Peter Dayan

88.3k total citations · 22 hit papers
442 papers, 54.8k citations indexed

About

Peter Dayan is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Dayan has authored 442 papers receiving a total of 54.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 261 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 85 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 75 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Peter Dayan's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (141 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (115 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (55 papers). Peter Dayan is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (141 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (115 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (55 papers). Peter Dayan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Peter Dayan's co-authors include Christopher J. Watkins, Raymond J. Dolan, P. Read Montague, Nathaniel D. Daw, Wolfram Schultz, Yael Niv, John P. O’Doherty, L. F. Abbott, Ben Seymour and Angela J. Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter Dayan

415 papers receiving 53.3k citations

Hit Papers

Q-learning 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 1997 1992 2001 2005 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Dayan United Kingdom 93 32.1k 12.2k 8.5k 7.0k 4.3k 442 54.8k
Edmund T. Rolls United Kingdom 138 43.5k 1.4× 15.4k 1.3× 2.1k 0.2× 9.4k 1.3× 2.6k 0.6× 573 64.4k
Christof Koch United States 120 44.2k 1.4× 16.0k 1.3× 3.8k 0.4× 4.4k 0.6× 4.4k 1.0× 571 68.1k
James L. McClelland United States 89 29.0k 0.9× 3.1k 0.3× 14.7k 1.7× 9.5k 1.4× 1.2k 0.3× 267 53.9k
Terrence J. Sejnowski United States 125 43.2k 1.3× 18.3k 1.5× 10.4k 1.2× 4.7k 0.7× 7.8k 1.8× 619 73.7k
Timothy E.J. Behrens United Kingdom 103 43.4k 1.3× 5.8k 0.5× 1.6k 0.2× 5.7k 0.8× 2.2k 0.5× 193 70.5k
Earl K. Miller United States 73 30.1k 0.9× 6.5k 0.5× 1.3k 0.1× 3.8k 0.5× 1.6k 0.4× 172 35.7k
Matthew Botvinick United States 64 26.0k 0.8× 2.1k 0.2× 3.6k 0.4× 6.2k 0.9× 728 0.2× 136 34.8k
Jonathan D. Cohen United States 107 63.3k 2.0× 7.0k 0.6× 1.8k 0.2× 14.6k 2.1× 2.5k 0.6× 332 83.2k
Nathaniel D. Daw United States 71 15.5k 0.5× 4.9k 0.4× 1.6k 0.2× 3.8k 0.5× 1.6k 0.4× 169 21.3k
Emanuel Donchin United States 79 37.7k 1.2× 4.7k 0.4× 1.4k 0.2× 7.5k 1.1× 475 0.1× 220 42.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Dayan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Dayan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Dayan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Dayan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Dayan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Peter Dayan. Peter Dayan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Barnby, Joseph M, Jessica Kingston, Gavin Cooper, et al.. (2025). Self-other generalisation shapes social interaction and is disrupted in borderline personality disorder. eLife. 14. 1 indexed citations
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Rostami, Reza, et al.. (2025). Noradrenergic and Dopaminergic modulation of meta-cognition and meta-control. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(2). e1012675–e1012675.
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Chung, Dongil, Andreas Hula, Ofer Perl, et al.. (2021). Humans use forward thinking to exploit social controllability. eLife. 10. 17 indexed citations
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Gagne, Chris, Ondrej Zika, Peter Dayan, & Sonia J. Bishop. (2020). Impaired adaptation of learning to contingency volatility in internalizing psychopathology. eLife. 9. 55 indexed citations
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Comito, Devon, Benjamin Lane, Haruka Morita, et al.. (2020). Respiratory viruses in pediatric emergency department patients and their family members. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 15(1). 91–98. 11 indexed citations
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Stojić, Hrvoje, Jacob Lund Orquin, Peter Dayan, Raymond J. Dolan, & Maarten Speekenbrink. (2020). Uncertainty in learning, choice, and visual fixation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(6). 3291–3300. 21 indexed citations
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Dezfouli, Amir, et al.. (2019). Disentangled behavioural representations. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 32. 2243–2252. 10 indexed citations
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Moran, Rani, Mehdi Keramati, Peter Dayan, & Raymond J. Dolan. (2019). Retrospective model-based inference guides model-free credit assignment. Nature Communications. 10(1). 750–750. 26 indexed citations
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Rutledge, Robb B., Michael Moutoussis, Peter Smittenaar, et al.. (2017). Association of Neural and Emotional Impacts of Reward Prediction Errors With Major Depression. JAMA Psychiatry. 74(8). 790–790. 115 indexed citations
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Marshall, Louise, Christoph Mathys, Diane Ruge, et al.. (2016). Pharmacological Fingerprints of Contextual Uncertainty. PLoS Biology. 14(11). e1002575–e1002575. 89 indexed citations
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Guez, Arthur, Nicolas Heess, David Silver, & Peter Dayan. (2014). Bayes-Adaptive Simulation-based Search with Value Function Approximation. UCL Discovery (University College London). 27. 451–459. 7 indexed citations
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Dayan, Peter. (2012). Intermedial Arts: Disrupting, Remembering, and Transforming Media. 6 indexed citations
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Foltin, George, Peter Dayan, Michael G. Tunik, et al.. (2010). Priorities for Pediatric Prehospital Research. Pediatric Emergency Care. 26(10). 773–777. 62 indexed citations
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Benn, Emma K. T., W. Allen Hauser, Tina Shih, et al.. (2008). Estimating the incidence of first unprovoked seizure and newly diagnosed epilepsy in the low‐income urban community of Northern Manhattan, New York City. Epilepsia. 49(8). 1431–1439. 56 indexed citations
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Niv, Yael, Nathaniel D. Daw, & Peter Dayan. (2005). How fast to work: Response vigor, motivation and tonic dopamine. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 18. 1019–1026. 67 indexed citations
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Yu, Angela J. & Peter Dayan. (2004). Inference, Attention, and Decision in a Bayesian Neural Architecture. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 17. 1577–1584. 58 indexed citations
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Dayan, Peter. (2003). La musique et les lettres chez Barthes. French Studies. 57(3). 335–348. 3 indexed citations
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Káli, Szabolcs & Peter Dayan. (2002). Replay, Repair and Consolidation. UCL Discovery (University College London). 15. 19–26. 2 indexed citations
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Dayan, Peter. (1996). A Hierarchical Model of Visual Rivalry. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 48–54. 2 indexed citations
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Schraudolph, Nicol N., Peter Dayan, & Terrence J. Sejnowski. (1993). Temporal Difference Learning of Position Evaluation in the Game of Go. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 6. 817–824. 61 indexed citations

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