Gordon L. Shulman

59.3k total citations · 16 hit papers
133 papers, 44.8k citations indexed

About

Gordon L. Shulman is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gordon L. Shulman has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 44.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 24 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 11 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Gordon L. Shulman's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (67 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (58 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (52 papers). Gordon L. Shulman is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (67 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (58 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (52 papers). Gordon L. Shulman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Gordon L. Shulman's co-authors include Maurizio Corbetta, Marcus E. Raichle, Abraham Z. Snyder, Debra A. Gusnard, William J. Powers, Gaurav H. Patel, Erbil Akbudak, John Ollinger, Serguei V. Astafiev and Steven E. Petersen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gordon L. Shulman

132 papers receiving 44.0k citations

Hit Papers

Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in... 1990 2026 2002 2014 2002 2001 2008 2001 1997 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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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. Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain
    2002 9.5k citations Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L. Shulman Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
  2. A default mode of brain function
    2001 9.2k citations Abraham Z. Snyder, Gordon L. Shulman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. The Reorienting System of the Human Brain: From Environment to Theory of Mind
    2008 3.0k citations Maurizio Corbetta, Gaurav H. Patel et al. Neuron profile →
  4. Medial prefrontal cortex and self-referential mental activity: Relation to a default mode of brain function
    2001 2.4k citations Gordon L. Shulman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Common Blood Flow Changes across Visual Tasks: II. Decreases in Cerebral Cortex
    1997 1.5k citations Gordon L. Shulman, Maurizio Corbetta et al. profile →
  6. Voluntary orienting is dissociated from target detection in human posterior parietal cortex
    2000 1.5k citations Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L. Shulman et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  7. A Common Network of Functional Areas for Attention and Eye Movements
    1998 1.3k citations Maurizio Corbetta, Abraham Z. Snyder et al. Neuron profile →
  8. Spatial Neglect and Attention Networks
    2011 944 citations Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L. Shulman profile →
  9. Breakdown of Functional Connectivity in Frontoparietal Networks Underlies Behavioral Deficits in Spatial Neglect
    2007 751 citations Biyu J. He, Abraham Z. Snyder et al. Neuron profile →
  10. Attentional Modulation of Neural Processing of Shape, Color, and Velocity in Humans
    1990 672 citations Maurizio Corbetta, Francis M. Miezin et al. Science profile →
  11. Resting interhemispheric functional magnetic resonance imaging connectivity predicts performance after stroke
    2009 620 citations Serguei V. Astafiev, Catherine E. Lang et al. profile →
  12. Superior Parietal Cortex Activation During Spatial Attention Shifts and Visual Feature Conjunction
    1995 601 citations Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L. Shulman et al. Science profile →
  13. Neural Systems for Visual Orienting and Their Relationships to Spatial Working Memory
    2002 544 citations Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L. Shulman et al. profile →
  14. Functional Organization of Human Intraparietal and Frontal Cortex for Attending, Looking, and Pointing
    2003 526 citations Serguei V. Astafiev, Gordon L. Shulman et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  15. Disruptions of network connectivity predict impairment in multiple behavioral domains after stroke
    2016 445 citations Joshua S. Siegel, Lenny Ramsey et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  16. Common Behavioral Clusters and Subcortical Anatomy in Stroke
    2015 313 citations Maurizio Corbetta, Lenny Ramsey et al. Neuron profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gordon L. Shulman United States 68 38.9k 7.0k 6.3k 4.3k 3.4k 133 44.8k
Mark D’Esposito United States 115 40.9k 1.0× 7.5k 1.1× 5.2k 0.8× 4.9k 1.1× 4.0k 1.2× 431 50.3k
Maurizio Corbetta United States 90 53.1k 1.4× 7.9k 1.1× 10.4k 1.7× 4.9k 1.1× 3.5k 1.0× 307 60.1k
Angela R. Laird United States 83 30.6k 0.8× 8.1k 1.2× 7.7k 1.2× 6.9k 1.6× 4.1k 1.2× 219 39.5k
Bernard Mazoyer France 77 20.7k 0.5× 4.2k 0.6× 7.3k 1.2× 5.3k 1.2× 2.2k 0.6× 280 32.0k
Martin I. Sereno United States 52 25.0k 0.6× 3.5k 0.5× 8.1k 1.3× 3.9k 0.9× 2.6k 0.7× 126 32.8k
Michael Petrides Canada 85 24.1k 0.6× 3.8k 0.5× 4.0k 0.6× 2.9k 0.7× 3.5k 1.0× 239 31.0k
Steven E. Petersen United States 94 51.3k 1.3× 9.5k 1.4× 13.0k 2.1× 5.5k 1.3× 3.2k 0.9× 192 58.7k
Russell A. Poldrack United States 109 37.1k 1.0× 8.1k 1.2× 6.5k 1.0× 5.4k 1.3× 4.6k 1.3× 319 49.2k
Bradley L. Schlaggar United States 65 31.0k 0.8× 6.2k 0.9× 10.2k 1.6× 4.2k 1.0× 1.3k 0.4× 172 37.1k
