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Michael D. Rugg publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael D. Rugg sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 353 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Michael D. Rugg D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael D. Rugg sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 122 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1996 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Michael D. Rugg is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience, with particular emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience, which accounts for the majority of their publications. They also contribute to fields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their work covers a range of topics related to memory and brain function. Main topics include:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Notable recent publications by Michael D. Rugg include:

  • "Age-related neural dedifferentiation and cognition," 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "Hippocampal Theta Oscillations Support Successful Associative Memory Formation," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "The role of the anterior nuclei of the thalamus in human memory processing," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Age Differences In Retrieval-Related Reinstatement Reflect Age-Related Dedifferentiation At Encoding," 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • "An historical perspective on Endel Tulving's episodic-semantic distinction," 2020, Neuropsychologia

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Michael D. Rugg include:

  • Mingzhu Hou
  • Paul F. Hill
  • Marianne de Chastelaine
  • Sabina Srokova
  • Joshua D. Koen

They have published frequently in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Michael D. Rugg has been recognized by their peers through awards including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: Recording standards and publication criteria

    Terence W. Picton;S. Bentin;P. Berg;E. Donchin

  • Event-Related fMRI: Characterizing Differential Responses

    Karl J. Friston;P. Fletcher;Oliver Josephs;A. Holmes

  • Event-related potentials and recognition memory

    Michael D. Rugg;Tim Curran

  • Maintenance, reserve and compensation: the cognitive neuroscience of healthy ageing

    Roberto Cabeza;Marilyn Albert;Sylvie Belleville;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Recollection and Familiarity in Recognition Memory: An Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Richard N. A. Henson;M. D. Rugg;T. Shallice;O. Josephs

  • Electrophysiology of Mind: Event-Related Brain Potentials and Cognition

    Michael D. Rugg;Michael G. H. Coles

  • Separating the brain regions involved in recollection and familiarity in recognition memory

    Andrew P. Yonelinas;Leun J. Otten;Kendra N. Shaw;Michael D. Rugg

  • Dissociation of the neural correlates of implicit and explicit memory

    Michael D. Rugg;Ruth E. Mark;Peter Walla;Astrid M. Schloerscheidt

  • Brain networks underlying episodic memory retrieval

    Michael D Rugg;Kaia L Vilberg

  • Event-related brain potentials: An introduction.

    Michael G. H. Coles;Michael D. Rugg

  • An event-related potential study of recognition memory with and without retrieval of source

    Edward Lewis Wilding;Michael D. Rugg

  • Memory retrieval and the parietal cortex: A review of evidence from a dual-process perspective

    Kaia L. Vilberg;Michael D. Rugg

  • Retrieval processing and episodic memory

    Michael D. Rugg;Edward Lewis Wilding

  • Event-related brain potentials dissociate repetition effects of high- and low-frequency words.

    Michael D. Rugg

  • The Neuropsychology of Consciousness

    Anthony D. Milner;M. D. Rugg

  • The Effects of Semantic Priming and Word Repetition on Event‐Related Potentials

    Michael D. Rugg

  • Neural response suppression, haemodynamic repetition effects, and behavioural priming.

    R.N.A Henson;M.D Rugg

  • Human recognition memory: a cognitive neuroscience perspective

    Michael D. Rugg;Andrew P. Yonelinas

  • Brain Activity Underlying Encoding and Retrieval of Source Memory

    Selene Cansino;Pierre Maquet;Raymond J. Dolan;Michael D. Rugg

  • Detecting latency differences in event-related BOLD responses: Application to words versus nonwords and initial versus repeated face presentations

    Richard N. A. Henson;Cathy J. Price;Michael D. Rugg;Robert Turner

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard N. Henson
Richard N. Henson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
Paul C. Fletcher
Paul C. Fletcher University of Cambridge
Christophe Phillips
Christophe Phillips University of Liège
Hermann Hinrichs
Hermann Hinrichs Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Tino Zaehle
Tino Zaehle Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Chris R. Brewin
Chris R. Brewin University College London
Tim Shallice
Tim Shallice University College London

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