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Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
9801
World Ranking
6625
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Cognition
  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive psychology

His primary areas of study are Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Cognitive development, Developmental psychology and Heuristics. His Cognitive psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Visual perception, Visual processing, Perception, Cognitive flexibility and Inhibitory control. His research on Cognition often connects related areas such as Functional magnetic resonance imaging.

As part of the same scientific family, Olivier Houdé usually focuses on Functional magnetic resonance imaging, concentrating on Working memory and intersecting with Angular gyrus, Precuneus, Brain activity and meditation and Posterior cingulate. His work is dedicated to discovering how Cognitive development, Categorization are connected with Prefrontal cortex, Deductive reasoning, Logical reasoning and Cognitive science and other disciplines. His studies deal with areas such as Negative priming and Priming as well as Developmental psychology.

His most cited work include:

  • Cortical networks for working memory and executive functions sustain the conscious resting state in man (775 citations)
  • Mapping numerical processing, reading, and executive functions in the developing brain: an fMRI meta-analysis of 52 studies including 842 children. (199 citations)
  • Mapping numerical processing, reading, and executive functions in the developing brain: an fMRI meta-analysis of 52 studies including 842 children. (199 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Olivier Houdé focuses on Cognition, Cognitive psychology, Developmental psychology, Inhibitory control and Social psychology. His study in Cognitive development, Stroop effect, Working memory, Anterior cingulate cortex and Prefrontal cortex is carried out as part of his Cognition studies. He usually deals with Working memory and limits it to topics linked to Executive functions and Attentional control.

Olivier Houdé has researched Cognitive psychology in several fields, including Visual perception, Perception, Functional magnetic resonance imaging and Communication. His Young adult, Punishment and Child development study, which is part of a larger body of work in Developmental psychology, is frequently linked to Outcome, bridging the gap between disciplines. The study incorporates disciplines such as Creativity and Negative priming in addition to Inhibitory control.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Cognition (74.79%)
  • Cognitive psychology (63.87%)
  • Developmental psychology (50.42%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Inhibitory control (47.06%)
  • Negative priming (31.09%)
  • Stroop effect (33.61%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Olivier Houdé mainly investigates Inhibitory control, Negative priming, Stroop effect, Cognitive psychology and Arithmetic. His Inhibitory control study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Pedagogy and School age child. Olivier Houdé connects Negative priming with Decimal in his research.

His Stroop effect research entails a greater understanding of Cognition. His Cognition study contributes to a more complete understanding of Neuroscience. In the field of Cognitive psychology, his study on Concept learning overlaps with subjects such as Systematic error, High density and Intuition.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Neural basis of functional fixedness during creative idea generation: An EEG study. (18 citations)
  • Adolescents’ inhibitory control: keep it cool or lose control (17 citations)
  • Adolescents’ inhibitory control: keep it cool or lose control (17 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Cognition
  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive science

Olivier Houdé spends much of his time researching Inhibitory control, Rational number, Arithmetic, Numerical cognition and Decimal. His Inhibitory control research integrates issues from Developmental psychology, Emotional expression and Stroop effect. His Rational number investigation overlaps with other areas such as Negative priming, Whole Number and Decimal Point.

Best Publications

  • Meta-analyzing left hemisphere language areas: Phonology, semantics, and sentence processing

    Mathieu Vigneau;Virginie Beaucousin;Pierre-Yves Hervé;Hugues Duffau

  • Cortical networks for working memory and executive functions sustain the conscious resting state in man

    Bernard Mazoyer;Laure Zago;Emmanuel Mellet;Stephan Bricogne

  • Shifting from the Perceptual Brain to the Logical Brain: The Neural Impact of Cognitive Inhibition Training

    Olivier Houdé;Laure Zago;Emmanuel Mellet;Sylvain Moutier

  • Mapping numerical processing, reading, and executive functions in the developing brain: an fMRI meta-analysis of 52 studies including 842 children.

