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2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
112
Citations
44091
World Ranking
509
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Pierre Maquet is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium and has a research focus spanning Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work particularly emphasizes areas such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Physiology, Neurology, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems.

The scientist's main research topics include Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Sleep and related disorders, Circadian rhythm and melatonin, Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Frequent coauthors in their research network include Gilles Vandewalle, Christophe Phillips, Fabienne Collette, Éric Salmon, and Daphné Chylinski.

Maquet has frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SLEEP, Scientific Reports, JCI Insight, and Communications Biology.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Evaluating the effects of tDCS in stroke patients using functional outcomes: a systematic review (2020, Disability and Rehabilitation)
  • Parkinson's disease multimodal imaging: F-DOPA PET, neuromelanin-sensitive and quantitative iron-sensitive MRI (2021, npj Parkinson s Disease)
  • Timely coupling of sleep spindles and slow waves linked to early amyloid-β burden and predicts memory decline (2022, eLife)
  • Exploring scoring methods for research studies: Accuracy and variability of visual and automated sleep scoring (2020, Journal of Sleep Research)
  • Relationship between brain AD biomarkers and episodic memory performance in healthy aging (2021, Brain and Cognition)

Best Publications

  • The role of sleep in learning and memory.

    Pierre Maquet

  • Functional neuroanatomy of human rapid-eye-movement sleep and dreaming.

    Pierre Maquet;Jean-Marie Péters;Joël Aerts;Guy Delfiore

  • Are spatial memories strengthened in the human hippocampus during slow wave sleep

    Philippe Peigneux;Steven Laureys;Sonia Fuchs;Fabienne Collette

  • Experience-dependent changes in cerebral activation during human REM sleep

    Pierre Maquet;Pierre Maquet;Steven Laureys;Philippe Peigneux;Sonia Fuchs

  • Default network connectivity reflects the level of consciousness in non-communicative brain- damaged patients

    Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse;Quentin Noirhomme;Luaba J.-F. Tshibanda;Marie-Aurelie Bruno

  • Breakdown of within- and between-network Resting State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Connectivity during Propofol-induced Loss of Consciousness

    Pierre Boveroux;Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse;Marie-Aurélie Bruno;Quentin Noirhomme

  • Functional neuroanatomy of human slow wave sleep.

    Pierre Maquet;Christian Degueldre;Guy Delfiore;Joël Aerts

  • Functional neuroimaging of normal human sleep by positron emission tomography.

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  • Light as a modulator of cognitive brain function

    Gilles Vandewalle;Pierre Maquet;Derk-Jan Dijk

  • Distinct Regions of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Are Associated with Self-referential Processing and Perspective Taking

    Arnaud D'Argembeau;Perrine Ruby;Fabienne Collette;Christian Degueldre

  • Baseline brain activity fluctuations predict somatosensory perception in humans

    Mélanie Boly;Evelyne Balteau;Caroline Schnakers;Christian Degueldre

  • Hemodynamic cerebral correlates of sleep spindles during human non-rapid eye movement sleep.

    M. Schabus;T. T. Dang-Vu;G. Albouy;E. Balteau

  • Both the hippocampus and striatum are involved in consolidation of motor sequence memory.

    Geneviève Albouy;Virginie Sterpenich;Evelyne Balteau;Gilles Vandewalle

  • Brain Activity Underlying Encoding and Retrieval of Source Memory

    Selene Cansino;Pierre Maquet;Raymond J. Dolan;Michael D. Rugg

  • Restoration of thalamocortical connectivity after recovery from persistent vegetative state

    Steven Laureys;Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville;André Luxen;Maurice Lamy

  • Cortical Processing of Noxious Somatosensory Stimuli in the Persistent Vegetative State

    S. Laureys;M.E. Faymonville;P. Peigneux;P. Damas

  • Spontaneous neural activity during human slow wave sleep

    Thien Thanh Dang-Vu;Manuel Schabus;Martin Desseilles;Geneviève Albouy

  • Sleep transforms the cerebral trace of declarative memories

    Steffen Gais;Geneviève Albouy;Mélanie Boly;Thien Thanh Dang-Vu

  • Neural correlates of perceptual learning: A functional MRI study of visual texture discrimination

    Sophie Schwartz;Pierre Maquet;Chris Frith

  • Perception of pain in the minimally conscious state with PET activation: an observational study

    Mélanie Boly;Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville;Caroline Schnakers;Philippe Peigneux

Frequent Co-Authors

André Luxen
André Luxen University of Liège
Christophe Phillips
Christophe Phillips University of Liège
Christian Degueldre
Christian Degueldre University of Liège
Philippe Peigneux
Philippe Peigneux Université Libre de Bruxelles
Gilles Vandewalle
Gilles Vandewalle University of Liège
Steven Laureys
Steven Laureys University of Liège
Martin Desseilles
Martin Desseilles University of Namur
Evelyne Balteau
Evelyne Balteau University of Liège
Fabienne Collette
Fabienne Collette University of Liège
Virginie Sterpenich
Virginie Sterpenich University of Geneva

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