2026 Paul M. Bays: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	44	7055	6495	548	504	116	12039

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Overview

Paul M. Bays is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a specialization in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. The scholar has contributed extensively to understanding visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

The scientist's work spans across various subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, sensory systems, and computer vision and pattern recognition. Main topics covered in their publications include visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, multisensory perception and integration, tactile and sensory interactions, olfactory and sensory function studies, and human-automation interaction and safety.

Frequent collaborators of Paul M. Bays are:

Ivan Tomić
Sebastian Schneegans
William J. Harrison
Jessica McMaster
Reuben Rideaux

The researcher's works have appeared in several venues multiple times. These venues include:

Journal of Vision
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Psychological Review
Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Recent publications by Paul M. Bays include:

Representation and computation in visual working memory, 2024, Nature Human Behaviour
Neural tuning instantiates prior expectations in the human visual system, 2023, Nature Communications
Swap errors in visual working memory are fully explained by cue-feature variability, 2022, Cognitive Psychology
Role of time in binding features in visual working memory, 2022, Psychological Review

Other significant papers related to their collaborators include "Stochastic sampling provides a unifying account of visual working memory limits," published in 2020 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

Dynamic Shifts of Limited Working Memory Resources in Human Vision

Paul M. Bays;Masud Husain

1352
Citations
Changing concepts of working memory.

Wei Ji Ma;Masud Husain;Paul M Bays

1313
Citations
The precision of visual working memory is set by allocation of a shared resource.

Paul M. Bays;Raquel F. G. Catalao;Masud Husain

1178
Citations
Evidence for sensory prediction deficits in schizophrenia

Sukhwinder S. Shergill;Gabrielle Samson;Paul M. Bays;Chris D. Frith

500
Citations
Two eyes for an eye: the neuroscience of force escalation.

Sukhwinder S. Shergill;Paul M. Bays;Chris D. Frith;Daniel M. Wolpert

493
Citations
Computational principles of sensorimotor control that minimize uncertainty and variability

Paul M. Bays;Daniel M. Wolpert

451
Citations
Dynamic Updating of Working Memory Resources for Visual Objects

Nikos Gorgoraptis;Raquel F. G. Catalao;Paul M. Bays;Masud Husain

350
Citations
Failure to consolidate the consolidation theory of learning for sensorimotor adaptation tasks

Graham Caithness;Rieko Osu;Paul Bays;Henry Chase

346
Citations
Noise in Neural Populations Accounts for Errors in Working Memory

Paul M. Bays

342
Citations
Temporal dynamics of encoding, storage, and reallocation of visual working memory.

Paul M Bays;Nikos Gorgoraptis;Natalie Wee;Louise Marshall

328
Citations
Storage and binding of object features in visual working memory.

Paul M. Bays;Emma Y. Wu;Masud Husain

321
Citations
Distinct neural mechanisms underlie the success, precision, and vividness of episodic memory

Franziska R Richter;Rose A Cooper;Paul M Bays;Jon S Simons

310
Citations
Rapid forgetting prevented by retrospective attention cues.

Yoni Pertzov;Paul M. Bays;Sabine Joseph;Masud Husain

294
Citations
Neural Architecture for Feature Binding in Visual Working Memory

Sebastian Schneegans;Paul Michael Bays

287
Citations
Perception of the Consequences of Self-Action Is Temporally Tuned and Event Driven

Paul M. Bays;Daniel M. Wolpert;J. Randall Flanagan

274
Citations
Attenuation of Self-Generated Tactile Sensations Is Predictive, not Postdictive

Paul M Bays;J. Randall Flanagan;Daniel M Wolpert;Daniel M Wolpert

274
Citations
Spikes not slots: noise in neural populations limits working memory

Paul M. Bays

200
Citations
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Impaired Sensory Prediction in Schizophrenia

Sukhwinder S. Shergill;Thomas P. White;Daniel W. Joyce;Paul M. Bays

191
Citations
Age-related decline of precision and binding in visual working memory.

Muy-Cheng Peich;Masud Husain;Paul M. Bays

157
Citations
Reduced Hippocampal Functional Connectivity During Episodic Memory Retrieval in Autism.

Rose A. Cooper;Franziska R. Richter;Paul M. Bays;Kate C. Plaisted-Grant

153
Citations