John P. O’Doherty

55.1k total citations · 22 hit papers
180 papers, 38.1k citations indexed

About

John P. O’Doherty is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, John P. O’Doherty has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 38.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 36 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 25 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in John P. O’Doherty's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (118 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (54 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (34 papers). John P. O’Doherty is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (118 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (54 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (34 papers). John P. O’Doherty collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. John P. O’Doherty's co-authors include Raymond J. Dolan, Antonio Rangel, Ben Seymour, Peter Dayan, Bernard W. Balleine, Hugo Critchley, Karl Friston, Chris Frith, Tania Singer and Alan N. Hampton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John P. O’Doherty

179 papers receiving 37.1k citations

Hit Papers

Empathy for Pain Involves... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2004 2004 2001 2006 2009 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain
    2004 2.7k citations Ben Seymour, John P. O’Doherty et al. profile →
  2. Dissociable Roles of Ventral and Dorsal Striatum in Instrumental Conditioning
    2004 1.6k citations John P. O’Doherty, Peter Dayan et al. profile →
  3. Abstract reward and punishment representations in the human orbitofrontal cortex
    2001 1.6k citations John P. O’Doherty et al. profile →
  4. Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans
    2006 1.5k citations Nathaniel D. Daw, John P. O’Doherty et al. Nature profile →
  5. Human and Rodent Homologies in Action Control: Corticostriatal Determinants of Goal-Directed and Habitual Action
    2009 1.2k citations Bernard W. Balleine, John P. O’Doherty profile →
  6. Temporal Difference Models and Reward-Related Learning in the Human Brain
    2003 1.1k citations John P. O’Doherty, Peter Dayan et al. Neuron profile →
  7. Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others
    2006 1.1k citations Ben Seymour, John P. O’Doherty et al. Nature profile →
  8. Reward representations and reward-related learning in the human brain: insights from neuroimaging
    2004 1.0k citations John P. O’Doherty profile →
  9. Human cingulate cortex and autonomic control: converging neuroimaging and clinical evidence
    2003 946 citations Hugo Critchley, Christopher J. Mathias et al. Brain profile →
  10. Encoding Predictive Reward Value in Human Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex
    2003 900 citations John P. O’Doherty, Raymond J. Dolan et al. profile →
  11. Neural Responses during Anticipation of a Primary Taste Reward
    2002 820 citations John P. O’Doherty, Hugo Critchley et al. Neuron profile →
  12. States versus Rewards: Dissociable Neural Prediction Error Signals Underlying Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
    2010 803 citations Nathaniel D. Daw, Peter Dayan et al. Neuron profile →
  13. Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces
    2002 762 citations John P. O’Doherty, Raymond J. Dolan et al. profile →
  14. Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness
    2008 696 citations Hilke Plaßmann, John P. O’Doherty et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. Beauty in a smile: the role of medial orbitofrontal cortex in facial attractiveness
    2003 677 citations John P. O’Doherty, Hugo Critchley et al. profile →
  16. Structural plasticity in the bilingual brain
    2004 663 citations John P. O’Doherty et al. Nature profile →
  17. Dissociating the Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex and the Striatum in the Computation of Goal Values and Prediction Errors
    2008 612 citations John P. O’Doherty, Antonio Rangel et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  18. Orbitofrontal Cortex Encodes Willingness to Pay in Everyday Economic Transactions
    2007 611 citations Hilke Plaßmann, John P. O’Doherty et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  19. A specific role for posterior dorsolateral striatum in human habit learning
    2009 513 citations Elizabeth Tricomi, Bernard W. Balleine et al. profile →
  20. Representation of Pleasant and Aversive Taste in the Human Brain
    2001 502 citations John P. O’Doherty et al. profile →
  21. Neural Computations Underlying Arbitration between Model-Based and Model-free Learning
    2014 407 citations Shinsuke Shimojo, John P. O’Doherty et al. Neuron profile →
  22. Active inference and learning
    2016 344 citations John P. O’Doherty et al. profile →

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
John P. O’Doherty 27.1k 7.9k 6.5k 5.3k 4.0k 180 38.1k
Elizabeth A. Phelps 21.1k 0.8× 8.1k 1.0× 6.6k 1.0× 4.1k 0.8× 4.1k 1.0× 202 31.0k
Daniel Tranel 29.3k 1.1× 9.6k 1.2× 9.4k 1.4× 3.3k 0.6× 4.6k 1.1× 426 42.4k
Antoine Bechara 23.0k 0.8× 10.3k 1.3× 5.7k 0.9× 7.7k 1.5× 9.7k 2.4× 301 44.9k
Hanna Damásio 19.4k 0.7× 6.4k 0.8× 5.6k 0.8× 2.6k 0.5× 4.1k 1.0× 161 29.9k
Russell A. Poldrack 37.1k 1.4× 8.1k 1.0× 4.6k 0.7× 3.7k 0.7× 3.3k 0.8× 319 49.2k
Brian Knutson 14.3k 0.5× 5.2k 0.7× 4.7k 0.7× 4.8k 0.9× 3.3k 0.8× 172 24.5k
Cameron S. Carter 34.1k 1.3× 9.5k 1.2× 3.9k 0.6× 3.5k 0.7× 4.2k 1.0× 236 42.8k
António R. Damásio 35.1k 1.3× 12.2k 1.5× 13.3k 2.0× 4.5k 0.8× 6.8k 1.7× 262 58.1k
Matthew Botvinick 26.0k 1.0× 6.2k 0.8× 4.0k 0.6× 2.1k 0.4× 1.9k 0.5× 136 34.8k
Christian Büchel 21.5k 0.8× 6.8k 0.9× 4.1k 0.6× 3.2k 0.6× 3.2k 0.8× 315 32.5k

