Yaara Yeshurun

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Yaara Yeshurun is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaara Yeshurun has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Social Psychology and 12 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Yaara Yeshurun's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (10 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (7 papers). Yaara Yeshurun is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (10 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (7 papers). Yaara Yeshurun collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Italy. Yaara Yeshurun's co-authors include Uri Hasson, Noam Sobel, Mai Nguyen, Janice Chen, Erez Simony, Christopher J. Honey, D. Reisfeld, Nira Dyn, Ami Wiesel and Olga Lositsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yaara Yeshurun

49 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Dynamic reconfiguration of the default mode network during narrative comprehension

2016 375 citations Erez Simony, Christopher J. Honey et al. Nature Communications profile →
The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world

2021 370 citations Yaara Yeshurun, Mai Nguyen et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yaara Yeshurun Israel	22	1.4k	509	478	371	261	53	2.5k
Richard Höchenberger Germany	12	2.0k 1.4×	840 1.7×	290 0.6×	497 1.3×	105 0.4×	18	3.1k
Hiroki C. Tanabe Japan	27	1.9k 1.4×	456 0.9×	202 0.4×	653 1.8×	88 0.3×	81	3.2k
Olivier Koenig France	18	1.7k 1.2×	742 1.5×	400 0.8×	318 0.9×	111 0.4×	45	2.5k
Jens‐Max Hopf Germany	31	3.2k 2.3×	521 1.0×	205 0.4×	217 0.6×	184 0.7×	89	3.8k
H.–J. Heinze Germany	32	4.2k 3.0×	799 1.6×	244 0.5×	321 0.9×	114 0.4×	69	5.1k
Wolfgang Skrandies Germany	25	3.1k 2.2×	635 1.2×	214 0.4×	258 0.7×	63 0.2×	87	3.8k
Dara G. Ghahremani United States	32	3.5k 2.5×	947 1.9×	455 1.0×	451 1.2×	124 0.5×	77	5.2k
Raymond van Ee Netherlands	42	3.8k 2.7×	1.0k 2.0×	362 0.8×	712 1.9×	342 1.3×	144	5.0k
Tony Ro United States	40	4.3k 3.1×	1.0k 2.0×	291 0.6×	450 1.2×	165 0.6×	98	5.0k
H. Steven Scholte Netherlands	38	3.9k 2.8×	1.2k 2.3×	486 1.0×	583 1.6×	332 1.3×	117	5.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yaara Yeshurun

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Yeshurun, Yaara, et al.. (2025). Default mode network synchrony reflects shared understanding. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 64. 101540–101540. 1 indexed citations

Yeshurun, Yaara, et al.. (2025). Shared disbelief and shared belief: Belief and disbelief as drivers of interpersonal neural synchronization during narrative processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(23). e2422396122–e2422396122.

Hanein, Yael, et al.. (2025). Facial mimicry predicts preference. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 176–176.

Yeshurun, Yaara, et al.. (2023). Attachment Reminders Trigger Widespread Synchrony across Multiple Brains. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(43). 7213–7225. 1 indexed citations

Yeshurun, Yaara, et al.. (2023). Deeper Than You Think: Partisanship-Dependent Brain Responses in Early Sensory and Motor Brain Regions. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(6). 1027–1037. 13 indexed citations

Yeshurun, Yaara, et al.. (2022). Liking as a balance between synchronization, complexity and novelty. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 3181–3181. 26 indexed citations

Nastase, Samuel A., et al.. (2022). Real-time neurofeedback to alter interpretations of a naturalistic narrative. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 100111–100111. 2 indexed citations

Chang, Claire H. C., et al.. (2021). Relating the Past with the Present: Information Integration and Segregation during Ongoing Narrative Processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 33(6). 1106–1128. 27 indexed citations

Salomon, Roy, Miki Bloch, Yaara Yeshurun, et al.. (2021). Mother brain is wired for social moments. eLife. 10. 17 indexed citations

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Yeshurun, Yaara, Mai Nguyen, & Uri Hasson. (2021). The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 22(3). 181–192. 370 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yeshurun, Yaara, et al.. (2021). Reading the mind with a mask? Improvement in reading the mind in the eyes during the COVID-19 pandemic.. Emotion. 21(8). 1801–1806. 7 indexed citations

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Yeshurun, Yaara, Mai Nguyen, & Uri Hasson. (2017). Amplification of local changes along the timescale processing hierarchy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(35). 9475–9480. 60 indexed citations

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Simony, Erez, Christopher J. Honey, Janice Chen, et al.. (2016). Dynamic reconfiguration of the default mode network during narrative comprehension. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12141–12141. 375 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Po-Hsuan, Janice Chen, Yaara Yeshurun, et al.. (2015). A reduced-dimension fMRI shared response model. Neural Information Processing Systems. 28. 460–468. 74 indexed citations

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Yeshurun, Yaara, Liron Rozenkrantz, Sagit Shushan, et al.. (2011). Human Tears Contain a Chemosignal. Science. 331(6014). 226–230. 145 indexed citations

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Yeshurun, Yaara, Yadin Dudai, & Noam Sobel. (2008). Working memory across nostrils.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 122(5). 1031–1037. 21 indexed citations

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Privman, Eran, Yuval Nir, Uri Kramer, et al.. (2007). Enhanced Category Tuning Revealed by Intracranial Electroencephalograms in High-Order Human Visual Areas. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(23). 6234–6242. 55 indexed citations

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Gorfine, Tali, Yaara Yeshurun, & Nava Zisapel. (2007). Nap and melatonin‐induced changes in hippocampal activation and their role in verbal memory consolidation. Journal of Pineal Research. 43(4). 336–342. 37 indexed citations

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Gorfine, Tali, Yaniv Assaf, Yonatan Goshen‐Gottstein, Yaara Yeshurun, & Nava Zisapel. (2006). Sleep-anticipating effects of melatonin in the human brain. NeuroImage. 31(1). 410–418. 53 indexed citations

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Ruppin, Eytan, Eli Schwartz, & Yaara Yeshurun. (1993). Examining the volume efficiency of the cortical architecture in a multi-processor network model. Biological Cybernetics. 70(1). 89–94. 34 indexed citations

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