2026 Rufin VanRullen: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	61	3632	3319	138	123	224	16320

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Neuroscience

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3319

138

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16320

Overview

Rufin VanRullen is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans significant fields including neuroscience and computer science, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and biophysics.

The scientist's work covers major topics such as neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, visual attention and saliency detection, neural and behavioral psychology studies, cell image analysis techniques, and face recognition and perception.

Rufin VanRullen has published extensively, with frequent contributions to venues like arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, eLife, and Neural Networks.

Recent papers by or involving Rufin VanRullen include:

Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness (2023), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
Deep learning and the Global Workspace Theory (2021), published in Trends in Neurosciences
Natural scene reconstruction from fMRI signals using generative latent diffusion (2023), published in Scientific Reports
Prefrontal attentional saccades explore space rhythmically (2020), published in Nature Communications
DMT alters cortical travelling waves (2020), published in eLife

Frequent coauthors collaborating with VanRullen include Andrea Alamia, Leila Reddy, Bhavin Choksi, Milad Mozafari, and T. Serre.

Best Publications

The phase of ongoing EEG oscillations predicts visual perception

Niko Busch;Julien Dubois;Rufin VanRullen

1369
Citations
Rapid natural scene categorization in the near absence of attention

Fei Fei Li;Rufin VanRullen;Christof Koch;Pietro Perona

1007
Citations
The Time Course of Visual Processing: From Early Perception to Decision-Making

Rufin Vanrullen;Simon J. Thorpe

945
Citations
Is perception discrete or continuous

Rufin VanRullen;Christof Koch

912
Citations
Perceptual Cycles

Unknown

804
Citations
Spontaneous EEG oscillations reveal periodic sampling of visual attention

Niko A. Busch;Rufin VanRullen

663
Citations
Spike times make sense.

Rufin VanRullen;Rudy Guyonneau;Simon J. Thorpe

650
Citations
An oscillatory mechanism for prioritizing salient unattended stimuli

Ole Jensen;Mathilde Bonnefond;Rufin VanRullen;Rufin VanRullen

523
Citations
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Ultra-rapid visual categorisation of natural and artifactual objects.

Rufin VanRullen;Simon J Thorpe

430
Citations
The Phase of Ongoing Oscillations Mediates the Causal Relation between Brain Excitation and Visual Perception

Laura Dugué;Philippe Marque;Rufin VanRullen

416
Citations
Surfing a spike wave down the ventral stream.

Rufin VanRullen;Simon J Thorpe

337
Citations
The blinking spotlight of attention.

Rufin VanRullen;Thomas Carlson;Thomas Carlson;Patrick Cavanagh

314
Citations
Ongoing EEG Phase as a Trial-by-Trial Predictor of Perceptual and Attentional Variability.

Rufin VanRullen;Niko Busch;Niko Busch;Jan Drewes;Julien Dubois;Julien Dubois

267
Citations
Four Common Conceptual Fallacies in Mapping the Time Course of Recognition

Rufin Vanrullen;Rufin Vanrullen

240
Citations
Alpha oscillations and traveling waves: Signatures of predictive coding?

Andrea Alamia;Rufin VanRullen

213
Citations
On second glance: still no high-level pop-out effect for faces.

Rufin VanRullen

209
Citations
Neurons Tune to the Earliest Spikes Through STDP

Rudy Guyonneau;Rufin Vanrullen;Simon J. Thorpe

206
Citations
On the cyclic nature of perception in vision versus audition

Rufin VanRullen;Benedikt Zoefel;Benedikt Zoefel;Barkin Ilhan

206
Citations
Perceptual Echoes at 10 Hz in the Human Brain

Rufin VanRullen;Rufin VanRullen;James S.P. Macdonald

177
Citations
Visual Selective Behavior Can Be Triggered by a Feed-Forward Process

Rufin Vanrullen;Christof Koch

166
Citations
Why does natural scene categorization require little attention? Exploring attentional requirements for natural and synthetic stimuli

Fei-Fei Li;Rufin VanRullen;Christof Koch;Pietro Perona

150
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christof Koch Allen Institute for Brain Science

Patrick Cavanagh York University

Niko A. Busch University of Münster

Thomas A. Carlson University of Sydney

Robin L. Carhart-Harris University of California, San Francisco

Ryota Kanai University of Sussex

Suliann Ben Hamed Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Pieter R. Roelfsema Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

Frans A. J. Verstraten University of Sydney

Nancy Kanwisher MIT

External Links

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