Håkan Olausson

13.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
136 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Håkan Olausson is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Håkan Olausson has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 37 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Håkan Olausson's work include Tactile and Sensory Interactions (75 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (36 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (32 papers). Håkan Olausson is often cited by papers focused on Tactile and Sensory Interactions (75 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (36 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (32 papers). Håkan Olausson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Håkan Olausson's co-authors include Johan Wessberg, Francis McGlone, Å. B. Vallbo, Line S. Löken, India Morrison, Malin Björnsdotter, India Morrison, Ilona Croy, M. Catherine Bushnell and Rochelle Ackerley and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Håkan Olausson

133 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Coding of pleasant touch by unmyelinated afferents in humans

2009 732 citations Line S. Löken, Johan Wessberg et al. profile →
Unmyelinated tactile afferents signal touch and project to insular cortex

2002 724 citations Håkan Olausson, Helena Backlund et al. profile →
Discriminative and Affective Touch: Sensing and Feeling

2014 694 citations Francis McGlone, Johan Wessberg et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Håkan Olausson Sweden	50	6.0k	3.4k	3.1k	1.5k	1.1k	136	9.4k
Francis McGlone United Kingdom	52	6.1k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	141	10.9k
Johan Wessberg Sweden	37	5.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	684 0.5×	516 0.5×	68	7.2k
Salvatore Maria Aglioti Italy	70	11.6k 1.9×	8.5k 2.5×	2.7k 0.9×	2.6k 1.7×	602 0.6×	320	17.1k
Martín Lotze Germany	54	6.3k 1.1×	2.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	228	11.2k
Lawrence M. Parsons United States	42	7.2k 1.2×	2.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	322 0.3×	59	10.1k
Richard E. Passingham United Kingdom	59	11.5k 1.9×	3.8k 1.1×	1.6k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	236 0.2×	93	14.7k
Wolfgang H. R. Miltner Germany	53	7.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.4×	2.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	827 0.8×	186	11.8k
Darren R. Gitelman United States	59	8.5k 1.4×	976 0.3×	1.8k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	125	12.3k
Giuseppe Vallar Italy	63	11.7k 2.0×	1.3k 0.4×	1.7k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	263 0.2×	253	14.7k
Nadia Bolognini Italy	39	3.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.5×	818 0.6×	200 0.2×	183	6.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Håkan Olausson

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Ulander, Martin, et al.. (2024). HbA _1c and the risk of developing peripheral neuropathy in childhood‐onset type 1 diabetes: A follow‐up study over 3 decades. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews. 40(5). e3825–e3825. 2 indexed citations

Novembre, Giovanni, Sarah McIntyre, Ali Israr, et al.. (2024). Primary somatosensory cortical processing in tactile communication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1908). 20230249–20230249. 3 indexed citations

Bouchatta, Otmane, et al.. (2024). Human Foot Outperforms the Hand in Mechanical Pain Discrimination. eNeuro. 11(2). ENEURO.0412–23.2024. 2 indexed citations

McGlone, Francis, et al.. (2023). Social Touch Reduces Pain Perception—An fMRI Study of Cortical Mechanisms. Brain Sciences. 13(3). 393–393. 10 indexed citations

Olausson, Håkan, et al.. (2023). Get a New Perspective on EEG: Convolutional Neural Network Encoders for Parametric t-SNE. Brain Sciences. 13(3). 453–453. 10 indexed citations

McIntyre, Sarah, Steven C. Hauser, Rebecca Boehme, et al.. (2022). The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable. Psychological Science. 33(9). 1477–1494. 37 indexed citations

Löken, Line S., Helena Backlund Wasling, Håkan Olausson, Francis McGlone, & Johan Wessberg. (2022). A topographical and physiological exploration of C-tactile afferents and their response to menthol and histamine. Journal of Neurophysiology. 127(2). 463–473. 10 indexed citations

Perini, Irene, Per A. Gustafsson, Kajsa Igelström, et al.. (2021). Altered relationship between subjective perception and central representation of touch hedonics in adolescents with autism-spectrum disorder. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 224–224. 33 indexed citations

Boehme, Rebecca & Håkan Olausson. (2021). Differentiating self-touch from social touch. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 43. 27–33. 23 indexed citations

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McIntyre, Sarah, Saad S. Nagi, Francis McGlone, & Håkan Olausson. (2021). The Effects of Ageing on Tactile Function in Humans. Neuroscience. 464. 53–58. 40 indexed citations

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Taneja, Pankaj, Håkan Olausson, Mats Trulsson, et al.. (2020). Modulation of experimental facial pain via somatosensory stimuli targeting sensations of different valence. Journal of Oral Rehabilitation. 47(6). 720–730. 3 indexed citations

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Taneja, Pankaj, et al.. (2020). Reliability of orofacial quantitative sensory testing for pleasantness and unpleasantness. Cephalalgia. 40(11). 1191–1201. 1 indexed citations

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Nagi, Saad S., Andrew Marshall, Ewa Jarocka, et al.. (2019). An ultrafast system for signaling mechanical pain in human skin. Science Advances. 5(7). eaaw1297–eaaw1297. 84 indexed citations

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Chae, Younbyoung & Håkan Olausson. (2017). The Role of Touch in Acupuncture Treatment. Acupuncture in Medicine. 35(2). 148–152. 42 indexed citations

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Olausson, Håkan, et al.. (2015). Positive Effects of a Weighted Blanket on Insomnia. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 2(3). 1–7. 20 indexed citations

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Lee, In‐Seon, Bombi Lee, Hi‐Joon Park, et al.. (2015). A new animal model of placebo analgesia: involvement of the dopaminergic system in reward learning. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17140–17140. 32 indexed citations

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Ellingsen, Dan‐Mikael, Johan Wessberg, Olga Chelnokova, et al.. (2013). In touch with your emotions: Oxytocin and touch change social impressions while others’ facial expressions can alter touch. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 39. 11–20. 103 indexed citations

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Löken, Line S., Linda C. Lundblad, Mikael Elam, & Håkan Olausson. (2009). Tactile direction discrimination and vibration detection in diabetic neuropathy. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 121(5). 302–308. 10 indexed citations

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Backlund, Helena, Chantal Morin, Alain Ptito, M. Catherine Bushnell, & Håkan Olausson. (2004). Tactile functions after cerebral hemispherectomy. Neuropsychologia. 43(3). 332–339. 9 indexed citations

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Wessberg, Johan, et al.. (2003). Receptive Field Properties of Unmyelinated Tactile Afferents in the Human Skin. Journal of Neurophysiology. 89(3). 1567–1575. 124 indexed citations

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