Fiona McNab

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Fiona McNab is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Fiona McNab has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 3 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Fiona McNab's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (10 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (6 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers). Fiona McNab is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (10 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (6 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers). Fiona McNab collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and Netherlands. Fiona McNab's co-authors include Torkel Klingberg, Lars Farde, Andrea Varrone, Hans Forssberg, Aurelija Jučaitė, Pär I. Johansson, Albert Compte, Jesper Tegnér, Fredrik Edin and Raymond J. Dolan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Fiona McNab

18 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia control access to working memory

2007 763 citations Fiona McNab, Torkel Klingberg Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fiona McNab United Kingdom	12	1.5k	491	317	202	171	19	2.0k
Hongkeun Kim South Korea	22	2.3k 1.5×	346 0.7×	318 1.0×	248 1.2×	222 1.3×	52	2.6k
S.C. Baker United Kingdom	6	1.3k 0.9×	326 0.7×	262 0.8×	184 0.9×	118 0.7×	6	1.7k
Noelia Ventura‐Campos Spain	26	1.3k 0.8×	388 0.8×	209 0.7×	300 1.5×	244 1.4×	57	1.9k
Pedro J. Pardo Spain	14	1.3k 0.9×	300 0.6×	283 0.9×	97 0.5×	118 0.7×	48	1.9k
Stephanie J. Hevenor Canada	11	1.6k 1.0×	674 1.4×	221 0.7×	197 1.0×	173 1.0×	14	2.1k
Koji Jimura Japan	25	2.1k 1.4×	526 1.1×	217 0.7×	158 0.8×	188 1.1×	64	2.6k
Kate Fissell United States	10	1.9k 1.2×	483 1.0×	330 1.0×	262 1.3×	119 0.7×	13	2.3k
Jeffrey W. Cooney United States	13	1.5k 1.0×	385 0.8×	181 0.6×	82 0.4×	122 0.7×	20	2.0k
Olivier Després France	22	1.1k 0.7×	357 0.7×	380 1.2×	150 0.7×	153 0.9×	49	1.7k
Timothy L. Hodgson United Kingdom	27	1.6k 1.1×	349 0.7×	219 0.7×	219 1.1×	199 1.2×	91	2.4k

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19 of 19 papers shown

Copeland, B. Jack, et al.. (2023). Higher working memory capacity and distraction-resistance associated with strategy (not action) game playing in younger adults, but puzzle game playing in older adults. Heliyon. 9(8). e19098–e19098. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Meichao, Fiona McNab, Jonathan Smallwood, & Elizabeth Jefferies. (2022). Perceptual coupling and decoupling are associated with individual differences in working memory encoding and maintenance. Cerebral Cortex. 32(18). 3959–3974. 6 indexed citations

Ahmad, Jumana, Garrett Swan, Howard Bowman, et al.. (2017). Competitive interactions affect working memory performance for both simultaneous and sequential stimulus presentation. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 4785–4785. 14 indexed citations

Miall, R. Chris, et al.. (2016). Individual differences in explicit and implicit visuomotor learning and working memory capacity. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 36633–36633. 69 indexed citations

McNab, Fiona, Peter Zeidman, Robb B. Rutledge, et al.. (2015). Age-related changes in working memory and the ability to ignore distraction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(20). 6515–6518. 80 indexed citations

McNab, Fiona, Jumana Ahmad, Dipesh Mistry, Anna C. Nobre, & Kimron L. Shapiro. (2014). The effects of spatial proximity and colour similarity on competition between targets and distractors on visual working memory.. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 1378–1378.

Brown, Harriet R., Peter Zeidman, Peter Smittenaar, et al.. (2014). Crowdsourcing for Cognitive Science – The Utility of Smartphones. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e100662–e100662. 72 indexed citations

McNab, Fiona & Raymond J. Dolan. (2014). Dissociating distractor-filtering at encoding and during maintenance.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 40(3). 960–967. 34 indexed citations

McNab, Fiona, Arjan Hillebrand, Stephen Swithenby, & Gina Rippon. (2012). Combining Temporal and Spectral Information with Spatial Mapping to Identify Differences between Phonological and Semantic Networks: A Magnetoencephalographic Approach. Frontiers in Psychology. 3. 273–273. 5 indexed citations

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Söderqvist, Stina, Fiona McNab, Myriam Peyrard‐Janvid, et al.. (2010). The SNAP25 Gene Is Linked to Working Memory Capacity and Maturation of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex During Childhood. Biological Psychiatry. 68(12). 1120–1125. 57 indexed citations

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Edin, Fredrik, Torkel Klingberg, Pär I. Johansson, et al.. (2009). Mechanism for top-down control of working memory capacity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(16). 6802–6807. 274 indexed citations

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McNab, Fiona, Andrea Varrone, Lars Farde, et al.. (2009). Changes in Cortical Dopamine D1 Receptor Binding Associated with Cognitive Training. Science. 323(5915). 800–802. 408 indexed citations

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Klingberg, Torkel & Fiona McNab. (2009). Working Memory Remediation and the D1 Receptor. American Journal of Psychiatry. 166(5). 515–515. 7 indexed citations

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McNab, Fiona, Andrea Varrone, Lars Farde, et al.. (2009). Changes in Cortical Dopamine D1 Receptor Binding Associated with Cognitive Training. NeuroImage. 47. S77–S77. 17 indexed citations

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McNab, Fiona, et al.. (2008). Common and unique components of inhibition and working memory: An fMRI, within-subjects investigation. Neuropsychologia. 46(11). 2668–2682. 167 indexed citations

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Haslam, Catherine, et al.. (2007). Does maintenance of colour categories rely on language? Evidence to the contrary from a case of semantic dementia. Brain and Language. 103(3). 251–263. 16 indexed citations

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McNab, Fiona & Torkel Klingberg. (2007). Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia control access to working memory. Nature Neuroscience. 11(1). 103–107. 763 indexed citations breakdown →

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McNab, Fiona, Gina Rippon, Arjan Hillebrand, Krish D. Singh, & Stephen Swithenby. (2006). Semantic and phonological task-set priming and stimulus processing investigated using magnetoencephalography (MEG). Neuropsychologia. 45(5). 1041–1054. 8 indexed citations

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Braeutigam, Sven, Fiona McNab, Stephen Swithenby, & Anthony Bailey. (2001). Neural correlates of single word processing: an MEG study. NeuroImage. 13(6). 510–510. 1 indexed citations

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