John Duncan

9.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
94 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

John Duncan is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, John Duncan has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 9 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in John Duncan's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (55 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (44 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (41 papers). John Duncan is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (55 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (44 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (41 papers). John Duncan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Argentina. John Duncan's co-authors include Daniel J. Mitchell, Evelina Fedorenko, Nancy Kanwisher, Ben M. Crittenden, Alexandra Woolgar, Russell Thompson, Natasha Sigala, Makoto Kusunoki, Mark G. Stokes and David Gaffan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

John Duncan

89 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

An adaptive coding model of neural function in prefrontal cortex

2001 649 citations John Duncan Nature profile →
Broad domain generality in focal regions of frontal and parietal cortex

2013 647 citations Evelina Fedorenko, John Duncan et al. profile →
An adaptive coding model of neural function in prefrontal cortex

2001 643 citations John Duncan profile →
Dynamic Coding for Cognitive Control in Prefrontal Cortex

2013 473 citations Makoto Kusunoki, Natasha Sigala et al. Neuron profile →
The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study protocol: a cross-sectional, lifespan, multidisciplinary examination of healthy cognitive ageing

2014 376 citations John Duncan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Duncan United Kingdom	36	4.7k	808	557	547	540	94	6.0k
Cindy Lustig United States	39	5.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.7×	815 1.5×	622 1.1×	582 1.1×	75	7.1k
Joshua W. Brown United States	39	5.1k 1.1×	851 1.1×	707 1.3×	330 0.6×	210 0.4×	79	6.2k
Susan Courtney United States	33	5.6k 1.2×	896 1.1×	371 0.7×	487 0.9×	148 0.3×	81	6.9k
Itamar Kahn United States	30	5.1k 1.1×	732 0.9×	819 1.5×	478 0.9×	158 0.3×	48	6.0k
François Lalonde United States	30	3.3k 0.7×	810 1.0×	272 0.5×	516 0.9×	333 0.6×	56	5.2k
Joni D. Wallis United States	40	7.6k 1.6×	717 0.9×	1.9k 3.3×	300 0.5×	362 0.7×	63	8.6k
Mark A. Eckert United States	45	4.9k 1.0×	888 1.1×	427 0.8×	1.5k 2.7×	472 0.9×	112	7.5k
Carl R. Olson United States	41	5.0k 1.1×	543 0.7×	1.4k 2.5×	272 0.5×	702 1.3×	84	6.0k
Vincent Walsh United Kingdom	45	7.6k 1.6×	1.7k 2.1×	528 0.9×	922 1.7×	308 0.6×	114	9.5k
Anthony M. Norcia United States	47	5.9k 1.3×	614 0.8×	841 1.5×	377 0.7×	689 1.3×	208	7.2k

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Jackson, Jade, et al.. (2025). Domain general frontoparietal regions show modality-dependent coding of auditory and visual rules. Imaging Neuroscience. 3.

Duncan, John. (2024). Construction and use of mental models: Organizing principles for the science of brain and mind. Neuropsychologia. 207. 109062–109062. 8 indexed citations

Dermody, Nadene, et al.. (2024). Aperiodic and oscillatory systems underpinning human domain-general cognition. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1643–1643. 7 indexed citations

Assem, Moataz, Sneha Shashidhara, Matthew F. Glasser, & John Duncan. (2024). Basis of executive functions in fine-grained architecture of cortical and subcortical human brain networks. Cerebral Cortex. 34(2). 11 indexed citations

Rajimehr, Reza, et al.. (2024). Functional architecture of cerebral cortex during naturalistic movie watching. Neuron. 112(24). 4130–4146.e3. 8 indexed citations

Watanabe, Kei, Mikiko Kadohisa, Makoto Kusunoki, Mark J. Buckley, & John Duncan. (2023). Cycles of goal silencing and reactivation underlie complex problem-solving in primate frontal and parietal cortex. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5054–5054. 5 indexed citations

Chiou, Rocco, Elizabeth Jefferies, John Duncan, Gina F. Humphreys, & Matthew A. Lambon Ralph. (2022). A middle ground where executive control meets semantics: the neural substrates of semantic control are topographically sandwiched between the multiple-demand and default-mode systems. Cerebral Cortex. 33(8). 4512–4526. 19 indexed citations

Erez, Yaara, Mikiko Kadohisa, Natasha Sigala, et al.. (2022). Integrated neural dynamics for behavioural decisions and attentional competition in the prefrontal cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. 56(4). 4393–4410. 4 indexed citations

MacGregor, Lucy, Rebecca A. Gilbert, Daniel J. Mitchell, et al.. (2022). Causal Contributions of the Domain-General (Multiple Demand) and the Language-Selective Brain Networks to Perceptual and Semantic Challenges in Speech Comprehension. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 665–698. 12 indexed citations

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Bruno, Diana, et al.. (2022). Perspective taking deficits and their relationship with theory of mind abilities in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Applied Neuropsychology Adult. 31(6). 1205–1215. 3 indexed citations

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Assem, Moataz, Sneha Shashidhara, Matthew F. Glasser, & John Duncan. (2021). Precise Topology of Adjacent Domain-General and Sensory-Biased Regions in the Human Brain. Cerebral Cortex. 32(12). 2521–2537. 31 indexed citations

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Assem, Moataz, Matthew F. Glasser, David C. Van Essen, & John Duncan. (2020). A Domain-General Cognitive Core Defined in Multimodally Parcellated Human Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 30(8). 4361–4380. 170 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Daniel J., et al.. (2020). The Functional Convergence and Heterogeneity of Social, Episodic, and Self-Referential Thought in the Default Mode Network. Cerebral Cortex. 30(11). 5915–5929. 61 indexed citations

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Woolgar, Alexandra, John Duncan, Facundo Manes, & Evelina Fedorenko. (2018). Fluid intelligence is supported by the multiple-demand system not the language system. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(3). 200–204. 78 indexed citations

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Roca, María, Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Peter Watson, et al.. (2013). Intelligence and executive functions in frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychologia. 51(4). 725–730. 50 indexed citations

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Crittenden, Ben M. & John Duncan. (2012). Task Difficulty Manipulation Reveals Multiple Demand Activity but no Frontal Lobe Hierarchy. Cerebral Cortex. 24(2). 532–540. 108 indexed citations

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Hon, Nicholas, Russell Thompson, Natasha Sigala, & John Duncan. (2009). Evidence for long-range feedback in target detection: Detection of semantic targets modulates activity in early visual areas. Neuropsychologia. 47(7). 1721–1727. 23 indexed citations

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Duncan, John. (2001). An adaptive coding model of neural function in prefrontal cortex. Nature. 2(11). 820. 649 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vandenberghe, Rik, John Duncan, Patrick Dupont, et al.. (1997). Attention to One or Two Features in Left or Right Visual Field: A Positron Emission Tomography Study. Journal of Neuroscience. 17(10). 3739–3750. 121 indexed citations

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Duncan, John. (1965). Impressions of Bilharzia Control in East Africa. 11(1). 65–69. 1 indexed citations

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