Benjamin Dunn

2.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Dunn is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Dunn has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Dunn's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (7 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers). Benjamin Dunn is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (7 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers). Benjamin Dunn collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and Sweden. Benjamin Dunn's co-authors include Yasser Roudi, Edvard I Moser, May‐Britt Moser, Nils A. Baas, John L. Kubie, Marianne Fyhn, Tora Bonnevie, Torkel Hafting, Dori Derdikman and Sheng-Jia Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Dunn

18 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Recurrent inhibitory circuitry as a mechanism for grid fo... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2013 2022 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Recurrent inhibitory circuitry as a mechanism for grid formation
    2013 286 citations Jonathan J. Couey, Aree Witoelar et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  2. Grid cells require excitatory drive from the hippocampus
    2013 249 citations Tora Bonnevie, Benjamin Dunn et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  3. Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells
    2022 172 citations Richard J. Gardner, Erik Hermansen et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin Dunn Norway 12 907 696 75 63 60 18 1.1k
Charu Bai Reddy United Kingdom 7 949 1.0× 564 0.8× 93 1.2× 44 0.7× 70 1.2× 7 1.1k
Eric A. Zilli United States 11 1.2k 1.3× 978 1.4× 71 0.9× 58 0.9× 44 0.7× 16 1.2k
Jasper Poort United Kingdom 14 1.6k 1.7× 740 1.1× 126 1.7× 58 0.9× 54 0.9× 18 1.7k
Alon Rubin Israel 12 862 1.0× 697 1.0× 82 1.1× 113 1.8× 52 0.9× 17 1.1k
Jadin C. Jackson United States 11 823 0.9× 660 0.9× 70 0.9× 52 0.8× 26 0.4× 15 924
Asohan Amarasingham United States 10 1.5k 1.7× 1.1k 1.6× 74 1.0× 82 1.3× 30 0.5× 14 1.7k
Ning-long Xu China 14 1.1k 1.2× 986 1.4× 113 1.5× 95 1.5× 36 0.6× 22 1.4k
Kimberly Stachenfeld United Kingdom 9 1.0k 1.1× 368 0.5× 68 0.9× 37 0.6× 79 1.3× 16 1.3k
Sue Ann Koay United States 10 760 0.8× 618 0.9× 76 1.0× 99 1.6× 70 1.2× 13 1.2k
Andres Grosmark United States 15 1.4k 1.6× 1.2k 1.7× 64 0.9× 103 1.6× 34 0.6× 22 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin Dunn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Dunn

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Benjamin Dunn. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Benjamin Dunn based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Benjamin Dunn. Benjamin Dunn is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Carpenter, Jordan, Jan Sigurd Blackstad, David Tingley, et al.. (2024). Investigating egocentric tuning in hippocampal CA1 neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(38). e0040242024–e0040242024. 1 indexed citations
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Hermansen, Erik, David Klindt, & Benjamin Dunn. (2024). Uncovering 2-D toroidal representations in grid cell ensemble activity during 1-D behavior. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5429–5429. 6 indexed citations
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Dunn, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Behavioral decomposition reveals rich encoding structure employed across neocortex in rats. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3947–3947. 16 indexed citations
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Dunn, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). A novel paradigm for observational learning in rats. Cognitive Neurodynamics. 18(2). 757–767. 2 indexed citations
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Gardner, Richard J., Erik Hermansen, Marius Pachitariu, et al.. (2022). Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells. Nature. 602(7895). 123–128. 172 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dunn, Benjamin, et al.. (2020). Action representation in the mouse parieto-frontal network. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 5559–5559. 13 indexed citations
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Dunn, Benjamin, et al.. (2018). Efficient cortical coding of 3D posture in freely behaving rats. Science. 362(6414). 584–589. 83 indexed citations
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Dunn, Benjamin, et al.. (2018). Using persistent homology to reveal hidden covariates in systems governed by the kinetic Ising model. Physical review. E. 97(3). 32313–32313. 7 indexed citations
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Baas, Nils A., et al.. (2018). Decoding of Neural Data Using Cohomological Feature Extraction. Neural Computation. 31(1). 68–93. 24 indexed citations
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Kanter, Benjamin R., Christine Lykken, Daniel Avesar, et al.. (2017). A Novel Mechanism for the Grid-to-Place Cell Transformation Revealed by Transgenic Depolarization of Medial Entorhinal Cortex Layer II. Neuron. 93(6). 1480–1492.e6. 75 indexed citations
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Dunn, Benjamin, et al.. (2017). Learning with unknowns: Analyzing biological data in the presence of hidden variables. Current Opinion in Systems Biology. 1. 122–128. 5 indexed citations
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Dunn, Benjamin, et al.. (2015). Correlations and Functional Connections in a Population of Grid Cells. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(2). e1004052–e1004052. 38 indexed citations
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Roudi, Yasser, Benjamin Dunn, & John Hertz. (2014). Multi-neuronal activity and functional connectivity in cell assemblies. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 32. 38–44. 31 indexed citations
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Couey, Jonathan J., Aree Witoelar, Sheng-Jia Zhang, et al.. (2013). Recurrent inhibitory circuitry as a mechanism for grid formation. Nature Neuroscience. 16(3). 318–324. 286 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dunn, Benjamin & Yasser Roudi. (2013). Learning and inference in a nonequilibrium Ising model with hidden nodes. Physical Review E. 87(2). 22127–22127. 27 indexed citations
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Bonnevie, Tora, Benjamin Dunn, Marianne Fyhn, et al.. (2013). Grid cells require excitatory drive from the hippocampus. Nature Neuroscience. 16(3). 309–317. 249 indexed citations breakdown →
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Quatieri, Thomas F., et al.. (2008). Adaptive short-time analysis-synthesis for speech enhancement. Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 4905–4908. 16 indexed citations
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Dunn, Benjamin, et al.. (1999). Online structural damage detection using subspace estimation. 173–179 vol.2. 5 indexed citations

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