Gregory McCarthy United States 91 27.6k 0.7× 6.6k 1.0× 2.7k 0.4× 3.4k 0.8× 3.9k 1.1× 231 35.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Lu, Lorenzo Pini, Gordon L. Shulman, & Maurizio Corbetta. (2025). Brain-wide dynamic coactivation states code for hand movements in the resting state. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(11). e2415508122–e2415508122. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lu, et al.. (2023). Spontaneous Activity Patterns in Human Attention Networks Code for Hand Movements. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(11). 1976–1986. 6 indexed citations
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Metcalf, Nicholas V., et al.. (2020). Spontaneously emerging patterns in human visual cortex and their functional connectivity are linked to the patterns evoked by visual stimuli. Journal of Neurophysiology. 124(5). 1343–1363. 14 indexed citations
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Ramsey, Lenny, Nicholas V. Metcalf, Jennifer Rengachary, et al.. (2018). Stronger prediction of motor recovery and outcome post-stroke by cortico-spinal tract integrity than functional connectivity. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0202504–e0202504. 40 indexed citations
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Siegel, Joshua S., Gordon L. Shulman, & Maurizio Corbetta. (2017). Measuring functional connectivity in stroke: Approaches and considerations. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 37(8). 2665–2678. 52 indexed citations
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Siegel, Joshua S., Abraham Z. Snyder, Nicholas V. Metcalf, et al.. (2014). The circuitry of abulia: Insights from functional connectivity MRI. NeuroImage Clinical. 6. 320–326. 37 indexed citations
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Sestieri, Carlo, Maurizio Corbetta, Gian Luca Romani, & Gordon L. Shulman. (2011). Episodic Memory Retrieval, Parietal Cortex, and the Default Mode Network: Functional and Topographic Analyses. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(12). 4407–4420. 406 indexed citations
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Sestieri, Carlo, Gordon L. Shulman, & Maurizio Corbetta. (2010). Attention to Memory and the Environment: Functional Specialization and Dynamic Competition in Human Posterior Parietal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(25). 8445–8456. 104 indexed citations
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Shulman, Gordon L., Daniel L. W. Pope, Serguei V. Astafiev, et al.. (2010). Right Hemisphere Dominance during Spatial Selective Attention and Target Detection Occurs Outside the Dorsal Frontoparietal Network. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(10). 3640–3651. 424 indexed citations
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Astafiev, Serguei V., Catherine E. Lang, Lisa Tabor Connor, et al.. (2009). Inter-hemispheric Functional Connectivity in Attention and Motor Networks Predicts Behavior after Stroke. NeuroImage. 47. S116–S116. 1 indexed citations
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Rengachary, Jennifer, Giovanni d’Avossa, Ayelet Sapir, Gordon L. Shulman, & Maurizio Corbetta. (2009). Is the Posner Reaction Time Test More Accurate Than Clinical Tests in Detecting Left Neglect in Acute and Chronic Stroke?. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 90(12). 2081–2088. 83 indexed citations
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Corbetta, Maurizio, Gaurav H. Patel, & Gordon L. Shulman. (2008). The Reorienting System of the Human Brain: From Environment to Theory of Mind. Neuron. 58(3). 306–324. 2967 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sylvester, Chad M., Anthony I. Jack, Maurizio Corbetta, & Gordon L. Shulman. (2008). Anticipatory Suppression of Nonattended Locations in Visual Cortex Marks Target Location and Predicts Perception. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(26). 6549–6556. 49 indexed citations
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He, Biyu J., Abraham Z. Snyder, Justin L. Vincent, et al.. (2007). Breakdown of Functional Connectivity in Frontoparietal Networks Underlies Behavioral Deficits in Spatial Neglect. Neuron. 53(6). 905–918. 751 indexed citations breakdown →
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Abrams, Richard A., et al.. (2005). An Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Voluntary and Stimulus-Driven Orienting of Attention. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(18). 4593–4604. 471 indexed citations
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Astafiev, Serguei V., Christine M. Stanley, Gordon L. Shulman, & Maurizio Corbetta. (2004). Extrastriate body area in human occipital cortex responds to the performance of motor actions. Nature Neuroscience. 7(5). 542–548. 483 indexed citations
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Shulman, Gordon L., Mark P. McAvoy, Serguei V. Astafiev, et al.. (2003). Quantitative Analysis of Attention and Detection Signals During Visual Search. Journal of Neurophysiology. 90(5). 3384–3397. 216 indexed citations
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Shulman, Gordon L.. (2002). Two Attentional Processes in the Parietal Lobe. Cerebral Cortex. 12(11). 1124–1131. 126 indexed citations
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Corbetta, Maurizio & Gordon L. Shulman. (2002). Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 3(3). 201–215. 9466 indexed citations breakdown →
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Corbetta, Maurizio, et al.. (1990). Attentional Modulation of Neural Processing of Shape, Color, and Velocity in Humans. Science. 248(4962). 1556–1559. 672 indexed citations breakdown →

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