeuroImage. 98. 442–459. 32 indexed citations

Puce, Aina, et al.. (2013). Multiple faces elicit augmented neural activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 282–282. 25 indexed citations

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Kim, Dae‐Jin, Patrick D. Skosnik, Hu Cheng, et al.. (2011). Structural Network Topology Revealed by White Matter Tractography in Cannabis Users: A Graph Theoretical Analysis. Brain Connectivity. 1(6). 473–483. 27 indexed citations

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Brefczynski‐Lewis, Julie A., et al.. (2009). Audiovisual Non-Verbal Dynamic Faces Elicit Converging fMRI and ERP Responses. Brain Topography. 21(3-4). 193–206. 22 indexed citations

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Schroeder, Charles M., Péter Lakatos, Yoshinao Kajikawa, Sarah Partan, & Aina Puce. (2008). Neuronal oscillations and visual amplification of speech. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 12(3). 106–113. 370 indexed citations

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Thompson, James C., et al.. (2005). Configural Processing of Biological Motion in Human Superior Temporal Sulcus. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(39). 9059–9066. 313 indexed citations

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Kakigi, Ryusuke, et al.. (2001). Occipitotemporal Activity Elicited by Viewing Eye Movements: A Magnetoencephalographic Study. NeuroImage. 13(2). 351–363. 44 indexed citations

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Wheaton, Kylie J., Andrew Pipingas, Richard B. Silberstein, & Aina Puce. (2000). ERPs elicited to observing the actions of others. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Clark, Robert E., Kathryn A. Moores, Aubrey Lewis, et al.. (2000). Investigations of human working memory function using multimodal imaging techniques. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 35. 3–3. 1 indexed citations

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Puce, Aina, Angela F. Smith, & Truett Allison. (1998). Dealing with a poker face?: ERPs elicited to changes in gaze direction and mouth movement.. NeuroImage. 7(4). S347–S347. 1 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Gregory, Aina Puce, Todd Constable, et al.. (1996). Activation of Human Prefrontal Cortex during Spatial and Nonspatial Working Memory Tasks Measured by Functional MRI. Cerebral Cortex. 6(4). 600–611. 341 indexed citations

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Allison, Truett, Gregory McCarthy, Anna C. Nobre, Aina Puce, & Ayşenil Belger. (1994). Human Extrastriate Visual Cortex and the Perception of Faces, Words, Numbers, and Colors. Cerebral Cortex. 4(5). 544–554. 419 indexed citations

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Constable, R. Todd, Richard P. Kennan, Aina Puce, Gregory McCarthy, & John C. Gore. (1994). Functional NMR imaging using fast spin echo at 1.5 T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 31(6). 686–690. 66 indexed citations

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