Aaron L. Sampson

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Aaron L. Sampson is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron L. Sampson has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 papers in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Aaron L. Sampson's work include EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (11 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers) and Anesthesia and Sedative Agents (9 papers). Aaron L. Sampson is often cited by papers focused on EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (11 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers) and Anesthesia and Sedative Agents (9 papers). Aaron L. Sampson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium. Aaron L. Sampson's co-authors include Patrick L. Purdon, Emery N. Brown, Kara J. Pavone, Oluwaseun Akeju, Michael J. Prerau, Eric T. Pierce, P. Grace Harrell, J. Walsh, Kathleen Habeeb and Katharine E. Hartnack and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Applied Physics and Anesthesiology.

In The Last Decade

Aaron L. Sampson

21 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Electroencephalogram signatures of loss and recovery of consciousness from propofol

2013 535 citations Patrick L. Purdon, Eric T. Pierce et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Clinical Electroencephalography for Anesthesiologists

2015 533 citations Patrick L. Purdon, Aaron L. Sampson et al. Anesthesiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron L. Sampson United States	11	1.0k	992	513	498	322	24	1.9k
Kara J. Pavone United States	18	971 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	698 1.4×	669 1.3×	396 1.2×	28	2.4k
ShiNung Ching United States	18	1.2k 1.2×	627 0.6×	324 0.6×	343 0.7×	492 1.5×	95	2.0k
Matthias Kreuzer Germany	24	556 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	622 1.2×	609 1.2×	182 0.6×	132	1.8k
Mika Särkelä Finland	16	611 0.6×	934 0.9×	471 0.9×	496 1.0×	126 0.4×	36	1.6k
Gilles Plourde Canada	24	1.1k 1.1×	673 0.7×	227 0.4×	351 0.7×	418 1.3×	60	2.0k
Satoshi Hagihira Japan	23	634 0.6×	659 0.7×	216 0.4×	261 0.5×	158 0.5×	64	1.5k
Eric T. Pierce United States	18	789 0.8×	689 0.7×	283 0.6×	277 0.6×	252 0.8×	48	1.8k
V. Jäntti Finland	28	993 1.0×	678 0.7×	277 0.5×	376 0.8×	296 0.9×	108	2.4k
J. F. Brichant Belgium	15	911 0.9×	462 0.5×	144 0.3×	177 0.4×	211 0.7×	25	1.5k
Erik Weber Jensen Spain	22	520 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	432 0.8×	494 1.0×	83 0.3×	63	1.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sampson, Aaron L., Erik E. Emeric, Moshe Glickman, et al.. (2025). Overt Visual Attention in the Formation of Preference Between Complex Lottery Options. Computational Brain & Behavior. 8(4). 568–587.

Taylor, Chris, Aaron L. Sampson, Ernst Niebur, et al.. (2024). An Exploratory Study of Large-Scale Brain Networks during Gambling Using SEEG. Brain Sciences. 14(8). 773–773.

Sampson, Aaron L., Claudia Lainscsek, C. González, et al.. (2019). Delay differential analysis for dynamical sleep spindle detection. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 316. 12–21. 8 indexed citations

Lainscsek, Claudia, C. González, Aaron L. Sampson, Sydney S. Cash, & Terrence J. Sejnowski. (2019). Causality detection in cortical seizure dynamics using cross-dynamical delay differential analysis. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 29(10). 101103–101103. 7 indexed citations

Lainscsek, Claudia, Lyle Muller, Aaron L. Sampson, & Terrence J. Sejnowski. (2017). Analytical Derivation of Nonlinear Spectral Effects and 1/f Scaling Artifact in Signal Processing of Real-World Data. Neural Computation. 29(7). 2004–2020. 3 indexed citations

Das, Anup, Aaron L. Sampson, Claudia Lainscsek, et al.. (2017). Interpretation of the Precision Matrix and Its Application in Estimating Sparse Brain Connectivity during Sleep Spindles from Human Electrocorticography Recordings. Neural Computation. 29(3). 603–642. 17 indexed citations

Purdon, Patrick L., Aaron L. Sampson, Kara J. Pavone, & Emery N. Brown. (2015). Clinical Electroencephalography for Anesthesiologists. Anesthesiology. 123(4). 937–960. 533 indexed citations breakdown →

Purdon, Patrick L., Kara J. Pavone, Oluwaseun Akeju, et al.. (2015). The Ageing Brain: Age-dependent changes in the electroencephalogram during propofol and sevoflurane general anaesthesia. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 115. i46–i57. 241 indexed citations

Pavone, Kara J., et al.. (2015). Nitrous oxide-induced slow and delta oscillations. Clinical Neurophysiology. 127(1). 556–564. 45 indexed citations

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Akeju, Oluwaseun, Kara J. Pavone, M. Brandon Westover, et al.. (2014). A Comparison of Propofol- and Dexmedetomidine-induced Electroencephalogram Dynamics Using Spectral and Coherence Analysis. Anesthesiology. 121(5). 978–989. 123 indexed citations

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Akeju, Oluwaseun, Kara J. Pavone, M. Brandon Westover, et al.. (2014). A Comparison of Propofol- and Dexmedetomidine-induced Electroencephalogram Dynamics Using Spectral and Coherence Analysis. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Prerau, Michael J., et al.. (2014). Tracking the Sleep Onset Process: An Empirical Model of Behavioral and Physiological Dynamics. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(10). e1003866–e1003866. 63 indexed citations

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Valenza, Gaetano, Oluwaseun Akeju, Kara J. Pavone, et al.. (2014). Instantaneous monitoring of heart beat dynamics during anesthesia and sedation. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 1(1). 12 indexed citations

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Purdon, Patrick L., Eric T. Pierce, Eran A. Mukamel, et al.. (2013). Electroencephalogram signatures of loss and recovery of consciousness from propofol. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(12). E1142–51. 535 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sampson, Aaron L., Behtash Babadi, Michael J. Prerau, et al.. (2012). Beamforming approach to phase-amplitude modulation analysis of multi-channel EEG. PubMed. 313. 6731–6734. 2 indexed citations

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Purdon, Patrick L., Emery N. Brown, Kin Foon Kevin Wong, et al.. (2011). Bayesian analysis of trinomial data in behavioral experiments and its application to human studies of general anesthesia. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 6 indexed citations

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Mukamel, Eran A., Andrés F. Zuluaga, Eric T. Pierce, et al.. (2011). Robust time-varying multivariate coherence estimation: Application to electroencephalogram recordings during general anesthesia. PubMed. 2011. 4725–8. 6 indexed citations

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Smith, Adaline C., Eric T. Pierce, P. Grace Harrell, et al.. (2011). Bayesian analysis of trinomial data in behavioral experiments and its application to human studies of general anesthesia. PubMed. 10. 4705–4708. 10 indexed citations

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Ganapati, Vidya, Stephan Schoenfelder, Sergio Castellanos, et al.. (2010). Infrared birefringence imaging of residual stress and bulk defects in multicrystalline silicon. Journal of Applied Physics. 108(6). 49 indexed citations

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Sampson, Aaron L. & Graeme Smith. (2010). Gravity Points in Potential-Field Approaches to Self Organisation. 110–115. 1 indexed citations

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