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Benjamin Y. Hayden

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Neuroscience

D-Index
67
Citations
13334
World Ranking
2924
National Ranking
1355

Benjamin Y. Hayden 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 Benjamin Y. Hayden sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 198 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Benjamin Y. Hayden D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin Y. Hayden sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 67 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Benjamin Y. Hayden is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Other areas of study include Social Psychology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Neurology.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics, notably neural dynamics and brain function, which constitutes the largest portion of their research. Other main topics include neural and behavioral psychology studies, memory and neural mechanisms, functional brain connectivity studies, visual perception and processing mechanisms, primate behavior and ecology, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Benjamin Y. Hayden has contributed to scholarly literature published in several prominent venues. Frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, arXiv (Cornell University), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and eLife.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Automated markerless pose estimation in freely moving macaques with OpenMonkeyStudio" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "A tripartite view of the posterior cingulate cortex" (2022, Nature reviews. Neuroscience)
  • "The case against economic values in the orbitofrontal cortex (or anywhere else in the brain)." (2021, Behavioral Neuroscience)
  • "Continuous decisions" (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "The neural basis of predictive pursuit" (2020, Nature Neuroscience)

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Sameer A. Sheth, Jan Zimmermann, Nicole R. Provenza, Seng Bum Michael Yoo, and Eleonora Bartoli. These collaborations illustrate a network of engagement across multiple research projects.

Best Publications

  • The Psychology and Neuroscience of Curiosity.

    Celeste Kidd;Benjamin Y. Hayden

  • Neuronal basis of sequential foraging decisions in a patchy environment

    Benjamin Y Hayden;John M Pearson;Michael L Platt

  • Posterior cingulate cortex: adapting behavior to a changing world

    John M. Pearson;Sarah R. Heilbronner;David L. Barack;Benjamin Y. Hayden

  • Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex: A Bottom-Up View

    Sarah R. Heilbronner;Benjamin Y. Hayden

  • Surprise Signals in Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Neuronal Encoding of Unsigned Reward Prediction Errors Driving Adjustment in Behavior

    Benjamin Y. Hayden;Sarah R. Heilbronner;John M. Pearson;Michael L. Platt

  • Fictive reward signals in the anterior cingulate cortex.

    Benjamin Y. Hayden;John M. Pearson;Michael L. Platt

  • Distinct Value Signals in Anterior and Posterior Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

    David V. Smith;Benjamin Y. Hayden;Trong Kha Truong;Allen W. Song

  • Orbitofrontal Cortex Uses Distinct Codes for Different Choice Attributes in Decisions Motivated by Curiosity

    Tommy C. Blanchard;Benjamin Y. Hayden;Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin

  • Reward value comparison via mutual inhibition in ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

    Caleb E. Strait;Tommy C. Blanchard;Benjamin Y. Hayden

  • Neurons in Anterior Cingulate Cortex Multiplex Information about Reward and Action

    Benjamin Y. Hayden;Michael L. Platt

  • A distributed, hierarchical and recurrent framework for reward-based choice.

    Laurence T. Hunt;Benjamin Y. Hayden

  • Neurons in posterior cingulate cortex signal exploratory decisions in a dynamic multioption choice task.

    John M. Pearson;Benjamin Y. Hayden;Sridhar Raghavachari;Michael L. Platt

  • Posterior Cingulate Cortex Mediates Outcome-Contingent Allocation of Behavior

    Benjamin Y. Hayden;Amrita C. Nair;Allison N. McCoy;Michael L. Platt

  • Attention to stimulus features shifts spectral tuning of V4 neurons during natural vision.

    Stephen V. David;Benjamin Y. Hayden;James A. Mazer;Jack L. Gallant

  • Automated markerless pose estimation in freely moving macaques with OpenMonkeyStudio.

    Praneet C. Bala;Benjamin R. Eisenreich;Seng Bum Michael Yoo;Benjamin Y. Hayden

  • Electrophysiological correlates of default-mode processing in macaque posterior cingulate cortex

    Benjamin Y. Hayden;David V. Smith;Michael L. Platt

  • Economic principles motivating social attention in humans

    Benjamin Y Hayden;Purak C Parikh;Robert O Deaner;Michael L Platt

  • The population doctrine in cognitive neuroscience.

    R. Becket Ebitz;Benjamin Y. Hayden

  • Temporal discounting predicts risk sensitivity in rhesus macaques.

    Benjamin Y. Hayden;Michael L. Platt

  • Temporal specificity in the cortical plasticity of visual space representation.

    Yu Xi Fu;Kaj Djupsund;Hongfeng Gao;Benjamin Hayden

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael L. Platt
Michael L. Platt University of Pennsylvania
Steven Piantadosi
Steven Piantadosi University of California, Berkeley
Jack L. Gallant
Jack L. Gallant University of California, Berkeley
Stephen V. David
Stephen V. David Oregon Health & Science University
Essa Yacoub
Essa Yacoub University of Minnesota
A. David Redish
A. David Redish University of Minnesota
Matthew Botvinick
Matthew Botvinick Yale University
Guy M. McKhann
Guy M. McKhann Johns Hopkins University
Catherine A. Schevon
Catherine A. Schevon Columbia University Medical Center
Jessica F. Cantlon
Jessica F. Cantlon Carnegie Mellon University

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