Christoph Mathys

8.8k citations

65 papers · 4.9k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.5%
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 1%
- Mental Health Research Topics

Papers in

Cognitive Neuroscience 49
- Neural dynamics and brain function 22
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies 20
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies 11
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment 8
- Neuroscience and Music Perception 8
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms 6
General Decision Sciences 4

Co-authors: Klaas Ε. Stephan Karl Friston Philip R. Corlett Albert R. Powers Thomas H. B. FitzGerald Rebecca Lawson Geraint Rees Raymond J. Dolan
Journals: PLoS Computational Biology (5 papers)Journal of Neuroscience (4 papers)Biological Psychiatry (3 papers)NeuroImage (3 papers)Cerebral Cortex (3 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland United Kingdom Italy

In The Last Decade

Christoph Mathys

62 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Adults with autism overestimate the volatility of the sensory environment 2017 · 283 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Nature Neuroscience
2017 Science
2016 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2015 Cognitive Neuroscience
2011 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

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All Works

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1	Guided by Expectations: Overweighted Semantic Priors in Schizotypy and Their Links to Glutamate Biological Psychiatry ·Franziska Knolle, A. S. Huseynova, Jennifer Carolina Solorza Solorza, Lucy MacGregor, Christoph Mathys	2025	1
2	Bayesian Workflow for Generative Modeling in Computational Psychiatry PubMed ·Jingwei He, Sandra Iglesias, Khushbu Sharma, Stephanie Marino, Cathy L. Propst, Lionel Rigoux, Christoph Mathys, Olivia K. Harrison, Jakob Heinzle, Stefan Frässle, Klaas Ε. Stephan	2025	0
3	Exploring when to exploit: the cognitive underpinnings of foraging-type decisions in relation to psychopathy Translational Psychiatry ·Cooper Wagner, Joukje M. Oosterman, Andreea O. Diaconescu, Christoph Mathys, Myung Ah Lee, Inti A. Brazil	2025	0
4	As One and Many: Relating Individual and Emergent Group-Level Generative Models in Active Inference Entropy ·Jonattan E. Sarmiento, Xiaokun Sunny Qiu, María de la Cinta Pino Márquez, Larisa Mahakova, Conor Heins, Karl Friston, Christoph Mathys	2025	2
5	Blocking D2/D3 dopamine receptors in male participants increases volatility of beliefs when learning to trust others Nature Communications ·Nace Mikuš, Christoph Eisenegger, Christoph Mathys, Luke Clark, Ulrich Müller, Trevor W. Robbins, Claus Lamm, Michael Naef	2023	7
6	Updating beliefs beyond the here-and-now: the counter-factual self in anosognosia for hemiplegia Brain Communications ·Louise P. Kirsch, Christoph Mathys, 唐晶, Penelope Talelli, Karl Friston, Valentina Moro, Aikaterini Fotopoulou	2021	17
7	Atypical processing of uncertainty in individuals at risk for psychosis NeuroImage Clinical ·David M. Cole, Andreea O. Diaconescu, Ulrich J. Pfeiffer, Kay H. Brodersen, Christoph Mathys, 张欣钰, Stephan Ruhrmann, Leonhard Schilbach, Marc Tittgemeyer, Kai Vogeley, Klaas Ε. Stephan	2020	46
8	Hierarchical Bayesian models of social inference for probing persecutory delusional ideation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology ·Andreea O. Diaconescu, Katharina V. Wellstein, Lars Kasper, Christoph Mathys, Klaas Ε. Stephan	2020	26
9	Neural arbitration between social and individual learning systems eLife ·Andreea O. Diaconescu, L.R. Willatt, Lars Kasper, Christopher J. Burke, Zoltán Nagy, Christoph Mathys, Philippe N. Tobler	2020	12
10	Aberrant computational mechanisms of social learning and decision-making in schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder PLoS Computational Biology ·Li-Jiangfu, Andreea O. Diaconescu, Juha M. Lahnakoski, Marie‐Luise Brandi, M. Constanza Ayala, Johannes M. Hennings, Alkomiet Hasan, Irina Papazova, Wolfgang Strube, Dimitris Bolis, Leonhard Schilbach, Christoph Mathys	2020	48
11	Hierarchical prediction errors in midbrain and basal forebrain during sensory learning (Correction to: vol 80, pp. 519-530, 2013) Neuron ·Sandra Iglesias, Christoph Mathys, Kay H. Brodersen, Lars Kasper, Marco Piccirelli, Hanneke E.M. den Ouden, Klaas Ε. Stephan	2019	3
12	Subjective estimates of uncertainty during gambling and impulsivity after subthalamic deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease Scientific Reports ·Saee Paliwal, Philip Mosley, Michael Breakspear, Terry Coyne, Peter A. Silburn, Eduardo A. Aponte, Christoph Mathys, Klaas Ε. Stephan	2019	15
13	A unifying Bayesian account of contextual effects in value-based choice PLoS Computational Biology ·Francesco Rigoli, Christoph Mathys, Karl Friston, Raymond J. Dolan	2017	22
14	Adults with autism overestimate the volatility of the sensory environment Nature Neuroscience ·Rebecca Lawson, Christoph Mathys, Geraint Rees Hit paper breakdown →	2017	283
15	Pharmacological Fingerprints of Contextual Uncertainty PLoS Biology ·Louise Marshall, Christoph Mathys, Diane Ruge, Archy O. de Berker, Peter Dayan, Klaas Ε. Stephan, Sven Bestmann	2016	89
16	Scene Construction, Visual Foraging, and Active Inference Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience ·M. Berk Mirza, Rick A. Adams, Christoph Mathys, Karl Friston	2016	104
17	Computations of uncertainty mediate acute stress responses in humans Nature Communications ·Archy O. de Berker, Robb B. Rutledge, Christoph Mathys, Louise Marshall, Gemma F. Cross, Raymond J. Dolan, Sven Bestmann	2016	210
18	Uncertainty in perception and the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter Frontiers in Human Neuroscience ·Christoph Mathys, Ekaterina I. Lomakina, Jean Daunizeau, Sandra Iglesias, Kay H. Brodersen, Karl Friston, Klaas Ε. Stephan	2014	272
19	Computational approaches to psychiatry Current Opinion in Neurobiology ·Klaas Ε. Stephan, Christoph Mathys	2014	185
20	Spatial Attention, Precision, and Bayesian Inference: A Study of Saccadic Response Speed Cerebral Cortex ·Simone Vossel, Christoph Mathys, Jean Daunizeau, Markus Bauer, Jon Driver, Karl Friston, Klaas Ε. Stephan	2013	107

About Christoph Mathys

Christoph Mathys is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sensory Systems and Psychiatry and Mental health, having authored 65 papers that have together received 4.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neural dynamics and brain function (22 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (20 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (12 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (11 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (8 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (8 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (6 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (3.6k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (1.2k citations), General Decision Sciences (148 citations), Psychiatry and Mental health (923 citations) and Philosophy (446 citations). Christoph Mathys has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Klaas Ε. Stephan, Karl Friston, Philip R. Corlett, Albert R. Powers, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, Rebecca Lawson, Geraint Rees, Raymond J. Dolan, Kay H. Brodersen and Lars Kasper. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS Computational Biology, Journal of Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, NeuroImage and Cerebral Cortex.

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