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All Works

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Qi, Song, et al.. (2024). The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Spatial Margin of Safety Calculations. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(34). e1162222024–e1162222024. 3 indexed citations
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Man, Vincent, Jeffrey Cockburn, Oliver Flouty, et al.. (2024). Temporally organized representations of reward and risk in the human brain. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2162–2162. 2 indexed citations
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Gera, Rani, Ido Tavor, Jeffrey Cockburn, et al.. (2023). Characterizing habit learning in the human brain at the individual and group levels: A multi-modal MRI study. NeuroImage. 272. 120002–120002. 10 indexed citations
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Nussenbaum, Kate, Rebecca Martin, Yi Yang, et al.. (2023). Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development. eLife. 12. 24 indexed citations
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O’Doherty, John P., et al.. (2023). Can the Brain Strategically Go on Automatic Pilot? The Effect of If–Then Planning on Behavioral Flexibility. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 35(6). 957–975. 3 indexed citations
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Pool, Eva, et al.. (2023). Neural substrates of parallel devaluation-sensitive and devaluation-insensitive Pavlovian learning in humans. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8057–8057. 3 indexed citations
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Iigaya, Kiyohito, et al.. (2023). Neural mechanisms underlying the hierarchical construction of perceived aesthetic value. Nature Communications. 14(1). 127–127. 16 indexed citations
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Pool, Eva, Rani Gera, Anna Lena Cremer, et al.. (2021). Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multilaboratory investigation. Learning & Memory. 29(1). 16–28. 37 indexed citations
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Iigaya, Kiyohito, Tobias U. Hauser, Zeb Kurth‐Nelson, et al.. (2020). The value of what’s to come: Neural mechanisms coupling prediction error and the utility of anticipation. Science Advances. 6(25). eaba3828–eaba3828. 46 indexed citations
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Prévost, Claude, Mimi Liljeholm, J. Michael Tyszka, & John P. O’Doherty. (2012). Neural Correlates of Specific and General Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer within Human Amygdalar Subregions: A High-Resolution fMRI Study. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(24). 8383–8390. 130 indexed citations
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Plaßmann, Hilke, John P. O’Doherty, & Antonio Rangel. (2010). Appetitive and Aversive Goal Values Are Encoded in the Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex at the Time of Decision Making. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(32). 10799–10808. 262 indexed citations
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Kim, Hackjin, Shinsuke Shimojo, & John P. O’Doherty. (2010). Overlapping Responses for the Expectation of Juice and Money Rewards in Human Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 21(4). 769–776. 141 indexed citations
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Plaßmann, Hilke, et al.. (2009). Appetitive and Aversive goal values are encoded in the medial orbitofrontal cortex at the time of decision-making. NeuroImage. 47. S94–S94. 8 indexed citations
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Chib, Vikram S., Antonio Rangel, Shinsuke Shimojo, & John P. O’Doherty. (2009). Evidence for a Common Representation of Decision Values for Dissimilar Goods in Human Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(39). 12315–12320. 448 indexed citations
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Tobler, Philippe N., George I. Christopoulos, John P. O’Doherty, Raymond J. Dolan, & Wolfram Schultz. (2009). Risk-dependent reward value signal in human prefrontal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(17). 7185–7190. 129 indexed citations
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Plaßmann, Hilke, John P. O’Doherty, & Antonio Rangel. (2008). Neural Encoding of Wtp Computation During Simple Purchasing Decisions. ACR North American Advances. 2 indexed citations
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Hampton, Alan N. & John P. O’Doherty. (2007). Decoding the neural substrates of reward-related decision making with functional MRI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(4). 1377–1382. 227 indexed citations
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Hampton, Alan N., Ralph Adolphs, J. Michael Tyszka, & John P. O’Doherty. (2007). Contributions of the Amygdala to Reward Expectancy and Choice Signals in Human Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron. 55(4). 545–555. 166 indexed citations
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Daw, Nathaniel D., John P. O’Doherty, Peter Dayan, Ben Seymour, & Raymond J. Dolan. (2006). Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans. Nature. 441(7095). 876–879. 1503 indexed citations breakdown →
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Critchley, Hugo, Christopher J. Mathias, Oliver Josephs, et al.. (2003). Human cingulate cortex and autonomic control: converging neuroimaging and clinical evidence. Brain. 126(10). 2139–2152. 946 indexed citations breakdown →

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