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Russell A. Poldrack

Russell A. Poldrack

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Neuroscience
USA
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
143
Citations
99138
World Ranking
180
National Ranking
117

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award

Overview

Russell A. Poldrack is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience as a subfield, along with areas such as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, artificial intelligence, experimental and cognitive psychology, and molecular biology.

Their work covers a range of main topics including functional brain connectivity studies, advanced MRI techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, neural and behavioral psychology studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques, mental health research topics, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Recent publications by Russell A. Poldrack include:

  • Analysis of task-based functional MRI data preprocessed with fMRIPrep, 2020, Nature Protocols
  • The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • TemplateFlow: FAIR-sharing of multi-scale, multi-species brain models, 2022, Nature Methods
  • Controversies and progress on standardization of large-scale brain network nomenclature, 2023, Network Neuroscience
  • Measurement in Intensive Longitudinal Data, 2021, Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal

Frequent co-authors in their research include Oscar Estéban, Patrick G. Bissett, Christopher J. Markiewicz, Jeanette A. Mumford, and Mathias Goncalves.

Their most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data

    Tal Yarkoni;Russell A Poldrack;Thomas E Nichols;David C Van Essen

  • Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex.

    Adam R. Aron;Adam R. Aron;Trevor W. Robbins;Russell A. Poldrack

  • fMRIPrep: a robust preprocessing pipeline for functional MRI

    Oscar Esteban;Christopher J. Markiewicz;Ross W. Blair;Craig A. Moodie

  • Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data

    Russell A. Poldrack

  • The Neural Basis of Loss Aversion in Decision-Making Under Risk

    Sabrina M. Tom;Craig R. Fox;Christopher Trepel;Russell A. Poldrack

  • Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex: one decade on.

    Adam R. Aron;Trevor W. Robbins;Russell A. Poldrack

  • Cortical and Subcortical Contributions to Stop Signal Response Inhibition:Role of the Subthalamic Nucleus

    Adam R. Aron;Russell A. Poldrack

  • Functional Specialization for Semantic and Phonological Processing in the Left Inferior Prefrontal Cortex

    Russell A. Poldrack;Anthony D. Wagner;Matthew W. Prull;John E. Desmond

  • The brain imaging data structure, a format for organizing and describing outputs of neuroimaging experiments.

    Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski;Tibor Auer;Vince D. Calhoun;R. Cameron Craddock

  • Function in the human connectome: Task-fMRI and individual differences in behavior

    M Deanna;Gregory C. Burgess;Michael P. Harms;Steven E. Petersen

  • Scanning the horizon: towards transparent and reproducible neuroimaging research

    Russell A. Poldrack;Chris I. Baker;Joke Durnez;Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

    Jeanne E Savage;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe

  • Interactive memory systems in the human brain.

    R. A. Poldrack;J. Clark;E. J. Paré-Blagoev;D. Shohamy

  • Construction of a 3D Probabilistic Atlas of Human Cortical Structures

    David W. Shattuck;Mubeena Mirza;Vitria Adisetiyo;Cornelius Hojatkashani

  • Neural deficits in children with dyslexia ameliorated by behavioral remediation: Evidence from functional MRI

    Elise Temple;Gayle K. Deutsch;Russell A. Poldrack;Steven L. Miller

  • Triangulating a Cognitive Control Network Using Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Functional MRI

    Adam R. Aron;Tim E. Behrens;Steve Smith;Michael J. Frank

  • Competition among multiple memory systems: converging evidence from animal and human brain studies.

    Russell A Poldrack;Mark G Packard

  • Recovering Meaning: Left Prefrontal Cortex Guides Controlled Semantic Retrieval

    Anthony D Wagner;Anthony D Wagner;E.Juliana Paré-Blagoev;Jill Clark;Russell A Poldrack

  • The role of left prefrontal cortex in language and memory

    John D. E. Gabrieli;Russell A. Poldrack;John E. Desmond

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

    Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Felix Holzmeister;Colin F. Camerer;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber

  • Dissociable controlled retrieval and generalized selection mechanisms in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.

    David Badre;David Badre;Russell A. Poldrack;E. Juliana Paré-Blagoev;Rachel Z. Insler

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Bilder
Robert M. Bilder University of California, Los Angeles
Katherine E. Burdick
Katherine E. Burdick Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jeanette A. Mumford
Jeanette A. Mumford University of Wisconsin–Madison
Edythe D. London
Edythe D. London University of California, Los Angeles
Fred W. Sabb
Fred W. Sabb University of Oregon
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
David C. Glahn
David C. Glahn Boston Children's Hospital
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Nikolaos Smyrnis
Nikolaos Smyrnis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital

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