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Christopher Summerfield

Christopher Summerfield

University of Oxford
United Kingdom

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
55
Citations
18981
World Ranking
4622
National Ranking
396

Christopher Summerfield 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 Christopher Summerfield sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 136 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Christopher Summerfield 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 Christopher Summerfield sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

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

  • Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence.

    Demis Hassabis;Dharshan Kumaran;Christopher Summerfield;Matthew Botvinick

  • An information theoretical approach to prefrontal executive function.

    Etienne Koechlin;Etienne Koechlin;Christopher Summerfield;Christopher Summerfield

  • Expectation (and attention) in visual cognition

    Christopher Summerfield;Tobias Egner

  • Expectation in perceptual decision making: neural and computational mechanisms

    Christopher Summerfield;Floris P. de Lange

  • Neural repetition suppression reflects fulfilled perceptual expectations

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

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

    Nick Yeung;Christopher Summerfield

  • Predictive Codes for Forthcoming Perception in the Frontal Cortex

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

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

    Tobias Egner;Jim M. Monti;Christopher Summerfield

  • Perceptual Decision Making in Rodents, Monkeys, and Humans

    Timothy D. Hanks;Christopher Summerfield

  • If deep learning is the answer, what is the question?

    Andrew M. Saxe;Stephanie Nelli;Christopher Summerfield

  • A Neural Representation of Prior Information during Perceptual Inference

    Christopher Summerfield;Etienne Koechlin

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

    Valentin Wyart;Anna Christina Nobre;Christopher Summerfield

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

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

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

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

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

    Christopher Summerfield;Jennifer A. Mangels

  • Robust averaging during perceptual judgment

    Vincent de Gardelle;Christopher Summerfield

  • Two Mechanisms for Task Switching in the Prefrontal Cortex

    Alexandre Hyafil;Christopher Summerfield;Etienne Koechlin

  • Adaptive gain control during human perceptual choice

    Samuel Cheadle;Valentin Wyart;Konstantinos Tsetsos;Nicholas Myers

  • Economic irrationality is optimal during noisy decision making

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

  • Causal Inference in the Multisensory Brain.

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Tobias Egner
Tobias Egner Duke University
Etienne Koechlin
Etienne Koechlin Grenoble Alpes University
Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis Google (United States)
Eduardo Tolosa
Eduardo Tolosa University of Barcelona
Carme Junqué
Carme Junqué University of Barcelona
Matthew Botvinick
Matthew Botvinick Yale University
Hugo J. Spiers
Hugo J. Spiers University College London
Nick Yeung
Nick Yeung University of Oxford
Pau Pastor
Pau Pastor University of Navarra
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick

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