Simon van Gaal

4.3k total citations
67 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Simon van Gaal is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon van Gaal has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Simon van Gaal's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (48 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (48 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (23 papers). Simon van Gaal is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (48 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (48 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (23 papers). Simon van Gaal collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, France and United Kingdom. Simon van Gaal's co-authors include Victor A. F. Lamme, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, Johannes J. Fahrenfort, Michael X Cohen, H. Steven Scholte, Floris P. de Lange, Jun Jiang, Stanislas Dehaene, Nathalie Boot and Matthijs Baas and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Simon van Gaal

61 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon van Gaal Netherlands	27	2.1k	417	253	120	117	67	2.5k
David Soto United Kingdom	32	2.8k 1.3×	603 1.4×	459 1.8×	136 1.1×	87 0.7×	99	3.2k
Jérôme Sackur France	18	2.1k 1.0×	575 1.4×	324 1.3×	135 1.1×	64 0.5×	54	2.5k
Alison Harris United States	19	2.1k 1.0×	636 1.5×	235 0.9×	136 1.1×	114 1.0×	32	2.6k
Taosheng Liu United States	27	2.1k 1.0×	422 1.0×	276 1.1×	61 0.5×	71 0.6×	77	2.4k
Erie D. Boorman United States	15	1.8k 0.8×	288 0.7×	256 1.0×	155 1.3×	172 1.5×	21	2.2k
Frédérique Kouneiher France	4	1.6k 0.7×	315 0.8×	228 0.9×	146 1.2×	65 0.6×	4	1.9k
Uwe Mattler Germany	17	1.8k 0.8×	300 0.7×	212 0.8×	170 1.4×	108 0.9×	43	2.0k
Vincent D. Costa United States	25	1.4k 0.6×	454 1.1×	348 1.4×	97 0.8×	81 0.7×	51	2.0k
Eran Eldar Israel	19	1.1k 0.5×	569 1.4×	195 0.8×	66 0.6×	102 0.9×	49	1.5k
Marco K. Wittmann United Kingdom	21	1.2k 0.6×	198 0.5×	316 1.2×	107 0.9×	155 1.3×	25	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon van Gaal

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gaal, Simon van, et al.. (2025). Confidence reports during perceptual decision making dissociate from changes in subjective experience. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 81–81.

Mejías, Jorge F., et al.. (2025). Adaptive arousal regulation: Pharmacologically shifting the peak of the Yerkes–Dodson curve by catecholaminergic enhancement of arousal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(28). e2419733122–e2419733122. 4 indexed citations

Stein, Timo, et al.. (2024). A causal role of the NMDA receptor in recurrent processing during perceptual integration. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

Lohuis, Matthijs N. Oude, Vivi Rottschäfer, Cyriel M. A. Pennartz, et al.. (2024). The Neural and Computational Architecture of Feedback Dynamics in Mouse Cortex during Stimulus Report. eNeuro. 11(9). ENEURO.0191–24.2024.

Gee, Jan Willem de, et al.. (2024). Pharmacological Elevation of Catecholamine Levels Improves Perceptual Decisions, But Not Metacognitive Insight. eNeuro. 11(7). ENEURO.0019–24.2024. 3 indexed citations

Gaal, Simon van, et al.. (2024). Task-irrelevant stimuli reliably boost phasic pupil-linked arousal but do not affect decision formation. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 28380–28380. 1 indexed citations

Gee, Jan Willem de, et al.. (2023). Catecholaminergic neuromodulation and selective attention jointly shape perceptual decision-making. eLife. 12. 7 indexed citations

Gaal, Simon van, et al.. (2023). Predictions and rewards affect decision-making but not subjective experience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(44). e2220749120–e2220749120. 9 indexed citations

Gee, Jan Willem de, et al.. (2023). Catecholaminergic neuromodulation and selective attention jointly shape perceptual decision-making. eLife. 12.

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Francken, Jolien C., Dylan Molenaar, Johannes J. Fahrenfort, et al.. (2022). An academic survey on theoretical foundations, common assumptions and the current state of consciousness science. Neuroscience of Consciousness. 2022(1). niac011–niac011. 35 indexed citations

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Canales‐Johnson, Andrés, et al.. (2021). Preserved sensory processing but hampered conflict detection when stimulus input is task-irrelevant. eLife. 10. 8 indexed citations

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Moorselaar, Dirk van, et al.. (2021). Representational dynamics preceding conscious access. NeuroImage. 230. 117789–117789. 7 indexed citations

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Arnts, Hisse, Willemijn S. van Erp, Jan C. M. Lavrijsen, et al.. (2020). On the pathophysiology and treatment of akinetic mutism. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 112. 270–278. 34 indexed citations

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Correa, Camile, Jun Jiang, Stefano Palminteri, et al.. (2018). How the Level of Reward Awareness Changes the Computational and Electrophysiological Signatures of Reinforcement Learning. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(48). 10338–10348. 29 indexed citations

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Cohen, Michael X & Simon van Gaal. (2013). Subthreshold muscle twitches dissociate oscillatory neural signatures of conflicts from errors. NeuroImage. 86. 503–513. 79 indexed citations

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Cohen, Michael X & Simon van Gaal. (2012). Dynamic Interactions between Large-Scale Brain Networks Predict Behavioral Adaptation after Perceptual Errors. Cerebral Cortex. 23(5). 1061–1072. 123 indexed citations

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Wokke, Martijn E., Simon van Gaal, H. Steven Scholte, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, & Victor A. F. Lamme. (2011). The Flexible Nature of Unconscious Cognition. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e25729–e25729. 33 indexed citations

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Weeda, Wouter D., Lourens Waldorp, Raoul P. P. P. Grasman, Simon van Gaal, & Hilde M. Huizenga. (2010). Functional connectivity analysis of fMRI data using parameterized regions-of-interest. NeuroImage. 54(1). 410–416. 5 indexed citations

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Gaal, Simon van, Victor A. F. Lamme, & K. Richard Ridderinkhof. (2010). Unconsciously Triggered Conflict Adaptation. PLoS ONE. 5(7). e11508–e11508. 89 indexed citations

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Gaal, Simon van, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, Johannes J. Fahrenfort, H. Steven Scholte, & Victor A. F. Lamme. (2008). Frontal Cortex Mediates Unconsciously Triggered Inhibitory Control. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(32). 8053–8062. 198 indexed citations

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