| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Distributed Hierarchical Processing in the Primate Cerebral Cortex | Cerebral Cortex | 1991 | 6,701 |
| 2 | Automatically Parcellating the Human Cerebral Cortex | Cerebral Cortex | 2004 | 3,657 |
| 3 | Preface: Cerebral Cortex Has Come of Age | Cerebral Cortex | 1991 | 3,460 |
| 4 | Where Is the Semantic System? A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of 120 Functional Neuroimaging Studies | Cerebral Cortex | 2009 | 3,271 |
| 5 | Emotion, Decision Making and the Orbitofrontal Cortex | Cerebral Cortex | 2000 | 2,712 |
| 6 | Tracking Whole-Brain Connectivity Dynamics in the Resting State | Cerebral Cortex | 2014 | 2,426 |
| 7 | Regional Brain Changes in Aging Healthy Adults: General Trends, Individual Differences and Modifiers | Cerebral Cortex | 2005 | 2,331 |
| 8 | The Organization of Networks within the Orbital and Medial Prefrontal Cortex of Rats, Monkeys and Humans | Cerebral Cortex | 2000 | 2,246 |
| 9 | The Human Brainnetome Atlas: A New Brain Atlas Based on Connectional Architecture | Cerebral Cortex | 2016 | 1,962 |
| 10 | Resting-State Functional Connectivity Reflects Structural Connectivity in the Default Mode Network | Cerebral Cortex | 2009 | 1,915 |
| 11 | Local-Global Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex from Intrinsic Functional Connectivity MRI | Cerebral Cortex | 2018 | 1,804 |
| 12 | Action Observation and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study with Expert Dancers | Cerebral Cortex | 2005 | 1,645 |
| 13 | Decoding Subject-Driven Cognitive States with Whole-Brain Connectivity Patterns | Cerebral Cortex | 2012 | 1,635 |
| 14 | Motor Areas of the Medial Wall: A Review of Their Location and Functional Activation | Cerebral Cortex | 1996 | 1,590 |
| 15 | Thinning of the Cerebral Cortex in Aging | Cerebral Cortex | 2004 | 1,556 |
| 16 | Practice-related Changes in Human Brain Functional Anatomy during Nonmotor Learning | Cerebral Cortex | 1994 | 1,473 |
| 17 | Retinotopic organization in human visual cortex and the spatial precision of functional MRI | Cerebral Cortex | 1997 | 1,425 |
| 18 | Cognitive Reappraisal of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Human Neuroimaging Studies | Cerebral Cortex | 2014 | 1,391 |
| 19 | The Orbitofrontal Cortex and Reward | Cerebral Cortex | 2000 | 1,375 |
| 20 | High-resolution EEG mapping of cortical activation related to working memory: effects of task difficulty, type of processing, and practice | Cerebral Cortex | 1997 | 1,311 |
| 21 | The Topographical and Neuroanatomical Distribution of Neurofibrillary Tangles and Neuritic Plaques in the Cerebral Cortex of Patients with Alzheimer's Disease | Cerebral Cortex | 1991 | 1,293 |
| 22 | GABAergic cell subtypes and their synaptic connections in rat frontal cortex | Cerebral Cortex | 1997 | 1,249 |
| 23 | Area V5 of the Human Brain: Evidence from a Combined Study Using Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Cerebral Cortex | 1993 | 1,236 |
| 24 | Neurophysiological Architecture of Functional Magnetic Resonance Images of Human Brain | Cerebral Cortex | 2005 | 1,202 |
| 25 | Small-World Anatomical Networks in the Human Brain Revealed by Cortical Thickness from MRI | Cerebral Cortex | 2007 | 1,174 |
| 26 | Functional Heterogeneity in Cingulate Cortex: The Anterior Executive and Posterior Evaluative Regions | Cerebral Cortex | 1992 | 1,171 |
| 27 | Generation and Evaluation of a Cortical Area Parcellation from Resting-State Correlations | Cerebral Cortex | 2016 | 1,132 |
| 28 | Human Temporal Lobe Activation by Speech and Nonspeech Sounds | Cerebral Cortex | 2000 | 1,128 |
| 29 | Distinct Genetic Influences on Cortical Surface Area and Cortical Thickness | Cerebral Cortex | 2009 | 1,109 |
| 30 | Selective aging of the human cerebral cortex observed in vivo: differential vulnerability of the prefrontal gray matter | Cerebral Cortex | 1997 | 1,099 |
| 31 | Small-World Networks and Functional Connectivity in Alzheimer's Disease | Cerebral Cortex | 2006 | 1,088 |
| 32 | Que PASA? The Posterior-Anterior Shift in Aging | Cerebral Cortex | 2008 | 1,078 |
| 33 | Failure to Respond Autonomically to Anticipated Future Outcomes Following Damage to Prefrontal Cortex | Cerebral Cortex | 1996 | 1,076 |
| 34 | Addiction, a Disease of Compulsion and Drive: Involvement of the Orbitofrontal Cortex | Cerebral Cortex | 2000 | 1,062 |
| 35 | Reduced resting-state brain activity in the “default network” in normal aging | Cerebral Cortex | 2008 | 1,051 |
| 36 | Spectral and Temporal Processing in Human Auditory Cortex | Cerebral Cortex | 2001 | 1,041 |
| 37 | Segmentation of Subcomponents within the Superior Longitudinal Fascicle in Humans: A Quantitative, In Vivo, DT-MRI Study | Cerebral Cortex | 2005 | 1,038 |
| 38 | Apathy and the Functional Anatomy of the Prefrontal Cortex–Basal Ganglia Circuits | Cerebral Cortex | 2006 | 1,025 |
| 39 | Network Centrality in the Human Functional Connectome | Cerebral Cortex | 2012 | 1,003 |
| 40 | Synaptic Mechanisms and Network Dynamics Underlying Spatial Working Memory in a Cortical Network Model | Cerebral Cortex | 2000 | 981 |
| 41 | Mapping Anatomical Connectivity Patterns of Human Cerebral Cortex Using In Vivo Diffusion Tensor Imaging Tractography | Cerebral Cortex | 2009 | 979 |
| 42 | Oscillations in the Alpha Band (9-12 Hz) Increase with Memory Load during Retention in a Short-term Memory Task | Cerebral Cortex | 2002 | 970 |
| 43 | The Hippocampo-Neocortical Dialogue | Cerebral Cortex | 1996 | 966 |
| 44 | Functional Connectivity of Human Striatum: A Resting State fMRI Study | Cerebral Cortex | 2008 | 962 |
| 45 | Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Brain Development: Ages 4–18 | Cerebral Cortex | 1996 | 952 |
| 46 | Model of global spontaneous activity and local structured activity during delay periods in the cerebral cortex | Cerebral Cortex | 1997 | 945 |
| 47 | Functional and Anatomical Cortical Underconnectivity in Autism: Evidence from an fMRI Study of an Executive Function Task and Corpus Callosum Morphometry | Cerebral Cortex | 2007 | 907 |
| 48 | Dissociating Verbal and Spatial Working Memory Using PET | Cerebral Cortex | 1996 | 906 |
| 49 | Normal Sexual Dimorphism of the Adult Human Brain Assessed by In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Cerebral Cortex | 2001 | 884 |
| 50 | Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Response Conflict: Effects of Frequency, Inhibition and Errors | Cerebral Cortex | 2001 | 880 |
