Leigh E. Nystrom

25.7k total citations · 10 hit papers
40 papers, 18.1k citations indexed

About

Leigh E. Nystrom is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leigh E. Nystrom has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 18.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Leigh E. Nystrom's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (26 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (19 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (11 papers). Leigh E. Nystrom is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (26 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (19 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (11 papers). Leigh E. Nystrom collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Leigh E. Nystrom's co-authors include Jonathan D. Cohen, Joshua D. Greene, John M. Darley, Douglas C. Noll, Todd S. Braver, Alan G. Sanfey, R. Brian Sommerville, James K. Rilling, Edward E. Smith and Jonathan Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Leigh E. Nystrom

40 papers receiving 17.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment

2001 2.8k citations Joshua D. Greene, Leigh E. Nystrom et al. Science profile →
The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game

2003 2.2k citations Alan G. Sanfey, James K. Rilling et al. Science profile →
The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment

2004 1.6k citations Joshua D. Greene, Leigh E. Nystrom et al. Neuron profile →
Conflict monitoring versus selection-for-action in anterior cingulate cortex

1999 1.6k citations Leigh E. Nystrom et al. Nature profile →
Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task

1997 1.5k citations Jonathan D. Cohen, William M. Perlstein et al. Nature profile →
A Parametric Study of Prefrontal Cortex Involvement in Human Working Memory

1997 1.4k citations Todd S. Braver, Jonathan Cohen et al. NeuroImage profile →
Tracking the Hemodynamic Responses to Reward and Punishment in the Striatum

2000 872 citations Mauricio R. Delgado, Leigh E. Nystrom et al. profile →
A Developmental Functional MRI Study of Prefrontal Activation during Performance of a Go-No-Go Task

1997 830 citations B. J. Casey, Anne B. Schubert et al. profile →
Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment

2008 777 citations Joshua D. Greene, Sylvia A. Morelli et al. Cognition profile →
BOLD Responses Reflecting Dopaminergic Signals in the Human Ventral Tegmental Area

2008 515 citations Leigh E. Nystrom, Jonathan D. Cohen et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Leigh E. Nystrom	14.4k	4.6k	2.7k	2.3k	1.5k	40	18.1k
Jonathan W. Schooler	15.3k 1.1×	3.6k 0.8×	8.0k 3.0×	1.6k 0.7×	890 0.6×	219	21.4k
Alan G. Sanfey	6.5k 0.5×	2.9k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	683 0.4×	116	10.7k
Rebecca Saxe	11.7k 0.8×	6.5k 1.4×	3.1k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	181	16.2k
James K. Rilling	7.6k 0.5×	5.2k 1.1×	2.9k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	996 0.6×	118	13.9k
Eddie Harmon‐Jones	9.2k 0.6×	8.2k 1.8×	5.9k 2.2×	5.0k 2.2×	1.9k 1.2×	206	20.7k
Elizabeth A. Phelps	21.1k 1.5×	6.6k 1.5×	8.1k 3.0×	2.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	202	31.0k
Matthew D. Lieberman	10.3k 0.7×	8.9k 1.9×	6.9k 2.6×	2.8k 1.2×	3.0k 2.0×	197	23.2k
P. Read Montague	11.0k 0.8×	2.9k 0.6×	3.0k 1.1×	968 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	123	17.3k
Brian Knutson	14.3k 1.0×	4.7k 1.0×	5.2k 1.9×	1.3k 0.5×	3.7k 2.4×	172	24.5k
Ben Seymour	11.2k 0.8×	3.6k 0.8×	3.4k 1.3×	922 0.4×	2.0k 1.3×	108	16.8k

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Vugt, Marieke K. van, et al.. (2014). Lateralized Readiness Potentials Reveal Properties of a Neural Mechanism for Implementing a Decision Threshold. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e90943–e90943. 35 indexed citations

Nystrom, Leigh E., et al.. (2013). Confounds in multivariate pattern analysis: Theory and rule representation case study. NeuroImage. 77. 157–165. 151 indexed citations

