Tobias Egner

20.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
157 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Tobias Egner is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Tobias Egner has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 29 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 15 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in Tobias Egner's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (127 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (50 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (49 papers). Tobias Egner is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (127 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (50 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (49 papers). Tobias Egner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Tobias Egner's co-authors include Joy Hirsch, Amit Etkin, Raffaël Kalisch, Christopher Summerfield, John Gruzelier, Jim M. Monti, Eric R. Kandel, Anastasia Kiyonaga, Jiefeng Jiang and John Gruzelier and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Tobias Egner

153 papers receiving 14.6k 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.

Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex

2010 2.4k citations Tobias Egner et al. profile →
Resolving Emotional Conflict: A Role for the Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Modulating Activity in the Amygdala

2006 1.1k citations Tobias Egner, Joy Hirsch et al. profile →
Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information

2005 843 citations Tobias Egner, Joy Hirsch profile →
Expectation (and attention) in visual cognition

2009 664 citations Christopher Summerfield, Tobias Egner profile →
Neural repetition suppression reflects fulfilled perceptual expectations

2008 509 citations Christopher Summerfield, Tobias Egner et al. profile →
Measuring Adaptive Control in Conflict Tasks

2019 215 citations Senne Braem, Julie M. Bugg et al. profile →

Peers

Tobias Egner

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Sander Nieuwenhuis Netherlands

Michael Falkenstein Germany

Luiz Pessoa United States

K. Richard Ridderinkhof Netherlands

Marie T. Banich United States

Markus Ullsperger Germany

Clay B. Holroyd Canada

Gabriele Gratton United States

Nick Yeung United Kingdom

R. Nathan Spreng Canada

Sander Nieuwenhuis Netherlands

Tobias Egner

14.4k ×1.2

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3.8k ×1.0

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2.0k ×1.0

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1.5k ×1.0

PMH

1.6k ×1.2

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Countries citing papers authored by Tobias Egner

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tobias Egner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tobias Egner

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Egner, Tobias, et al.. (2025). Learning and using different task rule updating strategies require extensive practice.

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Egner, Tobias, et al.. (2024). Insights into control over cognitive flexibility from studies of task-switching. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 55. 101342–101342. 7 indexed citations

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Egner, Tobias, et al.. (2023). The reactivation of task rules triggers the reactivation of task-relevant items. Cortex. 171. 465–480. 4 indexed citations

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Egner, Tobias, et al.. (2023). Transfer of Learned Cognitive Flexibility to Novel Stimuli and Task Sets. Psychological Science. 34(4). 435–454. 12 indexed citations

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Egner, Tobias, et al.. (2022). Context-independent scaling of neural responses to task difficulty in the multiple-demand network. Cerebral Cortex. 33(10). 6013–6027. 4 indexed citations

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Bugg, Julie M. & Tobias Egner. (2021). The many faces of learning-guided cognitive control.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 47(10). 1547–1549. 3 indexed citations

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Yin, Shouhang, Taiyong Bi, Antao Chen, & Tobias Egner. (2021). Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Drives the Prioritization of Self-Associated Stimuli in Working Memory. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(9). 2012–2023. 32 indexed citations

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Kessler, Yoav, et al.. (2020). Neural Substrates of Working Memory Updating. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 32(12). 2285–2302. 29 indexed citations

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Chiu, Yu‐Chin, Kerstin Fröber, & Tobias Egner. (2020). Item-specific priming of voluntary task switches.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 46(4). 434–441. 13 indexed citations

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Chiu, Yu‐Chin & Tobias Egner. (2019). Cortical and subcortical contributions to context-control learning. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 99. 33–41. 64 indexed citations

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Chiu, Yu‐Chin & Tobias Egner. (2017). Cueing cognitive flexibility: Item-specific learning of switch readiness.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 43(12). 1950–1960. 59 indexed citations

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Chiu, Yu‐Chin, Jiefeng Jiang, & Tobias Egner. (2017). The Caudate Nucleus Mediates Learning of Stimulus–Control State Associations. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(4). 1028–1038. 1 indexed citations

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Qiao, Lei, Lijie Zhang, Antao Chen, & Tobias Egner. (2017). Dynamic Trial-by-Trial Recoding of Task-Set Representations in the Frontoparietal Cortex Mediates Behavioral Flexibility. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(45). 11037–11050. 45 indexed citations

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Beck, Jeffrey M., et al.. (2016). Satisficing in split-second decision making is characterized by strategic cue discounting.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 42(12). 1937–1956. 18 indexed citations

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Chiu, Yu‐Chin, Jiefeng Jiang, & Tobias Egner. (2016). The Caudate Nucleus Mediates Learning of Stimulus–Control State Associations. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(4). 1028–1038. 56 indexed citations

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Chiu, Yu‐Chin & Tobias Egner. (2015). Distractor-relevance determines whether task-switching enhances or impairs distractor memory.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 42(1). 1–5. 14 indexed citations

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Egner, Tobias, et al.. (2015). Feature expectation heightens visual sensitivity during fine orientation discrimination.. Journal of Visualization. 15. 14. 26 indexed citations

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Krebs, Ruth M., C. Nico Boehler, Tobias Egner, & Marty G. Woldorff. (2011). The Neural Underpinnings of How Reward Associations Can Both Guide and Misguide Attention. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(26). 9752–9759. 121 indexed citations

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Pollak, Daniela D., M.T. Rogan, Tobias Egner, et al.. (2010). A translational bridge between mouse and human models of learned safety. Annals of Medicine. 42(2). 127–134. 47 indexed citations

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Egner, Tobias & John Gruzelier. (2003). EEG Biofeedback of low beta band components: frequency-specific effects on variables of attention and event-related brain potentials. Clinical Neurophysiology. 115(1). 131–139. 324 indexed citations

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