Rick A. Adams

10.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
71 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Rick A. Adams is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Rick A. Adams has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 15 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 15 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Rick A. Adams's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (31 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (21 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (12 papers). Rick A. Adams is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (31 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (21 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (12 papers). Rick A. Adams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Rick A. Adams's co-authors include Karl Friston, Harriet R. Brown, W. Martin Usrey, Pascal Fries, George R. Mangun, André M. Bastos, Stewart Shipp, Isabel Pareés, Mark J. Edwards and Chris Frith and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Rick A. Adams

69 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Canonical Microcircuits for Predictive Coding

2012 1.5k citations André M. Bastos, W. Martin Usrey et al. Neuron profile →
The Computational Anatomy of Psychosis

2013 567 citations Rick A. Adams, Harriet R. Brown et al. profile →
A Bayesian account of 'hysteria'

2012 535 citations Mark J. Edwards, Rick A. Adams et al. Brain profile →
The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis

2018 484 citations Philipp Sterzer, Rick A. Adams et al. Biological Psychiatry profile →
Predictions not commands: active inference in the motor system

2012 470 citations Rick A. Adams, Stewart Shipp et al. Brain Structure and Function profile →
Active inference, sensory attenuation and illusions

2013 320 citations Harriet R. Brown, Rick A. Adams et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rick A. Adams United Kingdom	36	5.0k	1.4k	1.1k	908	764	71	6.7k
Philipp Sterzer Germany	54	7.4k 1.5×	1.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.9×	925 1.0×	391 0.5×	197	9.8k
Martín Lepage Canada	45	4.8k 1.0×	3.3k 2.4×	1.6k 1.4×	755 0.8×	816 1.1×	270	8.3k
David Rudrauf United States	35	3.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	736 0.8×	207 0.3×	70	5.6k
Christoph Mathys Switzerland	30	3.6k 0.7×	923 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	552 0.6×	446 0.6×	65	4.9k
James A. Waltz United States	33	3.3k 0.7×	2.3k 1.6×	1.3k 1.2×	345 0.4×	484 0.6×	97	5.2k
Peter Woodruff United Kingdom	51	6.5k 1.3×	3.1k 2.2×	2.1k 1.9×	1.4k 1.5×	622 0.8×	160	10.1k
J. Daniel Ragland United States	52	6.4k 1.3×	4.3k 3.0×	1.6k 1.4×	691 0.8×	729 1.0×	175	9.7k
Hakwan Lau United States	50	7.9k 1.6×	625 0.4×	1.6k 1.5×	1.2k 1.4×	208 0.3×	144	9.5k
Dominic ffytche United Kingdom	47	5.4k 1.1×	1.9k 1.3×	903 0.8×	546 0.6×	316 0.4×	130	9.1k
Ayşenil Belger United States	47	5.9k 1.2×	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	401 0.4×	318 0.4×	152	8.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Limanowski, Jakub, Rick A. Adams, James M. Kilner, & Thomas Parr. (2024). The Many Roles of Precision in Action. Entropy. 26(9). 790–790. 3 indexed citations

Fradkin, Isaac, Rick A. Adams, Noam Siegelman, Rani Moran, & Raymond J. Dolan. (2024). Latent mechanisms of language disorganization relate to specific dimensions of psychopathology. Nature Mental Health. 2(12). 1486–1497.

Andreou, Christina, Amatya Mackintosh, Povilas Karvelis, et al.. (2024). Altered Perception of Environmental Volatility During Social Learning in Emerging Psychosis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 1–22. 13 indexed citations

Hua, Lingling, Rick A. Adams, Tineke Grent-‘t-Jong, et al.. (2023). Thalamo-cortical circuits during sensory attenuation in emerging psychosis: a combined magnetoencephalography and dynamic causal modelling study. Schizophrenia. 9(1). 25–25. 4 indexed citations

Knolle, Franziska, Michael Moutoussis, Rick A. Adams, et al.. (2023). Action selection in early stages of psychosis: an active inference approach. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 48(1). E78–E89. 9 indexed citations

Adams, Rick A., Dimitris A. Pinotsis, Ann Summerfelt, et al.. (2021). Computational Modeling of Electroencephalography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Paradigms Indicates a Consistent Loss of Pyramidal Cell Synaptic Gain in Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 91(2). 202–215. 59 indexed citations

Bhat, Anjali, Haritz Irizar, Johan H. Thygesen, et al.. (2021). Transcriptome-wide association study reveals two genes that influence mismatch negativity. Cell Reports. 34(11). 108868–108868. 9 indexed citations

Fradkin, Isaac, Rick A. Adams, Thomas Parr, Jonathan P. Roiser, & Jonathan D. Huppert. (2020). Searching for an anchor in an unpredictable world: A computational model of obsessive compulsive disorder.. Psychological Review. 127(5). 672–699. 51 indexed citations

Zarkali, Angeliki, et al.. (2019). Increased weighting on prior knowledge in Lewy body-associated visual hallucinations. Brain Communications. 1(1). fcz007–fcz007. 40 indexed citations

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Benrimoh, David, Thomas Parr, Rick A. Adams, & Karl Friston. (2019). Hallucinations both in and out of context: An active inference account. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0212379–e0212379. 29 indexed citations

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McCutcheon, Robert A., Matthew M. Nour, Tarik Dahoun, et al.. (2018). Mesolimbic Dopamine Function Is Related to Salience Network Connectivity: An Integrative Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Study. Biological Psychiatry. 85(5). 368–378. 74 indexed citations

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Rutledge, Robb B., Peter Smittenaar, Peter Zeidman, et al.. (2016). Risk Taking for Potential Reward Decreases across the Lifespan. Current Biology. 26(12). 1634–1639. 74 indexed citations

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Mirza, M. Berk, Rick A. Adams, Christoph Mathys, & Karl Friston. (2016). Scene Construction, Visual Foraging, and Active Inference. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 10. 56–56. 104 indexed citations

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Adams, Rick A., et al.. (2015). Bayesian inference, predictive coding and delusions. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Adams, Rick A., Quentin J. M. Huys, & Jonathan P. Roiser. (2015). Computational Psychiatry: towards a mathematically informed understanding of mental illness. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 87(1). jnnp–2015. 193 indexed citations

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Smittenaar, Peter, Robb B. Rutledge, Peter Zeidman, et al.. (2015). Proactive and Reactive Response Inhibition across the Lifespan. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0140383–e0140383. 52 indexed citations

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Edwards, Mark J., Rick A. Adams, Harriet R. Brown, Isabel Pareés, & Karl Friston. (2012). A Bayesian account of 'hysteria'. Brain. 135(11). 3495–3512. 535 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bastos, André M., W. Martin Usrey, Rick A. Adams, et al.. (2012). Canonical Microcircuits for Predictive Coding. Neuron. 76(4). 695–711. 1487 indexed citations breakdown →

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Adams, Rick A., Stewart Shipp, & Karl Friston. (2012). Predictions not commands: active inference in the motor system. Brain Structure and Function. 218(3). 611–643. 470 indexed citations breakdown →

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Adams, Rick A.. (2001). The impact of psychological disturbances on immediate memory. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 16(6). 605–618. 2 indexed citations

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