Ad Aertsen

20.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
181 papers, 13.8k citations indexed

About

Ad Aertsen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ad Aertsen has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 13.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 161 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 105 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 27 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Ad Aertsen's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (129 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (67 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (43 papers). Ad Aertsen is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (129 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (67 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (43 papers). Ad Aertsen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Ad Aertsen's co-authors include Stefan Rotter, Markus Diesmann, Carsten Mehring, Arvind Kumar, Andreas Schulze‐Bonhage, Tonio Ball, Amos Arieli, A. Sterkin, Amiram Grinvald and P. I. M. Johannesma and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ad Aertsen

180 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Dynamics of Ongoing Activity: Explanation of the Large Variability in Evoked Cortical Responses

1996 1.3k citations Ad Aertsen et al. profile →
Review of the BCI Competition IV

2012 829 citations Ad Aertsen, Carsten Mehring et al. profile →
Stable propagation of synchronous spiking in cortical neural networks

1999 696 citations Markus Diesmann, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig et al. profile →
Dynamics of neuronal interactions in monkey cortex in relation to behavioural events

1995 587 citations Eilon Vaadia, Ad Aertsen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ad Aertsen Germany	61	11.9k	6.9k	2.2k	1.6k	1.1k	181	13.8k
Liam Paninski United States	52	8.5k 0.7×	5.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	745 0.7×	163	12.0k
Stefano Panzeri Italy	63	10.6k 0.9×	5.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	600 0.5×	218	12.7k
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga United Kingdom	53	9.7k 0.8×	4.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	644 0.4×	574 0.5×	133	11.8k
Andreas K. Engel Germany	79	27.2k 2.3×	9.0k 1.3×	988 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	812 0.7×	309	31.7k
Alain Destexhe France	63	12.7k 1.1×	8.5k 1.2×	2.0k 0.9×	3.3k 2.1×	395 0.4×	242	15.0k
Sydney S. Cash United States	64	10.5k 0.9×	5.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	411 0.3×	1.5k 1.3×	306	14.4k
L. F. Abbott United States	48	8.3k 0.7×	6.4k 0.9×	3.2k 1.5×	1.2k 0.7×	414 0.4×	89	11.8k
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis United States	74	15.9k 1.3×	12.9k 1.9×	2.7k 1.2×	409 0.3×	3.3k 3.0×	226	21.2k
William T. Newsome United States	66	20.3k 1.7×	6.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	661 0.6×	100	22.4k
T. J. Sejnowski United States	30	7.1k 0.6×	4.0k 0.6×	565 0.3×	694 0.4×	272 0.2×	48	9.9k

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Ketzef, Maya, et al.. (2019). Direct pathway neurons in mouse dorsolateral striatum in vivo receive stronger synaptic input than indirect pathway neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology. 122(6). 2294–2303. 12 indexed citations

Derix, Johanna, Rajbir Kaur, Andreas Schulze‐Bonhage, et al.. (2018). Real-life speech production and perception have a shared premotor-cortical substrate. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 8898–8898. 27 indexed citations

Pistohl, Tobias, Jörg Fischer, Pavel Kršek, et al.. (2016). Predominance of Movement Speed Over Direction in Neuronal Population Signals of Motor Cortex: Intracranial EEG Data and A Simple Explanatory Model. Cerebral Cortex. 26(6). 2863–2881. 38 indexed citations

Vorwerk, Johannes, Felix Lucka, Moritz Dannhauer, et al.. (2015). The role of blood vessels in high-resolution volume conductor head modeling of EEG. NeuroImage. 128. 193–208. 43 indexed citations

Pistohl, Tobias, Thomas Schmidt, Tonio Ball, et al.. (2013). Grasp Detection from Human ECoG during Natural Reach-to-Grasp Movements. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e54658–e54658. 39 indexed citations

Aertsen, Ad, et al.. (2011). Significance of Input Correlations in Striatal Function. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(11). e1002254–e1002254. 25 indexed citations

Ball, Tonio, Andreas Schulze‐Bonhage, Ad Aertsen, & Carsten Mehring. (2009). Differential representation of arm movement direction in relation to cortical anatomy and function. Journal of Neural Engineering. 6(1). 16006–16006. 102 indexed citations

Rickert, Jörn, Alexa Riehle, Ad Aertsen, Stefan Rotter, & Martin Paul Nawrot. (2009). Dynamic Encoding of Movement Direction in Motor Cortical Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(44). 13870–13882. 51 indexed citations

Heinrich, Sven P., Ad Aertsen, & Michael Bach. (2008). Oblique effects beyond low-level visual processing. Vision Research. 48(6). 809–818. 13 indexed citations

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Kumar, Arvind, Sven Schrader, Ad Aertsen, & Stefan Rotter. (2007). The High-Conductance State of Cortical Networks. Neural Computation. 20(1). 1–43. 140 indexed citations

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Rickert, Jörn, Simone Cardoso de Oliveira, Eilon Vaadia, et al.. (2005). Encoding of Movement Direction in Different Frequency Ranges of Motor Cortical Local Field Potentials. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(39). 8815–8824. 243 indexed citations

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Gütig, Robert, Ad Aertsen, & Stefan Rotter. (2003). Analysis of higher-order neuronal interactions based on conditional inference. Biological Cybernetics. 88(5). 352–359. 20 indexed citations

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Gewaltig, Marc-Oliver, Markus Diesmann, & Ad Aertsen. (2001). Propagation of cortical synfire activity: survival probability in single trials and stability in the mean. Neural Networks. 14(6-7). 657–673. 70 indexed citations

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Gewaltig, Marc-Oliver, Markus Diesmann, & Ad Aertsen. (2001). Cortical synfire-activity: Configuration space and survival probability. Neurocomputing. 38-40. 621–626. 3 indexed citations

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Aertsen, Ad, et al.. (1996). Propagation of synchronous spiking activity in feedforward neural networks. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 90(3-4). 243–247. 97 indexed citations

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Aertsen, Ad. (1993). Brain theory : spatio-temporal aspects of brain function. Elsevier eBooks. 39 indexed citations

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Stern, Edward A., Ad Aertsen, Eilon Vaadia, & Shaul Hochstein. (1992). Stimulus Encoding by Multidimensional Receptive Fields in Single Cells and Cell Populations in V1 of Awake Monkey. Neural Information Processing Systems. 5. 377–384. 3 indexed citations

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Preißl, Hubert, Ad Aertsen, & G. Palm. (1990). Are Fractal Dimensions a Good Measure for Neuronal Activity. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 83–86. 1 indexed citations

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Bonhoeffer, Tobias, Albrecht Kossel, Jürgen Bolz, & Ad Aertsen. (1990). Modified Hebbian Rule for Synaptic Enhancement in the Hippocampus and the Visual Cortex. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 55(0). 137–146. 11 indexed citations

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Aertsen, Ad & Günther Palm. (1986). Brain Theory: Proceedings of the First Trieste Meeting on Brain Theory, October 1–4, 1984. Springer eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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