2026 Daniel Tranel: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	133	245	218	152	133	475	90084
Psychology	133	146	126	89	75	464	89784

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
1993 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Daniel Tranel is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States and specializes in the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their research primarily focuses on Cognitive Neuroscience, with significant contributions to areas such as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of main topics, including:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function
Epilepsy research and treatment
Acute Ischemic Stroke Management

Recent publications by Daniel Tranel include:

Removal of high frequency contamination from motion estimates in single-band fMRI saves data without biasing functional connectivity, 2020, NeuroImage
Post-stroke outcomes predicted from multivariate lesion-behaviour and lesion network mapping, 2022, Brain
A human amygdala site that inhibits respiration and elicits apnea in pediatric epilepsy, 2020, JCI Insight
Latent disconnectome prediction of long-term cognitive-behavioural symptoms in stroke, 2023, Brain
Cognitive impairment after focal brain lesions is better predicted by damage to structural than functional network hubs, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

Aaron D. Boes
Joel Bruss
Mark Bowren
Kenneth Manzel
Carolina Deifelt Streese

Daniel Tranel's work has been published most frequently in the following venues:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Brain
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
Cortex
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Over their career, Daniel Tranel has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1993.

Best Publications

Deciding Advantageously Before Knowing the Advantageous Strategy

Antoine Bechara;Hanna Damasio;Daniel Tranel;Antonio R. Damasio

5564
Citations
Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala.

R. Adolphs;D. Tranel;H. Damasio;H. Damasio;A. Damasio;A. Damasio

3439
Citations
Characterization of the decision-making deficit of patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions.

Antoine Bechara;Daniel Tranel;Hanna Damasio

2702
Citations
Impairment of social and moral behavior related to early damage in human prefrontal cortex.

Steven W. Anderson;Antoine Bechara;Hanna Damasio;Daniel Tranel

2506
Citations
Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements

Michael Koenigs;Liane Young;Ralph Adolphs;Ralph Adolphs;Daniel Tranel

2332
Citations
Double dissociation of conditioning and declarative knowledge relative to the amygdala and hippocampus in humans

Antoine Bechara;Daniel Tranel;Hanna Damasio;Ralph Adolphs

2174
Citations
A neural basis for lexical retrieval

Hanna Damasio;Thomas J. Grabowski;Daniel Tranel;Richard D. Hichwa

2100
Citations
The human amygdala in social judgment

Ralph Adolphs;Daniel Tranel;Antonio R. Damasio;Antonio R. Damasio

1887
Citations
A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage

Ralph Adolphs;Ralph Adolphs;Frederic Gosselin;Tony W. Buchanan;Daniel Tranel

1881
Citations
Fear and the human amygdala

Ralph Adolphs;Daniel Tranel;Hanna Damasio;Antonio R. Damasio

1840
Citations
Neural Systems Responding to Degrees of Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making

Ming Hsu;Meghana Bhatt;Meghana Bhatt;Ralph Adolphs;Ralph Adolphs;Daniel Tranel;Daniel Tranel

1828
Citations
Failure to Respond Autonomically to Anticipated Future Outcomes Following Damage to Prefrontal Cortex

Antoine Bechara;Daniel Tranel;Hanna Damasio;Antonio R. Damasio

1824
Citations
Individuals with sociopathic behavior caused by frontal damage fail to respond autonomically to social stimuli

Antonio R. Damasio;Daniel Tranel;Hanna Damasio

1813
Citations
A Role for Somatosensory Cortices in the Visual Recognition of Emotion as Revealed by Three-Dimensional Lesion Mapping

Ralph Adolphs;Hanna Damasio;Hanna Damasio;Daniel Tranel;Greg Cooper

1667
Citations
Dissociation Of Working Memory from Decision Making within the Human Prefrontal Cortex

Antoine Bechara;Hanna Damasio;Daniel Tranel;Steven W. Anderson

1655
Citations
Recognition of facial emotion in nine individuals with bilateral amygdala damage.

R Adolphs;D Tranel;S Hamann;A.W Young

1235
Citations
The Iowa Gambling Task and the somatic marker hypothesis: some questions and answers.

A. Bechara;H. Damasio;D. Tranel;A.R. Damasio

1153
Citations
Cortical Systems for the Recognition of Emotion in Facial Expressions

Ralph Adolphs;Hanna Damasio;Hanna Damasio;Daniel Tranel;Antonio R. Damasio;Antonio R. Damasio

1141
Citations
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Performance as a Measure of Frontal Lobe Damage

Steven W. Anderson;Hanna Damasio;R. Dallas Jones;Daniel Tranel

1054
Citations
Nouns and verbs are retrieved with differently distributed neural systems

Antonio R. Damasio;Daniel Tranel

1033
Citations
Neuropsychological assessment, 5th ed.

Muriel Deutsch Lezak;Diane B. Howieson;Erin D. Bigler;Daniel Tranel

913
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology

Antonio R. Damasio University of Southern California

Hanna Damasio University of Southern California

Antoine Bechara University of Southern California

Melissa C. Duff Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Natalie L. Denburg University of Iowa

Neal J. Cohen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Steven W. Anderson University of Iowa

Thomas J. Grabowski University of Washington

David Rudrauf University of Geneva

External Links

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