Idan Blank

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
33 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Idan Blank is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Idan Blank has authored 33 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, 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 9 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Idan Blank's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (24 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (11 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers). Idan Blank is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (24 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (11 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers). Idan Blank collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Idan Blank's co-authors include Evelina Fedorenko, Nancy Kanwisher, Zachary Mineroff, Kyle Mahowald, Matthew Siegelman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Cory Shain, Greta Tuckute, William Schuler and Carina Kauf and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Idan Blank

33 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing

2021 241 citations Martin Schrimpf, Idan Blank et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Dissociating language and thought in large language models

2024 118 citations Kyle Mahowald, Idan Blank et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
Semantic projection recovers rich human knowledge of multiple object features from word embeddings

2022 85 citations Gabriel Grand, Idan Blank et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Idan Blank United States	23	1.5k	605	394	318	274	33	1.9k
Robert A. Mason United States	12	1.3k 0.9×	324 0.5×	262 0.7×	288 0.9×	243 0.9×	17	1.7k
Chris Westbury Canada	26	2.2k 1.5×	1.2k 2.0×	499 1.3×	556 1.7×	1.1k 3.9×	70	3.4k
Thomas A. Schreiber United States	13	1.4k 1.0×	706 1.2×	598 1.5×	393 1.2×	506 1.8×	21	2.1k
Davide Crepaldi Italy	21	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 1.7×	179 0.5×	254 0.8×	410 1.5×	68	1.7k
Chris McNorgan United States	15	888 0.6×	570 0.9×	333 0.8×	229 0.7×	399 1.5×	25	1.4k
Simon De Deyne Belgium	25	1.2k 0.8×	741 1.2×	717 1.8×	358 1.1×	580 2.1×	69	2.2k
Xing Tian China	22	1.5k 1.0×	307 0.5×	139 0.4×	294 0.9×	551 2.0×	69	2.0k
Barry Devereux United Kingdom	17	914 0.6×	274 0.5×	243 0.6×	191 0.6×	198 0.7×	51	1.2k
David A. Medler United States	14	2.2k 1.5×	867 1.4×	129 0.3×	518 1.6×	828 3.0×	20	2.6k
Uri Hasson Italy	22	1.1k 0.7×	329 0.5×	101 0.3×	251 0.8×	384 1.4×	51	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Idan Blank

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Idan Blank

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Paunov, Alexander, et al.. (2024). The Language Network Reliably “Tracks” Naturalistic Meaningful Nonverbal Stimuli. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 385–408. 6 indexed citations

Malik-Moraleda, Saima, Olessia Jouravlev, Zachary Mineroff, et al.. (2024). Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI. Cerebral Cortex. 34(3). 7 indexed citations

Son, Ji Y., et al.. (2024). Watching videos of a drawing hand improves students’ understanding of the normal probability distribution. Memory & Cognition. 53(1). 262–281. 1 indexed citations

Blank, Idan. (2023). What are large language models supposed to model?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 27(11). 987–989. 23 indexed citations

Lipkin, Benjamin, Greta Tuckute, Josef Affourtit, et al.. (2022). Probabilistic atlas for the language network based on precision fMRI data from >800 individuals. Scientific Data. 9(1). 529–529. 67 indexed citations

Grand, Gabriel, Idan Blank, Francisco Pereira, & Evelina Fedorenko. (2022). Semantic projection recovers rich human knowledge of multiple object features from word embeddings. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(7). 975–987. 85 indexed citations breakdown →

Paunov, Alexander, Idan Blank, Olessia Jouravlev, et al.. (2022). Differential Tracking of Linguistic vs. Mental State Content in Naturalistic Stimuli by Language and Theory of Mind (ToM) Brain Networks. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 413–440. 23 indexed citations

Tuckute, Greta, Alexander Paunov, Hope Kean, et al.. (2022). Frontal language areas do not emerge in the absence of temporal language areas: A case study of an individual born without a left temporal lobe. Neuropsychologia. 169. 108184–108184. 12 indexed citations

Shain, Cory, Idan Blank, Evelina Fedorenko, Edward Gibson, & William Schuler. (2022). Robust Effects of Working Memory Demand during Naturalistic Language Comprehension in Language-Selective Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 42(39). 7412–7430. 31 indexed citations

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Wehbe, Leila, Idan Blank, Cory Shain, et al.. (2021). Incremental Language Comprehension Difficulty Predicts Activity in the Language Network but Not the Multiple Demand Network. Cerebral Cortex. 31(9). 4006–4023. 39 indexed citations

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Schrimpf, Martin, Idan Blank, Greta Tuckute, et al.. (2021). The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(45). 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jouravlev, Olessia, Zachary Mineroff, Idan Blank, & Evelina Fedorenko. (2020). The Small and Efficient Language Network of Polyglots and Hyper-polyglots. Cerebral Cortex. 31(1). 62–76. 11 indexed citations

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Blank, Idan & Evelina Fedorenko. (2020). No evidence for differences among language regions in their temporal receptive windows. NeuroImage. 219. 116925–116925. 39 indexed citations

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Assem, Moataz, Idan Blank, Zachary Mineroff, Ahmet Ademoğlu, & Evelina Fedorenko. (2020). Activity in the fronto-parietal multiple-demand network is robustly associated with individual differences in working memory and fluid intelligence. Cortex. 131. 1–16. 60 indexed citations

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Diachek, Evgeniia, Idan Blank, Matthew Siegelman, Josef Affourtit, & Evelina Fedorenko. (2020). The Domain-General Multiple Demand (MD) Network Does Not Support Core Aspects of Language Comprehension: A Large-Scale fMRI Investigation. Journal of Neuroscience. 40(23). 4536–4550. 97 indexed citations

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Fedorenko, Evelina, Idan Blank, Matthew Siegelman, & Zachary Mineroff. (2020). Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network. Cognition. 203. 104348–104348. 96 indexed citations

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Shain, Cory, Idan Blank, Marten van Schijndel, William Schuler, & Evelina Fedorenko. (2019). fMRI reveals language-specific predictive coding during naturalistic sentence comprehension. Neuropsychologia. 138. 107307–107307. 125 indexed citations

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Siegelman, Matthew, Idan Blank, Zachary Mineroff, & Evelina Fedorenko. (2019). An Attempt to Conceptually Replicate the Dissociation between Syntax and Semantics during Sentence Comprehension. Neuroscience. 413. 219–229. 22 indexed citations

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Bernstein‐Eliav, Michal, Yaara Erez, Idan Blank, & Galit Yovel. (2018). An Integrated Neural Framework for Dynamic and Static Face Processing. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 7036–7036. 38 indexed citations

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Bainbridge, Wilma, Phillip Isola, Idan Blank, & Aude Oliva. (2012). Establishing a Database for Studying Human Face Photograph Memory. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 13 indexed citations

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