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99

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 1977 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jonathan D. Cohen is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Neuroscience and Computer Science, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, among other subfields. Additional areas of study include Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics covered in Cohen's work encompass Neural dynamics and brain function, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms. Their research also addresses Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, as well as Complex Systems and Decision Making.

Cohen has contributed extensively to various publication venues, including arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Psychological Review.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Cohen include:

  • Measuring Time Preferences, 2020, Journal of Economic Literature
  • Rationalizing constraints on the capacity for cognitive control, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • The temporal dynamics of opportunity costs: A normative account of cognitive fatigue and boredom., 2021, Psychological Review
  • People construct simplified mental representations to plan, 2022, Nature
  • Is Activity Silent Working Memory Simply Episodic Memory?, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Frequent collaborators include Kenneth A. Norman, Thomas L. Griffiths, Nathaniel D. Daw, Sebastian Musslick, and Nicholas B. Turk-Browne.

Jonathan D. Cohen has received recognition such as being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1977.

Best Publications

  • An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function

    Earl K. Miller;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Conflict monitoring and cognitive control.

    Matthew M. Botvinick;Todd S. Braver;Deanna M. Barch;Cameron S. Carter

  • An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment

    Joshua D. Greene;R. Brian Sommerville;Leigh E. Nystrom;John M. Darley

  • Rubber hands ‘feel’ touch that eyes see

    Matthew Botvinick;Jonathan Cohen

  • An Integrative Theory of Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine Function: Adaptive Gain and Optimal Performance.

    Gary Aston-Jones;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Dissociating the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex in cognitive control.

    Angus W. MacDonald;Jonathan D. Cohen;V. Andrew Stenger;Cameron S. Carter

  • The neural basis of economic decision-making in the Ultimatum Game.

    Alan G. Sanfey;James K. Rilling;Jessica A. Aronson;Leigh E. Nystrom

  • Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: an update

    Matthew M. Botvinick;Jonathan D. Cohen;Cameron S. Carter

  • PsyScope: An interactive graphic system for designing and controlling experiments in the psychology laboratory using Macintosh computers

    Jonathan D. Cohen;Brian MacWhinney;Matthew Flatt;Jefferson Provost

  • Anterior cingulate cortex, error detection, and the online monitoring of performance

    Cameron S. Carter;Cameron S. Carter;Todd S. Braver;Todd S. Braver;M Deanna;M Deanna;Matthew M. Botvinick;Matthew M. Botvinick

  • Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards

    Samuel M. McClure;David I. Laibson;George Loewenstein;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Anterior cingulate conflict monitoring and adjustments in control

    John G. Kerns;John G. Kerns;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen;Angus W. MacDonald;Raymond Y. Cho;Raymond Y. Cho

  • Improved assessment of significant activation in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) : use of a cluster-size threshold

    Steven D. Forman;Jonathan D. Cohen;Mark Fitzgerald;William F. Eddy

  • The neural bases of cognitive conflict and control in moral judgment.

    Joshua D. Greene;Leigh E. Nystrom;Andrew D. Engell;John M. Darley

  • On the control of automatic processes: A parallel distributed processing account of the stroop effect

    Jonathan D. Cohen;Kevin Dunbar;James L. McClelland

  • Conflict monitoring versus selection-for-action in anterior cingulate cortex

    Matthew Botvinick;Leigh E. Nystrom;Kate Fissell;Cameron S. Carter

  • The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, Part 1: Test Selection, Reliability, and Validity

    Keith H. Nuechterlein;Michael F. Green;Robert S. Kern;Lyle E. Baade

  • Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task

    Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen;William M. Perlstein;Todd S. Braver;Leigh E. Nystrom

  • The Expected Value of Control: An Integrative Theory of Anterior Cingulate Cortex Function

    Amitai Shenhav;Matthew M. Botvinick;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Placebo-induced changes in FMRI in the anticipation and experience of pain.

    Tor D. Wager;James K. Rilling;Edward E. Smith;Alex Sokolik

  • The neural basis of error detection: conflict monitoring and the error-related negativity.

    Nick Yeung;Matthew M. Botvinick;Jonathan D. Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Cameron S. Carter
Cameron S. Carter University of California, Irvine
Todd S. Braver
Todd S. Braver Washington University in St. Louis
Douglas C. Noll
Douglas C. Noll University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Amitai Shenhav
Amitai Shenhav Brown University
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis
Matthew Botvinick
Matthew Botvinick Yale University
Kenneth A. Norman
Kenneth A. Norman Princeton University
Samuel M. McClure
Samuel M. McClure Arizona State University
Randall C. O'Reilly
Randall C. O'Reilly University of California, Davis

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