Bruno B. Averbeck

12.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
168 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

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Bruno B. Averbeck is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruno B. Averbeck has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 35 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 29 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Bruno B. Averbeck's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (70 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (60 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (27 papers). Bruno B. Averbeck is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (70 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (60 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (27 papers). Bruno B. Averbeck collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Czechia. Bruno B. Averbeck's co-authors include Peter E. Latham, Alexandre Pouget, Vincent D. Costa, Daeyeol Lee, Matthew V. Chafee, David A. Crowe, Lizabeth M. Romanski, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Sukhwinder S. Shergill and Simon Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Bruno B. Averbeck

164 papers receiving 8.1k citations

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Neural correlations, population coding and computation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruno B. Averbeck United States	53	5.6k	1.7k	1.6k	1.4k	651	168	8.3k
Daphna Shohamy United States	47	6.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	694 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	540 0.8×	100	8.3k
Michael X Cohen Netherlands	65	11.1k 2.0×	2.3k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 2.1×	132	14.3k
John–Dylan Haynes Germany	58	11.7k 2.1×	747 0.4×	1.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	263 0.4×	206	13.9k
Rogier B. Mars United Kingdom	56	9.0k 1.6×	833 0.5×	2.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	278 0.4×	138	11.6k
Andreas Kleinschmidt Germany	66	11.0k 2.0×	1.7k 1.0×	883 0.6×	1.9k 1.4×	515 0.8×	151	14.5k
Josef Parvizi United States	48	6.4k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	821 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	817 1.3×	140	8.7k
Markus Ullsperger Germany	47	10.4k 1.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.5×	404 0.6×	119	12.1k
Wolfram Schultz Switzerland	6	6.3k 1.1×	3.5k 2.0×	708 0.4×	902 0.7×	420 0.6×	6	8.9k
Gregor Thut United Kingdom	65	12.5k 2.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	2.4k 1.7×	478 0.7×	157	14.4k
Sabine Kästner United States	67	15.9k 2.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	2.1k 1.5×	330 0.5×	171	18.1k

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Shin, Jung Hoon, Dennis A. Burke, Miriam E. Bocarsly, et al.. (2025). Local Regulation of Striatal Dopamine Release Shifts from Predominantly Cholinergic in Mice to GABAergic in Macaques. Journal of Neuroscience. 45(11). e1692242025–e1692242025. 1 indexed citations

Vanes, Lucy, et al.. (2024). Deterioration in cognitive control related mPFC function underlying development of treatment resistance in early psychosis. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 12985–12985. 2 indexed citations

Costa, Vincent D., et al.. (2023). Motor System-Dependent Effects of Amygdala and Ventral Striatum Lesions on Explore–Exploit Behaviors. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(5). e1206232023–e1206232023. 2 indexed citations

Averbeck, Bruno B., et al.. (2023). The difference an explanation makes: Verbal debrief effects when children cope with uncertainty. Cognitive Development. 66. 101317–101317.

Averbeck, Bruno B., et al.. (2022). The Role of IQ and Social Skills in Coping With Uncertainty in 7- to 11-Year-Old Children. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie. 54(3). 105–123. 2 indexed citations

Ruitenberg, Marit F. L., et al.. (2022). Neural correlates of risky decision making in Parkinson’s disease patients with impulse control disorders. Experimental Brain Research. 240(9). 2241–2253. 4 indexed citations

McKay, Ryan, et al.. (2022). Explaining human sampling rates across different decision domains. Judgment and Decision Making. 17(3). 487–512. 1 indexed citations

Camalier, Corrie R., et al.. (2020). Correlates of Auditory Decision-Making in Prefrontal, Auditory, and Basal Lateral Amygdala Cortical Areas. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(6). 1301–1316. 7 indexed citations

Camalier, Corrie R., et al.. (2019). A Comparison of Auditory Oddball Responses in Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Basolateral Amygdala, and Auditory Cortex of Macaque. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 31(7). 1054–1064. 22 indexed citations

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Frank, David W., Vincent D. Costa, Bruno B. Averbeck, & Dean Sabatinelli. (2019). Directional interconnectivity of the human amygdala, fusiform gyrus, and orbitofrontal cortex in emotional scene perception. Journal of Neurophysiology. 122(4). 1530–1537. 30 indexed citations

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Costa, Vincent D., Andrew R. Mitz, & Bruno B. Averbeck. (2019). Subcortical Substrates of Explore-Exploit Decisions in Primates. Neuron. 103(3). 533–545.e5. 76 indexed citations

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Caminiti, Roberto, Elena Borra, Federica Visco‐Comandini, et al.. (2017). Computational Architecture of the Parieto-Frontal Network Underlying Cognitive-Motor Control in Monkeys. eNeuro. 4(1). ENEURO.0306–16.2017. 59 indexed citations

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Rudebeck, Peter H., et al.. (2017). Amygdala Contributions to Stimulus–Reward Encoding in the Macaque Medial and Orbital Frontal Cortex during Learning. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(8). 2186–2202. 59 indexed citations

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Costa, Vincent D., et al.. (2016). Blocking serotonin but not dopamine reuptake alters neural processing during perceptual decision making.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 130(5). 461–468. 5 indexed citations

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Dayan, Eran, Janne Hamann, Bruno B. Averbeck, & Leonardo G. Cohen. (2014). Brain Structural Substrates of Reward Dependence during Behavioral Performance. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(49). 16433–16441. 20 indexed citations

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Furl, Nicholas, Shannon Gallagher, & Bruno B. Averbeck. (2012). A Selective Emotional Decision-Making Bias Elicited by Facial Expressions. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e33461–e33461. 30 indexed citations

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Crowe, David A., Bruno B. Averbeck, & Matthew V. Chafee. (2010). Rapid Sequences of Population Activity Patterns Dynamically Encode Task-Critical Spatial Information in Parietal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(35). 11640–11653. 85 indexed citations

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Evans, Simon, Sukhwinder S. Shergill, & Bruno B. Averbeck. (2010). Oxytocin Decreases Aversion to Angry Faces in an Associative Learning Task. Neuropsychopharmacology. 35(13). 2502–2509. 71 indexed citations

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Cruz, Ana V., Nicolas Mallet, Peter J. Magill, Peter Brown, & Bruno B. Averbeck. (2009). Effects of Dopamine Depletion on Network Entropy in the External Globus Pallidus. Journal of Neurophysiology. 102(2). 1092–1102. 41 indexed citations

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Crowe, David A., Bruno B. Averbeck, & Matthew V. Chafee. (2008). Neural Ensemble Decoding Reveals a Correlate of Viewer- to Object-Centered Spatial Transformation in Monkey Parietal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(20). 5218–5228. 64 indexed citations

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