2026 Carol A. Seger: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	36	8968	8282	3794	3434	76	6144

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Overview

Carol A. Seger is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with specific focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Other subfields include Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research incorporates several main topics, including:

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Child and Animal Learning Development
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Neural dynamics and brain function

Carol A. Seger has contributed to various scientific publications, with frequent appearances in these venues:

Brain and Cognition
Cerebral Cortex
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Human Brain Mapping
Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Among recent papers featuring the scientist's involvement are:

The effect of trait anxiety on risk-taking: Functional coupling between right hippocampus and left insula (2020) in Psychophysiology
Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus Integrates Multisensory Information in Category Learning (2020) in Cerebral Cortex
Connectome-based predictive modeling of compulsion in obsessive-compulsive disorder (2022) in Cerebral Cortex
Impairment of arbitration between model-based and model-free reinforcement learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder (2023) in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Multimodal MRI reveals alterations of the anterior insula and posterior cingulate cortex in bipolar II disorders: A surface-based approach (2022) in Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Carol A. Seger include:

Zhiya Liu
Qi Chen
Peijuan Li
Hangfeng Huo
Chuanyong Xu

Best Publications

Category Learning in the Brain

Carol A. Seger;Earl K. Miller

576
Citations
Striatal activation during acquisition of a cognitive skill.

Russell A. Poldrack;Vivek Prabhakaran;Carol A. Seger;John D. E. Gabrieli

547
Citations
The Roles of the Caudate Nucleus in Human Classification Learning

Carol A. Seger;Corinna M. Cincotta

513
Citations
How do the basal ganglia contribute to categorization? Their roles in generalization, response selection, and learning via feedback.

Carol A. Seger

354
Citations
Dynamics of Frontal, Striatal, and Hippocampal Systems during Rule Learning

Carol A. Seger;Corinna M. Cincotta

252
Citations
Neural correlates of metaphor processing: The roles of figurativeness, familiarity and difficulty

Gwenda L. Schmidt;Carol A. Seger

237
Citations
The Basal Ganglia in Human Learning

Carol A Seger

236
Citations
Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for right-hemisphere involvement in processing unusual semantic relationships

Carol A. Seger;John E. Desmond;Gary H. Glover;John D. E. Gabrieli

235
Citations
Right hemisphere metaphor processing? Characterizing the lateralization of semantic processes ☆

Gwen L. Schmidt;Casey J. DeBuse;Carol A. Seger

233
Citations
A critical review of habit learning and the Basal Ganglia.

Carol A Seger;Brian J Spiering

214
Citations
Cortical Activations during judgments about the self and an other person

Carol A Seger;Maria Stone;Maria Stone;Julian P Keenan

210
Citations
Hemispheric asymmetries and individual differences in visual concept learning as measured by functional MRI.

Carol A Seger;Russell A Poldrack;Vivek Prabhakaran;Margaret Zhao

155
Citations
Dissociation between Striatal Regions while Learning to Categorize via Feedback and via Observation

Corinna M. Cincotta;Carol A. Seger

135
Citations
Dissociating the contributions of independent corticostriatal systems to visual categorization learning through the use of reinforcement learning modeling and Granger causality modeling.

Carol A. Seger;Erik J. Peterson;Corinna M. Cincotta;Dan Lopez-Paniagua

130
Citations
The visual corticostriatal loop through the tail of the caudate: circuitry and function

Carol A Seger

114
Citations
Multiple forms of implicit learning.

Carol A. Seger

110
Citations
Verb generation priming involves conceptual implicit memory.

Carol A. Seger;Laura A. Rabin;John E. Desmond;John D.E. Gabrieli

105
Citations
Corticostriatal contributions to musical expectancy perception

Carol A. Seger;Brian J. Spiering;Anastasia G. Sares;Sarah I. Quraini

96
Citations
Two Forms of Sequential Implicit Learning

Carol A. Seger

95
Citations
Striatal activity in concept learning.

Carol A. Seger;Corinna M. Cincotta

90
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. E. Gabrieli MIT

Vivek Prabhakaran University of Wisconsin–Madison

Russell A. Poldrack Stanford University

Laura A. Rabin City University of New York

John E. Desmond Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Gary H. Glover Stanford University

Ruiwang Huang South China Normal University

Michael H. Thaut University of Toronto

Matthew G. Rhodes Colorado State University

Julian Paul Keenan Montclair State University

External Links

Personal website of Carol A. Seger Google Scholar page

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