Matthew Botvinick

63.2k total citations · 22 hit papers
136 papers, 34.8k citations indexed

About

Matthew Botvinick is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Botvinick has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 34.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 34 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 18 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in Matthew Botvinick's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (63 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (46 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (29 papers). Matthew Botvinick is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (63 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (46 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (29 papers). Matthew Botvinick collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Matthew Botvinick's co-authors include Jonathan D. Cohen, Cameron S. Carter, Todd S. Braver, Deanna M. Barch, Amitai Shenhav, Nick Yeung, Douglas C. Noll, Francisco Pereira, Wouter Kool and Joseph T. McGuire and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Botvinick

135 papers receiving 33.9k citations

Hit Papers

Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. 1998 2026 2007 2016 2001 2004 1998 1999 2004 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matthew Botvinick United States 64 26.0k 6.2k 4.0k 3.6k 3.2k 136 34.8k
Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers Netherlands 83 14.6k 0.6× 6.5k 1.1× 4.0k 1.0× 3.2k 0.9× 3.6k 1.1× 315 32.8k
Todd S. Braver United States 80 29.8k 1.1× 9.2k 1.5× 3.5k 0.9× 888 0.2× 3.6k 1.1× 205 36.6k
Russell A. Poldrack United States 109 37.1k 1.4× 8.1k 1.3× 4.6k 1.1× 1.5k 0.4× 5.6k 1.8× 319 49.2k
Peter Dayan United Kingdom 93 32.1k 1.2× 7.0k 1.1× 3.9k 1.0× 8.5k 2.4× 2.5k 0.8× 442 54.8k
Gordon D. Logan United States 87 25.1k 1.0× 7.0k 1.1× 3.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.4× 7.2k 2.3× 292 34.7k
Nathaniel D. Daw United States 71 15.5k 0.6× 3.8k 0.6× 2.0k 0.5× 1.6k 0.4× 1.7k 0.5× 169 21.3k
John P. O’Doherty United States 85 27.1k 1.0× 7.9k 1.3× 6.5k 1.6× 836 0.2× 1.9k 0.6× 180 38.1k
John Jonides United States 88 26.6k 1.0× 10.3k 1.7× 4.7k 1.2× 1.2k 0.3× 4.5k 1.4× 229 40.7k
Roger Ratcliff United States 86 22.9k 0.9× 6.6k 1.1× 3.2k 0.8× 4.4k 1.2× 7.3k 2.3× 275 30.8k
Timothy E.J. Behrens United Kingdom 103 43.4k 1.7× 5.7k 0.9× 3.5k 0.9× 1.6k 0.4× 2.4k 0.7× 193 70.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Matthew Botvinick

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew Botvinick

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Botvinick

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Matthew Botvinick. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Matthew Botvinick based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Matthew Botvinick. Matthew Botvinick is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schwartenbeck, Philipp, Alon Baram, Yunzhe Liu, et al.. (2023). Generative replay underlies compositional inference in the hippocampal-prefrontal circuit. Cell. 186(22). 4885–4897.e14. 23 indexed citations
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McKee, Kevin R., Andrea Tacchetti, Michiel A. Bakker, et al.. (2023). Scaffolding cooperation in human groups with deep reinforcement learning. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(10). 1787–1796. 12 indexed citations
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Herman, Alexander, Elliot H. Smith, Catherine A. Schevon, et al.. (2023). Pretrial predictors of conflict response efficacy in the human prefrontal cortex. iScience. 26(11). 108047–108047. 2 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ari, et al.. (2022). Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(9). 1257–1267. 44 indexed citations
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Koster, Raphaël, Jan Balaguer, Andrea Tacchetti, et al.. (2022). Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(10). 1398–1407. 51 indexed citations
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Miller, Kevin J, Matthew Botvinick, & Carlos D. Brody. (2022). Value representations in the rodent orbitofrontal cortex drive learning, not choice. eLife. 11. 20 indexed citations
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Hill, Felix, Andrew K. Lampinen, Rosalia Schneider, et al.. (2020). Environmental drivers of systematicity and generalization in a situated agent.. International Conference on Learning Representations. 9 indexed citations
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Song, Hao, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Jost Tobias Springenberg, et al.. (2020). V-MPO: On-Policy Maximum a Posteriori Policy Optimization for Discrete and Continuous Control. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Goyal, Anirudh, Riashat Islam, Zafarali Ahmed, et al.. (2019). InfoBot: Transfer and Exploration via the Information Bottleneck. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations
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Holroyd, Clay B., et al.. (2018). Subgoal- and Goal-related Reward Prediction Errors in Medial Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 31(1). 8–23. 18 indexed citations
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Shenhav, Amitai, Mark A. Straccia, Sebastian Musslick, Jonathan D. Cohen, & Matthew Botvinick. (2018). Dissociable neural mechanisms track evidence accumulation for selection of attention versus action. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2485–2485. 27 indexed citations
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Tacchetti, Andrea, Hui Song, Pedro A. M. Mediano, et al.. (2018). Relational Forward Models for Multi-Agent Learning. UCL Discovery (University College London). 7 indexed citations
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Higgins, Irina, Nicolas Sonnerat, Löıc Matthey, et al.. (2018). SCAN: Learning Hierarchical Compositional Visual Concepts. UCL Discovery (University College London). 17 indexed citations
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Morcos, Ari S., David G. T. Barrett, Neil C. Rabinowitz, & Matthew Botvinick. (2018). On the importance of single directions for generalization. arXiv (Cornell University). 15 indexed citations
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Miller, Kevin J, Matthew Botvinick, & Carlos D. Brody. (2017). Dorsal hippocampus contributes to model-based planning. Nature Neuroscience. 20(9). 1269–1276. 128 indexed citations
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Higgins, Irina, Löıc Matthey, Arka Pal, et al.. (2017). beta-VAE: Learning Basic Visual Concepts with a Constrained Variational Framework. International Conference on Learning Representations. 1198 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schapiro, Anna C., Nicholas B. Turk‐Browne, Matthew Botvinick, & Kenneth A. Norman. (2016). Complementary learning systems within the hippocampus: a neural network modelling approach to reconciling episodic memory with statistical learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1711). 20160049–20160049. 264 indexed citations
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Brunton, Bingni W., Matthew Botvinick, & Carlos D. Brody. (2013). Rats and Humans Can Optimally Accumulate Evidence for Decision-Making. Science. 340(6128). 95–98. 377 indexed citations
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Botvinick, Matthew, et al.. (2010). Learning semantic features for fMRI data from definitional text. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 1–9. 10 indexed citations
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McClelland, James L., Matthew Botvinick, David C. Noelle, et al.. (2010). Letting structure emerge: connectionist and dynamical systems approaches to cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14(8). 348–356. 236 indexed citations

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