2026 Claude Alain: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	78	1787	1630	101	93	254	18975
Psychology	78	1605	1437	85	73	248	18815

Overview

Claude Alain is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has made extensive contributions to the field of Neuroscience with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their research spans several subfields including Speech and Hearing, Social Psychology, and Sensory Systems.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics within neuroscience, reflecting a broad engagement with neural and behavioral processes. Key areas include Neuroscience and Music Perception, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Multisensory perception and integration, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

Claude Alain has authored multiple papers in reputable journals. Recent publications include:

"Inhibitory Control Deficits in Individuals with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: a Meta-Analysis" (2020) in Neuropsychology Review
"A systematic review and meta-analysis of memory-guided attention: Frontal and parietal activation suggests involvement of fronto-parietal networks" (2020) in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science
"Chemo-brain: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies" (2021) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
"Successful aging of musicians: Preservation of sensorimotor regions aids audiovisual speech-in-noise perception" (2023) in Science Advances
"Reaction Time Intraindividual Variability Reveals Inhibitory Deficits in Single- and Multiple-Domain Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment" (2021) in The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Frequent collaborators include Ricky Chow, Maxime Perron, Dawei Shen, Nicole D. Anderson, and Rahel Rabi.

Claude Alain's work has been published in multiple venues with several papers appearing repeatedly in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Cerebral Cortex
PLoS ONE

Best Publications

“What” and “where” in the human auditory system

Claude Alain;Stephen R. Arnott;Stephanie Hevenor;Simon Graham

759
Citations
Mismatch negativity: different water in the same river.

Terence W. Picton;Claude Alain;Leun Otten;Walter Ritter

699
Citations
Assessing the auditory dual-pathway model in humans.

Stephen R Arnott;Malcolm A Binns;Cheryl L Grady;Claude Alain

472
Citations
Age-related decline in inhibitory control contributes to the increased Stroop effect observed in older adults.

Robert West;Claude Alain

461
Citations
A distributed cortical network for auditory sensory memory in humans.

Claude Alain;David L. Woods;Robert T. Knight

424
Citations
Intracerebral sources of human auditory-evoked potentials.

Terence Picton;C. Alain;David L Woods;M. S. John

395
Citations
Event-related neural activity associated with the Stroop task

Robert West;Claude Alain

358
Citations
Early face processing specificity: It's in the eyes!

Roxane J. Itier;Claude Alain;Katherine Sedore;Anthony R. McIntosh

345
Citations
Musicians experience less age-related decline in central auditory processing.

Benjamin Rich Zendel;Claude Alain

338
Citations
Effects of Attention on Neuroelectric Correlates of Auditory Stream Segregation

Joel S. Snyder;Claude Alain;Terence W. Picton

325
Citations
Mechanisms of spontaneous confabulations: a strategic retrieval account

Asaf Gilboa;Claude Alain;Donald T. Stuss;Brenda Melo

311
Citations
Effects of task context and fluctuations of attention on neural activity supporting performance of the Stroop task

Robert West;Claude Alain

295
Citations
Age-related changes in processing auditory stimuli during visual attention: evidence for deficits in inhibitory control and sensory memory.

Claude Alain;David L. Woods

283
Citations
Selectively attending to auditory objects.

Claude Alain;Stephen R Arnott

264
Citations
Bottom-up and top-down influences on auditory scene analysis: evidence from event-related brain potentials.

Claude Alain;Stephen R. Arnott;Terence W. Picton

260
Citations
Neurophysiological Evidence of Error-monitoring Deficits in Patients with Schizophrenia

Claude Alain;Heather E. McNeely;Yu He;Bruce K. Christensen

258
Citations
Toward a neurophysiological theory of auditory stream segregation.

Joel S. Snyder;Claude Alain

255
Citations
Noise differentially impacts phoneme representations in the auditory and speech motor systems

Yi Du;Bradley R. Buchsbaum;Cheryl L. Grady;Claude Alain

239
Citations
Musical Training Orchestrates Coordinated Neuroplasticity in Auditory Brainstem and Cortex to Counteract Age-Related Declines in Categorical Vowel Perception

Gavin M. Bidelman;Claude Alain

237
Citations
Age-related changes in the subcortical–cortical encoding and categorical perception of speech

Gavin M. Bidelman;Joshua W. Villafuerte;Sylvain Moreno;Claude Alain

229
Citations
Research report Effects of task context and fluctuations of attention on neural activity supporting performance of the Stroop task

Robert West;Claude Alain

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gavin M. Bidelman Indiana University

David L. Woods University of California, Davis

Joel S. Snyder University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Bernhard Ross University of Toronto

Cheryl L. Grady University of Toronto

Bruce A. Schneider University of Toronto

Anthony R. McIntosh Simon Fraser University

Terence W. Picton University of Toronto

Sylvain Moreno Simon Fraser University

Robert West DePauw University

External Links

Personal website of Claude Alain

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