Patrick Haggard

49.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
484 papers, 34.3k citations indexed

About

Patrick Haggard is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Haggard has authored 484 papers receiving a total of 34.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 395 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 132 papers in Social Psychology and 96 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Patrick Haggard's work include Free Will and Agency (122 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (116 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (116 papers). Patrick Haggard is often cited by papers focused on Free Will and Agency (122 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (116 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (116 papers). Patrick Haggard collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. Patrick Haggard's co-authors include Manos Tsakiris, Matthew R. Longo, Beatriz Calvo‐Merino, Daniel E. Glaser, Julie Grèzes, Sam Clark, Marcel Braß, Marisa Taylor-Clarke, James W. Moore and Daniel M. Wolpert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Haggard

474 papers receiving 33.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Action Observation and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study with Expert Dancers

2004 1.4k citations Patrick Haggard et al. profile →
Voluntary action and conscious awareness

2002 1.0k citations Patrick Haggard et al. profile →
The Rubber Hand Illusion Revisited: Visuotactile Integration and Self-Attribution.

2005 979 citations Patrick Haggard et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance profile →
Seeing or Doing? Influence of Visual and Motor Familiarity in Action Observation

2006 845 citations Patrick Haggard et al. profile →
What is embodiment? A psychometric approach

2008 705 citations Matthew R. Longo, Patrick Haggard et al. Cognition profile →
Human volition: towards a neuroscience of will

2008 679 citations Patrick Haggard Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
Sense of agency in the human brain

2017 642 citations Patrick Haggard Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
The Ethics of Realism in Virtual and Augmented Reality

2020 237 citations Patrick Haggard et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Patrick Haggard	25.7k	11.9k	7.1k	5.5k	4.8k	484	34.3k
Olaf Blanke	11.4k 0.4×	6.7k 0.6×	4.3k 0.6×	5.2k 1.0×	2.7k 0.6×	360	18.1k
Vittorio Gallese	28.8k 1.1×	29.8k 2.5×	5.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.3×	11.8k 2.4×	291	44.3k
Niels Birbaumer	47.9k 1.9×	4.1k 0.3×	5.1k 0.7×	5.3k 1.0×	5.6k 1.2×	710	62.2k
Gereon R. Fink	36.2k 1.4×	11.4k 1.0×	6.9k 1.0×	869 0.2×	7.0k 1.5×	940	58.2k
Jean Decety	26.3k 1.0×	23.4k 2.0×	10.0k 1.4×	828 0.2×	7.6k 1.6×	324	45.2k
Salvatore Maria Aglioti	11.6k 0.5×	8.5k 0.7×	2.6k 0.4×	2.1k 0.4×	2.7k 0.6×	320	17.1k
Marc Jeannerod	22.0k 0.9×	12.1k 1.0×	3.0k 0.4×	1.3k 0.2×	2.7k 0.6×	249	27.8k
Giacomo Rizzolatti	35.8k 1.4×	33.9k 2.8×	4.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.3×	10.7k 2.2×	119	49.3k
Leonardo Fogassi	22.9k 0.9×	22.3k 1.9×	2.9k 0.4×	999 0.2×	6.3k 1.3×	142	31.6k
Daniel M. Wolpert	33.2k 1.3×	12.8k 1.1×	3.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.2×	2.5k 0.5×	224	39.6k

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Georgiou, Orestis, et al.. (2025). The Ethics of Digital Touch. IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 18(4). 1003–1019.

Kulakova, Eugenia, et al.. (2024). Comparing third-party responsibility with intention attribution: An fMRI investigation of moral judgment. Consciousness and Cognition. 125. 103762–103762.

Bottini, Gabriella, et al.. (2024). Active self-touch restores bodily proprioceptive spatial awareness following disruption by ‘rubber hand illusion'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2015). 20231753–20231753. 2 indexed citations

Clements, M., et al.. (2023). Revisiting a classical theory of sensory specificity: assessing consistency and stability of thermosensitive spots. Journal of Neurophysiology. 130(6). 1567–1577. 1 indexed citations

Wen, Wen, Lucie Charles, & Patrick Haggard. (2023). Metacognition and sense of agency. Cognition. 241. 105622–105622. 6 indexed citations

Huys, Anne‐Catherine M. L., Brianna Beck, Patrick Haggard, Kailash P. Bhatia, & Mark J. Edwards. (2021). No increased suggestibility to placebo in functional neurological disorder. European Journal of Neurology. 28(7). 2367–2371. 4 indexed citations

Ferrè, Elisa Raffaella, Adrian Alsmith, Patrick Haggard, & Matthew R. Longo. (2021). The vestibular system modulates the contributions of head and torso to egocentric spatial judgements. Experimental Brain Research. 239(7). 2295–2302. 4 indexed citations

Fountas, Zafeirios, et al.. (2021). A Hierarchical Attractor Network Model of perceptual versus intentional decision updates. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2020–2020. 3 indexed citations

Travers, Eoin & Patrick Haggard. (2020). The Readiness Potential reflects the internal source of action, rather than decision uncertainty. European Journal of Neuroscience. 53(5). 1533–1544. 10 indexed citations

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Caspar, Émilie A., et al.. (2020). The effect of military training on the sense of agency and outcome processing. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4366–4366. 34 indexed citations

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Bassett, Danielle S., Kathleen E. Cullen, Simon B. Eickhoff, et al.. (2020). Reflections on the past two decades of neuroscience. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 21(10). 524–534. 31 indexed citations

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Khalighinejad, Nima, et al.. (2019). Dissociating Cognitive and Motoric Precursors of Human Self-Initiated Action. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 31(5). 754–767. 6 indexed citations

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Haggard, Patrick, et al.. (2019). Responsibility Between Neuroscience and Criminal Law. The Control Component of Criminal Liability. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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Beyer, Frederike, Nura Sidarus, Stephen M. Fleming, & Patrick Haggard. (2018). Losing Control in Social Situations: How the Presence of Others Affects Neural Processes Related to Sense of Agency. eNeuro. 5(1). ENEURO.0336–17.2018. 37 indexed citations

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Fried, Itzhak, Patrick Haggard, Biyu J. He, & Aaron Schurger. (2017). Volition and Action in the Human Brain: Processes, Pathologies, and Reasons. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(45). 10842–10847. 41 indexed citations

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Ganos, Christos, Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Angela Marotta, et al.. (2017). Cortical inhibitory function in cervical dystonia. Clinical Neurophysiology. 129(2). 466–472. 20 indexed citations

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Culham, Jody C., et al.. (2016). Sensation and Perception. International Journal of Psychology. 51(S1). 1007–1027. 4 indexed citations

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Azañón, Elena, et al.. (2016). Does the crossed-limb deficit affect the uncrossed portions of limbs?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 42(9). 1320–1331. 8 indexed citations

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Lagnado, David A., et al.. (2008). Binding causal actions to their effects. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Johnson, Hilary, et al.. (2002). Dissociations of perceptual awareness, motor awareness and motor performance during visuomotor adjustments. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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