Matthew A J Apps

7.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Matthew A J Apps is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew A J Apps has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 papers in Social Psychology and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Matthew A J Apps's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (28 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (14 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (10 papers). Matthew A J Apps is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (28 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (14 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (10 papers). Matthew A J Apps collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Matthew A J Apps's co-authors include Masud Husain, Manos Tsakiris, Patricia Lockwood, Steve W. C. Chang, Matthew F. S. Rushworth, Narender Ramnani, Campbell Le Heron, Tanja Müller, Trevor T.‐J. Chong and Joshua H. Balsters and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Matthew A J Apps

56 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Anterior Cingulate Gyrus and Social Cognition: Tracking the Motivation of Others

2016 371 citations Matthew A J Apps, Matthew F. S. Rushworth et al. profile →
Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID‐19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue

2020 235 citations Jonas P. Nitschke, Paul Forbes et al. British Journal of Health Psychology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew A J Apps United Kingdom	32	2.4k	1.1k	722	651	504	61	3.9k
Jean‐Claude Dreher France	35	3.0k 1.3×	729 0.7×	935 1.3×	552 0.8×	724 1.4×	83	4.8k
Jiska S. Peper Netherlands	35	1.7k 0.7×	860 0.8×	995 1.4×	377 0.6×	825 1.6×	50	4.2k
James Danckert Canada	39	4.0k 1.7×	810 0.7×	909 1.3×	362 0.6×	503 1.0×	146	4.7k
Guido P. H. Band Netherlands	31	3.9k 1.6×	588 0.5×	1.2k 1.6×	686 1.1×	423 0.8×	68	5.1k
Berna Güroğlu Netherlands	31	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	840 1.2×	353 0.5×	1.2k 2.4×	73	3.6k
Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg Netherlands	43	4.1k 1.7×	888 0.8×	963 1.3×	775 1.2×	654 1.3×	101	6.2k
Paul F. Collins United States	28	1.8k 0.7×	614 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	610 0.9×	1.1k 2.2×	55	4.1k
Daisuke N. Saito Japan	36	2.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	863 1.2×	416 0.6×	355 0.7×	83	4.0k
Tony W. Buchanan United States	36	3.2k 1.3×	1.5k 1.4×	1.6k 2.2×	559 0.9×	1.0k 2.0×	67	6.2k
Mattie Tops Netherlands	35	1.4k 0.6×	1.8k 1.6×	1.4k 2.0×	376 0.6×	894 1.8×	71	4.4k

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Cutler, Jo, Simon Little, Catherine J. Harmer, et al.. (2025). Dopamine Boosts Motivation for Prosocial Effort in Parkinson's Disease. Journal of Neuroscience. 46(8). e1593242024–e1593242024.

Cutler, Jo, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Boryana Todorova, et al.. (2025). Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 148–148.

Cutler, Jo, Daniel Drew, Matthew A J Apps, et al.. (2025). Ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions disrupt learning to reward others. Brain. 148(10). 3537–3550. 1 indexed citations

Morelli, Maria Antonietta Castiglione, Dinesh K. Deelchand, Andrew J. Quinn, et al.. (2025). Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy of prolonged motor activation using conventional and spectral GLM analyses. Imaging Neuroscience. 3.

Gaule, Anne, Peter Martin, Patricia Lockwood, et al.. (2024). Reduced prosocial motivation and effort in adolescents with conduct problems and callous‐unemotional traits. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 65(8). 1061–1071.

Garvert, Mona M., Lei Zhang, Sanjay Manohar, et al.. (2024). Older adults are relatively more susceptible to impulsive social influence than young adults. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 87–87. 1 indexed citations

Forbes, Paul, Gökhan Aydogan, Boryana Todorova, et al.. (2024). Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour. eLife. 12. 2 indexed citations

Manohar, Sanjay, Christina M. Buchanan, Michael R. MacAskill, et al.. (2024). Decision cost hypersensitivity underlies Huntington’s disease apathy. Brain. 148(3). 861–874. 2 indexed citations

Ricciardi, Lucia, Matthew A J Apps, & Simon Little. (2023). Uncovering the neurophysiology of mood, motivation and behavioral symptoms in Parkinson’s disease through intracranial recordings. npj Parkinson s Disease. 9(1). 136–136. 13 indexed citations

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Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian, Michel‐Pierre Coll, Geoffrey Bird, et al.. (2023). Neural representations of vicarious rewards are linked to interoception and prosocial behaviour. NeuroImage. 269. 119881–119881. 10 indexed citations

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Forbes, Paul, Gökhan Aydogan, Boryana Todorova, et al.. (2023). Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour. eLife. 12. 10 indexed citations

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Yu, Hongbo, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Annayah Miranda Beatrice Prosser, et al.. (2022). Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame. Psychological Science. 33(11). 1909–1927. 8 indexed citations

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Pisauro, M. Andrea, et al.. (2022). Neural implementation of computational mechanisms underlying the continuous trade-off between cooperation and competition. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6873–6873. 9 indexed citations

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Müller, Tanja, Masud Husain, & Matthew A J Apps. (2022). Preferences for seeking effort or reward information bias the willingness to work. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 19486–19486. 8 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Jonas P., Paul Forbes, Nida Ali, et al.. (2020). Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID‐19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue. British Journal of Health Psychology. 26(2). 553–569. 235 indexed citations breakdown →

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Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian, Patricia Lockwood, Geoffrey Bird, Matthew A J Apps, & Molly J. Crockett. (2020). Prosocial behavior is associated with transdiagnostic markers of affective sensitivity in multiple domains.. Emotion. 22(5). 820–835. 31 indexed citations

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Lockwood, Patricia, Marco K. Wittmann, Matthew A J Apps, et al.. (2018). Neural mechanisms for learning self and other ownership. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4747–4747. 63 indexed citations

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Lockwood, Patricia, et al.. (2017). Prosocial apathy for helping others when effort is required. Nature Human Behaviour. 1(7). 131–131. 124 indexed citations

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Ang, Yuen‐Siang, Patricia Lockwood, Matthew A J Apps, Kinan Muhammed, & Masud Husain. (2017). Distinct Subtypes of Apathy Revealed by the Apathy Motivation Index. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0169938–e0169938. 153 indexed citations

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Heron, Campbell Le, Matthew A J Apps, & Masud Husain. (2017). The anatomy of apathy: A neurocognitive framework for amotivated behaviour. Neuropsychologia. 118(Pt B). 54–67. 259 indexed citations

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