Paul M. Bays

10.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
90 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Paul M. Bays is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul M. Bays has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 11 papers in Social Psychology and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Paul M. Bays's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (53 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (49 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (41 papers). Paul M. Bays is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (53 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (49 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (41 papers). Paul M. Bays collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Paul M. Bays's co-authors include Masud Husain, Daniel M. Wolpert, Raquel Catalão, Wei Ji, Sebastian Schneegans, Sukhwinder S. Shergill, Chris Frith, J. Randall Flanagan, Nikos Gorgoraptis and Louise Marshall and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Paul M. Bays

86 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Dynamic Shifts of Limited Working Memory Resources in Human Vision

2008 813 citations Paul M. Bays, Masud Husain Science profile →
Changing concepts of working memory

2014 718 citations Masud Husain, Paul M. Bays et al. profile →
The precision of visual working memory is set by allocation of a shared resource

2009 692 citations Paul M. Bays, Masud Husain et al. Journal of Vision profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul M. Bays United Kingdom	38	6.4k	1.3k	1.0k	501	402	90	7.1k
Febo Cincotti Italy	57	7.8k 1.2×	968 0.8×	746 0.7×	419 0.8×	837 2.1×	249	9.0k
Giorgio Ganis United States	32	4.1k 0.6×	1.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.5×	277 0.6×	200 0.5×	69	5.9k
Francesco Di Russo Italy	44	6.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	419 0.8×	302 0.8×	157	7.5k
Jeffrey D. Schall United States	60	11.8k 1.9×	673 0.5×	880 0.8×	395 0.8×	168 0.4×	151	12.7k
Jay Pratt Canada	46	6.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	2.1k 2.0×	249 0.5×	263 0.7×	290	8.8k
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran United States	37	4.7k 0.7×	2.6k 2.1×	2.4k 2.3×	621 1.2×	218 0.5×	122	7.3k
Floris P. de Lange Netherlands	60	10.0k 1.6×	2.2k 1.7×	2.1k 2.0×	935 1.9×	294 0.7×	177	12.1k
Stefan Debener Germany	59	12.2k 1.9×	1.1k 0.8×	2.8k 2.7×	1.0k 2.1×	621 1.5×	179	13.9k
Frank Pollick United Kingdom	34	2.9k 0.5×	2.1k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	245 0.5×	248 0.6×	170	4.6k
René Marois United States	44	6.5k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	368 0.7×	78 0.2×	90	8.0k

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Valè, Nicola, et al.. (2025). Divisive attenuation based on noisy sensorimotor predictions accounts for excess variability in self-touch. Journal of Neurophysiology. 134(1). 407–428. 1 indexed citations

Harrison, William J., Paul M. Bays, & Reuben Rideaux. (2023). Neural tuning instantiates prior expectations in the human visual system. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5320–5320. 10 indexed citations

Tomić, Ivan & Paul M. Bays. (2023). A dynamic neural resource model bridges sensory and working memory. eLife. 12. 2 indexed citations

Taylor, Robert, Ivan Tomić, David Aagten‐Murphy, & Paul M. Bays. (2022). Working memory is updated by reallocation of resources from obsolete to new items. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 85(5). 1437–1451. 5 indexed citations

Schneegans, Sebastian, Robert Taylor, & Paul M. Bays. (2020). Stochastic sampling provides a unifying account of visual working memory limits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(34). 20959–20968. 47 indexed citations

Bays, Paul M.. (2018). Failure of self-consistency in the discrete resource model of visual working memory. Cognitive Psychology. 105. 1–8. 12 indexed citations

Taylor, Robert & Paul M. Bays. (2018). Efficient Coding in Visual Working Memory Accounts for Stimulus-Specific Variations in Recall. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(32). 7132–7142. 29 indexed citations

Schneegans, Sebastian & Paul M. Bays. (2018). Drift in Neural Population Activity Causes Working Memory to Deteriorate Over Time. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(21). 4859–4869. 44 indexed citations

Schneegans, Sebastian & Paul M. Bays. (2018). New perspectives on binding in visual working memory. British Journal of Psychology. 110(2). 207–244. 47 indexed citations

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Bays, Paul M.. (2017). Reassessing the Evidence for Capacity Limits in Neural Signals Related to Working Memory. Cerebral Cortex. 28(4). 1432–1438. 17 indexed citations

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Schneegans, Sebastian & Paul M. Bays. (2017). Restoration of fMRI Decodability Does Not Imply Latent Working Memory States. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 29(12). 1977–1994. 35 indexed citations

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Richter, Franziska R., Rose A. Cooper, Paul M. Bays, & Jon S. Simons. (2016). Distinct neural mechanisms underlie the success, precision, and vividness of episodic memory. eLife. 5. 153 indexed citations

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Wijdenes, Leonie Oostwoud, Louise Marshall, & Paul M. Bays. (2015). Evidence for Optimal Integration of Visual Feature Representations across Saccades. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(28). 10146–10153. 59 indexed citations

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Marshall, Louise & Paul M. Bays. (2013). Obligatory encoding of task-irrelevant features depletes working memory resources. Journal of Vision. 13(2). 21–21. 59 indexed citations

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Marshall, Louise & Paul M. Bays. (2012). Obligatory encoding of task-irrelevant features depletes working memory resources. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 853–853. 5 indexed citations

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Zokaei, Nahid, Nikos Gorgoraptis, Bahador Bahrami, Paul M. Bays, & Masud Husain. (2011). Visual Working Memory for Motion Sequences. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 1263–1263. 2 indexed citations

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Bays, Paul M.. (2010). Precision versus capacity of working memory in schizophrenic and healthy individuals. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Bays, Paul M. & Masud Husain. (2008). Dynamic Shifts of Limited Working Memory Resources in Human Vision. Science. 321(5890). 851–854. 813 indexed citations breakdown →

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Voss, Martin, Paul M. Bays, John C. Rothwell, & Daniel M. Wolpert. (2007). An improvement in perception of self-generated tactile stimuli following theta-burst stimulation of primary motor cortex. Neuropsychologia. 45(12). 2712–2717. 47 indexed citations

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Bays, Paul M. & Daniel M. Wolpert. (2006). Computational principles of sensorimotor control that minimize uncertainty and variability. The Journal of Physiology. 578(2). 387–396. 270 indexed citations

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