Bernard W. Balleine

29.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
223 papers, 20.5k citations indexed

About

Bernard W. Balleine is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernard W. Balleine has authored 223 papers receiving a total of 20.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 132 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 51 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Bernard W. Balleine's work include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (94 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (93 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (60 papers). Bernard W. Balleine is often cited by papers focused on Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (94 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (93 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (60 papers). Bernard W. Balleine collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Bernard W. Balleine's co-authors include Anthony Dickinson, Sean B. Ostlund, Laura H. Corbit, John P. O’Doherty, Barbara J. Knowlton, Henry H. Yin, Simon Killcross, Mauricio R. Delgado, Okihide Hikosaka and Amir Dezfouli and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bernard W. Balleine

218 papers receiving 20.1k citations

Hit Papers

Human and Rodent Homologies in Action Control... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2009 1998 2007 2004 2005 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Human and Rodent Homologies in Action Control: Corticostriatal Determinants of Goal-Directed and Habitual Action
    2009 1.2k citations Bernard W. Balleine, John P. O’Doherty profile →
  2. Goal-directed instrumental action: contingency and incentive learning and their cortical substrates
    1998 1.1k citations Bernard W. Balleine et al. profile →
  3. The Role of the Dorsal Striatum in Reward and Decision-Making: Figure 1.
    2007 1.0k citations Bernard W. Balleine et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  4. Lesions of dorsolateral striatum preserve outcome expectancy but disrupt habit formation in instrumental learning
    2004 872 citations Bernard W. Balleine et al. profile →
  5. The role of the dorsomedial striatum in instrumental conditioning
    2005 767 citations Sean B. Ostlund, Bernard W. Balleine et al. profile →
  6. Motivational control of goal-directed action
    1994 705 citations Bernard W. Balleine et al. profile →
  7. Reward, Motivation, and Reinforcement Learning
    2002 551 citations Bernard W. Balleine et al. Neuron profile →
  8. A specific role for posterior dorsolateral striatum in human habit learning
    2009 513 citations Elizabeth Tricomi, Bernard W. Balleine et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bernard W. Balleine Australia 71 13.0k 11.1k 3.4k 3.4k 2.2k 223 20.5k
Jeffrey W. Dalley United Kingdom 67 7.5k 0.6× 11.0k 1.0× 2.3k 0.7× 4.2k 1.2× 1.5k 0.7× 178 18.0k
David Braff United States 79 10.5k 0.8× 9.0k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 4.8k 1.4× 2.1k 0.9× 231 23.6k
Anthony Dickinson United Kingdom 67 12.4k 1.0× 7.7k 0.7× 4.4k 1.3× 2.2k 0.7× 2.4k 1.1× 209 19.6k
Jane R. Taylor United States 76 6.6k 0.5× 10.8k 1.0× 2.3k 0.7× 4.8k 1.4× 1.2k 0.5× 236 18.7k
Wolfram Schultz United Kingdom 81 21.5k 1.7× 15.4k 1.4× 2.9k 0.9× 5.7k 1.7× 2.6k 1.2× 192 32.7k
Amy F.T. Arnsten United States 76 11.3k 0.9× 9.1k 0.8× 2.1k 0.6× 4.6k 1.3× 1.8k 0.8× 192 23.5k
Terry E. Robinson United States 86 10.6k 0.8× 20.6k 1.9× 5.5k 1.6× 7.9k 2.3× 2.5k 1.1× 207 31.0k
Bhaskar Kolachana United States 55 8.9k 0.7× 8.1k 0.7× 2.2k 0.6× 4.2k 1.2× 2.9k 1.3× 104 22.6k
Stan Floresco Canada 72 8.9k 0.7× 10.6k 1.0× 2.2k 0.6× 3.9k 1.1× 917 0.4× 162 16.4k
Alain Dagher Canada 70 9.0k 0.7× 4.6k 0.4× 2.0k 0.6× 1.9k 0.6× 2.3k 1.0× 275 20.5k

