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Philippe N. Tobler

Philippe N. Tobler

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
51
Citations
15851
World Ranking
5441
National Ranking
129

Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
15778
World Ranking
5351
National Ranking
59

Overview

Philippe N. Tobler is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans key areas within neuroscience and psychology, focusing primarily on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers various subfields including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Social Psychology
  • General Decision Sciences

Philippe N. Tobler's publications address a range of topics such as neural and behavioral psychology studies, functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, schizophrenia research and treatment, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and decision-making and behavioral economics.

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Their recent papers include:

  • "A computational reward learning account of social media engagement", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Causal role of lateral prefrontal cortex in mental effort and fatigue", 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Association of Optimism with Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis", 2022, The American Journal of Medicine
  • "Frontopolar theta oscillations link metacognition with prospective decision making", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Multi-scale neural decoding and analysis", 2021, Journal of Neural Engineering

Frequent collaborative partners in their work are:

  • Alexander Soutschek
  • Stefan Kaiser
  • Matthias Kirschner
  • Mariia Kaliuzhna
  • Pyungwon Kang

Philippe N. Tobler publishes regularly in several academic venues, with a significant number of works appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Human Brain Mapping

Best Publications

  • Discrete coding of reward probability and uncertainty by dopamine neurons.

    Christopher D. Fiorillo;Philippe N. Tobler;Wolfram Schultz

  • Adaptive Coding of Reward Value by Dopamine Neurons

    Philippe N. Tobler;Christopher D. Fiorillo;Wolfram Schultz

  • Cognitive biases associated with medical decisions: a systematic review

    Gustavo Saposnik;Donald A. Redelmeier;Christian C. Ruff;Philippe N. Tobler

  • Reward value coding distinct from risk attitude-related uncertainty coding in human reward systems.

    Philippe N. Tobler;John P. O'Doherty;Raymond J. Dolan;Wolfram Schultz

  • Neural correlates of value, risk, and risk aversion contributing to decision making under risk.

    George I. Christopoulos;Philippe N. Tobler;Peter Bossaerts;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Coding of predicted reward omission by dopamine neurons in a conditioned inhibition paradigm.

    Philippe N. Tobler;Anthony Dickinson;Wolfram Schultz

  • Neural mechanisms of observational learning.

    Christopher J. Burke;Philippe N. Tobler;Michelle Baddeley;Wolfram Schultz

  • Ovarian hormones and obesity

    Brigitte Leeners;Nori Geary;Philippe N. Tobler;Lori Asarian

  • Explicit neural signals reflecting reward uncertainty

    Wolfram Schultz;Kerstin Preuschoff;Colin Camerer;Ming Hsu

  • Overconfidence and investment: An experimental approach

    Elena Pikulina;Luc Renneboog;Philippe N. Tobler

  • Functional imaging of the human dopaminergic midbrain

    Emrah Düzel;Nico Bunzeck;Marc Guitart-Masip;Bianca Wittmann

  • Identity-specific coding of future rewards in the human orbitofrontal cortex

    James D. Howard;Jay A. Gottfried;Philippe N. Tobler;Thorsten Kahnt

  • Risk-dependent reward value signal in human prefrontal cortex

    Philippe N. Tobler;George I. Christopoulos;John P. O'Doherty;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Human Neural Learning Depends on Reward Prediction Errors in the Blocking Paradigm

    Philippe N. Tobler;John P. O’Doherty;Raymond J. Dolan;Wolfram Schultz

  • Apathy But Not Diminished Expression in Schizophrenia Is Associated With Discounting of Monetary Rewards by Physical Effort

    Matthias N. Hartmann;Oliver M. Hager;Anna V. Reimann;Justin R. Chumbley

  • Social discounting involves modulation of neural value signals by temporoparietal junction

    Tina Strombach;Tina Strombach;Tina Strombach;Bernd Weber;Bernd Weber;Zsofia Hangebrauk;Peter Kenning;Peter Kenning

  • A neural link between generosity and happiness

    Soyoung Q. Park;Thorsten Kahnt;Azade Dogan;Sabrina Strang

  • Disentangling neural representations of value and salience in the human brain

    Thorsten Kahnt;Soyoung Q. Park;Soyoung Q. Park;John Dylan Haynes;Philippe N. Tobler

  • Parabolic discounting of monetary rewards by physical effort.

    Matthias N. Hartmann;Oliver M. Hager;Philippe N. Tobler;Stefan Kaiser

  • Spatial gradient in value representation along the medial prefrontal cortex reflects individual differences in prosociality

    Sunhae Sul;Philippe N. Tobler;Grit Hein;Susanne Leiberg

  • Brain stimulation reveals crucial role of overcoming self-centeredness in self-control.

    Alexander Soutschek;Christian C. Ruff;Tina Strombach;Tobias Kalenscher

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich
Wolfram Schultz
Wolfram Schultz University of Cambridge
Gustavo Saposnik
Gustavo Saposnik University of Toronto
Thorsten Kahnt
Thorsten Kahnt Northwestern University
Christian C. Ruff
Christian C. Ruff University of Zurich
Boris B. Quednow
Boris B. Quednow University of Zurich
Christoph Mathys
Christoph Mathys Aarhus University
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn
David M. Amodio
David M. Amodio University of Amsterdam
Molly J. Crockett
Molly J. Crockett Yale University

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