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2026
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Psychology
Argentina
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
74
Citations
20791
World Ranking
2097
National Ranking
3

Psychology

D-Index
71
Citations
19681
World Ranking
2164
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Argentina Leader Award

Overview

Mariano Sigman is affiliated with the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas in Argentina. Their research spans a range of topics primarily within neuroscience and psychology, focusing on cognitive processes related to sleep, circadian rhythms, memory, and developmental psychology.

The scientist's work includes notable publications such as:

  • Effects of lockdown on human sleep and chronotype during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) in Current Biology
  • Interplay of chronotype and school timing predicts school performance (2020) in Nature Human Behaviour
  • A theory of memory for binary sequences: Evidence for a mental compression algorithm in humans (2021) in PLoS Computational Biology
  • Allostatic-Interoceptive Overload in Frontotemporal Dementia (2022) in Biological Psychiatry
  • Working Memory for Spatial Sequences: Developmental and Evolutionary Factors in Encoding Ordinal and Relational Structures (2021) in Journal of Neuroscience

The key topics covered in their research include:

  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology

Sigman's work is situated mainly within the main fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with subfields comprising:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence

They frequently publish in venues such as:

  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Research Square
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Current Biology

Their collaborations involve co-authors who have worked with them extensively, including:

  • María Juliana Leone
  • Andrea Paula Goldin
  • Agustín Ibáñez
  • Joaquín Navajas
  • Guadalupe Rodríguez Ferrante

Best Publications

  • The neural code for written words: a proposal

    Stanislas Dehaene;Laurent Cohen;Mariano Sigman;Fabien Vinckier

  • Brain states: top-down influences in sensory processing.

    Charles D. Gilbert;Mariano Sigman

  • The neural basis of perceptual learning.

    Charles D. Gilbert;Mariano Sigman;Roy E. Crist

  • Hierarchical Coding of Letter Strings in the Ventral Stream: Dissecting the Inner Organization of the Visual Word-Form System

    Fabien Vinckier;Fabien Vinckier;Stanislas Dehaene;Antoinette Jobert;Jean Philippe Dubus

  • Signature of consciousness in the dynamics of resting-state brain activity.

    Pablo Barttfeld;Pablo Barttfeld;Lynn Uhrig;Jacobo Diego Sitt;Mariano Sigman

  • Automated analysis of free speech predicts psychosis onset in high-risk youths

    Gillinder Bedi;Facundo Carrillo;Guillermo A Cecchi;Diego Fernández Slezak

  • Large scale screening of neural signatures of consciousness in patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state.

    Jacobo Diego Sitt;Jacobo Diego Sitt;Jacobo Diego Sitt;Jean-Remi King;Jean-Remi King;Jean-Remi King;Imen El Karoui;Benjamin Rohaut

  • A small world of weak ties provides optimal global integration of self-similar modules in functional brain networks

    Lazaros K. Gallos;Hernán A. Makse;Mariano Sigman

  • Functional organization of perisylvian activation during presentation of sentences in preverbal infants

    Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz;Lucie Hertz-Pannier;Jessica Dubois;Sébastien Mériaux

  • On a common circle: Natural scenes and Gestalt rules

    Mariano Sigman;Guillermo A. Cecchi;Charles D. Gilbert;Marcelo O. Magnasco

  • Global organization of the Wordnet lexicon

    Mariano Sigman;Guillermo A. Cecchi

  • Confidence as Bayesian Probability: From Neural Origins to Behavior.

    Florent Meyniel;Mariano Sigman;Zachary F. Mainen

  • A big-world network in ASD: Dynamical connectivity analysis reflects a deficit in long-range connections and an excess of short-range connections

    Pablo Barttfeld;Bruno Wicker;Bruno Wicker;Sebastián Cukier;Silvana Elisa Navarta

  • The construction of confidence in a perceptual decision.

    Ariel Zylberberg;Ariel Zylberberg;Ariel Zylberberg;Pablo Barttfeld;Mariano Sigman

  • Brain Mechanisms of Serial and Parallel Processing during Dual-Task Performance

    Mariano Sigman;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Parsing a Cognitive Task: A Characterization of the Mind's Bottleneck

    Mariano Sigman;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Neuroscience and education: prime time to build the bridge

    Mariano Sigman;Marcela Peña;Andrea Paula Goldin;Sidarta Ribeiro

  • Avoiding catastrophic failure in correlated networks of networks

    Saulo D. S. Reis;Saulo D. S. Reis;Yanqing Hu;Andrés Babino;José S. Andrade

  • Convergence of interoception, emotion, and social cognition: A twofold fMRI meta-analysis and lesion approach.

    Federico Adolfi;Blas Couto;Fabian Richter;Jean Decety

  • Dynamics of the central bottleneck: dual-task and task uncertainty.

    Mariano Sigman;Stanislas Dehaene;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Top-Down Reorganization of Activity in the Visual Pathway after Learning a Shape Identification Task

    Mariano Sigman;Mariano Sigman;Hong Pan;Yihong Yang;Emily Stern

Frequent Co-Authors

Agustín Ibáñez
Agustín Ibáñez Adolfo Ibáñez University
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
Facundo Manes
Facundo Manes Favaloro University
Adolfo M. García
Adolfo M. García University of San Andrés
Lucas Sedeño
Lucas Sedeño National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Sandra Baez
Sandra Baez Universidad de Los Andes
Pieter R. Roelfsema
Pieter R. Roelfsema Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Tristan A. Bekinschtein
Tristan A. Bekinschtein University of Cambridge
Sidarta Ribeiro
Sidarta Ribeiro Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
David Huepe
David Huepe Adolfo Ibáñez University

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