Amitai Shenhav

10.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
68 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Amitai Shenhav is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amitai Shenhav has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 25 papers in General Decision Sciences and 15 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Amitai Shenhav's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (41 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (25 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (15 papers). Amitai Shenhav is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (41 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (25 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (15 papers). Amitai Shenhav collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Amitai Shenhav's co-authors include Jonathan D. Cohen, Matthew Botvinick, Joshua D. Greene, Sebastian Musslick, Michael Inzlicht, Christopher Y. Olivola, David G. Rand, Falk Lieder, Thomas L. Griffiths and Wouter Kool and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Amitai Shenhav

64 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The Expected Value of Control: An Integrative Theory of Anterior Cingulate Cortex Function

2013 1.5k citations Amitai Shenhav, Matthew Botvinick et al. Neuron profile →
Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort

2017 619 citations Amitai Shenhav, Sebastian Musslick et al. profile →
The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued

2018 441 citations Amitai Shenhav et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the value of control

2016 384 citations Amitai Shenhav, Jonathan D. Cohen et al. profile →
Divine intuition: Cognitive style influences belief in God.

2011 379 citations Amitai Shenhav et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amitai Shenhav United States	27	3.7k	1.2k	933	823	764	68	5.5k
Daria Knoch Switzerland	29	3.0k 0.8×	999 0.9×	870 0.9×	564 0.7×	536 0.7×	83	4.8k
Thomas Goschke Germany	40	3.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.8×	946 1.0×	506 0.6×	902 1.2×	131	5.6k
Ifat Levy United States	27	4.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	676 0.7×	552 0.7×	282 0.4×	74	5.4k
Joseph W. Kable United States	36	5.3k 1.4×	2.1k 1.8×	1.2k 1.3×	1.7k 2.1×	1.1k 1.4×	105	7.9k
Rongjun Yu China	39	3.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	839 0.9×	353 0.4×	290 0.4×	171	5.0k
Wouter van den Bos Netherlands	36	1.7k 0.5×	918 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	445 0.5×	450 0.6×	98	3.9k
Maarten A.S. Boksem Netherlands	30	2.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	1.5k 1.6×	253 0.3×	610 0.8×	62	5.3k
Xiaolin Zhou China	39	3.9k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	955 1.0×	421 0.5×	323 0.4×	231	5.2k
Joseph T. McGuire United States	14	2.4k 0.6×	755 0.7×	435 0.5×	729 0.9×	520 0.7×	29	3.3k
Gesine Dreisbach Germany	35	3.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	715 0.8×	620 0.8×	640 0.8×	101	3.9k

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Grahek, Ivan, et al.. (2025). Control adjustment costs limit goal flexibility: Empirical evidence and a computational account.. Psychological Review.

Wolff, Wanja, Israel Halperin, Darías Holgado, et al.. (2025). When effort fails: Instances and reasons for effort-performance decoupling.

Frömer, Romy, et al.. (2024). Mutual inclusivity improves decision-making by smoothing out choice’s competitive edge. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(3). 521–533.

Shenhav, Amitai. (2024). The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28(12). 1089–1104. 10 indexed citations

Frömer, Romy, Matthew R. Nassar, Benedikt Ehinger, & Amitai Shenhav. (2024). Common neural choice signals can emerge artefactually amid multiple distinct value signals. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(11). 2194–2208. 7 indexed citations

Ritz, Harrison & Amitai Shenhav. (2024). Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(5). 945–961. 10 indexed citations

Ritz, Harrison & Amitai Shenhav. (2023). Humans reconfigure target and distractor processing to address distinct task demands.. Psychological Review. 131(2). 349–372. 7 indexed citations

Grahek, Ivan, et al.. (2022). Learning when effort matters: neural dynamics underlying updating and adaptation to changes in performance efficacy. Cerebral Cortex. 33(5). 2395–2411. 13 indexed citations

Ritz, Harrison, et al.. (2020). An evidence accumulation model of motivational and developmental influences over sustained attention.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

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Ritz, Harrison & Amitai Shenhav. (2019). Parametric control of distractor-oriented attention.. Cognitive Science. 967–973. 3 indexed citations

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Wilson, Robert C., Amitai Shenhav, Mark A. Straccia, & Jonathan D. Cohen. (2019). The Eighty Five Percent Rule for optimal learning. Nature Communications. 10(1). 59 indexed citations

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Musslick, Sebastian, Jonathan D. Cohen, & Amitai Shenhav. (2019). Decomposing Individual Differences in Cognitive Control: A Model-Based Approach.. Cognitive Science. 2427–2433. 9 indexed citations

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Spitzer, Markus, Sebastian Musslick, Michael Shvartsman, Amitai Shenhav, & Jonathan D. Cohen. (2019). Asymmetric Switch Costs as a Function of Task Strength.. Cognitive Science. 1070–1076. 6 indexed citations

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Grahek, Ivan, Amitai Shenhav, Sebastian Musslick, Ruth M. Krebs, & Ernst H. W. Koster. (2019). Motivation and cognitive control in depression. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 102. 371–381. 196 indexed citations

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FeldmanHall, Oriel & Amitai Shenhav. (2019). Resolving uncertainty in a social world. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(5). 426–435. 145 indexed citations

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Ritz, Harrison, Matthew R. Nassar, Michael J. Frank, & Amitai Shenhav. (2018). A Control Theoretic Model of Adaptive Learning in Dynamic Environments. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 30(10). 1405–1421. 15 indexed citations

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Shenhav, Amitai, Mark A. Straccia, Sebastian Musslick, Jonathan D. Cohen, & Matthew Botvinick. (2018). Dissociable neural mechanisms track evidence accumulation for selection of attention versus action. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2485–2485. 27 indexed citations

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Musslick, Sebastian, Seong J. Jang, Michael Shvartsman, Amitai Shenhav, & Jonathan D. Cohen. (2018). Constraints associated with cognitive control and the stability-flexibility dilemma.. Cognitive Science. 21 indexed citations

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Musslick, Sebastian, Jonathan D. Cohen, & Amitai Shenhav. (2018). Estimating the costs of cognitive control from task performance: theoretical validation and potential pitfalls.. Cognitive Science. 7 indexed citations

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Silver, Michael A., Amitai Shenhav, & Mark D’Esposito. (2008). Cholinergic Enhancement Reduces Spatial Spread of Visual Responses in Human Early Visual Cortex. Neuron. 60(5). 904–914. 78 indexed citations

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