Katherine Vytal

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Katherine Vytal is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine Vytal has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 3 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Katherine Vytal's work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (10 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (10 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (5 papers). Katherine Vytal is often cited by papers focused on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (10 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (10 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (5 papers). Katherine Vytal collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Katherine Vytal's co-authors include Christian Grillon, Stephan Hamann, Oliver J. Robinson, Brian R. Cornwell, Cassie Overstreet, Allison M. Letkiewicz, Brian Cornwell, Lynne Lieberman, Marissa Krimsky and Monique Ernst and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NeuroImage and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

Katherine Vytal

14 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

The impact of anxiety upon cognition: perspectives from human threat of shock studies

2013 407 citations Oliver J. Robinson, Katherine Vytal et al. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katherine Vytal United States	14	1.2k	849	318	306	183	14	1.9k
Hadas Okon‐Singer Israel	25	1.1k 0.9×	776 0.9×	321 1.0×	326 1.1×	109 0.6×	67	1.9k
Rebecca J. Compton United States	25	1.5k 1.3×	898 1.1×	339 1.1×	375 1.2×	139 0.8×	59	2.1k
Srikanth Padmala United States	25	1.8k 1.6×	778 0.9×	294 0.9×	225 0.7×	122 0.7×	34	2.2k
Andreas Löw Germany	21	1.2k 1.0×	541 0.6×	293 0.9×	154 0.5×	150 0.8×	40	1.6k
Esther K. Diekhof Germany	20	935 0.8×	589 0.7×	257 0.8×	296 1.0×	194 1.1×	54	1.7k
Aprajita Mohanty United States	26	1.8k 1.5×	1.0k 1.2×	329 1.0×	405 1.3×	118 0.6×	63	2.6k
Nils Kohn Germany	27	1.3k 1.1×	878 1.0×	463 1.5×	592 1.9×	188 1.0×	85	2.7k
Jeffrey M. Spielberg United States	31	1.4k 1.2×	898 1.1×	369 1.2×	701 2.3×	312 1.7×	79	2.7k
Richard B. Lopez United States	16	925 0.8×	840 1.0×	285 0.9×	666 2.2×	160 0.9×	37	1.9k
Carmen Morawetz Germany	21	919 0.8×	624 0.7×	291 0.9×	351 1.1×	109 0.6×	51	1.7k

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14 of 14 papers shown

Inman, Cory S., G. Andrew James, Katherine Vytal, & Stephan Hamann. (2017). Dynamic changes in large-scale functional network organization during autobiographical memory retrieval. Neuropsychologia. 110. 208–224. 27 indexed citations

Vytal, Katherine, et al.. (2016). Induced-anxiety differentially disrupts working memory in generalized anxiety disorder. BMC Psychiatry. 16(1). 62–62. 28 indexed citations

Robinson, Oliver J., Marissa Krimsky, Lynne Lieberman, et al.. (2016). Anxiety-potentiated amygdala–medial frontal coupling and attentional control. Translational Psychiatry. 6(6). e833–e833. 20 indexed citations

Balderston, Nicholas L., Katherine Vytal, Katherine O’Connell, et al.. (2016). Anxiety Patients Show Reduced Working Memory Related dlPFC Activation During Safety and Threat. Depression and Anxiety. 34(1). 25–36. 81 indexed citations

Vytal, Katherine, et al.. (2015). Interaction of threat and verbal working memory in adolescents. Psychophysiology. 53(4). 518–526. 24 indexed citations

Robinson, Oliver J., et al.. (2014). The dorsal medial prefrontal (anterior cingulate) cortex–amygdala aversive amplification circuit in unmedicated generalised and social anxiety disorders: an observational study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 1(4). 294–302. 109 indexed citations

Vytal, Katherine, et al.. (2014). Sustained anxiety increases amygdala–dorsomedial prefrontal coupling: a mechanism for maintaining an anxious state in healthy adults. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 39(5). 321–329. 62 indexed citations

Vytal, Katherine, et al.. (2013). The complex interaction between anxiety and cognition: insight from spatial and verbal working memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 93–93. 165 indexed citations

Robinson, Oliver J., Cassie Overstreet, Philip Schuyler Allen, et al.. (2013). The role of serotonin in the neurocircuitry of negative affective bias: Serotonergic modulation of the dorsal medial prefrontal-amygdala ‘aversive amplification’ circuit. NeuroImage. 78. 217–223. 48 indexed citations

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Robinson, Oliver J., Katherine Vytal, Brian R. Cornwell, & Christian Grillon. (2013). The impact of anxiety upon cognition: perspectives from human threat of shock studies. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 203–203. 407 indexed citations breakdown →

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Robinson, Oliver J., et al.. (2013). Stress increases aversive prediction error signal in the ventral striatum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(10). 4129–4133. 73 indexed citations

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Vytal, Katherine, et al.. (2012). Describing the interplay between anxiety and cognition: From impaired performance under low cognitive load to reduced anxiety under high load. Psychophysiology. 49(6). 842–852. 183 indexed citations

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Robinson, Oliver J., et al.. (2011). The adaptive threat bias in anxiety: Amygdala–dorsomedial prefrontal cortex coupling and aversive amplification. NeuroImage. 60(1). 523–529. 155 indexed citations

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Vytal, Katherine & Stephan Hamann. (2009). Neuroimaging Support for Discrete Neural Correlates of Basic Emotions: A Voxel-based Meta-analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 22(12). 2864–2885. 492 indexed citations

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