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Vinod Goel

Vinod Goel

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Neuroscience

D-Index
37
Citations
12261
World Ranking
8660
National Ranking
507

Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
12263
World Ranking
9014
National Ranking
608

Overview

Vinod Goel is affiliated with York University in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and statistics and probability.

The scientist's recent scholarly output includes studies published in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal and Cognitive Neurodynamics. Notable recent papers are:

  • Perceived danger associated with a property modulates cross category generalization, 2022, Cognitive Neurodynamics
  • Modulating the Conjunction Fallacy Through Stimuli Manipulation and Anodal Tdcs Stimulation, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Modulating the Conjunction Fallacy Through Stimuli Manipulation and Anodal Tdcs Stimulation, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Vinod Goel include Peipeng Liang, Xiuying Miao, Hengrui Zhang, and Ke Jiang.

  • Peipeng Liang
  • Xiuying Miao
  • Hengrui Zhang
  • Ke Jiang

The scientist's publication outlets mainly feature the SSRN Electronic Journal and Cognitive Neurodynamics.

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cognitive Neurodynamics

Vinod Goel's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Among book contributions, Vinod Goel has published with The MIT Press. One published book is Reason and Less (2022).

Best Publications

  • Sketches of thought

    Vinod Goel

  • The structure of design problem spaces

    Vinod Goel;Peter Pirolli

  • Modeling other minds.

    Vinod Goel;Jordan Grafman;Norihiro Sadato;Mark Hallett

  • Explaining modulation of reasoning by belief.

    Vinod Goel;Raymond J Dolan;Raymond J Dolan

  • Are the frontal lobes implicated in “planning” functions? Interpreting data from the Tower of Hanoi

    Vinod Goel;Jordan Grafman

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of aesthetic preference for paintings.

    Oshin Vartanian;Vinod Goel

  • The functional anatomy of humor: segregating cognitive and affective components

    Vinod Goel;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Dissociation of Mechanisms Underlying Syllogistic Reasoning

    Vinod Goel;Vinod Goel;Christian Buchel;Chris Frith;Raymond J. Dolan;Raymond J. Dolan

  • The seats of reason? An imaging study of deductive and inductive reasoning.

    Vinod Goel;Brian Gold;Shitij Kapur;Sylvain Houle

  • Anatomy of deductive reasoning

    Vinod Goel

  • Smarter Than We Think When Our Brains Detect That We Are Biased

    Wim De Neys;Oshin Vartanian;Vinod Goel

  • Motivating the Notion of generic design within information-processing theory: the design problem space

    V. Goel;P. Pirolli

  • Differential involvement of left prefrontal cortex in inductive and deductive reasoning.

    Vinod Goel;Raymond J Dolan

  • Neuroanatomical Correlates of Human Reasoning

    Vinod Goel;Brian Gold;Shitij Kapur;Sylvain Houle

  • A study of the performance of patients with frontal lobe lesions in a financial planning task.

    Vinod Goel;Jordan Grafman;Jinous Tajik;Sheldon Gana

  • Functional neuroanatomy of three-term relational reasoning.

    Vinod Goel;Raymond J Dolan;Raymond J Dolan

  • Reciprocal neural response within lateral and ventral medial prefrontal cortex during hot and cold reasoning.

    Vinod Goel;Raymond J. Dolan

  • ROLE OF THE RIGHT PREFRONTAL CORTEX IN ILL-STRUCTURED PLANNING

    Vinod Goel;Jordan Grafman

  • Dissociating the Roles of Right Ventral Lateral and Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex in Generation and Maintenance of Hypotheses in Set-shift Problems

    Vinod Goel;Oshin Vartanian

  • Anatomical Segregation of Component Processes in an Inductive Inference Task

    Vinod Goel;Raymond J. Dolan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordan Grafman
Jordan Grafman Northwestern University
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Frank Krueger
Frank Krueger George Mason University
Brian T. Gold
Brian T. Gold University of Kentucky
Annalena Venneri
Annalena Venneri Brunel University London
Paolo Frigio Nichelli
Paolo Frigio Nichelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Juan Pascual-Leone
Juan Pascual-Leone York University
Maryanne L. Fisher
Maryanne L. Fisher Saint Mary's University
Ildebrando Appollonio
Ildebrando Appollonio University of Milano-Bicocca
Wim De Neys
Wim De Neys Université Paris Cité

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