Nicolas Chevalier

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
81 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Chevalier is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Chevalier has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 34 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Chevalier's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (31 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (27 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (15 papers). Nicolas Chevalier is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (31 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (27 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (15 papers). Nicolas Chevalier collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Nicolas Chevalier's co-authors include Yuko Munakata, Agnès Blaye, Kimberly Andrews Espy, Sandra A. Wiebe, Caron A. C. Clark, Jane E. Barker, Laura Michaelson, Tiffany D. Sheffield, Jennifer Mize Nelson and Lucy Cragg and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Chevalier

76 papers receiving 3.1k 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 structure of executive function in 3-year-olds

2010 550 citations Sandra A. Wiebe, Nicolas Chevalier et al. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology profile →
Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development

2013 523 citations Yuko Munakata, Nicolas Chevalier et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Chevalier United Kingdom	29	1.3k	1.1k	838	816	698	81	3.2k
M. Rosario Rueda Spain	24	1.3k 1.0×	2.0k 1.8×	1.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	1.5k 2.2×	46	4.7k
Caron A. C. Clark United States	25	867 0.7×	461 0.4×	957 1.1×	484 0.6×	900 1.3×	53	3.0k
Allyson P. Mackey United States	22	739 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	569 0.7×	470 0.6×	464 0.7×	47	2.7k
Daniel A. Hackman United States	19	465 0.4×	686 0.6×	887 1.1×	523 0.6×	894 1.3×	41	3.2k
April A. Benasich United States	36	1.6k 1.2×	2.1k 1.9×	506 0.6×	379 0.5×	595 0.9×	78	3.8k
Victoria J. Molfese United States	27	955 0.8×	653 0.6×	766 0.9×	438 0.5×	396 0.6×	91	2.2k
Hugo Peyre France	30	424 0.3×	775 0.7×	321 0.4×	487 0.6×	815 1.2×	147	2.9k
Ginette Dionne Canada	38	908 0.7×	588 0.5×	1.3k 1.5×	851 1.0×	2.2k 3.1×	156	4.4k
Judith F. Feldman United States	45	1.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	491 0.6×	732 0.9×	917 1.3×	100	5.1k
Mike Anderson Australia	26	585 0.5×	835 0.8×	202 0.2×	523 0.6×	280 0.4×	70	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Nicolas Chevalier

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Chevalier

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Bost, Frédéric, et al.. (2025). Prostate cancer and pollution: Dangerous connections. Annales d Endocrinologie. 86(3). 101769–101769.

Chevalier, Nicolas, et al.. (2025). GenomicSEM Modelling of Diverse Executive Function GWAS Improves Gene Discovery. Behavior Genetics. 55(2). 71–85.

Chevalier, Nicolas, et al.. (2025). Maternal education and prenatal smoking associations with adolescent executive function are substantially confounded by genetics.. Developmental Psychology. 61(8). 1594–1605.

Chevalier, Nicolas, et al.. (2025). Neural Oscillatory Markers of Voluntary Task Switching: Proactive Engagement of Self‐Directed Control in Children and Adults. Developmental Science. 28(6). e70073–e70073. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Da, et al.. (2024). Influences of social and non-social rewards on cognitive control in childhood. Cognitive Development. 69. 101413–101413. 1 indexed citations

Kubota, Maki, Lauren V. Hadley, Tanja Könen, et al.. (2023). The effect of metacognitive executive function training on children’s executive function, proactive control, and academic skills.. Developmental Psychology. 59(11). 2002–2020. 6 indexed citations

Rattat, Anne‐Claire & Nicolas Chevalier. (2020). The Different Contribution of Executive Control to Temporal Comparison and Reproduction in Children and Adults. Journal of Cognition and Development. 21(5). 754–773. 1 indexed citations

Niebaum, Jesse C., et al.. (2020). Developing adaptive control: Age-related differences in task choices and awareness of proactive and reactive control demands. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 21(3). 561–572. 27 indexed citations

Chevalier, Nicolas, et al.. (2019). Differentiation in prefrontal cortex recruitment during childhood: Evidence from cognitive control demands and social contexts. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 36. 100629–100629. 16 indexed citations

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Niebaum, Jesse C., et al.. (2018). Adaptive control and the avoidance of cognitive control demands across development. Neuropsychologia. 123. 152–158. 29 indexed citations

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Chevalier, Nicolas, et al.. (2018). Supporting cognitive control through competition and cooperation in childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 173. 28–40. 14 indexed citations

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Chevalier, Nicolas & Agnès Blaye. (2016). Metacognitive Monitoring of Executive Control Engagement During Childhood. Child Development. 87(4). 1264–1276. 46 indexed citations

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Chevalier, Nicolas. (2015). The Development of Executive Function: Toward More Optimal Coordination of Control With Age. Child Development Perspectives. 9(4). 239–244. 64 indexed citations

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Chevalier, Nicolas. (2015). Executive Function Development. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 24(5). 363–368. 29 indexed citations

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Levallois, Christophe, Jean-Philippe Gauthier, Cyril Paranthoën, et al.. (2011). Sputtered hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin films for distributed Bragg reflectors and long wavelength vertical cavity surface emitting lasers applications. Thin Solid Films. 519(18). 6178–6182. 4 indexed citations

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Chevalier, Nicolas, Sandra A. Wiebe, Kristina Huber, & Kimberly Andrews Espy. (2011). Switch detection in preschoolers’ cognitive flexibility. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 109(3). 353–370. 23 indexed citations

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Chevalier, Nicolas, et al.. (2010). Evidence for microbial methane oxidation at cold seeps along the main active fault in the Marmara Sea. EGUGA. 10178. 1 indexed citations

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Blaye, Agnès & Nicolas Chevalier. (2010). The role of goal representation in preschoolers’ flexibility and inhibition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 108(3). 469–483. 53 indexed citations

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Chevalier, Nicolas, et al.. (2010). What visual information do children and adults consider while switching between tasks? Eye-tracking investigation of cognitive flexibility development.. Developmental Psychology. 46(4). 955–972. 38 indexed citations

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Chevalier, Nicolas & Agnès Blaye. (2008). Perspectives différentielles en psychologie. 2 indexed citations

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