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Christopher D. Chambers

Christopher D. Chambers

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
50
Citations
20899
World Ranking
5622
National Ranking
453

Psychology

D-Index
54
Citations
21780
World Ranking
4493
National Ranking
485

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognition
  • Psychiatry

Christopher D. Chambers spends much of his time researching Neuroscience, Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Cortex, Prefrontal cortex and Human brain. His study of Cognition is a part of Neuroscience. His Transcranial magnetic stimulation course of study focuses on Posterior parietal cortex and Neural substrate.

His work deals with themes such as Psychiatry, Cognitive science and Scientific communication, which intersect with Cortex. His studies in Prefrontal cortex integrate themes in fields like Frontal lobe and Inferior frontal gyrus. His Human brain research includes themes of Motor cortex, Addiction and Cognitive neuroscience.

His most cited work include:

  • A manifesto for reproducible science (1111 citations)
  • Promoting an open research culture (1079 citations)
  • Redefine statistical significance (993 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His scientific interests lie mostly in Neuroscience, Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Cognitive psychology, Cognition and Perception. His work in Posterior parietal cortex, Cortex, Stimulation, Visual cortex and Prefrontal cortex is related to Neuroscience. His Prefrontal cortex research incorporates themes from Frontal lobe and Inferior frontal gyrus.

His research integrates issues of Motor cortex, Human brain, Biomedical engineering and Lateralization of brain function in his study of Transcranial magnetic stimulation. Christopher D. Chambers interconnects Stimulus, Response inhibition and Supramarginal gyrus in the investigation of issues within Cognitive psychology. His Cognition study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Developmental psychology, Weight loss and Behavioural sciences.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Neuroscience (29.61%)
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation (18.44%)
  • Cognitive psychology (15.64%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Public relations (7.26%)
  • Open science (5.03%)
  • Food craving (4.47%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Christopher D. Chambers mainly investigates Public relations, Open science, Food craving, Cognition and Neuroscience. While working on this project, Christopher D. Chambers studies both Public relations and Incentive. Christopher D. Chambers has researched Open science in several fields, including Value, Multimedia and Engineering management.

His Cognition research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Visual perception, Perception, Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Consciousness and Feed forward. As part of his studies on Neuroscience, he often connects relevant areas like Replication. His research on Clinical psychology also deals with topics like

  • Overeating and related Psychological intervention, Food intake, Scale, Body mass index and Addiction,
  • Eating behaviour which intersects with area such as Categorization, Developmental psychology and Manipulation checks.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task (270 citations)
  • What's next for Registered Reports? (36 citations)
  • Citizen Social Science for More Integrative and Effective Climate Action: A Science-Policy Perspective (23 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognition
  • Social science

His primary scientific interests are in Psychological intervention, Incentive, Credibility, Food craving and Overeating. The study incorporates disciplines such as Demography, Causality and Newspaper in addition to Psychological intervention. His work in Incentive incorporates the disciplines of Public relations, Replication crisis, Cognitive bias, Robustness and Data science.

His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Open science and Engineering management. His work in Overeating addresses subjects such as Clinical psychology, which are connected to disciplines such as Addiction. With his scientific publications, his incorporates both Context and Impulsivity.

Best Publications

  • A manifesto for reproducible science

    Marcus R. Munafò;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek;Dorothy V.M. Bishop;Katherine S. Button

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • Promoting an open research culture

    B. A. Nosek;G. Alter;G. C. Banks;D. Borsboom

  • Insights into the neural basis of response inhibition from cognitive and clinical neuroscience

    Christopher D Chambers;Hugh Garavan;Mark Andrew Bellgrove

  • A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task

    Frederick Verbruggen;Adam R. Aron;Guido Ph Band;Christian Beste

  • Registered reports: a new publishing initiative at Cortex

    Christopher D. Chambers

  • Executive Brake Failure following Deactivation of Human Frontal Lobe

    Christopher D. Chambers;Mark A. Bellgrove;Mark G. Stokes;Tracy R. Henderson

  • The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study.

    Petroc Sumner;Solveiga Vivian-Griffiths;Jacky Boivin;Andy Williams

  • Fictitious Inhibitory Differences How Skewness and Slowing Distort the Estimation of Stopping Latencies

    Frederick Verbruggen;Christopher D. Chambers;Gordon D. Logan

  • Executive “Brake Failure” following Deactivation of Human Frontal Lobe

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  • Simple metric for scaling motor threshold based on scalp-cortex distance: Application to studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Mark G. Stokes;Christopher D. Chambers;Ian C. Gould;Tracy R. Henderson

  • Theta burst stimulation dissociates attention and action updating in human inferior frontal cortex

    Frederick Verbruggen;Adam R. Aron;Michaël A. Stevens;Christopher D. Chambers

  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

    Chris Chambers

  • Training response inhibition to food is associated with weight loss and reduced energy intake.

    Natalia S. Lawrence;Jamie O'Sullivan;David Parslow;Mahmood Javaid

  • Instead of "playing the game" it is time to change the rules: Registered Reports at AIMS Neuroscience and beyond

    Christopher D. Chambers;Eva Feredoes;Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy;Peter Etchells;Peter Etchells;Peter Etchells

  • Dissociable mechanisms of cognitive control in prefrontal and premotor cortex.

    Christopher D Chambers;Mark Andrew Bellgrove;Ian Gould;Therese English

  • Fast and slow parietal pathways mediate spatial attention

    Christopher D Chambers;Jonathan M Payne;Mark G Stokes;Jason B Mattingley

  • Data Sharing in Psychology: A Survey on Barriers and Preconditions

    Bobby Lee Houtkoop;Chris Chambers;Malcolm Macleod;Dorothy V. M. Bishop

  • The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review

    Richard D. Morey;Christopher D. Chambers;Peter J. Etchells;Christine R. Harris

  • Banishing the Control Homunculi in Studies of Action Control and Behavior Change

    Frederick Verbruggen;Ian P. L. McLaren;Christopher D. Chambers

  • Distance-adjusted motor threshold for transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Mark G. Stokes;Mark G. Stokes;Christopher D. Chambers;Christopher D. Chambers;Ian C. Gould;Therese English

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick Verbruggen
Frederick Verbruggen Ghent University
Natalia Lawrence
Natalia Lawrence University of Exeter
Jason B. Mattingley
Jason B. Mattingley University of Queensland
Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
Mark G. Stokes
Mark G. Stokes University of Oxford
Mark A. Bellgrove
Mark A. Bellgrove Monash University
Petroc Sumner
Petroc Sumner Cardiff University
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
Ziarih Hawi
Ziarih Hawi Monash University
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science

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