Carlos Acuña

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Carlos Acuña is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carlos Acuña has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Carlos Acuña's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (8 papers). Carlos Acuña is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (8 papers). Carlos Acuña collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Chile and United States. Carlos Acuña's co-authors include H Sakata, James C. Lynch, A. P. Georgopoulos, Vernon B. Mountcastle, Javier Cudeiro, Kenneth L. Grieve, José L. Pardo‐Vázquez, Susana Martínez‐Conde, Casto Rivadulla and Víctor Leborán and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Carlos Acuña

41 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Posterior parietal association cortex of the monkey: command functions for operations within extrapersonal space

1975 1.5k citations Carlos Acuña et al. Journal of Neurophysiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carlos Acuña Spain	15	1.8k	431	283	218	212	43	2.3k
R. Tweedale Australia	22	1.5k 0.8×	678 1.6×	200 0.7×	456 2.1×	241 1.1×	29	2.2k
Kenneth L. Grieve Spain	19	1.4k 0.8×	523 1.2×	115 0.4×	153 0.7×	205 1.0×	34	1.7k
Keisetsu Shima Japan	24	2.9k 1.6×	604 1.4×	524 1.9×	352 1.6×	163 0.8×	50	3.6k
David C. Bradley United States	20	3.0k 1.6×	663 1.5×	293 1.0×	246 1.1×	439 2.1×	32	3.6k
Markus Bauer United Kingdom	25	1.8k 1.0×	324 0.8×	243 0.9×	92 0.4×	130 0.6×	45	2.2k
Geoff Barrett United Kingdom	27	2.1k 1.2×	327 0.8×	150 0.5×	381 1.7×	208 1.0×	73	3.1k
Andrea Brovelli France	22	2.2k 1.2×	521 1.2×	244 0.9×	124 0.6×	70 0.3×	40	2.6k
Veit Stuphorn United States	27	2.9k 1.6×	429 1.0×	230 0.8×	286 1.3×	157 0.7×	45	3.3k
Stephanie R. Jones United States	28	2.5k 1.4×	1.1k 2.6×	162 0.6×	187 0.9×	262 1.2×	57	3.4k
Matthew V. Chafee United States	25	2.7k 1.5×	637 1.5×	240 0.8×	131 0.6×	162 0.8×	43	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carlos Acuña

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Acuña, Carlos, et al.. (2025). Revitalizing transformed landscapes: Economic valuation of artificial lake shorelines for hydropower generation. Environmental Development. 54. 101163–101163. 1 indexed citations

Asperen, Roelie M. Wösten‐van, Carlos Acuña, Parthasarathi Bhattacharyya, et al.. (2024). The burden of pediatric critical illness among pediatric oncology patients in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology. 203. 104467–104467. 1 indexed citations

Acuña, Carlos, et al.. (2019). Health shocks and the added worker effect: a life cycle approach. Journal of Applied Economics. 22(1). 273–286. 6 indexed citations

Acuña, Carlos. (2013). Sepsis, una tarea de todos. Revista chilena de pediatría. 84(6). 604–605.

Hunter, Boyd, G. González, J. Godoy, et al.. (2013). Liver Transplantation in Children Weighing Less Than 10 kg: Chilean Experience. Transplantation Proceedings. 45(10). 3731–3733. 16 indexed citations

González, G., et al.. (2011). Arteritis de Takayasu en Lactante: Caso Clínico. Revista chilena de pediatría. 82(1). 56–62. 1 indexed citations

Acuña, Carlos & José L. Pardo‐Vázquez. (2011). Ventral premotor cortex neuronal activity matches perceptual decisions. European Journal of Neuroscience. 33(12). 2338–2348. 5 indexed citations

Acuña, Carlos, José L. Pardo‐Vázquez, & Víctor Leborán. (2010). Decision-Making, Behavioral Supervision and Learning: An Executive Role for the Ventral Premotor Cortex?. Neurotoxicity Research. 18(3-4). 416–427. 14 indexed citations

Pardo‐Vázquez, José L., Víctor Leborán, & Carlos Acuña. (2008). Neural Correlates of Decisions and Their Outcomes in the Ventral Premotor Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(47). 12396–12408. 44 indexed citations

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Nácher, Verónica, et al.. (2006). Neural correlates of memory retrieval in the prefrontal cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. 24(3). 925–936. 18 indexed citations

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Cadarso-Suárez, Carmén, Javier Roca‐Pardiñas, Geert Molenberghs, et al.. (2006). Flexible Modelling of Neuron Firing Rates Across Different Experimental Conditions: An Application to Neural Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex During a Discrimination Task. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics). 55(4). 431–447. 6 indexed citations

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Roca‐Pardiñas, Javier, Carmén Cadarso-Suárez, Verónica Nácher, & Carlos Acuña. (2005). Bootstrap-based methods for testing factor-by-curve interactions in generalized additive models: assessing prefrontal cortex neural activity related to decision-making. Statistics in Medicine. 25(14). 2483–2501. 14 indexed citations

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Grieve, Kenneth L., Carlos Acuña, & Javier Cudeiro. (2000). The primate pulvinar nuclei: vision and action. Trends in Neurosciences. 23(1). 35–39. 222 indexed citations

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Rivadulla, Casto, Kenneth L. Grieve, Rosa Rodríguez, et al.. (1997). An unusual effect of application of the amino acid L-arginine on cat visual cortical cells.. PubMed. 8(4). 863–6. 4 indexed citations

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Rivadulla, Casto, et al.. (1996). The Influence of Nitric Oxide on Perigeniculate GABAergic Cell Activity in the Anaesthetized Cat. European Journal of Neuroscience. 8(12). 2459–2466. 2 indexed citations

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Cudeiro, Javier, Casto Rivadulla, Susana Martínez‐Conde, et al.. (1996). Further Observations on the Role of Nitric Oxide in the Feline Lateral Geniculate Nucleus. European Journal of Neuroscience. 8(1). 144–152. 35 indexed citations

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Cudeiro, Javier, Casto Rivadulla, Rosa Rodríguez, et al.. (1994). Modulatory influence of putative inhibitors of nitric oxide synthesis on visual processing in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus. Journal of Neurophysiology. 71(1). 146–149. 40 indexed citations

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González, Francisco, et al.. (1993). Cell responses to vertical and horizontal retinal disparities in the monkey visual cortex. Neuroscience Letters. 160(2). 167–170. 25 indexed citations

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González, Francisco, R. Pérez, José‐Manuel Alonso, José L. Labandeira‐García, & Carlos Acuña. (1992). Responses of visual single cells in the superior colliculus of the albino rat to bright bars.. PubMed. 130(4). 249–61. 7 indexed citations

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González, Francisco, R. Pérez, Carlos Acuña, José‐Manuel Alonso, & José L. Labandeira‐García. (1991). Contrast responses to bright slits of visual cells in the superior colliculus of the albino rat. International Journal of Neuroscience. 58(3-4). 255–259. 2 indexed citations

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