Peter R. Murphy

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Peter R. Murphy is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter R. Murphy has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Peter R. Murphy's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (23 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (21 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (15 papers). Peter R. Murphy is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (23 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (21 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (15 papers). Peter R. Murphy collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany. Peter R. Murphy's co-authors include Redmond G O’Connell, Ian H. Robertson, Joshua H. Balsters, Sander Nieuwenhuis, Michael O’Sullivan, P H Ellaway, Simon P. Kelly, Deirdre M. Twomey, Ruud L. van den Brink and Evert Boonstra and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Peter R. Murphy

52 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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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.

Pupil diameter covaries with BOLD activity in human locus coeruleus

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter R. Murphy United Kingdom	26	2.2k	379	349	278	243	54	2.9k
Lawrence G. Appelbaum United States	33	2.4k 1.1×	419 1.1×	283 0.8×	145 0.5×	260 1.1×	107	3.8k
Sanjay Manohar United Kingdom	32	1.9k 0.9×	509 1.3×	477 1.4×	73 0.3×	242 1.0×	141	3.2k
Bruno Kopp Germany	32	2.5k 1.1×	566 1.5×	187 0.5×	130 0.5×	223 0.9×	113	3.8k
Alexandre Zénon Belgium	20	1.2k 0.6×	213 0.6×	217 0.6×	133 0.5×	181 0.7×	52	1.7k
Peter Praamstra Netherlands	38	4.2k 2.0×	693 1.8×	515 1.5×	448 1.6×	515 2.1×	79	5.1k
Yoriko Takikawa Japan	12	1.9k 0.9×	127 0.3×	999 2.9×	176 0.6×	158 0.7×	17	2.7k
Veit Stuphorn United States	27	2.9k 1.3×	238 0.6×	429 1.2×	95 0.3×	230 0.9×	45	3.3k
Ulrike M. Krämer Germany	34	2.0k 0.9×	606 1.6×	330 0.9×	83 0.3×	539 2.2×	102	3.3k
Ben Godde Germany	30	1.8k 0.8×	376 1.0×	301 0.9×	298 1.1×	332 1.4×	86	2.9k
Kathryn M. McMillan United States	9	2.4k 1.1×	712 1.9×	150 0.4×	98 0.4×	279 1.1×	13	3.4k

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Kelly, Simon P., et al.. (2025). Dissociable encoding of evolving beliefs and momentary belief updates in distinct neural decision signals. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3922–3922.

Bellgrove, Mark A., et al.. (2025). Disentangling sources of variability in decision-making. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 26(5). 247–262. 2 indexed citations

Murphy, Peter R., et al.. (2024). Individual differences in belief updating and phasic arousal are related to psychosis proneness. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 88–88. 2 indexed citations

Kühn, Simone, et al.. (2024). Linking Cognitive Integrity to Working Memory Dynamics in the Aging Human Brain. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(26). e1883232024–e1883232024. 1 indexed citations

Brink, Ruud L. van den, et al.. (2022). Flexible sensory-motor mapping rules manifest in correlated variability of stimulus and action codes across the brain. Neuron. 111(4). 571–584.e9. 9 indexed citations

Murphy, Peter R., et al.. (2021). Adaptive circuit dynamics across human cortex during evidence accumulation in changing environments. Nature Neuroscience. 24(7). 987–997. 40 indexed citations

Desender, Kobe, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, & Peter R. Murphy. (2021). Understanding neural signals of post-decisional performance monitoring: An integrative review. eLife. 10. 43 indexed citations

Wilming, Niklas, Peter R. Murphy, Florent Meyniel, & Tobias H. Donner. (2020). Large-scale dynamics of perceptual decision information across human cortex. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5109–5109. 32 indexed citations

Brink, Ruud L. van den, et al.. (2020). Temporal Expectation Hastens Decision Onset But Does Not Affect Evidence Quality. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(1). 130–143. 16 indexed citations

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Naber, Marnix & Peter R. Murphy. (2019). Pupillometric investigation into the speed‐accuracy trade‐off in a visuo‐motor aiming task. Psychophysiology. 57(3). e13499–e13499. 16 indexed citations

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Desender, Kobe, Peter R. Murphy, Annika Boldt, Tom Verguts, & Nick Yeung. (2019). A Postdecisional Neural Marker of Confidence Predicts Information-Seeking in Decision-Making. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(17). 3309–3319. 51 indexed citations

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Jepma, Marieke, et al.. (2016). Catecholaminergic Regulation of Learning Rate in a Dynamic Environment. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(10). e1005171–e1005171. 51 indexed citations

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Murphy, Peter R., Evert Boonstra, & Sander Nieuwenhuis. (2016). Global gain modulation generates time-dependent urgency during perceptual choice in humans. Nature Communications. 7(1). 14299–14299. 123 indexed citations

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Brink, Ruud L. van den, Thomas Pfeffer, Christopher M. Warren, et al.. (2016). Catecholaminergic Neuromodulation Shapes Intrinsic MRI Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(30). 7865–7876. 58 indexed citations

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Brink, Ruud L. van den, Peter R. Murphy, & Sander Nieuwenhuis. (2016). Pupil Diameter Tracks Lapses of Attention. PLoS ONE. 11(10). e0165274–e0165274. 146 indexed citations

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Murphy, Peter R., K. G. Pearson, & R. B. Stein. (2002). Toe flexor muscle spindle discharge and stretch modulation during locomotor activity in the decerebrate cat. The Journal of Physiology. 542(3). 939–949. 2 indexed citations

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Murphy, Peter R.. (1999). Adaptive fusimotor reflex control in the decerebrate cat. Brain Research. 821(1). 38–49. 4 indexed citations

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Murphy, Peter R. & Hervé A. Martin. (1995). Fusimotor neurone responses to medial plantar nerve stimulation in the decerebrate cat.. The Journal of Physiology. 482(1). 167–177. 4 indexed citations

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Martin, Hervé A. & Peter R. Murphy. (1995). Interleukin-2 activates a sub-population of cutaneous c-flbre polymodal nociceptors in the rat hairy skin. Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry. 103(2). 136–148. 16 indexed citations

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Murphy, Peter R. & Hervé A. Martin. (1993). Fusimotor discharge patterns during rhythmic movements. Trends in Neurosciences. 16(7). 273–278. 36 indexed citations

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