Lawrence M. Parsons

15.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
59 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Lawrence M. Parsons is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lawrence M. Parsons has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Social Psychology and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Lawrence M. Parsons's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (11 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (11 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (9 papers). Lawrence M. Parsons is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (11 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (11 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (9 papers). Lawrence M. Parsons collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Lawrence M. Parsons's co-authors include Peter T. Fox, Jack L. Lancaster, Steven Brown, Mario Liotti, Marty G. Woldorff, Peter Kochunov, Michael J. Martinez, Jinhu Xiong, Jia‐Hong Gao and James M. Bower and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Lawrence M. Parsons

59 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

Automated Talairach Atlas labels for functional brain mapping

2000 3.0k citations Jack L. Lancaster, Marty G. Woldorff et al. Human Brain Mapping profile →
Use of implicit motor imagery for visual shape discrimination as revealed by PET

1995 593 citations Lawrence M. Parsons, Peter T. Fox et al. profile →
Cerebellum Implicated in Sensory Acquisition and Discrimination Rather Than Motor Control

1996 550 citations Jia‐Hong Gao, Lawrence M. Parsons et al. profile →
Temporal and kinematic properties of motor behavior reflected in mentally simulated action.

1994 527 citations Lawrence M. Parsons Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lawrence M. Parsons United States	42	7.2k	2.7k	1.7k	1.7k	1.0k	59	10.1k
A. David Milner United Kingdom	56	15.2k 2.1×	3.9k 1.4×	1.5k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	566 0.6×	177	17.9k
Giuseppe Vallar Italy	63	11.7k 1.6×	1.3k 0.5×	2.3k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.6×	253	14.7k
Théodor Landis Switzerland	55	7.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.6×	703 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.7×	236	10.5k
Peter Brugger Switzerland	49	4.4k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.7×	248	8.0k
Floris P. de Lange Netherlands	60	10.0k 1.4×	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	935 0.9×	177	12.1k
Ennio De Renzi Italy	56	8.7k 1.2×	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.6×	97	11.0k
Jason B. Mattingley Australia	68	13.0k 1.8×	2.6k 1.0×	880 0.5×	3.0k 1.8×	1.6k 1.6×	343	16.3k
Edward H.F. de Haan Netherlands	64	7.3k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	819 0.5×	2.9k 1.7×	3.0k 3.0×	218	13.6k
Patricia A. Reuter‐Lorenz United States	58	12.2k 1.7×	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	3.3k 1.9×	2.3k 2.3×	155	16.6k
Albert Postma Netherlands	49	5.1k 0.7×	833 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	2.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	251	8.7k

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Thaut, Michael H., Pietro Davide Trimarchi, & Lawrence M. Parsons. (2014). Human Brain Basis of Musical Rhythm Perception: Common and Distinct Neural Substrates for Meter, Tempo, and Pattern. Brain Sciences. 4(2). 428–452. 85 indexed citations

Monti, Martin M., Lawrence M. Parsons, & Daniel N. Osherson. (2009). The boundaries of language and thought in deductive inference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(30). 12554–12559. 106 indexed citations

Weber, Matthew J., Sharon L. Thompson‐Schill, Daniel N. Osherson, James V. Haxby, & Lawrence M. Parsons. (2009). Predicting judged similarity of natural categories from their neural representations. Neuropsychologia. 47(3). 859–868. 50 indexed citations

Callan, Daniel E., Mitsuo Kawato, Lawrence M. Parsons, & Robert Turner. (2007). Speech and song: The role of the cerebellum. The Cerebellum. 6(4). 321–327. 68 indexed citations

Parsons, Lawrence M., et al.. (2005). Neural correlates of deductive inference: A language-independent distributed network. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. 65(5). 1 indexed citations

Parsons, Lawrence M., Justine Sergent, Donald A. Hodges, & Peter T. Fox. (2005). The brain basis of piano performance. Neuropsychologia. 43(2). 199–215. 76 indexed citations

Wong, Patrick C. M., Lawrence M. Parsons, Michael J. Martinez, & Randy L. Diehl. (2004). The Role of the Insular Cortex in Pitch Pattern Perception: The Effect of Linguistic Contexts. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(41). 9153–9160. 116 indexed citations

Bower, James M. & Lawrence M. Parsons. (2003). Rethinking the “Lesser Brain”. Scientific American. 289(2). 50–57. 57 indexed citations

Parsons, Lawrence M.. (2003). Superior parietal cortices and varieties of mental rotation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 7(12). 515–517. 59 indexed citations

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Parsons, Lawrence M.. (2001). New Evidence for Distinct Right and Left Brain Systems for Deductive versus Probabilistic Reasoning. Cerebral Cortex. 11(10). 954–965. 131 indexed citations

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Parsons, Lawrence M.. (2001). Exploring the Functional Neuroanatomy of Music Performance, Perception, and Comprehension. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 930(1). 211–231. 145 indexed citations

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Parsons, Lawrence M.. (2001). Integrating cognitive psychology, neurology and neuroimaging. Acta Psychologica. 107(1-3). 155–181. 128 indexed citations

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Xiong, Jinhu, Lawrence M. Parsons, Jia‐Hong Gao, & Peter T. Fox. (1999). Interregional connectivity to primary motor cortex revealed using MRI resting state images. Human Brain Mapping. 8(2-3). 151–156. 283 indexed citations

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Parsons, Lawrence M. & Peter T. Fox. (1998). The neural basis of implicit movements used in recognising hand shape. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 15. 583–615. 131 indexed citations

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Liotti, Mario, Marty G. Woldorff, Jinhu Xiong, et al.. (1998). Activations in visual cortex by language and non-language tasks in the congenitally blind: A PET study. NeuroImage. 7(4). S21–S21. 1 indexed citations

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Fox, Peter T., Jack L. Lancaster, Lawrence M. Parsons, & Jinhu Xiong. (1997). Functional volumes modeling: Metanalytic models for statistical parametric imaging. NeuroImage. 5. 2 indexed citations

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Fox, Peter T., Lawrence M. Parsons, & Jack L. Lancaster. (1996). Functional volumes modeling. NeuroImage. 3(3). S261–S261. 1 indexed citations

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Parsons, Lawrence M.. (1994). Temporal and kinematic properties of motor behavior reflected in mentally simulated action.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 20(4). 709–730. 527 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hinton, Geoffrey E. & Lawrence M. Parsons. (1988). Scene-based and viewer-centered representations for comparing shapes. Cognition. 30(1). 1–35. 89 indexed citations

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Parsons, Lawrence M. & Shinsuke Shimojo. (1987). Perceived spatial organization of cutaneous patterns on surfaces of the human body in various positions.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 13(3). 488–504. 42 indexed citations

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