Nicolas W. Schuck

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Nicolas W. Schuck is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas W. Schuck has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 8 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 6 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicolas W. Schuck's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (23 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (17 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 papers). Nicolas W. Schuck is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (23 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (17 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 papers). Nicolas W. Schuck collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Nicolas W. Schuck's co-authors include Yael Niv, Ming Bo Cai, Robert C. Wilson, Christian F. Doeller, Peter A. Frensch, Shu Li, Ben Eppinger, Leigh E. Nystrom, Jonathan D. Cohen and Robert Gaschler and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas W. Schuck

41 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Human Orbitofrontal Cortex Represents a Cognitive Map of State Space

2016 328 citations Nicolas W. Schuck, Ming Bo Cai et al. Neuron profile →

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Alec Solway United States

Timothy Müller United Kingdom

Kimberly Stachenfeld United Kingdom

Catherine Wacongne France

Shirley Mark United Kingdom

Jonathan Miller United States

Raphael Kaplan United Kingdom

Jacob L. S. Bellmund Norway

Lorena Deuker Germany

Eve A. Isham United States

Alec Solway United States

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schuck, Nicolas W., et al.. (2025). N2 sleep promotes the occurrence of ‘aha’ moments in a perceptual insight task. PLoS Biology. 23(6). e3003185–e3003185.

Muhle-Karbe, Paul S., et al.. (2024). Abrupt and spontaneous strategy switches emerge in simple regularised neural networks. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(10). e1012505–e1012505. 4 indexed citations

Zika, Ondrej, et al.. (2024). Influence of surprise on reinforcement learning in younger and older adults. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(8). e1012331–e1012331. 4 indexed citations

Garvert, Mona M., et al.. (2023). Task state representations in vmPFC mediate relevant and irrelevant value signals and their behavioral influence. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3156–3156. 14 indexed citations

Muhle-Karbe, Paul S., Hannah Sheahan, Giovanni Pezzulo, et al.. (2023). Goal-seeking compresses neural codes for space in the human hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex. Neuron. 111(23). 3885–3899.e6. 20 indexed citations

Yao, Yuan‐Wei, Nicolas W. Schuck, Xin Li, et al.. (2023). The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex represents subjective value across effort-based and risky decision-making. NeuroImage. 279. 120326–120326. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Yunzhe, Matthew M. Nour, Nicolas W. Schuck, Timothy E.J. Behrens, & Raymond J. Dolan. (2022). Decoding cognition from spontaneous neural activity. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 23(4). 204–214. 34 indexed citations

Schuck, Nicolas W., et al.. (2022). Spontaneous discovery of novel task solutions in children. PLoS ONE. 17(5). e0266253–e0266253. 6 indexed citations

Schuck, Nicolas W., et al.. (2021). Dynamics of fMRI patterns reflect sub-second activation sequences and reveal replay in human visual cortex. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1795–1795. 36 indexed citations

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Chan, Stephanie C. Y., et al.. (2021). Orbitofrontal cortex and learning predictions of state transitions.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 135(4). 487–497. 6 indexed citations

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Schuck, Nicolas W., et al.. (2021). Replay in minds and machines. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 129. 367–388. 23 indexed citations

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Wu, Charley M., Eric Schulz, Mona M. Garvert, Björn Meder, & Nicolas W. Schuck. (2020). Similarities and differences in spatial and non-spatial cognitive maps. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(9). e1008149–e1008149. 31 indexed citations

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Allegra, Michele, Shima Seyed‐Allaei, Nicolas W. Schuck, et al.. (2020). Brain network dynamics during spontaneous strategy shifts and incremental task optimization. NeuroImage. 217. 116854–116854. 16 indexed citations

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Schuck, Nicolas W. & Yael Niv. (2019). Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus. Science. 364(6447). 158 indexed citations

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Gaschler, Robert, Nicolas W. Schuck, Carlo Reverberi, Peter A. Frensch, & Dorit Wenke. (2019). Incidental covariation learning leading to strategy change. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0210597–e0210597. 10 indexed citations

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Sharpe, Melissa J., Thomas A. Stalnaker, Nicolas W. Schuck, et al.. (2018). An Integrated Model of Action Selection: Distinct Modes of Cortical Control of Striatal Decision Making. Annual Review of Psychology. 70(1). 53–76. 68 indexed citations

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Schuck, Nicolas W., Ming Bo Cai, Robert C. Wilson, & Yael Niv. (2016). Human Orbitofrontal Cortex Represents a Cognitive Map of State Space. Neuron. 91(6). 1402–1412. 328 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thurm, Franka, Nicolas W. Schuck, Mareike Fauser, et al.. (2015). Dopamine modulation of spatial navigation memory in Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 38. 93–103. 29 indexed citations

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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

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Schuck, Nicolas W., Robert Gaschler, Aysha Keisler, & Peter A. Frensch. (2011). Position–item associations play a role in the acquisition of order knowledge in an implicit serial reaction time task.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 38(2). 440–456. 15 indexed citations

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