    Olivier Houdé;Olivier Houdé;Sandrine Rossi;Amélie Lubin;Marc Joliot

  • Executive dysfunctions as potential markers of familial vulnerability to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

    Tiziana Zalla;Cécile Joyce;Andrei Szöke;Franck Schürhoff

  • Neural foundations of logical and mathematical cognition.

    Olivier Houdé;Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer

  • Bats, balls, and substitution sensitivity: cognitive misers are no happy fools.

    Wim De Neys;Sandrine Rossi;Sandrine Rossi;Sandrine Rossi;Olivier Houdé;Olivier Houdé;Olivier Houdé

  • Inhibition and cognitive development: object, number, categorization, and reasoning

    Olivier Houdé

  • Positive emotional context eliminates the framing effect in decision-making.

    Mathieu Cassotti;Marianne Habib;Nicolas Poirel;Ania Aïte

  • Inhibitory Control as a Core Process of Creative Problem Solving and Idea Generation from Childhood to Adulthood.

    Mathieu Cassotti;Mathieu Cassotti;Marine Agogué;Anaëlle Camarda;Olivier Houdé

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging study of Piaget’s conservation-of-number task in preschool and school-age children: A neo-Piagetian approach

    Olivier Houdé;Arlette Pineau;Gaëlle Leroux;Nicolas Poirel

  • Access to Deductive Logic Depends on a Right Ventromedial Prefrontal Area Devoted to Emotion and Feeling: Evidence from a Training Paradigm

    Olivier Houdé;Laure Zago;Fabrice Crivello;Sylvain Moutier

  • Picture naming without Broca's and Wernicke's area.

    Olivier Etard;Emmanuel Mellet;Dimitri Papathanassiou;Karim Benali

  • The impact of age and training on creativity: A design-theory approach to study fixation effects

    Marine Agogué;Marine Agogué;Nicolas Poirel;Nicolas Poirel;Arlette Pineau;Olivier Houdé;Olivier Houdé

  • First came the trees, then the forest: developmental changes during childhood in the processing of visual local-global patterns according to the meaningfulness of the stimuli.

    Nicolas Poirel;Emmanuel Mellet;Olivier Houdé;Arlette Pineau

  • Adult brains don't fully overcome biases that lead to incorrect performance during cognitive development: an fMRI study in young adults completing a Piaget-like task.

    Gaëlle Leroux;Jeanne Spiess;Laure Zago;Sandrine Rossi

  • Evidence for an inhibitory-control theory of the reasoning brain.

    Olivier Houdé;Olivier Houdé;Grégoire Borst

  • Fear and anger have opposite effects on risk seeking in the gain frame

    Marianne Habib;Mathieu Cassotti;Sylvain Moutier;Olivier Houdé;Olivier Houdé

  • Developmental changes of win-stay and loss-shift strategies in decision making.

    Mathieu Cassotti;Olivier Houdé;Sylvain Moutier

  • The shape of the acc contributes to cognitive control efficiency in preschoolers

    Arnaud Cachia;Arnaud Cachia;Grégoire Borst;Grégoire Borst;Julie Vidal;Julie Vidal;Clara Fischer

  • The Learning Brain

    Emmanuel Ahr;Grégoire Borst;Olivier Houdé;Olivier Houdé

  • Inhibitory control efficiency in a Piaget-like class-inclusion task in school-age children and adults: a developmental negative priming study.

    G. Borst;N. Poirel;A. Pineau;M. Cassotti

  • Bias detection: Response confidence evidence for conflict sensitivity in the ratio bias task

    Katell Mevel;Nicolas Poirel;Sandrine Rossi;Mathieu Cassotti

  • First insights on “neuropedagogy of reasoning”

    Olivier Houdé

  • The Shift from Local to Global Visual Processing in 6-Year-Old Children Is Associated with Grey Matter Loss

    Nicolas Poirel;Grégory Simon;Mathieu Cassotti;Mathieu Cassotti;Gaëlle Leroux

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Bryant
Peter Bryant University of Oxford
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Roland Jouvent
Roland Jouvent Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christophe Pallier
Christophe Pallier Grenoble Alpes University
Jubin Abutalebi
Jubin Abutalebi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

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