Thomas B. Christophel

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas B. Christophel is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas B. Christophel has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2 papers in Social Psychology and 2 papers in Human-Computer Interaction. Recurrent topics in Thomas B. Christophel's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (11 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 papers). Thomas B. Christophel is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (11 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 papers). Thomas B. Christophel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Thomas B. Christophel's co-authors include John–Dylan Haynes, P. Christiaan Klink, Bernhard Spitzer, Pieter R. Roelfsema, Martin N. Hebart, Carsten Allefeld, Polina Iamshchinina, Radoslaw Martin Cichy, Surya Gayet and Philipp Sterzer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Thomas B. Christophel

19 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

The Distributed Nature of Working Memory

2017 492 citations Thomas B. Christophel, P. Christiaan Klink et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas B. Christophel Germany	11	1.0k	128	77	68	53	21	1.1k
Yigal Agam United States	17	976 1.0×	187 1.5×	99 1.3×	74 1.1×	96 1.8×	25	1.1k
Adam C. Riggall United States	6	1.1k 1.0×	105 0.8×	46 0.6×	76 1.1×	28 0.5×	7	1.1k
Stephenie Harrison United States	8	1.3k 1.2×	182 1.4×	123 1.6×	67 1.0×	44 0.8×	8	1.4k
Sander Bosch Netherlands	14	760 0.7×	135 1.1×	78 1.0×	84 1.2×	44 0.8×	19	920
Yuko Yotsumoto Japan	15	737 0.7×	189 1.5×	44 0.6×	96 1.4×	31 0.6×	55	885
Thomas C. Sprague United States	17	1.3k 1.3×	114 0.9×	49 0.6×	71 1.0×	23 0.4×	30	1.3k
Jean‐Philippe Lachaux France	12	1.0k 1.0×	105 0.8×	75 1.0×	191 2.8×	58 1.1×	12	1.1k
Carlos M. Hamamé France	15	778 0.8×	116 0.9×	56 0.7×	141 2.1×	62 1.2×	17	862
Matthias Witte Austria	17	782 0.8×	77 0.6×	81 1.1×	91 1.3×	38 0.7×	22	973
Hyojin Park United Kingdom	11	648 0.6×	209 1.6×	42 0.5×	46 0.7×	55 1.0×	18	747

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Souza, Alessandra S., et al.. (2025). Verbal Encoding Strategies in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory. Journal of Cognition. 8(1). 2–2.

Christophel, Thomas B., et al.. (2024). Working memory signals in early visual cortex are present in weak and strong imagers. Human Brain Mapping. 45(3). e26590–e26590. 15 indexed citations

Christophel, Thomas B., et al.. (2024). Nonfrontal Control of Working Memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 36(6). 1037–1047.

Souza, Alessandra S., et al.. (2023). Shared neural representations of orientation and location information during working memory. Journal of Vision. 23(9). 5367–5367. 1 indexed citations

Christophel, Thomas B., et al.. (2023). Categorical working memory codes in human visual cortex. NeuroImage. 274. 120149–120149. 5 indexed citations

Iamshchinina, Polina, Thomas B. Christophel, Surya Gayet, & Rosanne L. Rademaker. (2021). Understanding how analysis choices are essential for the meaningful interpretation of visual working memory data. Journal of Vision. 21(9). 2721–2721. 1 indexed citations

Iamshchinina, Polina, Thomas B. Christophel, Surya Gayet, & Rosanne L. Rademaker. (2021). Essential considerations for exploring visual working memory storage in the human brain. Visual Cognition. 29(7). 425–436. 29 indexed citations

Christophel, Thomas B., et al.. (2020). Decoding verbal working memory representations of Chinese characters from Broca's area. NeuroImage. 226. 117595–117595. 10 indexed citations

Gayet, Surya, Matthias Guggenmos, Thomas B. Christophel, et al.. (2020). No evidence for mnemonic modulation of interocularly suppressed visual input. NeuroImage. 215. 116801–116801. 7 indexed citations

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Christophel, Thomas B., et al.. (2018). Cortical specialization for attended versus unattended working memory. Nature Neuroscience. 21(4). 494–496. 123 indexed citations

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Christophel, Thomas B., P. Christiaan Klink, Bernhard Spitzer, Pieter R. Roelfsema, & John–Dylan Haynes. (2017). The Distributed Nature of Working Memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 21(2). 111–124. 492 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gayet, Surya, Matthias Guggenmos, Thomas B. Christophel, et al.. (2017). Visual Working Memory Enhances the Neural Response to Matching Visual Input. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(28). 6638–6647. 49 indexed citations

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Christophel, Thomas B., Carsten Allefeld, Christian Endisch, & John–Dylan Haynes. (2017). View-Independent Working Memory Representations of Artificial Shapes in Prefrontal and Posterior Regions of the Human Brain. Cerebral Cortex. 28(6). 2146–2161. 19 indexed citations

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Fehlner, Andreas, Steffen Hirsch, Martin Weygandt, et al.. (2016). Increasing the spatial resolution and sensitivity of magnetic resonance elastography by correcting for subject motion and susceptibility-induced image distortions. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 46(1). 134–141. 30 indexed citations

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Kemenade, Bianca M. van, Kiley Seymour, Thomas B. Christophel, Marcus Rothkirch, & Philipp Sterzer. (2014). Decoding pattern motion information in V1. Cortex. 57. 177–187. 9 indexed citations

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Christophel, Thomas B., Radoslaw Martin Cichy, Martin N. Hebart, & John–Dylan Haynes. (2014). Parietal and early visual cortices encode working memory content across mental transformations. NeuroImage. 106. 198–206. 71 indexed citations

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Christophel, Thomas B. & John–Dylan Haynes. (2014). Decoding complex flow-field patterns in visual working memory. NeuroImage. 91. 43–51. 47 indexed citations

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Coventry, Kenny R., Thomas B. Christophel, Thorsten Fehr, Berenice Valdés‐Conroy, & Manfred Herrmann. (2013). Multiple Routes to Mental Animation. Psychological Science. 24(8). 1379–1388. 17 indexed citations

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Christophel, Thomas B., Christian Endisch, & John–Dylan Haynes. (2013). Decoding invariant representations in visual working memory. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 927–927. 1 indexed citations

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Christophel, Thomas B., Martin N. Hebart, & John–Dylan Haynes. (2012). Decoding the Contents of Visual Short-Term Memory from Human Visual and Parietal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(38). 12983–12989. 203 indexed citations

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