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Psychology

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82
Citations
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1340
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Michael L. Platt 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 L. Platt sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 238 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael L. Platt 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 L. Platt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% 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

  • 2001 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Michael L. Platt is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a strong focus on Social Psychology, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Genetics.

The scientist's scholarly work covers several key topics, including:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Frequent collaborators in their research include Lauren J. N. Brent, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Michael J. Montague, James P. Higham, and Melween I. Martínez.

Michael L. Platt regularly publishes in scientific venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Science Advances

Notable recent papers by the scientist include:

  • "Sequence diversity analyses of an improved rhesus macaque genome enhance its biomedical utility," 2020, Science
  • "The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT): Scientific Context, Study Design, and Progress Toward Biomarker Qualification," 2020, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • "An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics," 2020, Neuron
  • "Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Age and sex-associated variation in the multi-site microbiome of an entire social group of free-ranging rhesus macaques," 2021, Microbiome

Michael L. Platt has also contributed to book publications. One example is The Leader's Brain, published in 2020 by both Wharton School Press eBooks and University of Pennsylvania Press.

The scientist was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Neural Correlates of Decision Variables in Parietal Cortex

    Michael L. Platt;Paul W. Glimcher

  • Neural Signatures of Economic Preferences for Risk and Ambiguity

    Scott A. Huettel;C. Jill Stowe;Evan M. Gordon;Brent T. Warner

  • The evolution of self-control

    Evan L. MacLean;Brian Hare;Charles L. Nunn;Elsa Addessi

  • Risky business: the neuroeconomics of decision making under uncertainty

    Michael L Platt;Scott A Huettel

  • Neuronal basis of sequential foraging decisions in a patchy environment

    Benjamin Y Hayden;John M Pearson;Michael L Platt

  • Beyond the Number Domain

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Michael L. Platt;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • Monkeys Pay Per View: Adaptive Valuation of Social Images by Rhesus Macaques

    Robert O. Deaner;Amit V. Khera;Michael L. Platt

  • Posterior cingulate cortex: adapting behavior to a changing world

    John M. Pearson;Sarah R. Heilbronner;David L. Barack;Benjamin Y. Hayden

  • Risk-sensitive neurons in macaque posterior cingulate cortex

    Allison N McCoy;Michael L Platt

  • Surprise Signals in Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Neuronal Encoding of Unsigned Reward Prediction Errors Driving Adjustment in Behavior

    Benjamin Y. Hayden;Sarah R. Heilbronner;John M. Pearson;Michael L. Platt

  • Neuronal reference frames for social decisions in primate frontal cortex.

    Steve W C Chang;Jean François Gariépy;Michael Louis Platt

  • Monotonic Coding of Numerosity in Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Area

    Jamie D Roitman;Elizabeth M Brannon;Michael L Platt

  • Fictive reward signals in the anterior cingulate cortex.

    Benjamin Y. Hayden;John M. Pearson;Michael L. Platt

  • Catastrophizing: a predictive factor for postoperative pain.

    Reenam S. Khan;Kamran Ahmed;Elizabeth Blakeway;Petros Skapinakis

  • Distinct Value Signals in Anterior and Posterior Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

    David V. Smith;Benjamin Y. Hayden;Trong Kha Truong;Allen W. Song

  • Inhaled oxytocin amplifies both vicarious reinforcement and self reinforcement in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

    Steve W. C. Chang;Joseph W. Barter;R. Becket Ebitz;Karli K. Watson

  • How does cognition evolve? Phylogenetic comparative psychology

    Evan L. MacLean;Luke J. Matthews;Brian A. Hare;Charles L. Nunn

  • Neurons in Anterior Cingulate Cortex Multiplex Information about Reward and Action

    Benjamin Y. Hayden;Michael L. Platt

  • Responses of Intraparietal Neurons to Saccadic Targets and Visual Distractors

    Michael L. Platt;Paul W. Glimcher

  • Genetic origins of social networks in rhesus macaques

    Lauren J. N. Brent;Sarah R. Heilbronner;Julie E. Horvath;Julie E. Horvath;Julie E. Horvath;Janis Gonzalez-Martinez

  • Saccade Reward Signals in Posterior Cingulate Cortex

    Allison N McCoy;Justin C Crowley;Golnaz Haghighian;Heather L Dean

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Y. Hayden
Benjamin Y. Hayden Baylor College of Medicine
Elizabeth M. Brannon
Elizabeth M. Brannon University of Pennsylvania
Scott A. Huettel
Scott A. Huettel Duke University
Robert O. Deaner
Robert O. Deaner Grand Valley State University
Paul W. Glimcher
Paul W. Glimcher New York University
James P. Higham
James P. Higham New York University
Gavan J. Fitzsimons
Gavan J. Fitzsimons Duke University
Laurie R. Santos
Laurie R. Santos Yale University
F. Joseph McClernon
F. Joseph McClernon Duke University
Raphael Bernier
Raphael Bernier University of Washington

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