Alexander Maier

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
103 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Alexander Maier is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Maier has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 19 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Alexander Maier's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (53 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (50 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (10 papers). Alexander Maier is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (53 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (50 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (10 papers). Alexander Maier collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Alexander Maier's co-authors include David A. Leopold, Frank Q. Ye, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Nikos K. Logothetis, Melanie Wilke, Marieke L. Schölvinck, Jeff H. Duyn, Theofanis I. Panagiotaropoulos, Georgios A. Keliris and Christopher J. Aura and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Maier

100 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Neural basis of global resting-state fMRI activity

2010 717 citations Alexander Maier, David A. Leopold et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Introduction to Research Topic – Binocular Rivalry: A Gateway to Studying Consciousness

2012 562 citations Alexander Maier et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Maier United States	27	3.2k	607	463	372	279	103	4.0k
Chang‐Hwan Im South Korea	37	3.8k 1.2×	1.3k 2.1×	538 1.2×	435 1.2×	183 0.7×	266	5.5k
Stefan Haufe Germany	32	4.5k 1.4×	891 1.5×	396 0.9×	420 1.1×	247 0.9×	90	5.3k
Olivier David France	41	4.3k 1.4×	1.5k 2.4×	815 1.8×	286 0.8×	130 0.5×	203	6.2k
Marcel van Gerven Netherlands	39	3.5k 1.1×	517 0.9×	251 0.5×	481 1.3×	310 1.1×	149	4.9k
Jaeseung Jeong South Korea	29	2.8k 0.9×	646 1.1×	188 0.4×	378 1.0×	271 1.0×	125	4.3k
Jean M. Vettel United States	24	2.1k 0.7×	285 0.5×	585 1.3×	490 1.3×	317 1.1×	65	2.9k
Dezhong Yao China	47	5.7k 1.8×	1.1k 1.8×	682 1.5×	899 2.4×	475 1.7×	295	7.0k
Fabrizio De Vico Fallani Italy	34	3.5k 1.1×	428 0.7×	303 0.7×	491 1.3×	540 1.9×	141	4.2k
Marissa Westerfield United States	21	4.8k 1.5×	465 0.8×	109 0.2×	518 1.4×	274 1.0×	32	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Maier

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Mendoza-Halliday, Diego, Noah Lee, Jacob A. Westerberg, et al.. (2024). A ubiquitous spectrolaminar motif of local field potential power across the primate cortex. Nature Neuroscience. 27(3). 547–560. 36 indexed citations

Westerberg, Jacob A., Jeffrey D. Schall, Geoffrey F. Woodman, & Alexander Maier. (2023). Feedforward attentional selection in sensory cortex. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5993–5993. 3 indexed citations

Cox, Michele A., Jacob A. Westerberg, Paul R. Martin, et al.. (2023). Rapid adaptation of primate LGN neurons to drifting grating stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology. 129(6). 1447–1467. 1 indexed citations

Dougherty, Kacie, et al.. (2023). Does V1 response suppression initiate binocular rivalry?. iScience. 26(8). 107359–107359. 2 indexed citations

Westerberg, Jacob A., et al.. (2023). A role for ocular dominance in binocular integration. Current Biology. 33(18). 3884–3895.e5. 4 indexed citations

Westerberg, Jacob A., et al.. (2022). Laminar microcircuitry of visual cortex producing attention-associated electric fields. eLife. 11(5228). 10. 11 indexed citations

Dougherty, Kacie, et al.. (2022). Stimulating both eyes with matching stimuli enhances V1 responses. iScience. 25(5). 104182–104182. 4 indexed citations

Dougherty, Kacie, Michele A. Cox, Jacob A. Westerberg, et al.. (2021). Binocular Suppression in the Macaque Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Reveals Early Competitive Interactions between the Eyes. eNeuro. 8(2). ENEURO.0364–20.2020. 14 indexed citations

Westerberg, Jacob A., Alexander Maier, & Jeffrey D. Schall. (2020). Priming of Attentional Selection in Macaque Visual Cortex: Feature-Based Facilitation and Location-Based Inhibition of Return. eNeuro. 7(2). ENEURO.0466–19.2020. 12 indexed citations

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Carter, Olivia, Bruno van Swinderen, David A. Leopold, Shaun P. Collin, & Alexander Maier. (2020). Perceptual rivalry across animal species. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 528(17). 3123–3133. 12 indexed citations

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Westerberg, Jacob A., Michele A. Cox, Kacie Dougherty, & Alexander Maier. (2019). V1 microcircuit dynamics: altered signal propagation suggests intracortical origins for adaptation in response to visual repetition. Journal of Neurophysiology. 121(5). 1938–1952. 26 indexed citations

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Dougherty, Kacie, Michael C. Schmid, & Alexander Maier. (2018). Binocular response modulation in the lateral geniculate nucleus. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 527(3). 522–534. 31 indexed citations

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Maier, Alexander, Andrew Sharp, & Yuriy Vagapov. (2017). Comparative analysis and practical implementation of the ESP32 microcontroller module for the internet of things. 143–148. 183 indexed citations

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Schmid, Michael C. & Alexander Maier. (2015). To see or not to see – Thalamo-cortical networks during blindsight and perceptual suppression. Progress in Neurobiology. 126. 36–48. 15 indexed citations

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Ninomiya, Taihei, Kacie Dougherty, David C. Godlove, Jeffrey D. Schall, & Alexander Maier. (2015). Microcircuitry of agranular frontal cortex: contrasting laminar connectivity between occipital and frontal areas. Journal of Neurophysiology. 113(9). 3242–3255. 39 indexed citations

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Maier, Alexander. (2014). Online passive learning of timed automata for cyber-physical production systems. 60–66. 35 indexed citations

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Schmiedt, Joscha T., Alexander Maier, Pascal Fries, et al.. (2014). Beta Oscillation Dynamics in Extrastriate Cortex after Removal of Primary Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(35). 11857–11864. 31 indexed citations

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Niggemann, Oliver, et al.. (2011). Fighting the Modeling Bottleneck - Learning Models for Production Plants.. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 157–166. 6 indexed citations

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Maier, Alexander, Christopher J. Aura, & David A. Leopold. (2011). Infragranular Sources of Sustained Local Field Potential Responses in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(6). 1971–1980. 80 indexed citations

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Maier, Alexander, Nikos K. Logothetis, & David A. Leopold. (2007). Context-dependent perceptual modulation of single neurons in primate visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(13). 5620–5625. 33 indexed citations

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