Penelope A. Lewis

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Penelope A. Lewis is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Penelope A. Lewis has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 5 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Penelope A. Lewis's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (44 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (30 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (23 papers). Penelope A. Lewis is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (44 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (30 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (23 papers). Penelope A. Lewis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Penelope A. Lewis's co-authors include R. Chris Miall, Simon Durrant, Paul S. Weiss, Rachel K. Smith, Scott A. Cairney, Robin Dunbar, Neil Roberts, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, James E. Hutchison and Nora Hennies and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Neuroscience and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Penelope A. Lewis

63 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Patterning self-assembled monolayers

2004 661 citations Penelope A. Lewis et al. profile →
Distinct systems for automatic and cognitively controlled time measurement: evidence from neuroimaging

2003 647 citations Penelope A. Lewis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Penelope A. Lewis United Kingdom	32	2.9k	1.3k	885	517	496	66	4.5k
Antao Chen China	34	1.6k 0.6×	559 0.4×	1.3k 1.5×	629 1.2×	339 0.7×	263	4.9k
Mikael Johansson Sweden	28	1.7k 0.6×	335 0.3×	687 0.8×	322 0.6×	260 0.5×	124	3.2k
Michel Bonnet France	37	2.3k 0.8×	475 0.4×	215 0.2×	383 0.7×	451 0.9×	153	4.7k
Yuka Sasaki United States	43	6.2k 2.1×	972 0.8×	91 0.1×	381 0.7×	788 1.6×	166	7.7k
Anna Wang Roe United States	41	3.9k 1.3×	366 0.3×	186 0.2×	479 0.9×	285 0.6×	149	5.4k
P. Hansen United Kingdom	55	4.2k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	2.8k 3.1×	627 1.2×	557 1.1×	209	9.7k
Tobias Großmann Germany	42	2.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	404 0.5×	272 0.5×	1.6k 3.2×	131	5.3k
Sven Bestmann United Kingdom	55	7.0k 2.4×	598 0.5×	184 0.2×	1.1k 2.2×	659 1.3×	143	9.8k
Astrid Van Wieringen Belgium	44	4.3k 1.5×	418 0.3×	419 0.5×	272 0.5×	43 0.1×	220	5.8k
Xiaoxia Du China	40	1.6k 0.5×	778 0.6×	129 0.1×	696 1.3×	184 0.4×	124	4.8k

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Leitner, Caterina, et al.. (2025). Isolated Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder: A Model to Assess the Overnight Habituation of Emotional Reactivity. Clocks & Sleep. 7(1). 9–9.

Santamaria, Lorena, et al.. (2024). Memory reactivation in slow wave sleep enhances relational learning in humans. Communications Biology. 7(1). 288–288. 5 indexed citations

Pereira, Sofia Isabel Ribeiro, et al.. (2023). Rule Abstraction Is Facilitated by Auditory Cuing in REM Sleep. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(21). 3838–3848. 12 indexed citations

Lewis, Penelope A., et al.. (2022). Wearing an eye mask during overnight sleep improves episodic learning and alertness. SLEEP. 46(3). 3 indexed citations

Debellemanière, Eden, Jules Schneider, Pierrick J. Arnal, et al.. (2022). Optimising sounds for the driving of sleep oscillations by closed‐loop auditory stimulation. Journal of Sleep Research. 31(6). e13676–e13676. 10 indexed citations

Sommer, Tobias, Nora Hennies, Penelope A. Lewis, & Arjen Alink. (2022). The Assimilation of Novel Information into Schemata and Its Efficient Consolidation. Journal of Neuroscience. 42(30). 5916–5929. 14 indexed citations

Schneider, Jules, et al.. (2020). Susceptibility to auditory closed-loop stimulation of sleep slow oscillations changes with age. SLEEP. 43(12). 45 indexed citations

Lewis, Penelope A. & Daniel Bendor. (2019). How Targeted Memory Reactivation Promotes the Selective Strengthening of Memories in Sleep. Current Biology. 29(18). R906–R912. 56 indexed citations

Lewis, Penelope A., Günther Knoblich, & Gina R. Poe. (2018). How Memory Replay in Sleep Boosts Creative Problem-Solving. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 22(6). 491–503. 120 indexed citations

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Durrant, Simon, Scott A. Cairney, & Penelope A. Lewis. (2016). Cross-modal transfer of statistical information benefits from sleep. Cortex. 78. 85–99. 25 indexed citations

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Cousins, James N., Wael El‐Deredy, Laura M. Parkes, Nora Hennies, & Penelope A. Lewis. (2016). Cued Reactivation of Motor Learning during Sleep Leads to Overnight Changes in Functional Brain Activity and Connectivity. PLoS Biology. 14(5). e1002451–e1002451. 65 indexed citations

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Durrant, Simon, et al.. (2015). Schema-conformant memories are preferentially consolidated during REM sleep. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 122. 41–50. 53 indexed citations

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Cousins, James N., Wael El‐Deredy, Laura M. Parkes, Nora Hennies, & Penelope A. Lewis. (2014). Cued Memory Reactivation during Slow-Wave Sleep Promotes Explicit Knowledge of a Motor Sequence. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(48). 15870–15876. 67 indexed citations

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Cairney, Scott A., Simon Durrant, Rebecca L. Jackson, & Penelope A. Lewis. (2014). Sleep spindles provide indirect support to the consolidation of emotional encoding contexts. Neuropsychologia. 63. 285–292. 29 indexed citations

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Lewis, Penelope A. & Simon Durrant. (2011). Overlapping memory replay during sleep builds cognitive schemata. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 15(8). 343–351. 338 indexed citations

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Lewis, Penelope A., Roozbeh Rezaie, Rachel C. Brown, Neil Roberts, & Robin Dunbar. (2011). Ventromedial prefrontal volume predicts understanding of others and social network size. NeuroImage. 57(4). 1624–1629. 241 indexed citations

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Lewis, Penelope A., et al.. (2010). Keeping time in your sleep: Overnight consolidation of temporal rhythm. Neuropsychologia. 49(1). 115–123. 34 indexed citations

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Powell, Joanne, Penelope A. Lewis, Robin Dunbar, Marta García‐Fiñana, & Neil Roberts. (2010). Orbital prefrontal cortex volume correlates with social cognitive competence. Neuropsychologia. 48(12). 3554–3562. 103 indexed citations

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Durrant, Simon & Penelope A. Lewis. (2009). Memory Consolidation: Tracking Transfer with Functional Connectivity. Current Biology. 19(18). R860–R862. 13 indexed citations

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Lewis, Penelope A.. (2002). Finding the timer. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 6(5). 195–196. 22 indexed citations

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