Scott T. Grafton

39.0k total citations · 12 hit papers
280 papers, 27.8k citations indexed

About

Scott T. Grafton is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott T. Grafton has authored 280 papers receiving a total of 27.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 201 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 67 papers in Social Psychology and 60 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Scott T. Grafton's work include Motor Control and Adaptation (77 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (71 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (60 papers). Scott T. Grafton is often cited by papers focused on Motor Control and Adaptation (77 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (71 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (60 papers). Scott T. Grafton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Scott T. Grafton's co-authors include Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Michel Desmurget, Danielle S. Bassett, Nicholas F. Wymbs, John D. Van Horn, Richard B. Ivry, Eliot Hazeltine, C. Neil Macrae, Emily S. Cross and Malia F. Mason and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Scott T. Grafton

266 papers receiving 27.0k citations

Hit Papers

Wandering Minds: The Defa... 1992 2026 2003 2014 2007 2011 2000 1998 1999 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought
    2007 2.1k citations Scott T. Grafton et al. profile →
  2. Dynamic reconfiguration of human brain networks during learning
    2011 1.2k citations Danielle S. Bassett, Nicholas F. Wymbs et al. profile →
  3. Forward modeling allows feedback control for fast reaching movements
    2000 1.0k citations Scott T. Grafton et al. profile →
  4. Automated Image Registration: II. Intersubject Validation of Linear and Nonlinear Models
    1998 839 citations Scott T. Grafton et al. profile →
  5. Amygdala activity related to enhanced memory for pleasant and aversive stimuli
    1999 726 citations Scott T. Grafton et al. profile →
  6. Role of the posterior parietal cortex in updating reaching movements to a visual target
    1999 648 citations Scott T. Grafton et al. profile →
  7. Functional Mapping of Sequence Learning in Normal Humans
    1995 599 citations Scott T. Grafton et al. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience profile →
  8. Survival of Implanted Fetal Dopamine Cells and Neurologic Improvement 12 to 46 Months after Transplantation for Parkinson's Disease
    1992 573 citations Scott T. Grafton et al. profile →
  9. Building a motor simulation de novo: Observation of dance by dancers
    2006 563 citations Scott T. Grafton et al. NeuroImage profile →
  10. Controllability of structural brain networks
    2015 536 citations Matthew Cieslak, Jean M. Vettel et al. profile →
  11. Learning-induced autonomy of sensorimotor systems
    2015 409 citations Danielle S. Bassett, Nicholas F. Wymbs et al. profile →
  12. Structural foundations of resting-state and task-based functional connectivity in the human brain
    2013 406 citations Danielle S. Bassett, Scott T. Grafton et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Scott T. Grafton United States 85 20.7k 7.2k 3.7k 3.3k 2.7k 280 27.8k
Matthew F. S. Rushworth United Kingdom 100 27.1k 1.3× 4.9k 0.7× 3.6k 1.0× 5.5k 1.7× 3.2k 1.2× 223 34.5k
Riitta Hari Finland 98 27.0k 1.3× 5.6k 0.8× 5.7k 1.5× 2.5k 0.8× 2.7k 1.0× 415 33.9k
Michael Petrides Canada 85 24.1k 1.2× 3.5k 0.5× 3.8k 1.0× 4.0k 1.2× 2.6k 1.0× 239 31.0k
Norihiro Sadato Japan 79 14.1k 0.7× 4.0k 0.6× 3.9k 1.0× 3.0k 0.9× 2.5k 0.9× 414 21.7k
Gottfried Schlaug United States 95 16.0k 0.8× 4.2k 0.6× 2.9k 0.8× 4.9k 1.5× 4.5k 1.7× 273 27.0k
Katrin Amunts Germany 84 22.6k 1.1× 3.9k 0.5× 3.4k 0.9× 7.6k 2.3× 2.2k 0.8× 361 30.0k
Leslie G. Ungerleider United States 84 28.0k 1.4× 4.3k 0.6× 5.0k 1.3× 1.8k 0.5× 2.4k 0.9× 197 32.2k
Lutz Jäncke Switzerland 88 19.0k 0.9× 4.1k 0.6× 5.9k 1.6× 3.5k 1.1× 2.3k 0.8× 456 27.1k
Tomáš Paus Canada 77 14.8k 0.7× 3.0k 0.4× 3.2k 0.9× 3.9k 1.2× 4.0k 1.4× 257 25.8k
Jordan Grafman United States 97 21.6k 1.0× 5.9k 0.8× 5.5k 1.5× 2.1k 0.6× 5.3k 1.9× 506 38.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dundon, Neil M., et al.. (2025). Integrated Representations of Threat and Controllability in the Lateral Frontal Pole. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 1–16.
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Lauharatanahirun, Nina, Steven M. Thurman, Jean M. Vettel, et al.. (2025). Flexibility of Brain Networks May Curtail Cognitive Consequences of Poor Sleep. Human Brain Mapping. 46(14). e70362–e70362.
