2026 Kalina Christoff: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	47	6285	5785	365	333	90	25360
Psychology	47	6013	5594	413	387	89	25360

Overview

Kalina Christoff is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and primarily works in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their research covers a range of topics centered on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and clinical psychology.

The main areas of study include:

Neuroscience
Psychology

More specifically, their subfields of study involve:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Organic Chemistry
Nutrition and Dietetics

The primary research topics explored by Christoff include:

Mind wandering and attention
Mental Health Research Topics
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Psychedelics and Drug Studies
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function

The scientist's work has been published in several venues, with frequent publications in:

NeuroImage
Nature Mental Health
Nature Neuroscience
Neuropsychopharmacology
Scientific Reports

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Christoff include:

"Updating the dynamic framework of thought: Creativity and psychedelics" (2020, NeuroImage)
"Prefrontal contributions to the stability and variability of thought and conscious experience" (2021, Neuropsychopharmacology)
"Recent advances in the neuroscience of spontaneous and off-task thought: implications for mental health" (2023, Nature Mental Health)
"The think aloud paradigm reveals differences in the content, dynamics and conceptual scope of resting state thought in trait brooding" (2021, Scientific Reports)
"How task-unrelated and freely moving thought relate to affect: Evidence for dissociable patterns in everyday life." (2021, Emotion)

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their research efforts. Frequent coauthors include:

Caitlin Mills
Andre Zamani
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna
Manesh Girn
Robin Carhart-Harris

Best Publications

Working Memory

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5008
Citations
Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering

Kalina Christoff;Alan M. Gordon;Jonathan Smallwood;Rachelle Smith

2168
Citations
Mind-wandering as spontaneous thought: a dynamic framework

Kalina Christoff;Zachary C. Irving;Kieran C. R. Fox;R. Nathan Spreng

1485
Citations
Dissociated neural representations of intensity and valence in human olfaction

A.K. Anderson;K. Christoff;I. Stappen;D. Panitz

1351
Citations
Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind

Jonathan W. Schooler;Jonathan Smallwood;Kalina Christoff;Todd C. Handy

1152
Citations
Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners

Kieran C.R. Fox;Savannah Nijeboer;Matthew L. Dixon;James L. Floman

1037
Citations
The frontopolar cortex and human cognition: Evidence for a rostrocaudal hierarchical organization within the human prefrontal cortex.

Kalina Christoff;John D. E. Gabrieli

860
Citations
Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Involvement in Relational Integration during Reasoning

Kalina Christoff;Vivek Prabhakaran;Jennifer Dorfman;Zuo Zhao

837
Citations
Neural Correlates of the Automatic Processing of Threat Facial Signals

Adam K. Anderson;Kalina Christoff;David Panitz;Eve De Rosa

821
Citations
The wandering brain: meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of mind-wandering and related spontaneous thought processes.

Kieran C. R. Fox;R. Nathan Spreng;Melissa Ellamil;Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna

770
Citations
Emotion and the prefrontal cortex: An integrative review.

Matthew L. Dixon;Ravi Thiruchselvam;Rebecca Todd;Kalina Christoff

727
Citations
Evaluative and generative modes of thought during the creative process

Melissa Ellamil;Charles Dobson;Mark Beeman;Kalina Christoff

706
Citations
Functional neuroanatomy of meditation: A review and meta-analysis of 78 functional neuroimaging investigations

Kieran C. R. Fox;Matthew L. Dixon;Savannah Nijeboer;Manesh Girn

595
Citations
Heterogeneity within the frontoparietal control network and its relationship to the default and dorsal attention networks.

Matthew L. Dixon;Alejandro De La Vega;Caitlin Mills;Jessica Andrews-Hanna

581
Citations
Learned regulation of spatially localized brain activation using real-time fMRI.

R.Christopher deCharms;Kalina Christoff;Gary H Glover;John M Pauly

423
Citations
Evaluating self-generated information: anterior prefrontal contributions to human cognition.

Kalina Christoff;Justin M. Ream;Leo P. T. Geddes;John D. E. Gabrieli

380
Citations
Dreaming as mind wandering: evidence from functional neuroimaging and first-person content reports

Kieran C. R. Fox;Savannah Nijeboer;Elizaveta Solomonova;Elizaveta Solomonova;G. William Domhoff

369
Citations
Specifying the self for cognitive neuroscience.

Kalina Christoff;Diego Cosmelli;Dorothée Legrand;Evan Thompson

362
Citations
Using the talairach atlas with the MNI template

Matthew Brett;Kalina Christoff;Rhodri Cusack;Jack Lancaster

311
Citations
Neural basis of spontaneous thought processes.

Kalina Christoff;Justin M. Ream;John D.E. Gabrieli

308
Citations
Undirected thought: neural determinants and correlates.

Kalina Christoff

277
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Caitlin Mills University of Minnesota

Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna University of Arizona

R. Nathan Spreng McGill University

John D. E. Gabrieli MIT

Evan Thompson University of British Columbia

Jonathan Smallwood Queen's University

Jonathan W. Schooler University of California, Santa Barbara

Iroise Dumontheil Birkbeck, University of London

Peter Sedlmeier Chemnitz University of Technology

Michael Cole University of East London

External Links

Personal website of Kalina Christoff

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