2026 Fuat Balcı: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	32	10936	10235	759	713	120	4134

Overview

Fuat Balcı is affiliated with the University of Manitoba in Canada and specializes primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their research encompasses a range of topics with a concentration on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work prominently covers the following topics:

Neuroscience and Music Perception
Neural dynamics and brain function
Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Diverse Music Education Insights
Multisensory perception and integration
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

The subfields contributing to their research include cognitive neuroscience, which accounts for the largest share of studies, followed by experimental and cognitive psychology, statistics and probability, music, and clinical psychology.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Fuat Balcı are:

Tutku Öztel
Ezgi Gür
Yalçın Akın Duyan
Anıl Şafak Kaçar
Argiro Vatakis

Publications by Fuat Balcı are distributed across several venues, most notably:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Animal Cognition
Timing & Time Perception
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Psychological Research

Selected recent papers include:

The Confidence Database, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
Neural Substrates of the Drift-Diffusion Model in Brain Disorders, 2022, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Interval timing deficits and their neurobiological correlates in aging mice, 2020, Neurobiology of Aging
Metric error monitoring: Another generalized mechanism for magnitude representations?, 2021, Cognition

Best Publications

Acquisition of decision making criteria: reward rate ultimately beats accuracy.

Fuat Balci;Patrick Simen;Ritwik Niyogi;Andrew Saxe

214
Citations
Risk assessment in man and mouse

Fuat Balci;David Freestone;Charles R. Gallistel

188
Citations
Chronic Administration of Infliximab (TNF-α Inhibitor) Decreases Depression and Anxiety-like Behaviour in Rat Model of Chronic Mild Stress

Ayşe Karson;Tuğçe Demirtaş;Dilek Bayramgürler;Fuat Balcı

160
Citations
The Confidence Database

Dobromir Rahnev;Kobe Desender;Alan Lee;William Adler

141
Citations
TNF-alpha inhibition prevents cognitive decline and maintains hippocampal BDNF levels in the unpredictable chronic mild stress rat model of depression.

Tuğçe Demirtaş Şahin;Ayşe Karson;Fuat Balcı;Yusufhan Yazır

120
Citations
IS MATCHING INNATE

C.R. Gallistel;Adam Philip King;Daniel Gottlieb;Fuat Balci

108
Citations
Interval timing in genetically modified mice: a simple paradigm.

F. Balci;E. B. Papachristos;C. R. Gallistel;D. Brunner

104
Citations
Differential Bilateral Primary Motor Cortex tDCS Fails to Modulate Choice Bias and Readiness in Perceptual Decision Making.

Esin Turkakin;Seda Akbıyık;Bihter Akyol;Ceren Gürdere

102
Citations
Timescale invariance in the pacemaker-accumulator family of timing models

Patrick Simen;Francois Rivest;Francois Rivest;Elliot Andrew Ludvig;Fuat Balci

98
Citations
Timing Deficits in Aging and Neuropathology

Fuat Balci;Warren H. Meck;Holly Moore;Dani Brunner

97
Citations
Acquisition of peak responding: What is learned?

Fuat Balci;Charles R. Gallistel;Brian D. Allen;Krystal M. Frank

97
Citations
Decision processes in temporal discrimination

Fuat Balcı;Patrick Simen

96
Citations
"Walking" through the sensory, cognitive, and temporal degradations of healthy aging.

Nadia Paraskevoudi;Fuat Balcı;Argiro Vatakis;Argiro Vatakis

96
Citations
Optimal temporal risk assessment

Fuat Balcı;Fuat Balcı;David Freestone;Patrick Simen;Laura deSouza

95
Citations
Motivational effects on interval timing in dopamine transporter (DAT) knockdown mice.

Fuat Balci;Elliot Andrew Ludvig;Ron Abner;Xiaoxi Zhuang

83
Citations
Cross-domain transfer of quantitative discriminations: is it all a matter of proportion?

Fuat Balci;Charles R. Gallistel

72
Citations
Pharmacological manipulations of interval timing using the peak procedure in male C3H mice

Fuat Balci;Elliot Andrew Ludvig;Jacqueline M. Gibson;Brian D. Allen

71
Citations
Speed Accuracy Trade-off under Response Deadlines☆

Hakan Karşılar;Patrick Simen;Samantha Papadakis;Fuat Balcı

66
Citations
Epistasis effects of dopamine genes on interval timing and reward magnitude in humans.

Fuat Balcı;Martin Wiener;Bilgehan Çavdaroğlu;H. Branch Coslett

63
Citations
Are you early or late?: Temporal error monitoring.

Başak Akdoğan;Fuat Balcı

59
Citations
Interval Timing, Dopamine, and Motivation

Fuat Balcı

38
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles R. Gallistel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University

David Soto Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

Richard E. Brown Dalhousie University

Peter R. Killeen Arizona State University

Marcia L. Spetch University of Alberta

Anne Giersch University of Strasbourg

Ahmed A. Moustafa Bond University

Russell M. Church Brown University

Simon Grondin Université Laval

External Links

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