Katharina Schmack

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Katharina Schmack is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Katharina Schmack has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 10 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Katharina Schmack's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (13 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (8 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (7 papers). Katharina Schmack is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (13 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (8 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (7 papers). Katharina Schmack collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Katharina Schmack's co-authors include Philipp Sterzer, Andreas Heinz, Florian Schlagenhauf, Jana Wrase, Marcus Rothkirch, Paul C. Fletcher, Guillermo Horga, Albert R. Powers, Ben Alderson‐Day and Philip R. Corlett and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Katharina Schmack

36 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Hallucinations and Strong Priors 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300
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.

  1. Hallucinations and Strong Priors
    2018 326 citations Philip R. Corlett, Guillermo Horga et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Katharina Schmack Germany 21 1.4k 614 459 423 296 36 2.1k
Lorenz Deserno Germany 29 1.6k 1.1× 600 1.0× 769 1.7× 519 1.2× 416 1.4× 78 2.5k
Jimmy Jensen Norway 21 1.1k 0.8× 501 0.8× 324 0.7× 324 0.8× 208 0.7× 47 1.6k
Kwang-Hyuk Lee United Kingdom 21 1.1k 0.8× 407 0.7× 301 0.7× 270 0.6× 208 0.7× 44 1.7k
Nadine Revheim United States 21 1.1k 0.8× 866 1.4× 314 0.7× 178 0.4× 258 0.9× 32 1.8k
Anne Giersch France 30 1.6k 1.2× 566 0.9× 576 1.3× 280 0.7× 281 0.9× 130 2.5k
Tyler A. Lesh United States 25 1.3k 0.9× 844 1.4× 330 0.7× 250 0.6× 239 0.8× 70 2.0k
Elton T.C. Ngan Canada 24 1.4k 1.0× 717 1.2× 328 0.7× 202 0.5× 167 0.6× 40 1.9k
Joyce Sprock United States 27 1.7k 1.2× 722 1.2× 350 0.8× 674 1.6× 366 1.2× 58 2.8k
Stefan Ursu United States 18 1.8k 1.3× 621 1.0× 475 1.0× 315 0.7× 378 1.3× 20 2.3k
Gillian A. O’Driscoll Canada 23 1.1k 0.8× 852 1.4× 241 0.5× 212 0.5× 327 1.1× 40 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Katharina Schmack

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Fields of papers citing papers by Katharina Schmack

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katharina Schmack

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schmack, Katharina, et al.. (2021). Striatal dopamine mediates hallucination-like perception in mice. Science. 372(6537). 144 indexed citations
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Stuke, Heiner, et al.. (2021). Overly Strong Priors for Socially Meaningful Visual Signals Are Linked to Psychosis Proneness in Healthy Individuals. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 583637–583637. 25 indexed citations
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Guggenmos, Matthias, Katharina Schmack, Ilya M. Veer, et al.. (2020). A multimodal neuroimaging classifier for alcohol dependence. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 298–298. 23 indexed citations
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Sekutowicz, Maria, Matthias Guggenmos, Sören Kuitunen‐Paul, et al.. (2019). Neural Response Patterns During Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer Predict Alcohol Relapse and Young Adult Drinking. Biological Psychiatry. 86(11). 857–863. 21 indexed citations
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Corlett, Philip R., Guillermo Horga, Paul C. Fletcher, et al.. (2018). Hallucinations and Strong Priors. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 23(2). 114–127. 326 indexed citations breakdown →
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Weilnhammer, Veith, Heiner Stuke, Philipp Sterzer, & Katharina Schmack. (2018). The Neural Correlates of Hierarchical Predictions for Perceptual Decisions. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(21). 5008–5021. 40 indexed citations
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Guggenmos, Matthias, Katharina Schmack, Maria Sekutowicz, et al.. (2017). Quantitative neurobiological evidence for accelerated brain aging in alcohol dependence. Translational Psychiatry. 7(12). 1279–1279. 59 indexed citations
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Stuke, Heiner, Veith Weilnhammer, Philipp Sterzer, & Katharina Schmack. (2017). Delusion Proneness is Linked to a Reduced Usage of Prior Beliefs in Perceptual Decisions. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 45(1). 80–86. 38 indexed citations
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Weilnhammer, Veith, Heiner Stuke, Guido Hesselmann, Philipp Sterzer, & Katharina Schmack. (2017). A predictive coding account of bistable perception - a model-based fMRI study. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(5). e1005536–e1005536. 69 indexed citations
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Schmack, Katharina, Veith Weilnhammer, Jakob Heinzle, Klaas Ε. Stephan, & Philipp Sterzer. (2016). Learning What to See in a Changing World. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10. 263–263. 16 indexed citations
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Guggenmos, Matthias, Katharina Schmack, & Philipp Sterzer. (2016). WeiRD - a fast and performant multivoxel pattern classifier. 15. 1–4. 3 indexed citations
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Sekutowicz, Maria, Katharina Schmack, Rosa Steimke, et al.. (2016). Striatal activation as a neural link between cognitive and perceptual flexibility. NeuroImage. 141. 393–398. 14 indexed citations
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Schmack, Katharina, Maria Sekutowicz, Eva J. Brandl, et al.. (2015). Linking unfounded beliefs to genetic dopamine availability. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9. 521–521. 14 indexed citations
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Schmack, Katharina, et al.. (2015). Predicting Subjective Affective Salience from Cortical Responses to Invisible Object Stimuli. Cerebral Cortex. 26(8). 3453–3460. 25 indexed citations
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Schmack, Katharina, Ana Gòmez-Carrillo de Castro, Marcus Rothkirch, et al.. (2013). Delusions and the Role of Beliefs in Perceptual Inference. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(34). 13701–13712. 143 indexed citations
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Sterzer, Philipp, et al.. (2012). Delusions and the role of beliefs in perceptual inference. Perception. 41. 211–211. 1 indexed citations
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Rothkirch, Marcus, Katharina Schmack, Florian Schlagenhauf, & Philipp Sterzer. (2012). Implicit motivational value and salience are processed in distinct areas of orbitofrontal cortex. NeuroImage. 62(3). 1717–1725. 43 indexed citations
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Stoy, Meline, Florian Schlagenhauf, Philipp Sterzer, et al.. (2011). Hyporeactivity of ventral striatum towards incentive stimuli in unmedicated depressed patients normalizes after treatment with escitalopram. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 26(5). 677–688. 200 indexed citations
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Schlagenhauf, Florian, Philipp Sterzer, Katharina Schmack, et al.. (2009). Reward Feedback Alterations in Unmedicated Schizophrenia Patients: Relevance for Delusions. Biological Psychiatry. 65(12). 1032–1039. 151 indexed citations
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Schlagenhauf, Florian, Torsten Wüstenberg, Katharina Schmack, et al.. (2008). Switching schizophrenia patients from typical neuroleptics to olanzapine: Effects on BOLD response during attention and working memory. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 18(8). 589–599. 47 indexed citations

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