Daniel J. Amit

12.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
84 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Daniel J. Amit is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel J. Amit has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 33 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 32 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Daniel J. Amit's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (51 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (32 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (32 papers). Daniel J. Amit is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (51 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (32 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (32 papers). Daniel J. Amit collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Italy and United States. Daniel J. Amit's co-authors include Hanoch Gutfreund, Haim Sompolinsky, Misha Tsodyks, V. Martı́n-Mayor, Stefano Fusi, Luca Peliti, Gianluigi Mongillo, Nicolas Brunel, Giorgio Parisi and Meir Griniasty and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Daniel J. Amit

79 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Modeling Brain Function

1989 1.3k citations Daniel J. Amit profile →
Spin-glass models of neural networks

1985 733 citations Daniel J. Amit, Hanoch Gutfreund et al. Physical review. A, General physics profile →
Storing Infinite Numbers of Patterns in a Spin-Glass Model of Neural Networks

1985 697 citations Daniel J. Amit, Hanoch Gutfreund et al. profile →
Statistical mechanics of neural networks near saturation

1987 573 citations Daniel J. Amit, Hanoch Gutfreund et al. Annals of Physics profile →
Field Theory, the Renormalization Group, and Critical Phenomena

2005 530 citations Daniel J. Amit et al. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks profile →
Field Theory, The Renormalization Group and Critical Phenomena

1993 519 citations Daniel J. Amit WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks profile →
Modeling Brain Function

1989 444 citations Daniel J. Amit profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel J. Amit Israel	32	4.5k	3.1k	1.7k	1.7k	1.6k	84	8.0k
J. Leo van Hemmen Germany	40	3.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.5×	533 0.3×	202	6.7k
John Hertz Denmark	33	1.4k 0.3×	1.9k 0.6×	892 0.5×	647 0.4×	3.0k 1.9×	121	7.8k
Haim Sompolinsky Israel	66	10.5k 2.4×	6.2k 2.0×	4.3k 2.4×	3.5k 2.0×	2.5k 1.6×	176	18.2k
T. Geisel Germany	45	2.4k 0.5×	532 0.2×	4.0k 2.3×	702 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	194	9.2k
William Bialek United States	62	9.9k 2.2×	2.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.7×	1.6k 0.9×	488 0.3×	153	18.1k
Hanoch Gutfreund Israel	31	1.4k 0.3×	2.0k 0.6×	724 0.4×	825 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	89	4.4k
Vincent Hakim France	44	1.9k 0.4×	402 0.1×	2.0k 1.1×	481 0.3×	2.0k 1.3×	89	7.2k
L. F. Abbott United States	50	5.5k 1.2×	984 0.3×	2.3k 1.3×	1.9k 1.1×	136 0.1×	121	12.5k
Ido Kanter Israel	38	855 0.2×	2.0k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	535 0.3×	192	4.9k
M. I. Rabinovich United States	50	4.5k 1.0×	996 0.3×	3.5k 2.0×	1.1k 0.6×	162 0.1×	222	8.4k

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Yakovlev, Volodya, Daniel J. Amit, Sandro Romani, & Shaul Hochstein. (2008). Universal Memory Mechanism for Familiarity Recognition and Identification. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(1). 239–248. 16 indexed citations

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Orlov, Tanya, Daniel J. Amit, Volodya Yakovlev, Ehud Zohary, & Shaul Hochstein. (2006). Memory of Ordinal Number Categories in Macaque Monkeys. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 18(3). 399–417. 8 indexed citations

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Romani, Sandro, Daniel J. Amit, & Gianluigi Mongillo. (2006). Mean-field analysis of selective persistent activity in presence of short-term synaptic depression. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 20(2). 201–217. 28 indexed citations

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Orlov, Tanya, Daniel J. Amit, Volodya Yakovlev, Ehud Zohary, & Shaul Hochstein. (2006). Memory of Ordinal Number Categories in Macaque Monkeys. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 18(3). 399–417. 11 indexed citations

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Mongillo, Gianluigi, et al.. (2005). Learning in realistic networks of spiking neurons and spike‐driven plastic synapses. European Journal of Neuroscience. 21(11). 3143–3160. 33 indexed citations

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Yakovlev, Volodya, Alberto Bernacchia, Tanya Orlov, Shaul Hochstein, & Daniel J. Amit. (2004). Multi-item Working Memory — A Behavioral Study. Cerebral Cortex. 15(5). 602–615. 14 indexed citations

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Mongillo, Gianluigi & Daniel J. Amit. (2001). Oscillations and Irregular Emission in Networks of Linear Spiking Neurons. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 11(3). 249–261. 8 indexed citations

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Amit, Daniel J.. (1998). Simulation in neurobiology: theory or experiment?. Trends in Neurosciences. 21(6). 231–237. 26 indexed citations

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Amit, Daniel J.. (1995). The Hebbian paradigm reintegrated: Local reverberations as internal representations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 18(4). 617–626. 279 indexed citations

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Amit, Daniel J.. (1993). Field Theory, The Renormalization Group and Critical Phenomena. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amit, Daniel J., M. R. Evans, & Micha Abeles. (1990). Attractor neural networks with biological probe records. Network Computation in Neural Systems. 1(4). 381–405. 59 indexed citations

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Amit, Daniel J., M. R. Evans, & Micha Abeles. (1990). Attractor neural networks with biological probe records. Network Computation in Neural Systems. 1(4). 381–405. 12 indexed citations

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Amit, Daniel J.. (1990). Attractor neural networks and biological reality: associative memory and learning. Future Generation Computer Systems. 6(2). 111–119. 5 indexed citations

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Amit, Daniel J.. (1989). Modeling Brain Function. 444 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amit, Daniel J., Hanoch Gutfreund, & Haim Sompolinsky. (1987). Information storage in neural networks with low levels of activity. Physical review. A, General physics. 35(5). 2293–2303. 234 indexed citations

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Amit, Daniel J., Hanoch Gutfreund, & Haim Sompolinsky. (1985). Spin-glass models of neural networks. Physical review. A, General physics. 32(2). 1007–1018. 733 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amit, Daniel J., Giorgio Parisi, & Luca Peliti. (1983). Asymptotic behavior of the "true" self-avoiding walk. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 27(3). 1635–1645. 190 indexed citations

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Amit, Daniel J., et al.. (1981). First order transitions induced by fluctuations in general φ4-theories. Annals of Physics. 133(1). 57–78. 48 indexed citations

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Amit, Daniel J. & Yadin Y. Goldschmidt. (1978). Crossover at a bicritical point: Asymptotic behavior of a field theory with quadratic symmetry breaking. Annals of Physics. 114(1-2). 356–409. 61 indexed citations

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Amit, Daniel J. & Marco Zannetti. (1973). Self-consistent treatment of a phase transition. Journal of Statistical Physics. 9(1). 1–21. 8 indexed citations

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