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Binder, Ellen F., Lukas Hensel, Anne K. Rehme, et al.. (2024). Corticospinal tract lesion quantification: Distinct approaches and their association with motor impairment after stroke. Clinical Neurophysiology. 159. e24–e25.
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Sydnor, Valerie J., Erica B. Baller, Philip A. Cook, et al.. (2024). A practical evaluation of measures derived from compressed sensing diffusion spectrum imaging. Human Brain Mapping. 45(5). e26580–e26580. 2 indexed citations
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Chu, Hong‐Yuan, Yoland Smith, William W. Lytton, et al.. (2024). Dysfunction of motor cortices in Parkinson’s disease. Cerebral Cortex. 34(7). 8 indexed citations
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Hensel, Lukas, Matthew Cieslak, Caroline Tscherpel, et al.. (2023). Interhemispheric Structural Connectivity Underlies Motor Recovery after Stroke. Annals of Neurology. 94(4). 785–797. 16 indexed citations
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Grafton, Scott T., et al.. (2023). Visual Navigation Under High-Stress Conditions. Journal of Vision. 23(9). 5184–5184. 1 indexed citations
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Bullock, Tom, et al.. (2023). Non‐invasive monitoring of cardiac contractility: Trans‐radial electrical bioimpedance velocimetry (TREV). Psychophysiology. 61(1). e14411–e14411. 1 indexed citations
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Cieslak, Matthew, et al.. (2023). ReeBundle: A Method for Topological Modeling of White Matter Pathways Using Diffusion MRI. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 42(12). 3725–3737.
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Cieslak, Matthew, Lukas Hensel, Christian Grefkes, et al.. (2022). The role of corticospinal and extrapyramidal pathways in motor impairment after stroke. Brain Communications. 5(1). fcac301–fcac301. 17 indexed citations
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Berlot, Eva, et al.. (2021). Combining Repetition Suppression and Pattern Analysis Provides New Insights into the Role of M1 and Parietal Areas in Skilled Sequential Actions. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(36). 7649–7661. 9 indexed citations
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Fu, Tsu-Jui, Xin Wang, Scott T. Grafton, Miguel P. Eckstein, & William Yang Wang. (2020). SSCR: Iterative Language-Based Image Editing via Self-Supervised Counterfactual Reasoning. 4413–4422. 15 indexed citations
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Garcea, Frank E., et al.. (2020). Structural Disconnection of the Tool Use Network after Left Hemisphere Stroke Predicts Limb Apraxia Severity. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 1(1). tgaa035–tgaa035. 20 indexed citations
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Khambhati, Ankit N., Marcelo G. Mattar, Nicholas F. Wymbs, Scott T. Grafton, & Danielle S. Bassett. (2017). Beyond modularity: Fine-scale mechanisms and rules for brain network reconfiguration. NeuroImage. 166. 385–399. 37 indexed citations
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Ingham, Roger J., Scott T. Grafton, Anne K. Bothe, & Janis Costello Ingham. (2012). Brain activity in adults who stutter: Similarities across speaking tasks and correlations with stuttering frequency and speaking rate. Brain and Language. 122(1). 11–24. 60 indexed citations
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Kraft, Reuben H., et al.. (2012). Combining the Finite Element Method with Structural Connectome-based Analysis for Modeling Neurotrauma: Connectome Neurotrauma Mechanics. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(8). e1002619–e1002619. 68 indexed citations
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Bianchi‐Demicheli, Francesco, Scott T. Grafton, & Stéphanie Ortigue. (2006). The power of love on the human brain. Social Neuroscience. 1(2). 90–103. 26 indexed citations
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Arbib, Michael A., Andrew H. Fagg, & Scott T. Grafton. (2003). Synthetic PET imaging for grasping: from primate Neurophysiology to human behavior. MIT Press eBooks. 231–250. 11 indexed citations
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Llacer, J., Eugene Veklerov, L.R. Baxter, et al.. (1992). Results of a Clinical ROC Study Comparing Filtered Backprojection and Maximum Likelihood Estimator Images in FDG PET Studies. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2 indexed citations
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Black, Keith L., Donna Marciano, J.C. Mazziotta, et al.. (1990). Thallium-201 SPECT imaging of brain tumors: methods and results.. PubMed. 31(6). 965–9. 144 indexed citations

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