Françoise Macar

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Françoise Macar is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Françoise Macar has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 6 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Françoise Macar's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (26 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers) and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (6 papers). Françoise Macar is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (26 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers) and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (6 papers). Françoise Macar collaborates with scholars based in France, Canada and Belgium. Françoise Macar's co-authors include Franck Vidal, Laurence Casini, Jennifer T. Coull, Bruno Nazarian, Simon Grondin, Viviane Pouthas, Michel Bonnet, William J. Friedman, Helga Lejeune and Dan Zakay and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Neuropsychologia and Experimental Brain Research.

In The Last Decade

Françoise Macar

32 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Functional Anatomy of the Attentional Modulation of Time ... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Functional Anatomy of the Attentional Modulation of Time Estimation
    2004 509 citations Jennifer T. Coull, Franck Vidal 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
Françoise Macar France 17 1.8k 721 264 209 170 32 1.9k
F. Macar France 10 1.1k 0.6× 371 0.5× 144 0.5× 113 0.5× 78 0.5× 15 1.1k
Richard Ragot France 22 1.5k 0.8× 550 0.8× 96 0.4× 150 0.7× 79 0.5× 37 1.6k
Stefan Berti Germany 26 1.8k 1.0× 789 1.1× 113 0.4× 265 1.3× 48 0.3× 67 2.1k
André Ferrara Belgium 12 828 0.5× 259 0.4× 192 0.7× 82 0.4× 99 0.6× 22 980
Elżbieta Szeląg Poland 21 1.1k 0.6× 522 0.7× 112 0.4× 134 0.6× 37 0.2× 61 1.3k
S Mäntysalo Finland 7 2.3k 1.3× 988 1.4× 97 0.4× 134 0.6× 130 0.8× 12 2.5k
Stefan Elmer Switzerland 25 1.3k 0.7× 340 0.5× 59 0.2× 182 0.9× 133 0.8× 58 1.4k
Laurent Hugueville France 19 1.4k 0.8× 346 0.5× 57 0.2× 302 1.4× 63 0.4× 43 1.6k
Sundeep Teki United Kingdom 21 1.5k 0.8× 431 0.6× 61 0.2× 129 0.6× 73 0.4× 32 1.7k
N.E. Loveless United Kingdom 19 1.7k 0.9× 598 0.8× 47 0.2× 240 1.1× 38 0.2× 29 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Françoise Macar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Françoise Macar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Françoise Macar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Françoise Macar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Françoise Macar 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 Françoise Macar. Françoise Macar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fortin, Claudette, et al.. (2009). Contrasting effects of interference and of breaks in interval timing. Acta Psychologica. 133(1). 3–16. 10 indexed citations
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Macar, Françoise & Franck Vidal. (2009). Timing processes: An outline of behavioural and neural indices not systematically considered in timing models.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 63(3). 227–239. 46 indexed citations
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Audiffren, Michel, et al.. (2008). Overproduction Timing Errors in Expert Dancers. Journal of Motor Behavior. 40(4). 291–300. 14 indexed citations
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Macar, Françoise, Jennifer T. Coull, & Franck Vidal. (2006). The supplementary motor area in motor and perceptual time processing: fMRI studies. Cognitive Processing. 7(2). 89–94. 116 indexed citations
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Macar, Françoise, et al.. (2004). Timing functions of the supplementary motor area: an event-related fMRI study. Cognitive Brain Research. 21(2). 206–215. 99 indexed citations
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Macar, Françoise & Franck Vidal. (2004). Event-Related Potentials as Indices of Time Processing: A Review. Journal of Psychophysiology. 18(2/3). 89–104. 94 indexed citations
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Macar, Françoise & Franck Vidal. (2003). The CNV peak: An index of decision making and temporal memory. Psychophysiology. 40(6). 950–954. 121 indexed citations
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Macar, Françoise & Franck Vidal. (2002). Time processing reflected by EEG surface Laplacians. Experimental Brain Research. 145(3). 403–406. 43 indexed citations
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Macar, Françoise. (2002). Expectancy, controlled attention and automatic attention in prospective temporal judgments. Acta Psychologica. 111(2). 243–262. 24 indexed citations
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Lejeune, Helga, Françoise Macar, & Dan Zakay. (1999). Attention and timing: dual-task performance in pigeons. Behavioural Processes. 45(1-3). 141–157. 29 indexed citations
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Casini, Laurence & Françoise Macar. (1999). Multiple approaches to investigate the existence of an internal clock using attentional resources. Behavioural Processes. 45(1-3). 73–85. 37 indexed citations
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Casini, Laurence & Françoise Macar. (1997). Effects of attention manipulation on judgments of duration and of intensity in the visual modality. Memory & Cognition. 25(6). 812–818. 140 indexed citations
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Lejeune, Helga, Pierre Maquet, Michel Bonnet, et al.. (1997). The basic pattern of activation in motor and sensory temporal tasks: positron emission tomography data. Neuroscience Letters. 235(1-2). 21–24. 67 indexed citations
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Vidal, Franck, Françoise Macar, & Michel Bonnet. (1996). The “Short-Long” Reaction Time Effect in Duration Programming. Journal of Motor Behavior. 28(4). 359–370. 6 indexed citations
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Casini, Laurence & Françoise Macar. (1996). Can the level of prefrontal activity provide an index of performance in humans?. Neuroscience Letters. 219(2). 71–74. 18 indexed citations
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Macar, Françoise, Simon Grondin, & Laurence Casini. (1994). Controlled attention sharing influences time estimation. Memory & Cognition. 22(6). 673–686. 296 indexed citations
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Pouthas, Viviane, et al.. (1986). Les conduites temporelles chez le jeune enfant (lacunes et perspectives de recherche). L’Année psychologique. 86(1). 103–121. 5 indexed citations
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Besson, Mireille & Françoise Macar. (1986). Visual and auditory event-related potentials elicited by linguistic and non-linguistic incongruities. Neuroscience Letters. 63(2). 109–114. 14 indexed citations
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Macar, Françoise. (1977). Signification des variations contingentes négatives dans la dimension temporelle du comportement. L’Année psychologique. 77(2). 439–474. 13 indexed citations
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Macar, Françoise, et al.. (1973). Effects of time uncertainty on the time-course of preparatory processes in cats performing a RT task. Acta Psychologica. 37(3). 215–228. 3 indexed citations

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