Christopher Baldassano

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Christopher Baldassano is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Baldassano has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Baldassano's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (22 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (17 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (11 papers). Christopher Baldassano is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (22 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (17 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (11 papers). Christopher Baldassano collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Spain. Christopher Baldassano's co-authors include Kenneth A. Norman, Li Fei-Fei, Uri Hasson, Diane M. Beck, Janice Chen, Jonathan W. Pillow, Asieh Zadbood, Andre Esteva, Michelle R. Greene and Lluís Fuentemilla and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Baldassano

36 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Discovering Event Structure in Continuous Narrative Perception and Memory

2017 521 citations Christopher Baldassano, Janice Chen et al. Neuron profile →

Peers

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Martin N. Hebart Germany

Greg Detre United States

Hamed Nili United Kingdom

Andrew C. Connolly United States

Ian Charest United Kingdom

J. Swaroop Guntupalli United States

Vicente L. Malave United States

Alex Clarke United Kingdom

Jasmine Boshyan United States

Arjen Alink Germany

Martin N. Hebart Germany

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1.8k ×1.3

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329 ×1.7

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130 ×0.7

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187 ×1.1

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246 ×1.4

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Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Baldassano

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Baldassano

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Baldassano

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher Baldassano. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher Baldassano based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christopher Baldassano. Christopher Baldassano is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Baldassano, Christopher, et al.. (2026). Spatial contexts with reliable neural representations support reinstatement of subsequently placed objects. Nature Human Behaviour. 10(1). 164–181.

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Silva, Marta, Estefanía Conde‐Blanco, Pedro Roldán, et al.. (2025). Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5647–5647. 2 indexed citations

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Sachs, Matthew E., Marek Kozák, Kevin N. Ochsner, & Christopher Baldassano. (2025). Emotions in the Brain Are Dynamic and Contextually Dependent: Using Music to Measure Affective Transitions. eNeuro. 12(7). ENEURO.0184–24.2025.

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Liu, Yifang, et al.. (2025). Accurate Predictions Facilitate Robust Memory Encoding Independently From Stimulus Probability. Open Mind. 9. 940–958.

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Nau, Matthias, Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, Francisco Pereira, et al.. (2025). Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7865–7865. 1 indexed citations

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Baldassano, Christopher, et al.. (2024). The brain hierarchically represents the past and future during multistep anticipation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9094–9094. 6 indexed citations

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Baldassano, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Top-down attention shifts behavioral and neural event boundaries in narratives with overlapping event scripts. Current Biology. 34(20). 4729–4742.e5. 7 indexed citations

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Golan, Tal, Matthew Siegelman, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, & Christopher Baldassano. (2023). Testing the limits of natural language models for predicting human language judgements. Nature Machine Intelligence. 5(9). 952–964. 13 indexed citations

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Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth, Samuel A. Nastase, Janice Chen, et al.. (2022). High-Order Areas and Auditory Cortex Both Represent the High-Level Event Structure of Music. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 34(4). 699–714. 18 indexed citations

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Norman, Kenneth A., et al.. (2022). Schema representations in distinct brain networks support narrative memory during encoding and retrieval. eLife. 11. 34 indexed citations

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Cohen, Samantha, Nim Tottenham, & Christopher Baldassano. (2022). Developmental changes in story-evoked responses in the neocortex and hippocampus. eLife. 11. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Anqi, Samuel A. Nastase, Christopher Baldassano, et al.. (2021). Brain kernel: A new spatial covariance function for fMRI data. NeuroImage. 245. 118580–118580. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Catherine, et al.. (2021). Learning to perform role-filler binding with schematic knowledge. PeerJ. 9. e11046–e11046. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Catherine, et al.. (2019). Learning to Apply Schematic Knowledge to Novel Instances.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Vodrahalli, Kiran, Yingyu Liang, Christopher Baldassano, et al.. (2017). Mapping between fMRI responses to movies and their natural language annotations. NeuroImage. 180(Pt A). 223–231. 51 indexed citations

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Baldassano, Christopher, Janice Chen, Asieh Zadbood, et al.. (2017). Discovering Event Structure in Continuous Narrative Perception and Memory. Neuron. 95(3). 709–721.e5. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baldassano, Christopher, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei. (2016). Human–Object Interactions Are More than the Sum of Their Parts. Cerebral Cortex. 27(3). bhw077–bhw077. 47 indexed citations

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Baldassano, Christopher, Andre Esteva, Li Fei-Fei, & Diane M. Beck. (2016). Two Distinct Scene-Processing Networks Connecting Vision and Memory. eNeuro. 3(5). ENEURO.0178–16.2016. 106 indexed citations

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Baldassano, Christopher, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei. (2014). Supervoxel parcellation of visual cortex connectivity. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 1080–1080. 1 indexed citations

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Baldassano, Christopher, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei. (2013). Differential Connectivity Within the Parahippocampal Place Area. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 1096–1096. 44 indexed citations

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