Eppinger, Ben, Nicolas W. Schuck, Leigh E. Nystrom, & Jonathan D. Cohen. (2013). Reduced Striatal Responses to Reward Prediction Errors in Older Compared with Younger Adults. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(24). 9905–9912. 98 indexed citations

Eppinger, Ben, Leigh E. Nystrom, & Jonathan D. Cohen. (2012). Reduced Sensitivity to Immediate Reward during Decision-Making in Older than Younger Adults. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e36953–e36953. 102 indexed citations

Vugt, Marieke K. van, Patrick Simen, Leigh E. Nystrom, Paul S. Holmes, & J. D. Cohen. (2012). EEG Oscillations Reveal Neural Correlates of Evidence Accumulation. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 6. 106–106. 72 indexed citations

Greene, Joshua D., et al.. (2008). Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment. Cognition. 107(3). 1144–1154. 777 indexed citations breakdown →

Greene, Joshua D., Leigh E. Nystrom, Andrew D. Engell, John M. Darley, & Jonathan D. Cohen. (2004). The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment. Neuron. 44(2). 389–400. 1647 indexed citations breakdown →

Holroyd, Clay B., Sander Nieuwenhuis, Nick Yeung, et al.. (2004). Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex shows fMRI response to internal and external error signals. Nature Neuroscience. 7(5). 497–498. 404 indexed citations

Rilling, James K., et al.. (2004). The neural correlates of theory of mind within interpersonal interactions. NeuroImage. 22(4). 1694–1703. 443 indexed citations

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Rilling, James K., et al.. (2004). Opposing BOLD responses to reciprocated and unreciprocated altruism in putative reward pathways. Neuroreport. 15(16). 2539–2243. 144 indexed citations

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Sanfey, Alan G., et al.. (2003). The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game. Science. 300(5626). 1755–1758. 2220 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nystrom, Leigh E., et al.. (2002). Mechanisms underlying dependencies of performance on stimulus history in a two-alternative forced-choice task. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 2(4). 283–299. 102 indexed citations

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Jones, Andrew D., et al.. (2002). A computational model of anterior cingulate function in speeded response tasks: Effects of frequency, sequence, and conflict. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 2(4). 300–317. 126 indexed citations

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Casey, B.J., Steven D. Forman, Peter L. Franzen, et al.. (2001). Sensitivity of prefrontal cortex to changes in target probability: A functional MRI study. Human Brain Mapping. 13(1). 26–33. 139 indexed citations

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Nystrom, Leigh E., Todd S. Braver, Fred W. Sabb, et al.. (2000). Working Memory for Letters, Shapes, and Locations: fMRI Evidence against Stimulus-Based Regional Organization in Human Prefrontal Cortex. NeuroImage. 11(5). 424–446. 325 indexed citations

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Braver, Todd S., M Deanna, Leigh E. Nystrom, et al.. (1997). Dissociating working memory from effort in human prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage. 5. 4 indexed citations

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Casey, B. J., Peter L. Franzen, Leigh E. Nystrom, et al.. (1997). A developmental functional MRI study of cortical activation during a spatial working memory task. NeuroImage. 5. 1 indexed citations

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Cohen, Jonathan D., William M. Perlstein, Todd S. Braver, et al.. (1997). Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task. Nature. 386(6625). 604–608. 1492 indexed citations breakdown →

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Noll, Douglas C., Christopher R. Genovese, Leigh E. Nystrom, et al.. (1997). Estimating test‐retest reliability in functional MR imaging II: Application to motor and cognitive activation studies. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 38(3). 508–517. 93 indexed citations

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Braver, Todd S., Jonathan Cohen, Leigh E. Nystrom, et al.. (1997). A Parametric Study of Prefrontal Cortex Involvement in Human Working Memory. NeuroImage. 5(1). 49–62. 1381 indexed citations breakdown →

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