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Alan J. Pegna

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
6529
World Ranking
9143
National Ranking
534

Neuroscience

D-Index
37
Citations
6551
World Ranking
8744
National Ranking
262

Alan J. Pegna publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan J. Pegna sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 179 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Alan J. Pegna D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

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Overview

Alan J. Pegna is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and conducts research primarily within the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work concentrates on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

They have made significant contributions to several main topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Alan J. Pegna's recent publications include:

  • Rapid processing of fearful faces relies on the right amygdala: evidence from individuals undergoing unilateral temporal lobectomy, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Spatial attention shifting to emotional faces is contingent on awareness and task relevancy, 2022, Cortex
  • Attention and prediction modulations in expected and unexpected visuospatial trajectories, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Neural activities during the Processing of unattended and unseen emotional faces: a voxel-wise Meta-analysis, 2022, Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • Spatial attention shifting to fearful faces depends on visual awareness in attentional blink: An ERP study, 2022, Neuropsychologia

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alan J. Pegna include:

  • Zeguo Qiu
  • Stefanie I. Becker
  • David Framorando
  • Eleanor Moses
  • Patrick Johnston

The scientist's work has appeared in several notable publication venues, such as:

  • Biological Psychology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cortex
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology

Best Publications

  • Language Control and Lexical Competition in Bilinguals: An Event-Related fMRI Study

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jean Marie Annoni;Jean Marie Annoni;Ivan Zimine;Alan J. Pegna;Alan J. Pegna

  • Discriminating emotional faces without primary visual cortices involves the right amygdala.

    Alan J Pegna;Asaid Khateb;Francois Lazeyras;Mohamed L Seghier

  • A pure case of Gerstmann syndrome with a subangular lesion.

    Eugène Mayer;Marie-Dominique Martory;Alan J. Pegna;Theodor Landis

  • Controlling for interstimulus perceptual variance abolishes N170 face selectivity.

    Guillaume Thierry;Clara D Martin;Clara D Martin;Paul Downing;Alan J Pegna

  • Electric source imaging of human brain functions

    Christoph M Michel;Gregor Thut;Stéphanie Morand;Asaid Khateb

  • Variability of fMRI Activation During a Phonological and Semantic Language Task in Healthy Subjects

    Mohamed L. Seghier;François Lazeyras;Alan J. Pegna;Jean-Marie Annoni

  • An event-related potential component sensitive to images of the human body

    Guillaume Thierry;Alan J. Pegna;Alan J. Pegna;Chris Dodds;Chris Dodds;Mark Roberts

  • Intact navigation skills after bilateral loss of striate cortex

    Beatrice de Gelder;Marco Tamietto;Marco Tamietto;Marco Tamietto;Geert van Boxtel;Rainer Goebel

  • Neural correlates of emotion-attention interactions : From perception, learning, and memory to social cognition, individual differences, and training interventions

    Florin Dolcos;Yuta Katsumi;Matthew Moore;Nick Berggren

  • Electrophysiological evidence for early non-conscious processing of fearful facial expressions.

    Alan J. Pegna;Theodor Landis;Asaid Khateb

  • Noradrenergic modulation of cholinergic nucleus basalis neurons demonstrated by in vitro pharmacological and immunohistochemical evidence in the guinea-pig brain.

    Patrice Fort;A. Khateb;A. Pegna;Michel Muhlethaler

  • Cholinergic nucleus basalis neurons are excited by histamine in vitro

    A. Khateb;Patrice Fort;A. Pegna;B. E. Jones

  • So near yet so far: neglect in far or near space depends on tool use.

    Alan J. Pegna;Leila Petit;Anne-Sarah Caldara-Schnetzer;Asaid Khateb

  • Unraveling the cerebral dynamics of mental imagery.

    Alan J. Pegna;Asaid Khateb;Laurent Spinelli;Margitta Seeck

  • Chronic deep brain stimulation in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

    Colette Boex;Margitta Seeck;Serge Vulliemoz;Andrea O Rossetti

  • Amygdala Activation for Eye Contact Despite Complete Cortical Blindness

    Nicolas Burra;Alexis Hervais-Adelman;Dirk Kerzel;Marco Tamietto;Marco Tamietto

  • Visual recognition of faces, objects, and words using degraded stimuli: where and when it occurs.

    Alan J. Pegna;Asaid Khateb;Christoph M. Michel;Theodor Landis

  • Face-Sensitive Processes One Hundred Milliseconds after Picture Onset

    Benjamin Dering;Clara D. Martin;Sancho Moro;Alan J. Pegna

  • Representation of anatomical constraints in motor imagery: mental rotation of a body segment.

    L.S. Petit;A.J. Pegna;E. Mayer;C.-A. Hauert

  • Is the N170 sensitive to the human face or to several intertwined perceptual and conceptual factors

    Guillaume Thierry;Clara D Martin;Clara D Martin;Paul E Downing;Alan J Pegna

  • Visual imagery influences brain responses to visual stimulation in bilateral cortical blindness.

    Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder;Marco Tamietto;Alan J. Pegna;Jan Van den Stock

Frequent Co-Authors

Asaid Khateb
Asaid Khateb University of Haifa
Christoph M. Michel
Christoph M. Michel University of Geneva
Theodor Landis
Theodor Landis University of Geneva
Jean-Marie Annoni
Jean-Marie Annoni University of Fribourg
Margitta Seeck
Margitta Seeck University of Geneva
Beatrice de Gelder
Beatrice de Gelder Maastricht University
François Lazeyras
François Lazeyras University of Geneva
Marco Tamietto
Marco Tamietto University of Turin
Mohamed L. Seghier
Mohamed L. Seghier Khalifa University
Laurent Spinelli
Laurent Spinelli University of Geneva

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Christoph M. Michel

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Albert Costa

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Beatrice de Gelder

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Olaf Blanke

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Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

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Patrik Vuilleumier

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Margitta Seeck

Margitta Seeck

University of Geneva

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Micah M. Murray

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