Daniel Tranel

64.4k total citations · 17 hit papers
426 papers, 42.4k citations indexed

About

Daniel Tranel is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Tranel has authored 426 papers receiving a total of 42.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 316 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 81 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 79 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Tranel's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (107 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (96 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (78 papers). Daniel Tranel is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (107 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (96 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (78 papers). Daniel Tranel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Daniel Tranel's co-authors include António R. Damásio, Ralph Adolphs, Hanna Damásio, Antoine Bechara, H. Damasio, Steven W. Anderson, Natalie L. Denburg, Tony W. Buchanan, Thomas J. Grabowski and David Rudrauf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Tranel

418 papers receiving 40.6k citations

Hit Papers

Deciding Advantageously Before Knowing the Advantageous S... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1997 1994 2000 1996 1999 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. Deciding Advantageously Before Knowing the Advantageous Strategy
    1997 2.4k citations Antoine Bechara, Hanna Damásio et al. profile →
  2. Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala
    1994 1.6k citations Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel et al. Nature profile →
  3. Characterization of the decision-making deficit of patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions
    2000 1.4k citations Antoine Bechara, Daniel Tranel et al. Brain profile →
  4. A neural basis for lexical retrieval
    1996 1.1k citations Hanna Damásio, Daniel Tranel et al. Nature profile →
  5. Impairment of social and moral behavior related to early damage in human prefrontal cortex
    1999 1.0k citations Steven W. Anderson, Antoine Bechara et al. profile →
  6. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
    2007 1.0k citations Michael Koenigs, Liane Young et al. Nature profile →
  7. A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage
    2005 962 citations Ralph Adolphs, Tony W. Buchanan et al. Nature profile →
  8. Double Dissociation of Conditioning and Declarative Knowledge Relative to the Amygdala and Hippocampus in Humans
    1995 939 citations Antoine Bechara, Daniel Tranel et al. profile →
  9. Failure to Respond Autonomically to Anticipated Future Outcomes Following Damage to Prefrontal Cortex
    1996 839 citations Antoine Bechara, Daniel Tranel et al. profile →
  10. Fear and the human amygdala
    1995 832 citations Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel et al. profile →
  11. A Role for Somatosensory Cortices in the Visual Recognition of Emotion as Revealed by Three-Dimensional Lesion Mapping
    2000 800 citations Ralph Adolphs, Hanna Damásio et al. profile →
  12. Dissociation Of Working Memory from Decision Making within the Human Prefrontal Cortex
    1998 791 citations Antoine Bechara, Hanna Damásio et al. profile →
  13. The human amygdala in social judgment
    1998 769 citations Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel et al. Nature profile →
  14. Cortical Systems for the Recognition of Emotion in Facial Expressions
    1996 596 citations Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel et al. profile →
  15. Nouns and verbs are retrieved with differently distributed neural systems.
    1993 583 citations António R. Damásio, Daniel Tranel Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  16. Neural systems behind word and concept retrieval
    2004 532 citations H. Damasio, Daniel Tranel et al. profile →
  17. The Iowa Gambling Task and the somatic marker hypothesis: some questions and answers
    2005 514 citations Antoine Bechara, H. Damasio 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
Daniel Tranel United States 101 29.3k 9.6k 9.4k 7.0k 4.6k 426 42.4k
Ralph Adolphs United States 100 28.9k 1.0× 9.5k 1.0× 10.5k 1.1× 4.8k 0.7× 4.7k 1.0× 283 40.4k
António R. Damásio United States 97 35.1k 1.2× 12.2k 1.3× 13.3k 1.4× 8.5k 1.2× 6.8k 1.5× 262 58.1k
Arthur F. Kramer United States 114 22.9k 0.8× 8.6k 0.9× 6.1k 0.6× 9.8k 1.4× 3.1k 0.7× 642 54.9k
Simon B. Eickhoff Germany 115 46.4k 1.6× 11.3k 1.2× 8.0k 0.9× 8.9k 1.3× 4.2k 0.9× 699 60.8k
Tor D. Wager United States 95 37.3k 1.3× 15.4k 1.6× 7.6k 0.8× 10.0k 1.4× 7.9k 1.7× 319 57.6k
John D. E. Gabrieli United States 135 42.6k 1.5× 12.2k 1.3× 6.4k 0.7× 8.0k 1.1× 5.1k 1.1× 497 59.2k
Vinod Menon United States 99 46.0k 1.6× 11.1k 1.2× 3.9k 0.4× 9.0k 1.3× 4.0k 0.9× 268 58.3k
Russell A. Poldrack United States 109 37.1k 1.3× 8.1k 0.8× 4.6k 0.5× 5.4k 0.8× 3.3k 0.7× 319 49.2k
Hanna Damásio United States 66 19.4k 0.7× 6.4k 0.7× 5.6k 0.6× 4.4k 0.6× 4.1k 0.9× 161 29.9k
Ruben C. Gur United States 115 25.8k 0.9× 10.7k 1.1× 5.1k 0.5× 12.5k 1.8× 7.2k 1.6× 687 47.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bruss, Joel, Joseph C. Griffis, Hiroto Kawasaki, et al.. (2024). Lesion and lesion network localization of dysnomia after epilepsy surgery. Brain. 148(3). 776–787.
