René Marois

11.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

René Marois is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, René Marois has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 11 papers in Social Psychology and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in René Marois's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (59 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (39 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (33 papers). René Marois is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (59 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (39 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (33 papers). René Marois collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. René Marois's co-authors include J. Jay Todd, Paul E. Dux, Jason Ivanoff, Daryl Fougnie, Christopher L. Asplund, Marvin M. Chun, John C. Gore, Joshua W. Buckholtz, Joshua J. Todd and Do-Joon Yi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

René Marois

87 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

  1. Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex
    2004 1.2k citations J. Jay Todd, René Marois Nature profile →
  2. Capacity limits of information processing in the brain
    2005 605 citations René Marois, Jason Ivanoff profile →

Peers

René Marois
Hakwan Lau United States
Ryota Kanai United Kingdom
Motoaki Sugiura Japan
Jane E. Raymond United Kingdom
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen Finland
Daniel J. Levitin Canada
J. P. Morris United States
Jonathan W. Peirce United Kingdom
Wataru Sato Japan
Jérôme Sallet United Kingdom
Hakwan Lau United States
René Marois
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Countries citing papers authored by René Marois

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Fields of papers citing papers by René Marois

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of René Marois

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of René Marois. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of René Marois 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 René Marois. René Marois is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sun, Hongyang, et al.. (2020). Increase in internetwork functional connectivity in the human brain with attention capture. Journal of Neurophysiology. 124(6). 1885–1899. 3 indexed citations
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Tamber-Rosenau, Benjamin J. & René Marois. (2016). Central attention is serial, but midlevel and peripheral attention are parallel—A hypothesis. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 78(7). 1874–1888. 26 indexed citations
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Shen, Francis X., Richard J. Bonnie, Morris B. Hoffman, et al.. (2014). The Language of Mens Rea. SSRN Electronic Journal. 67(5). 1327–1372. 1 indexed citations
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Han, Suk Won & René Marois. (2014). The effects of stimulus-driven competition and task set on involuntary attention. Journal of Vision. 14(7). 14–14. 6 indexed citations
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Tamber-Rosenau, Benjamin J., Paul E. Dux, Michael Tombu, Christopher L. Asplund, & René Marois. (2013). Amodal Processing in Human Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(28). 11573–11587. 34 indexed citations
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Han, Suk Won & René Marois. (2013). The source of dual-task limitations: Serial or parallel processing of multiple response selections?. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 75(7). 1395–1405. 23 indexed citations
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Han, Suk Won & René Marois. (2012). Dissociation between process-based and data-based limitations for conscious perception in the human brain. NeuroImage. 64. 399–406. 10 indexed citations
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Fougnie, Daryl, Christopher L. Asplund, & René Marois. (2010). What are the units of storage in visual working memory?. Journal of Vision. 10(12). 27–27. 142 indexed citations
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Jones, Owen D., Joshua W. Buckholtz, Jeffrey D. Schall, & René Marois. (2009). Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2009. 5. 10 indexed citations
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Fougnie, Daryl & René Marois. (2009). Dual-task interference in visual working memory: A limitation in storage capacity but not in encoding or retrieval. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 71(8). 1831–1841. 32 indexed citations
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Dux, Paul E., Christopher L. Asplund, & René Marois. (2009). Both exogenous and endogenous target salience manipulations support resource depletion accounts of the attentional blink: A reply to Olivers, Spalek, Kawahara, and Di Lollo (2009). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 16(1). 219–224. 23 indexed citations
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Buckholtz, Joshua W., Christopher L. Asplund, Paul E. Dux, et al.. (2008). The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment. Neuron. 60(5). 930–940. 231 indexed citations
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Dux, Paul E. & René Marois. (2007). Repetition blindness is immune to the central bottleneck. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 14(4). 729–734. 11 indexed citations
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Dux, Paul E., Jason Ivanoff, Christopher L. Asplund, & René Marois. (2006). Isolation of a Central Bottleneck of Information Processing with Time-Resolved fMRI. Neuron. 52(6). 1109–1120. 270 indexed citations
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Marois, René, et al.. (2005). Response-specific sources of dual-task interference in human pre-motor cortex. Psychological Research. 70(6). 436–447. 47 indexed citations
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Todd, J. Jay & René Marois. (2004). Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex. Nature. 428(6984). 751–754. 1161 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yi, Do-Joon, Geoffrey F. Woodman, David M Widders, René Marois, & Marvin M. Chun. (2004). Neural fate of ignored stimuli: dissociable effects of perceptual and working memory load. Nature Neuroscience. 7(9). 992–996. 180 indexed citations
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Chun, Marvin M. & René Marois. (2002). The dark side of visual attention. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 12(2). 184–189. 93 indexed citations
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Marois, René, Marvin M. Chun, & John C. Gore. (2000). Neural Correlates of the Attentional Blink. Neuron. 28(1). 299–308. 194 indexed citations
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Marois, René & Thomas Carew. (1989). Premetamorphic development of serotonin immunoreactivity in aplysia. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 15(2). 1121. 9 indexed citations

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