Alexandre Hyafil

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Alexandre Hyafil is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Hyafil has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Hyafil's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (8 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (4 papers). Alexandre Hyafil is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (8 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (4 papers). Alexandre Hyafil collaborates with scholars based in Spain, France and United States. Alexandre Hyafil's co-authors include Étienne Koechlin, Boris Gutkin, Lorenzo Fontolan, Anne‐Lise Giraud, Christopher Summerfield, Nicolas Baumard, Claire Kabdebon, Pascal Boyer, Ian Morris and David Moriña and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Hyafil

23 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Anterior Prefrontal Function and the Limits of Human Deci... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2015 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Anterior Prefrontal Function and the Limits of Human Decision-Making
    2007 539 citations Étienne Koechlin, Alexandre Hyafil profile →
  2. Neural Cross-Frequency Coupling: Connecting Architectures, Mechanisms, and Functions
    2015 298 citations Alexandre Hyafil, Anne‐Lise Giraud et al. Trends in Neurosciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexandre Hyafil Spain 11 1.0k 202 174 122 77 23 1.4k
Benjamin O. Turner United States 13 1.1k 1.0× 242 1.2× 143 0.8× 187 1.5× 75 1.0× 27 1.4k
Marco K. Wittmann United Kingdom 21 1.2k 1.2× 198 1.0× 143 0.8× 316 2.6× 95 1.2× 25 1.5k
Mkael Symmonds United Kingdom 21 838 0.8× 197 1.0× 204 1.2× 111 0.9× 114 1.5× 38 1.5k
Klaus Wunderlich United Kingdom 13 984 0.9× 147 0.7× 215 1.2× 102 0.8× 57 0.7× 16 1.3k
Alan N. Hampton United States 6 1.5k 1.5× 286 1.4× 210 1.2× 246 2.0× 123 1.6× 6 1.8k
Thorsten Fehr Germany 19 1.0k 1.0× 251 1.2× 133 0.8× 169 1.4× 155 2.0× 41 1.4k
Jason M. Scimeca United States 15 889 0.9× 194 1.0× 81 0.5× 237 1.9× 50 0.6× 19 1.1k
David L. Barack United States 11 605 0.6× 158 0.8× 80 0.5× 85 0.7× 67 0.9× 21 785
Florent Meyniel France 20 1.2k 1.1× 243 1.2× 88 0.5× 127 1.0× 62 0.8× 32 1.5k
Yuan Chang Leong United States 10 915 0.9× 214 1.1× 66 0.4× 161 1.3× 37 0.5× 21 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexandre Hyafil

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandre Hyafil

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexandre Hyafil. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexandre Hyafil based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexandre Hyafil. Alexandre Hyafil is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Molano‐Mazón, Manuel, et al.. (2024). Rapid, systematic updating of movement by accumulated decision evidence. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10583–10583. 1 indexed citations
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Hyafil, Alexandre, et al.. (2023). Temporal integration is a robust feature of perceptual decisions. eLife. 12. 8 indexed citations
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Hyafil, Alexandre & Nicolas Baumard. (2022). Evoked and transmitted culture models: Using bayesian methods to infer the evolution of cultural traits in history. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0264509–e0264509. 2 indexed citations
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Baumard, Nicolas, Élise Huillery, Alexandre Hyafil, & Lou Safra. (2022). The cultural evolution of love in literary history. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(4). 506–522. 26 indexed citations
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Barbosa, João, Heike Stein, Yael Niv, et al.. (2022). A practical guide for studying human behavior in the lab. Behavior Research Methods. 55(1). 58–76. 6 indexed citations
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Vergara, Rodrigo C., et al.. (2022). Voluntary self-initiation of the stimuli onset improves working memory and accelerates visual and attentional processing. Heliyon. 8(12). e12215–e12215. 1 indexed citations
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Moreno‐Bote, Rubén, et al.. (2022). Mood and implicit confidence independently fluctuate at different time scales. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 23(1). 142–161. 4 indexed citations
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Duque, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Proactive and reactive accumulation-to-bound processes compete during perceptual decisions. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7148–7148. 8 indexed citations
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Hyafil, Alexandre, et al.. (2020). Response outcomes gate the impact of expectations on perceptual decisions. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1057–1057. 30 indexed citations
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Hyafil, Alexandre & David Moriña. (2020). Analysis of the impact of lockdown on the reproduction number of the SARS-Cov-2 in Spain. Gaceta Sanitaria. 35(5). 453–458. 31 indexed citations
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Hyafil, Alexandre, et al.. (2019). Human confidence judgments reflect reliability-based hierarchical integration of contextual information. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5430–5430. 8 indexed citations
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Cerňak, Miloš, Afsaneh Asaei, & Alexandre Hyafil. (2018). Cognitive Speech Coding: Examining the Impact of Cognitive Speech Processing on Speech Compression. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 35(3). 97–109. 16 indexed citations
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Hyafil, Alexandre & Rubén Moreno‐Bote. (2017). Breaking down hierarchies of decision-making in primates. eLife. 6. 7 indexed citations
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Cerňak, Miloš, Afsaneh Asaei, & Alexandre Hyafil. (2016). Cognitive Speech Coding. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 0–0. 1 indexed citations
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Hyafil, Alexandre, Anne‐Lise Giraud, Lorenzo Fontolan, & Boris Gutkin. (2015). Neural Cross-Frequency Coupling: Connecting Architectures, Mechanisms, and Functions. Trends in Neurosciences. 38(11). 725–740. 298 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hyafil, Alexandre. (2015). Misidentifications of specific forms of cross-frequency coupling: three warnings. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 9. 370–370. 25 indexed citations
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Hyafil, Alexandre & Miloš Cerňak. (2015). Neuromorphic based oscillatory device for incremental syllable boundary detection. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1191–1195. 7 indexed citations
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Baumard, Nicolas, Alexandre Hyafil, Ian Morris, & Pascal Boyer. (2014). Increased Affluence Explains the Emergence of Ascetic Wisdoms and Moralizing Religions. Current Biology. 25(1). 10–15. 66 indexed citations
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Fontolan, Lorenzo, et al.. (2013). Analytical Insights on Theta-Gamma Coupled Neural Oscillators. PubMed. 3(1). 16–16. 8 indexed citations
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Hyafil, Alexandre, Christopher Summerfield, & Étienne Koechlin. (2009). Two Mechanisms for Task Switching in the Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(16). 5135–5142. 119 indexed citations

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