Ben Deen

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Ben Deen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Deen has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Social Psychology and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ben Deen's work include Face Recognition and Perception (9 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (5 papers). Ben Deen is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (9 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (5 papers). Ben Deen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Ben Deen's co-authors include Kevin A. Pelphrey, Naomi B. Pitskel, Rebecca Saxe, Nancy Kanwisher, Kami Koldewyn, Michael J. Crowley, Danielle Bolling, Linda C. Mayes, Gregory McCarthy and Boris Keil and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ben Deen

17 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

Three Systems of Insular Functional Connectivity Identified with Cluster Analysis

2010 580 citations Ben Deen, Naomi B. Pitskel et al. Cerebral Cortex profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Deen United States	13	1.4k	478	407	333	214	18	1.8k
Naomi B. Pitskel United States	12	1.2k 0.8×	326 0.7×	409 1.0×	357 1.1×	164 0.8×	13	1.6k
Phyllis Chua Australia	26	1.2k 0.8×	597 1.2×	507 1.2×	261 0.8×	282 1.3×	48	3.0k
Sjoerd Ebisch Italy	20	1.0k 0.7×	548 1.1×	422 1.0×	651 2.0×	208 1.0×	50	1.9k
Shota Uono Japan	26	1.5k 1.0×	289 0.6×	393 1.0×	220 0.7×	90 0.4×	76	1.8k
Katharine N. Thakkar United States	25	1.5k 1.1×	247 0.5×	343 0.8×	737 2.2×	261 1.2×	64	2.1k
Shahar Arzy Israel	24	1.6k 1.1×	680 1.4×	349 0.9×	588 1.8×	216 1.0×	69	2.4k
Aarthi Padmanabhan United States	20	1.3k 0.9×	162 0.3×	352 0.9×	337 1.0×	173 0.8×	34	1.9k
Juha Salmi Finland	26	1.6k 1.2×	218 0.5×	528 1.3×	301 0.9×	289 1.4×	59	2.1k
Jeffrey Eilbott United States	16	917 0.7×	330 0.7×	258 0.6×	146 0.4×	201 0.9×	27	1.3k
H.-J. Heinze Germany	22	1.8k 1.2×	270 0.6×	388 1.0×	517 1.6×	93 0.4×	38	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Deen

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18 of 18 papers shown

Deen, Ben & Winrich A. Freiwald. (2025). Parallel systems for social and spatial cognition reaching the cortical apex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(44). e2520067122–e2520067122.

Deen, Ben, et al.. (2024). A familiar face and person processing area in the human temporal pole. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(28). e2321346121–e2321346121. 9 indexed citations

Deen, Ben & Winrich A. Freiwald. (2023). A familiar face and person processing area in the human temporal pole. Journal of Vision. 23(9). 4825–4825. 1 indexed citations

Deen, Ben, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik, Julia Sliwa, & Winrich A. Freiwald. (2023). Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 46(1). 381–401. 18 indexed citations

Deen, Ben, Rebecca Saxe, & Nancy Kanwisher. (2020). Processing communicative facial and vocal cues in the superior temporal sulcus. NeuroImage. 221. 117191–117191. 25 indexed citations

Deen, Ben & Rebecca Saxe. (2019). Parts‐based representations of perceived face movements in the superior temporal sulcus. Human Brain Mapping. 40(8). 2499–2510. 10 indexed citations

Deen, Ben, Hilary Richardson, Daniel D. Dilks, et al.. (2017). Organization of high-level visual cortex in human infants. Nature Communications. 8(1). 13995–13995. 207 indexed citations

Powell, Lindsey J., Ben Deen, & Rebecca Saxe. (2017). Using individual functional channels of interest to study cortical development with fNIRS. Developmental Science. 21(4). e12595–e12595. 25 indexed citations

Deen, Ben, Kami Koldewyn, Nancy Kanwisher, & Rebecca Saxe. (2015). Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus. Cerebral Cortex. 25(11). 4596–4609. 302 indexed citations

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Deen, Ben, Rebecca Saxe, & Marina Bedny. (2015). Occipital Cortex of Blind Individuals Is Functionally Coupled with Executive Control Areas of Frontal Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27(8). 1633–1647. 29 indexed citations

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Deen, Ben & Rebecca Saxe. (2012). Neural correlates of social perception: The posterior superior temporal sulcus is modulated by action rationality, but not animacy. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 5 indexed citations

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Deen, Ben & Kevin A. Pelphrey. (2012). Perspective: Brain scans need a rethink. Nature. 491(7422). S20–S20. 55 indexed citations

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Bolling, Danielle, Naomi B. Pitskel, Ben Deen, et al.. (2011). Development of neural systems for processing social exclusion from childhood to adolescence. Developmental Science. 14(6). 1431–1444. 92 indexed citations

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Bolling, Danielle, Naomi B. Pitskel, Ben Deen, et al.. (2011). Enhanced neural responses to rule violation in children with autism: A comparison to social exclusion. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1(3). 280–294. 63 indexed citations

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Deen, Ben, Naomi B. Pitskel, & Kevin A. Pelphrey. (2010). Three Systems of Insular Functional Connectivity Identified with Cluster Analysis. Cerebral Cortex. 21(7). 1498–1506. 580 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bolling, Danielle, Naomi B. Pitskel, Ben Deen, et al.. (2010). Dissociable brain mechanisms for processing social exclusion and rule violation. NeuroImage. 54(3). 2462–2471. 115 indexed citations

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Deen, Ben & Gregory McCarthy. (2010). Reading about the actions of others: Biological motion imagery and action congruency influence brain activity. Neuropsychologia. 48(6). 1607–1615. 53 indexed citations

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Kaiser, Martha D., Caitlin M. Hudac, Sarah Shultz, et al.. (2010). Neural signatures of autism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(49). 21223–21228. 249 indexed citations

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