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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2019 - Ferrier Medal, The Royal Society, UK For his work charting the brain activity related to fundamental aspects of human conduct and behaviour.
  • 2017 - The Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation For their multidisciplinary analysis of brain mechanisms that link learning to reward, which has far-reaching implications for the understanding of human behaviour, including disorders of decision-making in conditions such as gambling, drug addiction, compulsive behaviour and schizophrenia
  • 2011 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2007 - Max Planck Research Award Neuromodulation and behaviour
  • 2006 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Raymond J. Dolan is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a wide range of topics and fields within neuroscience and psychology, contributing extensively to the understanding of brain function and behavior.

The primary fields of study for this researcher include Neuroscience and Psychology, with a particular focus on several subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Applied Psychology

The main topics addressed in their publications cover diverse aspects of brain and behavior research:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Frequently published in notable venues, their works appear in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • eLife
  • Biological Psychiatry

Their recent significant papers include:

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan, 2022, Nature
  • Experience replay is associated with efficient nonlocal learning, 2021, Science
  • Confidence drives a neural confirmation bias, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Replay bursts in humans coincide with activation of the default mode and parietal alpha networks, 2020, Neuron
  • Conservative and disruptive modes of adolescent change in human brain functional connectivity, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The researcher has collaborated frequently with several colleagues, including:

  • Edward T. Bullmore
  • Peter Fonagy
  • Peter B. Jones
  • Tobias U. Hauser
  • Michael Moutoussis

Their work has been recognized through various awards and honors:

  • Ferrier Medal, The Royal Society, UK (2019) for work on brain activity related to human conduct and behavior
  • The Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation (2017) for multidisciplinary analysis linking learning to reward and its implications for human behavior and decision-making disorders
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2011)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2010)
  • Max Planck Research Award (2007) for contributions to neuromodulation and behavior
  • Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation (2006)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

  • Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

    Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John O'Doherty;Holger Kaube

  • Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness.

    Hugo D Critchley;Stefan Wiens;Pia Rotshtein;Arne Ohman

  • Psychophysiological and modulatory interactions in neuroimaging.

    K. J. Friston;C. Buechel;G. R. Fink;J. Morris

  • A differential neural response in the human amygdala to fearful and happy facial expressions

    J. S. Morris;C. D. Frith;D. I. Perrett;D. Rowland

  • Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans

    Nathaniel D. Daw;John P. O'Doherty;Peter Dayan;Ben Seymour

  • Emotion, cognition, and behavior.

    Raymond J. Dolan

  • Dissociable roles of ventral and dorsal striatum in instrumental conditioning

    John O'Doherty;Peter Dayan;Johannes Schultz;Ralf Deichmann

  • Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

    Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John P. O'Doherty;Klaas E. Stephan

  • Conscious and unconscious emotional learning in the human amygdala

    J. S. Morris;A. Ohman;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Effects of attention and emotion on face processing in the human brain: An event-related fMRI study

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Jorge L. Armony;Jon Driver;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Frames, biases, and rational decision-making in the human brain

    Benedetto De Martino;Dharshan Kumaran;Ben Seymour;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Other minds in the brain: a functional imaging study of "theory of mind" in story comprehension.

    P. C. Fletcher;F. Happe;U. Frith;S. C. Baker

  • Model-based influences on humans' choices and striatal prediction errors.

    Nathaniel D. Daw;Samuel J. Gershman;Ben Seymour;Peter Dayan

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan

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  • Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans

    Mathias Pessiglione;Ben Seymour;Guillaume Flandin;Raymond J. Dolan

  • A subcortical pathway to the right amygdala mediating “unseen” fear

    J. Morris;A. Öhman;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Temporal difference models and reward-related learning in the human brain

    John P. O'Doherty;Peter Dayan;Karl Friston;Hugo Critchley

  • Dissociable neural responses to facial expressions of sadness and anger

    R. J. Blair;J. S. Morris;C. D. Frith;D. I. Perrett

  • A neuromodulatory role for the human amygdala in processing emotional facial expressions

    J. S. Morris;K. J. Friston;C. Buchel;C. D. Frith

  • Encoding predictive reward value in human amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex

    Jay A. Gottfried;John O'Doherty;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Human cingulate cortex and autonomic control: converging neuroimaging and clinical evidence

    Hugo D. Critchley;Christopher J. Mathias;Oliver Josephs;John O'Doherty

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Dayan
Peter Dayan Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
Ben Seymour
Ben Seymour University of Oxford
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Hugo D. Critchley
Hugo D. Critchley Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Dominik R. Bach
Dominik R. Bach University of Bonn
Marc Guitart-Masip
Marc Guitart-Masip Karolinska Institute

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