Philipp Schwartenbeck

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Philipp Schwartenbeck is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Philipp Schwartenbeck has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 7 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in Philipp Schwartenbeck's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (7 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (7 papers). Philipp Schwartenbeck is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (7 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (7 papers). Philipp Schwartenbeck collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Austria and Germany. Philipp Schwartenbeck's co-authors include Karl Friston, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, Raymond J. Dolan, Giovanni Pezzulo, Francesco Rigoli, Michael Moutoussis, Timothy E.J. Behrens, John P. O’Doherty, Martin Kronbichler and Christoph Mathys and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Philipp Schwartenbeck

26 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Active Inference: A Process Theory

2016 613 citations Karl Friston, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald et al. profile →
Active inference and learning

2016 344 citations Karl Friston, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philipp Schwartenbeck United Kingdom	20	1.9k	525	432	241	238	27	2.5k
Francesco Rigoli Italy	11	1.7k 0.9×	358 0.7×	487 1.1×	213 0.9×	208 0.9×	14	2.2k
Thomas H. B. FitzGerald United Kingdom	30	3.3k 1.7×	738 1.4×	628 1.5×	323 1.3×	438 1.8×	45	4.3k
Mariano Sigman Argentina	31	3.1k 1.6×	623 1.2×	446 1.0×	370 1.5×	312 1.3×	59	4.3k
John D. Medaglia United States	28	2.5k 1.3×	1.1k 2.0×	246 0.6×	190 0.8×	291 1.2×	69	3.8k
Michael L. Anderson United States	26	1.7k 0.9×	599 1.1×	980 2.3×	370 1.5×	132 0.6×	83	3.2k
Tom Froese Mexico	26	1.5k 0.8×	292 0.6×	922 2.1×	163 0.7×	71 0.3×	128	2.3k
Alexander N. Sokolov Germany	26	1.3k 0.7×	409 0.8×	646 1.5×	113 0.5×	151 0.6×	101	2.3k
Jakob Hohwy Australia	34	3.4k 1.8×	705 1.3×	992 2.3×	126 0.5×	510 2.1×	133	4.4k
Laurence T. Hunt United Kingdom	23	2.5k 1.3×	369 0.7×	516 1.2×	113 0.5×	102 0.4×	49	3.2k
Anne Collins United States	28	2.6k 1.3×	710 1.4×	255 0.6×	310 1.3×	382 1.6×	62	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Philipp Schwartenbeck

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philipp Schwartenbeck

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schwartenbeck, Philipp, et al.. (2024). People with a tobacco use disorder exhibit misaligned Bayesian belief updating by falsely attributing non-drug cues as worse predictors of positive outcomes compared to drug cues. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 256. 111109–111109.

Schwartenbeck, Philipp, Alon Baram, Yunzhe Liu, et al.. (2023). Generative replay underlies compositional inference in the hippocampal-prefrontal circuit. Cell. 186(22). 4885–4897.e14. 23 indexed citations

Kurth‐Nelson, Zeb, Timothy E.J. Behrens, Greg Wayne, et al.. (2023). Replay and compositional computation. Neuron. 111(4). 454–469. 28 indexed citations

Schwartenbeck, Philipp, et al.. (2022). Evidence for entropy maximisation in human free choice behaviour. Cognition. 232. 105328–105328. 6 indexed citations

Smith, Ryan, Philipp Schwartenbeck, Thomas Parr, & Karl Friston. (2020). An Active Inference Approach to Modeling Structure Learning: Concept Learning as an Example Case. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 14. 41–41. 58 indexed citations

Smith, Ryan, Philipp Schwartenbeck, Jennifer L. Stewart, et al.. (2020). Imprecise action selection in substance use disorder: Evidence for active learning impairments when solving the explore-exploit dilemma. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 215. 108208–108208. 53 indexed citations

Schwartenbeck, Philipp, Johannes Passecker, Tobias U. Hauser, et al.. (2019). Computational mechanisms of curiosity and goal-directed exploration. eLife. 8. 134 indexed citations

Hämmerer, Dorothea, et al.. (2018). Older adults fail to form stable task representations during model-based reversal inference. Neurobiology of Aging. 74. 90–100. 14 indexed citations

Nour, Matthew M., Tarik Dahoun, Philipp Schwartenbeck, et al.. (2018). S154. THE ROLE OF DOPAMINE IN PROCESSING THE MEANINGFUL INFORMATION OF OBSERVATIONS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ABERRANT SALIENCE HYPOTHESIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 44(suppl_1). S385–S385. 1 indexed citations

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Friston, Karl, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, Francesco Rigoli, et al.. (2016). Active inference and learning. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 68. 862–879. 344 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schwartenbeck, Philipp & Karl Friston. (2016). Computational Phenotyping in Psychiatry: A Worked Example. eNeuro. 3(4). ENEURO.0049–16.2016. 95 indexed citations

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Schwartenbeck, Philipp, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, Christoph Mathys, et al.. (2015). Evidence for surprise minimization over value maximization in choice behavior. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 16575–16575. 50 indexed citations

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Pletzer, Belinda, et al.. (2015). Impulsivity relates to striatal gray matter volumes in humans: evidence from a delay discounting paradigm. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9. 384–384. 61 indexed citations

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Schwartenbeck, Philipp, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, & Raymond J. Dolan. (2015). Neural signals encoding shifts in beliefs. NeuroImage. 125. 578–586. 54 indexed citations

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FitzGerald, Thomas H. B., Philipp Schwartenbeck, & Raymond J. Dolan. (2014). Reward-Related Activity in Ventral Striatum Is Action Contingent and Modulated by Behavioral Relevance. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(4). 1271–1279. 29 indexed citations

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Schwartenbeck, Philipp, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, Christoph Mathys, Raymond J. Dolan, & Karl Friston. (2014). The Dopaminergic Midbrain Encodes the Expected Certainty about Desired Outcomes. Cerebral Cortex. 25(10). 3434–3445. 155 indexed citations

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Schwartenbeck, Philipp, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, Christoph Mathys, et al.. (2014). Optimal inference with suboptimal models: Addiction and active Bayesian inference. Medical Hypotheses. 84(2). 109–117. 73 indexed citations

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Crone, Julia, Philipp Schwartenbeck, Mira Fauth‐Bühler, et al.. (2013). Abnormalities of functional brain networks in pathological gambling: a graph-theoretical approach. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 625–625. 39 indexed citations

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Schwartenbeck, Philipp, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, Raymond J. Dolan, & Karl Friston. (2013). Exploration, novelty, surprise, and free energy minimization. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 710–710. 128 indexed citations

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Friston, Karl, Philipp Schwartenbeck, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, et al.. (2013). The anatomy of choice: active inference and agency. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 598–598. 229 indexed citations

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