Valéry Legrain

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Valéry Legrain is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Valéry Legrain has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 papers in Physiology and 22 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Valéry Legrain's work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (25 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (25 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (22 papers). Valéry Legrain is often cited by papers focused on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (25 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (25 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (22 papers). Valéry Legrain collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and France. Valéry Legrain's co-authors include André Mouraux, Léon Plaghki, Geert Crombez, Gian Domenico Iannetti, Stefaan Van Damme, Raymond Bruyer, Jean‐Michel Guérit, Christopher Eccleston, Julia Vogt and Diana Torta and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Valéry Legrain

79 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Valéry Legrain Belgium	28	2.3k	1.3k	1.0k	528	510	82	3.4k
Catherine M. Bushnell Canada	22	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	836 0.8×	574 1.1×	300 0.6×	24	3.1k
Léon Plaghki Belgium	35	2.0k 0.9×	2.0k 1.6×	734 0.7×	480 0.9×	266 0.5×	105	4.2k
Alexander Ploghaus United Kingdom	8	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	758 0.7×	618 1.2×	383 0.8×	9	3.2k
Marta Čeko United States	22	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	918 0.9×	735 1.4×	246 0.5×	35	3.1k
John G. McHaffie United States	32	2.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	758 0.7×	586 1.1×	779 1.5×	63	4.4k
Jürgen Lorenz Germany	22	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	543 0.5×	449 0.9×	205 0.4×	41	3.0k
Irit Weissman‐Fogel Israel	28	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	963 0.9×	800 1.5×	241 0.5×	65	3.0k
Joshua A. Bueller United States	21	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.4×	819 0.8×	749 1.4×	407 0.8×	27	4.8k
Ron Kupers Denmark	43	2.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	563 0.5×	554 1.0×	1.0k 2.0×	133	5.0k
Maud Frot France	23	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	363 0.4×	514 1.0×	241 0.5×	39	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Valéry Legrain

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20 of 20 papers shown

Legrain, Valéry, et al.. (2025). Early CRPS Is a Heterogeneous Condition: Results From a Latent Class Analysis. European Journal of Pain. 29(2). e4785–e4785. 1 indexed citations

Vannuscorps, Gilles, et al.. (2023). Atypical influence of biomechanical knowledge in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome-towards a different perspective on body representation. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 520–520. 1 indexed citations

Mouraux, André, et al.. (2022). No evidence for an effect of selective spatial attention on the development of secondary hyperalgesia: A replication study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 16. 997230–997230. 8 indexed citations

Torta, Diana, et al.. (2020). Rating the Intensity of a Laser Stimulus, but Not Attending to Changes in Its Location or Intensity Modulates the Laser-Evoked Cortical Activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 14. 120–120. 4 indexed citations

Volder, Anne De, et al.. (2019). The influence of visual experience and cognitive goals on the spatial representations of nociceptive stimuli. Pain. 161(2). 328–337. 5 indexed citations

Lefèvre, Philippe, et al.. (2019). Robot-assisted line bisection in patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0213732–e0213732. 8 indexed citations

Farnè, Alessandro, et al.. (2019). Unimodal and crossmodal extinction of nociceptive stimuli in healthy volunteers. Behavioural Brain Research. 362. 114–121. 7 indexed citations

Broeke, Emanuel N. van den, et al.. (2019). The focus of spatial attention during the induction of central sensitization can modulate the subsequent development of secondary hyperalgesia. Cortex. 124. 193–203. 11 indexed citations

Alamia, Andrea, et al.. (2017). Orienting attention in visual space by nociceptive stimuli: investigation with a temporal order judgment task based on the adaptive PSI method. Experimental Brain Research. 235(7). 2069–2079. 24 indexed citations

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Paepe, Annick De, Geert Crombez, & Valéry Legrain. (2017). Remapping nociceptive stimuli into a peripersonal reference frame is spatially locked to the stimulated limb. Neuropsychologia. 101. 121–131. 13 indexed citations

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Alamia, Andrea, et al.. (2017). Investigating peri-limb interaction between nociception and vision using spatial depth. Neuroscience Letters. 654. 111–116. 12 indexed citations

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Halicka, Monika, et al.. (2017). Investigating the spatial characteristics of the crossmodal interaction between nociception and vision using gaze direction. Consciousness and Cognition. 57. 106–115. 11 indexed citations

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Mouraux, André, et al.. (2017). Mind Your Grip: Even Usual Dexterous Manipulation Requires High Level Cognition. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 11. 220–220. 11 indexed citations

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Riquelme, Inmaculada, et al.. (2015). Use of prism adaptation in children with unilateral brain lesion: Is it feasible?. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 43-44. 61–71. 4 indexed citations

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Paepe, Annick De, Geert Crombez, & Valéry Legrain. (2015). From a Somatotopic to a Spatiotopic Frame of Reference for the Localization of Nociceptive Stimuli. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0137120–e0137120. 26 indexed citations

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Verhoeven, Katrien, Stefaan Van Damme, Christopher Eccleston, et al.. (2011). Distraction from pain and executive functioning: An experimental investigation of the role of inhibition, task switching and working memory. European Journal of Pain. 15(8). 866–873. 73 indexed citations

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Mouraux, André, et al.. (2011). Nociceptive Steady-State Evoked Potentials Elicited by Rapid Periodic Thermal Stimulation of Cutaneous Nociceptors. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(16). 6079–6087. 69 indexed citations

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Ryckeghem, Dimitri Van, Stefaan Van Damme, Geert Crombez, et al.. (2010). The role of spatial attention in attentional control over pain: an experimental investigation. Experimental Brain Research. 208(2). 269–275. 32 indexed citations

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Pollok, Bettina, Vanessa Krause, Valéry Legrain, et al.. (2010). Differential Effects of Painful and Non-Painful Stimulation on Tactile Processing in Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Subjects with Masochistic Behaviour. PLoS ONE. 5(12). e15804–e15804. 9 indexed citations

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Damme, Stefaan Van, Valéry Legrain, Julia Vogt, & Geert Crombez. (2009). Keeping pain in mind: A motivational account of attention to pain. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 34(2). 204–213. 303 indexed citations

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