Elkan G. Akyürek

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Elkan G. Akyürek is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Sensory Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Elkan G. Akyürek has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 7 papers in Sensory Systems. Recurrent topics in Elkan G. Akyürek's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (50 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (41 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (18 papers). Elkan G. Akyürek is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (50 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (41 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (18 papers). Elkan G. Akyürek collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Elkan G. Akyürek's co-authors include Bernhard Hommel, Michael J. Wolff, Mark G. Stokes, Janina Jochim, Anna Schubö, Paolo Toffanin, Deniz Başkent, Pierre Jolicœur, Hedderik van Rijn and Xiaorong Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Elkan G. Akyürek

64 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

  1. Dynamic hidden states underlying working-memory-guided behavior
    2017 321 citations Michael J. Wolff, Elkan G. Akyürek et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Elkan G. Akyürek Netherlands 19 1.3k 296 123 102 91 69 1.4k
Manuel Mercier France 20 1.1k 0.9× 424 1.4× 139 1.1× 154 1.5× 46 0.5× 38 1.3k
Piia Astikainen Finland 22 1.7k 1.3× 622 2.1× 154 1.3× 111 1.1× 88 1.0× 75 2.0k
Yasuki Noguchi Japan 19 774 0.6× 265 0.9× 202 1.6× 72 0.7× 62 0.7× 67 1.1k
Sanne ten Oever Netherlands 21 905 0.7× 320 1.1× 110 0.9× 105 1.0× 57 0.6× 45 1.1k
Elana Zion Golumbic Israel 20 1.5k 1.2× 505 1.7× 121 1.0× 92 0.9× 125 1.4× 46 1.7k
M-Marsel Mesulam United States 9 719 0.6× 181 0.6× 70 0.6× 77 0.8× 107 1.2× 12 867
Maarten J. van der Smagt Netherlands 20 806 0.6× 250 0.8× 131 1.1× 112 1.1× 68 0.7× 72 1.1k
Arjen Alink Germany 18 1.8k 1.4× 349 1.2× 185 1.5× 74 0.7× 99 1.1× 36 2.0k
Shlomit Yuval‐Greenberg Israel 15 1.4k 1.1× 294 1.0× 90 0.7× 147 1.4× 53 0.6× 35 1.6k
Maximilien Chaumon France 15 1.4k 1.1× 244 0.8× 85 0.7× 60 0.6× 53 0.6× 25 1.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wolff, Michael J., et al.. (2025). Behaviorally Irrelevant Feature Matching Increases Neural and Behavioral Working Memory Readout. Psychophysiology. 62(2). e70020–e70020.
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Akyürek, Elkan G., et al.. (2025). Acute effects of cocoa flavanols on cognitive control and response inhibition. Nutrition. 139. 112860–112860.
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Akyürek, Elkan G.. (2025). Temporal integration as an adaptive process in visual perception, attention, and working memory. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 170. 106041–106041. 1 indexed citations
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Wolff, Michael J., et al.. (2024). Concurrent maintenance of both veridical and transformed working memory representations within unique coding schemes. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 4 indexed citations
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Akyürek, Elkan G., et al.. (2024). Concurrent consumption of cocoa flavanols and caffeine does not acutely modulate working memory and attention. European Journal of Nutrition. 64(1). 35–35.
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Wilhelm, Sophia A., et al.. (2024). Adaptive forgetting speed in working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 31(6). 2704–2713. 1 indexed citations
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Rijn, Hedderik van, et al.. (2023). Adaptive Encoding Speed in Working Memory. Psychological Science. 34(7). 822–833. 5 indexed citations
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Akyürek, Elkan G., et al.. (2023). Dissociable event‐related potential modulations of intrinsic and extrinsic factors in temporal integration. Psychophysiology. 61(4). e14468–e14468. 1 indexed citations
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Akyürek, Elkan G., et al.. (2023). Attentional blur and blink: Effects of adaptive attentional scaling on visual awareness. Consciousness and Cognition. 117. 103627–103627.
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Mathôt, Sebastiaan, et al.. (2022). Concealed identity information detection with pupillometry in rapid serial visual presentation. Psychophysiology. 60(1). e14155–e14155. 5 indexed citations
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Akyürek, Elkan G., et al.. (2022). Object-based visual working memory: an object benefit for equidistant memory items presented within simple contours. Psychological Research. 87(5). 1569–1589. 1 indexed citations
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Wilhelm, Sophia A., et al.. (2021). Two faces of perceptual awareness during the attentional blink: Gradual and discrete.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 151(7). 1520–1541. 6 indexed citations
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Colzato, Lorenza S., et al.. (2017). Supplementation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) affects temporal, but not spatial visual attention. Brain and Cognition. 120. 8–16. 22 indexed citations
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Wolff, Michael J., Sabine Scholz, Elkan G. Akyürek, & Hedderik van Rijn. (2014). Two visual targets for the price of one? Pupil dilation shows reduced mental effort through temporal integration. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 22(1). 251–257. 14 indexed citations
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Akyürek, Elkan G., et al.. (2012). Task set flexibility and feature specificity modulate the limits of temporal attention. Psychological Research. 77(5). 583–598. 2 indexed citations
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Akyürek, Elkan G. & Anna Schubö. (2011). The allocation of attention in displays with simultaneously presented singletons. Biological Psychology. 87(2). 218–225. 6 indexed citations
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Akyürek, Elkan G., Anna Schubö, & Bernhard Hommel. (2010). Fast temporal event integration in the visual domain demonstrated by event-related potentials. Psychophysiology. 47(3). 512–522. 24 indexed citations
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Akyürek, Elkan G., Patricia Riddell, Paolo Toffanin, & Bernhard Hommel. (2007). Adaptive control of event integration: Evidence from event‐related potentials. Psychophysiology. 44(3). 383–391. 45 indexed citations
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Akyürek, Elkan G. & Bernhard Hommel. (2005). Target integration and the attentional blink. Acta Psychologica. 119(3). 305–314. 46 indexed citations
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Hommel, Bernhard, Klaus Kessler, Frank Schmitz, et al.. (2005). How the brain blinks: towards a neurocognitive model of the attentional blink. Psychological Research. 70(6). 425–435. 70 indexed citations

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