Lionel Naccache

22.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
180 papers, 13.9k citations indexed

About

Lionel Naccache is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Epidemiology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lionel Naccache has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 13.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 44 papers in Epidemiology and 34 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Lionel Naccache's work include EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (45 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (44 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury Research (42 papers). Lionel Naccache is often cited by papers focused on EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (45 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (44 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury Research (42 papers). Lionel Naccache collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Lionel Naccache's co-authors include Stanislas Dehaene, Laurent Cohen, Claire Sergent, Benjamin Rohaut, Ghislaine Dehaene‐Lambertz, Denis Le Bihan, Jacobo Sitt, Jérôme Sackur, Jean‐Pierre Changeux and Stéphane Lehéricy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Lionel Naccache

166 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Hit Papers

The visual word form area 1998 2026 2007 2016 2000 2006 2001 1998 2020 400 800 1.2k
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. The visual word form area
    2000 1.4k citations Laurent Cohen, Lionel Naccache et al. Brain profile →
  2. Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy
    2006 1.3k citations Stanislas Dehaene, Jean‐Pierre Changeux et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
  3. Cerebral mechanisms of word masking and unconscious repetition priming
    2001 948 citations Stanislas Dehaene, Lionel Naccache et al. profile →
  4. Imaging unconscious semantic priming
    1998 781 citations Stanislas Dehaene, Lionel Naccache et al. profile →
  5. European Academy of Neurology guideline on the diagnosis of coma and other disorders of consciousness
    2020 404 citations Steven Laureys, Lionel Naccache et al. profile →
  6. Human consciousness is supported by dynamic complex patterns of brain signal coordination
    2019 284 citations Athéna Demertzi, Enzo Tagliazucchi et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lionel Naccache France 55 10.6k 2.5k 2.3k 2.1k 1.4k 180 13.9k
Matthew H. Davis United Kingdom 58 10.7k 1.0× 4.3k 1.7× 1.5k 0.7× 3.9k 1.8× 722 0.5× 143 13.9k
Steve Majerus Belgium 48 4.5k 0.4× 2.0k 0.8× 2.3k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 200 7.6k
Margot J. Taylor Canada 58 11.3k 1.1× 1.8k 0.7× 631 0.3× 2.7k 1.2× 609 0.5× 294 14.9k
Russell Schachar Canada 77 9.1k 0.9× 3.3k 1.4× 1.9k 0.8× 2.2k 1.0× 717 0.5× 293 18.8k
Gina Geffen Australia 49 3.8k 0.4× 777 0.3× 1.0k 0.4× 1.6k 0.7× 776 0.6× 160 6.5k
D. Yves von Cramon Germany 45 5.7k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 736 0.3× 1.4k 0.6× 921 0.7× 108 7.8k
Mieke Verfaellie United States 58 7.2k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 1000 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 211 9.7k
Klaus Willmes Germany 60 6.6k 0.6× 3.5k 1.4× 715 0.3× 2.0k 0.9× 581 0.4× 328 11.9k
Stéphane Lehéricy France 52 6.0k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 648 0.3× 1.2k 0.6× 1.7k 1.3× 133 11.0k
Jean‐François Démonet France 51 7.0k 0.7× 4.0k 1.6× 430 0.2× 1.3k 0.6× 864 0.6× 233 10.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Marois, Clémence, Mélanie Valente, Nicolas Weiss, et al.. (2023). Pupil dilation response elicited by violations of auditory regularities is a promising but challenging approach to probe consciousness at the bedside. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20331–20331. 3 indexed citations
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Marois, Clémence, Magali Seassau, Sophie Demeret, et al.. (2023). Bedside video-oculography to assess the caloric vestibulo-ocular reflex in ICU patients, a preliminary study. Revue Neurologique. 179(9). 1030–1034.
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Axelrod, Vadim, Katia Lehongre, Claude Adam, et al.. (2023). Intracranial study in humans: Neural spectral changes during watching comedy movie of Charlie Chaplin. Neuropsychologia. 185. 108558–108558. 1 indexed citations
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Marois, Clémence, et al.. (2023). EEG lexicality effect predicts clinical outcome in disorders of consciousness. Annals of Neurology. 93(4). 762–767. 2 indexed citations
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Strauss, Mélanie, Jacobo Sitt, Lionel Naccache, & Federico Raimondo. (2022). Predicting the loss of responsiveness when falling asleep in humans. NeuroImage. 251. 119003–119003. 16 indexed citations
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Simeone, Pierre, Guillaume Auzias, Julien Lefèvre, et al.. (2022). Long-term follow-up of neurodegenerative phenomenon in severe traumatic brain injury using MRI. Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. 65(6). 101599–101599. 7 indexed citations
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Gaubert, Sinead, Marion Houot, Federico Raimondo, et al.. (2021). A machine learning approach to screen for preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 105. 205–216. 21 indexed citations
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Malkinson, Tal Seidel, Katia Lehongre, Claude Adam, et al.. (2021). Comparing stimulus-evoked and spontaneous response of the face-selective multi-units in the human posterior fusiform gyrus. Neuroscience of Consciousness. 2021(2). niab033–niab033. 4 indexed citations
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Hermann, Bertrand, Federico Raimondo, Yu Huang, et al.. (2020). Combined behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for a direct cortical effect of prefrontal tDCS on disorders of consciousness. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 4323–4323. 58 indexed citations
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Axelrod, Vadim, Tal Seidel Malkinson, Katia Lehongre, et al.. (2019). Face-selective neurons in the vicinity of the human fusiform face area. Neurology. 92(4). 197–198. 16 indexed citations
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Demertzi, Athéna, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Stanislas Dehaene, et al.. (2019). Human consciousness is supported by dynamic complex patterns of brain signal coordination. Science Advances. 5(2). eaat7603–eaat7603. 284 indexed citations breakdown →
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Naccache, Lionel. (2018). Why and how access consciousness can account for phenomenal consciousness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1755). 20170357–20170357. 78 indexed citations
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Demertzi, Athéna, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Stanislas Dehaene, et al.. (2018). Dynamic inter-regional coordination patterns as specific predictors of consciousness. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 1 indexed citations
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Nelson, Matthew J., Imen El Karoui, Kristóf Giber, et al.. (2017). Neurophysiological dynamics of phrase-structure building during sentence processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(18). E3669–E3678. 187 indexed citations
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Sitt, Jacobo, Jean-Rémi King, Imen El Karoui, et al.. (2014). Large scale screening of neural signatures of consciousness in patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state. Brain. 137(8). 2258–2270. 368 indexed citations
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Naccache, Lionel, et al.. (2013). Imaging ‘top-down’ mobilization of visual information: A case study in a posterior split-brain patient. Neuropsychologia. 53. 94–103. 4 indexed citations
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Sitt, Jacobo, Jean-Rémi King, Lionel Naccache, & Stanislas Dehaene. (2013). Ripples of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17(11). 552–554. 10 indexed citations
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Bartoloméi, Fabrice, Aileen McGonigal, & Lionel Naccache. (2013). Alteration of consciousness in focal epilepsy: The global workspace alteration theory. Epilepsy & Behavior. 30. 17–23. 20 indexed citations
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Dehaene, Stanislas, Jean‐Pierre Changeux, Lionel Naccache, Jérôme Sackur, & Claire Sergent. (2006). Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 10(5). 204–211. 1326 indexed citations breakdown →
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Naccache, Lionel. (2005). Visual phenomenal consciousness: a neurological guided tour. Progress in brain research. 150. 185–195. 7 indexed citations

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