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Philippe Lefèvre publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philippe Lefèvre sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 170 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Philippe Lefèvre D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philippe Lefèvre sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Philippe Lefèvre is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, contributing to research primarily within the fields of neuroscience, engineering, and medicine. Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering, physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, social psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The research topics covered by Lefèvre include motor control and adaptation, muscle activation and electromyography studies, tactile and sensory interactions, balance, gait, and falls prevention, visual perception and processing mechanisms, action observation and synchronization, as well as dementia and cognitive impairment research.

Lefèvre has published a number of recent papers covering diverse scientific questions. Some of the notable publications are:

  • High-resolution imaging of skin deformation shows that afferents from human fingertips signal slip onset (2021, eLife)
  • A Very Fast Time Scale of Human Motor Adaptation: Within Movement Adjustments of Internal Representations during Reaching (2020, eNeuro)
  • Starch-based controlled release matrix tablets: Impact of the type of starch (2020, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology)
  • Feedback Adaptation to Unpredictable Force Fields in 250 ms (2020, eNeuro)
  • Ultrastable Silver Nanoparticles for Rapid Serology Detection of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Immunoglobulins G (2022, Analytical Chemistry)

Lefèvre frequently collaborates with other researchers, notably with Frédéric Crevecoeur, Benoit P. Delhaye, Jean-Louis Thonnard, David Córdova Bulens, and Antoine De Comite. These collaborations reflect a sustained engagement in multidisciplinary research projects.

The primary venues where Lefèvre's work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eNeuro
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

This body of work demonstrates a broad and detailed research footprint focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying motor control, sensory processing, and related biomedical applications. Lefèvre's contributions span experimental neuroscience, engineering approaches, and applied medical sciences.

Best Publications

  • Model of the Control of Saccades by Superior Colliculus and Cerebellum

    Christian Quaia;Christian Quaia;Philippe Lefèvre;Philippe Lefèvre;Lance M. Optican

  • Saccades and pursuit: two outcomes of a single sensorimotor process

    Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry;Philippe Lefèvre

  • Finger pad friction and its role in grip and touch

    Michael J. Adams;Simon A. Johnson;Philippe Lefèvre;Vincent Lévesque

  • What triggers catch-up saccades during visual tracking?

    Sophie de Brouwer;Demet Yuksel;Gunnar Blohm;Marcus Missal

  • Quantitative analysis of catch-up saccades during sustained pursuit.

    Sophie de Brouwer;Marcus Missal;Graham Barnes;Philippe Lefèvre

  • Texture-induced vibrations in the forearm during tactile exploration

    Benoit Delhaye;Vincent Hayward;Philippe Lefèvre;Jean-Louis Thonnard

  • Dynamics of fingertip contact during the onset of tangential slip

    Benoit Delhaye;Philippe Lefèvre;Jean-Louis Thonnard

  • Original Contribution: Dynamic feedback to the superior colliculus in a neural network model of the gaze control system

    Philippe Lefèvre;Henrietta L. Galiana

  • Face inversion impairs holistic perception: evidence from gaze-contingent stimulation.

    Goedele Van Belle;Peter De Graef;Karl Verfaillie;Bruno Rossion

  • Effect of skin hydration on the dynamics of fingertip gripping contact

    Thibaut André;V. Lévesque;V. Hayward;Philippe Lefèvre

  • Distributed model of control of saccades by superior colliculus and cerebellum

    Philippe Lefèvre;Christian Quaia;Christian Quaia;Lance M. Optican

  • Evidence for Synergy Between Saccades and Smooth Pursuit During Transient Target Disappearance

    Jean Jacques Orban De Xivry;Simon J. Bennett;Philippe Lefèvre;Graham R. Barnes

  • Kalman Filtering Naturally Accounts for Visually Guided and Predictive Smooth Pursuit Dynamics

    Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry;Sébastien Coppe;Gunnar Blohm;Philippe Lefèvre

  • Reduced fixation on the upper area of personally familiar faces following acquired prosopagnosia.

    Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry;Meike Ramon;Philippe Lefèvre;Bruno Rossion

  • Fixation patterns during recognition of personally familiar and unfamiliar faces

    Goedele Van Belle;Meike Ramon;Philippe Lefèvre;Bruno Rossion

  • Role of retinal slip in the prediction of target motion during smooth and saccadic pursuit.

    S de Brouwer;Marcus Missal;Philippe Lefèvre

  • Biological motion drives perception and action.

    Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry;Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry;Sébastien Coppe;Philippe Lefèvre;Marcus Missal

  • Perception of partial slips under tangential loading of the fingertip.

    Allan Barrea;Benoit P. Delhaye;Philippe Lefèvre;Jean-Louis Thonnard;Jean-Louis Thonnard

  • Surface strain measurements of fingertip skin under shearing.

    Benoit Delhaye;Allan Barrea;Benoni B. Edin;Philippe Lefèvre

  • A dynamic representation of target motion drives predictive smooth pursuit during target blanking.

    Jean Jacques Orban de Xivry;Marcus Missal;Philippe Lefèvre

  • Divergence between oculomotor and perceptual causality.

    Jeremy B. Badler;Philippe Lefèvre;Marcus Missal

  • Target acceleration can be extracted and represented within the predictive drive to ocular pursuit

    Simon J. Bennett;Jean Jacques Orban De Xivry;Graham R. Barnes;Philippe Lefèvre

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodolphe Sepulchre
Rodolphe Sepulchre University of Cambridge
Bruno Rossion
Bruno Rossion University of Lorraine
Etienne Olivier
Etienne Olivier Université Catholique de Louvain
Graham R. Barnes
Graham R. Barnes University of Manchester
Lance M. Optican
Lance M. Optican National Institutes of Health
Valéry Legrain
Valéry Legrain Université Catholique de Louvain
Stefan Glasauer
Stefan Glasauer Brandenburg University of Technology
Ulrich Büttner
Ulrich Büttner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Olivier Luminet
Olivier Luminet Université Catholique de Louvain
Vincent Hayward
Vincent Hayward Sorbonne University

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