2026 Christopher Summerfield: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	55	4622	4250	397	364	136	18981

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Neuroscience

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Overview

Christopher Summerfield is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a total of 82 publications in this main field of study. Within neuroscience, their work is strongly centered on cognitive neuroscience, comprising 80 publications. They also contribute to other subfields such as artificial intelligence, safety research, developmental and educational psychology, and general decision sciences.

Summerfield's research covers a range of topics, which include:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Neural and behavioral psychology studies
Memory and neural mechanisms
Experimental behavioral economics studies
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Face recognition and perception
Neural networks and applications

They have published extensively across various scientific outlets. The most frequent publication venues are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Neuron
Nature Human Behaviour
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their recent scholarly articles include:

"If deep learning is the answer, what is the question?" published in 2020 in Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
"Orthogonal representations for robust context-dependent task performance in brains and neural networks," 2022, Neuron
"Unsupervised deep learning identifies semantic disentanglement in single inferotemporal face patch neurons," 2021, Nature Communications
"Fine-tuning language models to find agreement among humans with diverse preferences," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
"AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation," 2024, Science

Summerfield collaborates regularly with several coauthors whose frequent contributions include:

Andrew Saxe
Matthew Botvinick
Jan Balaguer
Tsvetomira Dumbalska
Raphaël Koster

Best Publications

Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory

Alex Graves;Greg Wayne;Malcolm Reynolds;Tim Harley

1803
Citations
Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence.

Demis Hassabis;Dharshan Kumaran;Christopher Summerfield;Matthew Botvinick

1737
Citations
An information theoretical approach to prefrontal executive function.

Etienne Koechlin;Etienne Koechlin;Christopher Summerfield;Christopher Summerfield

1400
Citations
Expectation (and attention) in visual cognition

Christopher Summerfield;Tobias Egner

1182
Citations
Expectation in perceptual decision making: neural and computational mechanisms

Christopher Summerfield;Floris P. de Lange

919
Citations
Neural repetition suppression reflects fulfilled perceptual expectations

Christopher Summerfield;Emily H. Trittschuh;Jim M. Monti;M. Marsel Mesulam

831
Citations
Metacognition in human decision-making: confidence and error monitoring.

Nick Yeung;Christopher Summerfield

773
Citations
Predictive Codes for Forthcoming Perception in the Frontal Cortex

Christopher Summerfield;Christopher Summerfield;Tobias Egner;Tobias Egner;Matthew Greene;Etienne Koechlin

631
Citations
Expectation and Surprise Determine Neural Population Responses in the Ventral Visual Stream

Tobias Egner;Jim M. Monti;Christopher Summerfield

457
Citations
Perceptual Decision Making in Rodents, Monkeys, and Humans

Timothy D. Hanks;Christopher Summerfield

424
Citations
If deep learning is the answer, what is the question?

Andrew M. Saxe;Stephanie Nelli;Christopher Summerfield

381
Citations
A Neural Representation of Prior Information during Perceptual Inference

Christopher Summerfield;Etienne Koechlin

362
Citations
Dissociable prior influences of signal probability and relevance on visual contrast sensitivity.

Valentin Wyart;Anna Christina Nobre;Christopher Summerfield

347
Citations
Structural brain changes in Parkinson disease with dementia: a voxel-based morphometry study.

Christopher Summerfield;Carme Junqué;Eduardo Tolosa;Pilar Salgado-Pineda

338
Citations
Rhythmic fluctuations in evidence accumulation during decision making in the human brain.

Valentin Wyart;Valentin Wyart;Vincent de Gardelle;Jacqueline Scholl;Christopher Summerfield

319
Citations
Coherent theta-band EEG activity predicts item-context binding during encoding.

Christopher Summerfield;Jennifer A. Mangels

300
Citations
Robust averaging during perceptual judgment

Vincent de Gardelle;Christopher Summerfield

247
Citations
Two Mechanisms for Task Switching in the Prefrontal Cortex

Alexandre Hyafil;Christopher Summerfield;Etienne Koechlin

242
Citations
Adaptive gain control during human perceptual choice

Samuel Cheadle;Valentin Wyart;Konstantinos Tsetsos;Nicholas Myers

237
Citations
Economic irrationality is optimal during noisy decision making

Konstantinos Tsetsos;Konstantinos Tsetsos;Rani Moran;James Moreland;Nick Chater

212
Citations
Causal Inference in the Multisensory Brain.

Yinan Cao;Christopher Summerfield;Hame Park;Bruno Lucio Giordano

211
Citations