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George R. Mangun 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 George R. Mangun sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 190 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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George R. Mangun 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 George R. Mangun sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Radboud Excellence Professorship, Radboud University
  • 2010 - Distinguished Scholar Alumnus Award, ARCS Foundation
  • 2009 - Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Sage Center for the Study of the Mind,UCSB
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
  • 2006 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
  • 2001 - Senior Scientist Award, NIMH
  • 1999 - Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Award, American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1999 - Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Award, American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1994 - F.C. Donders Lectureship, Max Planck Institute
  • 1993 - Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award, Society for Psychophysiological Research
  • 1991 - Scientist Development Award, NIMH

Overview

George R. Mangun is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a substantial number of publications in the subfield of cognitive neuroscience. The scientist's work spans related areas including computer vision and pattern recognition, experimental and cognitive psychology, signal processing, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The main themes in their research involve multiple interconnected topics:

  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Visual attention and saliency detection
  • Spatial neglect and hemispheric dysfunction

Mangun has contributed to several recent papers illustrating these interests. Notable publications include:

  • "Neural Mechanisms of Attentional Control for Objects: Decoding EEG Alpha When Anticipating Faces, Scenes,and Tools," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "The Microstructure of Attentional Control in the Dorsal Attention Network," 2021, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "Role of Inferior Frontal Junction (IFJ) in the Control of Feature versus Spatial Attention," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Attention without Constraint: Alpha Lateralization in Uncued Willed Attention," 2023, eNeuro
  • "Time Courses of Attended and Ignored Object Representations," 2023, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

The scientist often collaborates with a consistent group of coauthors, including Mingzhou Ding, Sreenivasan Meyyappan, Abhijit Rajan, Jesse J. Bengson, and Soukhin Das. These collaborations have contributed to many of the publications associated with Mangun.

Their work has appeared most frequently in the following publication venues:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • eNeuro

George R. Mangun was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010, with an earlier fellowship also listed in 1958.

Best Publications

  • Canonical Microcircuits for Predictive Coding

    Andre M. Bastos;William Martin Usrey;Rick A. Adams;George R Mangun

  • The neural mechanisms of top-down attentional control.

    J. B. Hopfinger;M. H. Buonocore;George R Mangun

  • Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind

    Michael Gazzaniga;Richard B. Ivry;George R. Mangun

  • Combined spatial and temporal imaging of brain activity during visual selective attention in humans.

    H. J. Heinze;George R Mangun;W. Burchert;H. Hinrichs

  • Modulations of sensory-evoked brain potentials indicate changes in perceptual processing during visual-spatial priming.

    George R. Mangun;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Neural mechanisms of visual selective attention

    George R. Mangun

  • Intensive Meditation Training Improves Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention

    Katherine A. MacLean;Emilio Ferrer;Stephen R. Aichele;David A. Bridwell

  • Visual event-related potentials index focused attention within bilateral stimulus arrays. II. Functional dissociation of P1 and N1 components

    S. J. Luck;H. J. Heinze;George R Mangun;S. A. Hillyard

  • Event-related brain potential correlates of two states of conscious awareness in memory

    Emrah Düzel;Andrew P. Yonelinas;George R Mangun;Hans Jochen Heinze

  • Electrocortical substrates of visual selective attention

    George R. Mangun;Steven A. Hillyard;Steven J. Luck

  • Neural mechanisms of top-down control during spatial and feature attention.

    Barry Giesbrecht;Marty G. Woldorff;Allen W. Song;George R. Mangun

  • Visual event-related potentials index focused attention within bilateral stimulus arrays. I. Evidence for early selection

    H. J. Heinze;S. J. Luck;George R Mangun;S. A. Hillyard

  • Neural Sources of Focused Attention in Visual Search

    Jens Max Hopf;Steven J. Luck;Massimo Girelli;Tilman Hagner

  • Luminance and spatial attention effects on early visual processing

    S. Johannes;T. F. Münte;H. J. Heinze;George R Mangun

  • Spatial gradients of visual attention: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

    George R Mangun;S. A. Hillyard

  • Shifting visual attention in space: an electrophysiological analysis using high spatial resolution mapping

    J. M. Hopf;George R Mangun

  • Reflexive Attention Modulates Processing of Visual Stimuli in Human Extrastriate Cortex

    Joseph B. Hopfinger;George R. Mangun

  • The spatial allocation of visual attention as indexed by event-related brain potentials

    G. R. R. Mangun;S. A. Hillyard

  • Successful Verbal Encoding into Episodic Memory Engages the Posterior Hippocampus: A Parametrically Analyzed Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Guillén Fernández;Helga Weyerts;Michael Schrader-Bölsche;Indira Tendolkar

  • Dissociation of brain activity related to syntactic and semantic aspects of language

    Thomas F. Münte;Hans-Jochen Heinze;George R. Mangun

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven A. Hillyard
Steven A. Hillyard University of California, San Diego
Marty G. Woldorff
Marty G. Woldorff Duke University
Steven J. Luck
Steven J. Luck University of California, Davis
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Mingzhou Ding
Mingzhou Ding University of Florida
Cameron S. Carter
Cameron S. Carter University of California, Irvine
Thomas F. Münte
Thomas F. Münte University of Lübeck
Clifford D. Saron
Clifford D. Saron University of California, Davis
Todd C. Handy
Todd C. Handy University of British Columbia

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