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Kovach, Christopher K., et al.. (2024). Sensing, feeling and regulating: investigating the association of focal brain damage with voluntary respiratory and motor control. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1908). 20230251–20230251. 2 indexed citations
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Bruss, Joel, et al.. (2023). Localization of a Medial Temporal Lobe—Precuneus Network for Time Orientation. Annals of Neurology. 94(3). 421–433. 3 indexed citations
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Bruss, Joel, Hugues Duffau, Guillaume Herbet, et al.. (2022). Central precuneus lesions are associated with impaired executive function. Brain Structure and Function. 227(9). 3099–3108. 26 indexed citations
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Rhone, Ariane E., Christopher K. Kovach, Daniel Tranel, et al.. (2020). A human amygdala site that inhibits respiration and elicits apnea in pediatric epilepsy. JCI Insight. 5(6). 49 indexed citations
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Gratton, Caterina, Ally Dworetsky, Rebecca S. Coalson, et al.. (2020). Removal of high frequency contamination from motion estimates in single-band fMRI saves data without biasing functional connectivity. NeuroImage. 217. 116866–116866. 57 indexed citations
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Tranel, Daniel, et al.. (2019). The hippocampus and semantic memory over time. Brain and Language. 201. 104711–104711. 23 indexed citations
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Sutterer, Matthew J., Timothy R. Koscik, & Daniel Tranel. (2015). Sex-related functional asymmetry of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in regard to decision-making under risk and ambiguity. Neuropsychologia. 75. 265–273. 18 indexed citations
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Sánchez‐Navarro, Juan P., David M. Driscoll, Steven W. Anderson, et al.. (2013). Alterations of attention and emotional processing following childhood-onset damage to the prefrontal cortex.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 128(1). 1–11. 9 indexed citations
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Koscik, Timothy R. & Daniel Tranel. (2012). The Human Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Is Critical for Transitive Inference. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24(5). 1191–1204. 51 indexed citations
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Tranel, Daniel & Kathleen A. Welsh‐Bohmer. (2012). Pervasive olfactory impairment after bilateral limbic system destruction. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 34(2). 117–125. 6 indexed citations
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Voss, Joel L., David E. Warren, Brian D. Gonsalves, et al.. (2011). Spontaneous revisitation during visual exploration as a link among strategic behavior, learning, and the hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(31). E402–9. 83 indexed citations
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Warren, David E., Melissa C. Duff, Daniel Tranel, & Neal J. Cohen. (2011). Observing Degradation of Visual Representations over Short Intervals When Medial Temporal Lobe Is Damaged. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23(12). 3862–3873. 52 indexed citations
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Gläscher, Jan, David Rudrauf, Roberto Colom, et al.. (2010). Distributed neural system for general intelligence revealed by lesion mapping. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(10). 4705–4709. 212 indexed citations
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Koenigs, Michael, Liane Young, Ralph Adolphs, et al.. (2007). Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements. Nature. 446(7138). 908–911. 1003 indexed citations breakdown →
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Young, Liane, Fiery Cushman, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, & Michael A. Hauser. (2006). Does emotion mediate the effect of an action's moral status on its intentional status? Neuropsychological evidence. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 102(2). 211–8. 24 indexed citations
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Anderson, Steven W., Michael M. Todd, Bradley J. Hindman, et al.. (2006). Effects of intraoperative hypothermia on neuropsychological outcomes after intracranial aneurysm surgery. Annals of Neurology. 60(5). 518–527. 48 indexed citations
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Tranel, Daniel. (2006). Impaired naming of unique landmarks is associated with left temporal polar damage.. Neuropsychology. 20(1). 1–10. 110 indexed citations
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Bechara, Antoine, Daniel Tranel, & Hanna Damásio. (2000). Characterization of the decision-making deficit of patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions. Brain. 123(11). 2189–2202. 1373 indexed citations breakdown →

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