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All Works

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Leung, Beatrice K., et al.. (2024). A ventral pallidal-thalamocortical circuit mediates the cognitive control of instrumental action. Current Biology. 34(15). 3315–3326.e6. 2 indexed citations
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Turner, Karly M. & Bernard W. Balleine. (2023). Stimulus control of habits: Evidence for both stimulus specificity and devaluation insensitivity in a dual‐response task. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 121(1). 52–61. 3 indexed citations
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Kumfor, Fiona, et al.. (2022). Contributions of intrinsic and extrinsic reward sensitivity to apathy: Evidence from traumatic brain injury.. Neuropsychology. 36(8). 791–802. 5 indexed citations
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Pool, Eva, Rani Gera, Anna Lena Cremer, et al.. (2021). Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multilaboratory investigation. Learning & Memory. 29(1). 16–28. 37 indexed citations
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Matamales, Miriam, Alice E. McGovern, Jia Mi, et al.. (2020). Local D2- to D1-neuron transmodulation updates goal-directed learning in the striatum. Science. 367(6477). 549–555. 51 indexed citations
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Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, Philip, et al.. (2020). Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 1(1). tgaa039–tgaa039. 11 indexed citations
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Morris, Richard W., et al.. (2018). Impairments in action–outcome learning in schizophrenia. Translational Psychiatry. 8(1). 54–54. 27 indexed citations
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Furlong, Teri M., Laura H. Corbit, Robert A. Brown, & Bernard W. Balleine. (2017). Methamphetamine promotes habitual action and alters the density of striatal glutamate receptor and vesicular proteins in dorsal striatum. Addiction Biology. 23(3). 857–867. 32 indexed citations
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Parkes, Shauna L., Laura A Bradfield, & Bernard W. Balleine. (2015). Interaction of Insular Cortex and Ventral Striatum Mediates the Effect of Incentive Memory on Choice Between Goal-Directed Actions. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(16). 6464–6471. 65 indexed citations
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Morris, Richard W., Amir Dezfouli, Kristi R. Griffiths, & Bernard W. Balleine. (2014). Action-value comparisons in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex control choice between goal-directed actions. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4390–4390. 40 indexed citations
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Bradfield, Laura A, Jesus Bertran‐Gonzalez, Billy Chieng, & Bernard W. Balleine. (2013). The Thalamostriatal Pathway and Cholinergic Control of Goal-Directed Action: Interlacing New with Existing Learning in the Striatum. Neuron. 79(1). 153–166. 209 indexed citations
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Ostlund, Sean B., Kate M. Wassum, Niall Murphy, Bernard W. Balleine, & Nigel T. Maidment. (2011). Extracellular Dopamine Levels in Striatal Subregions Track Shifts in Motivation and Response Cost during Instrumental Conditioning. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(1). 200–207. 79 indexed citations
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Wassum, Kate M., Sean B. Ostlund, Nigel T. Maidment, & Bernard W. Balleine. (2009). Distinct opioid circuits determine the palatability and the desirability of rewarding events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(30). 12512–12517. 125 indexed citations
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Ostlund, Sean B. & Bernard W. Balleine. (2008). Differential Involvement of the Basolateral Amygdala and Mediodorsal Thalamus in Instrumental Action Selection. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(17). 4398–4405. 144 indexed citations
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Balleine, Bernard W.. (2007). Reward and decision making in corticobasal ganglia networks. 37 indexed citations
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Balleine, Bernard W., et al.. (2005). Perceptual Learning Enhances Retrospective Revaluation of Conditioned Flavor Preferences in Rats.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 31(3). 341–350. 28 indexed citations
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Frankland, Paul W., Yan Wang, B. Rosner, et al.. (2004). Sensorimotor gating abnormalities in young males with fragile X syndrome and Fmr1-knockout mice. Molecular Psychiatry. 9(4). 417–425. 220 indexed citations

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