2026 Benjamin Y. Hayden: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	67	2924	2673	1355	1219	198	13334

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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

1035
Citations
Neuronal basis of sequential foraging decisions in a patchy environment

Benjamin Y Hayden;John M Pearson;Michael L Platt

650
Citations
Posterior cingulate cortex: adapting behavior to a changing world

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

555
Citations
Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex: A Bottom-Up View

Sarah R. Heilbronner;Benjamin Y. Hayden

494
Citations
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

445
Citations
Fictive reward signals in the anterior cingulate cortex.

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

364
Citations
Distinct Value Signals in Anterior and Posterior Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

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

361
Citations
Orbitofrontal Cortex Uses Distinct Codes for Different Choice Attributes in Decisions Motivated by Curiosity

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

357
Citations
Reward value comparison via mutual inhibition in ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

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

328
Citations
Neurons in Anterior Cingulate Cortex Multiplex Information about Reward and Action

Benjamin Y. Hayden;Michael L. Platt

288
Citations
A distributed, hierarchical and recurrent framework for reward-based choice.

Laurence T. Hunt;Benjamin Y. Hayden

264
Citations
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

244
Citations
Posterior Cingulate Cortex Mediates Outcome-Contingent Allocation of Behavior

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

237
Citations
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

232
Citations
Automated markerless pose estimation in freely moving macaques with OpenMonkeyStudio.

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

220
Citations
Electrophysiological correlates of default-mode processing in macaque posterior cingulate cortex

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

209
Citations
Economic principles motivating social attention in humans

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

195
Citations
The population doctrine in cognitive neuroscience.

R. Becket Ebitz;Benjamin Y. Hayden

186
Citations
Temporal discounting predicts risk sensitivity in rhesus macaques.

Benjamin Y. Hayden;Michael L. Platt

182
Citations
Temporal specificity in the cortical plasticity of visual space representation.

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

180
Citations