David Willshaw

7.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
100 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

David Willshaw is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, David Willshaw has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 47 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in David Willshaw's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (40 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (20 papers) and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (17 papers). David Willshaw is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (40 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (20 papers) and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (17 papers). David Willshaw collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. David Willshaw's co-authors include C. von der Malsburg, Richard Durbin, O. Buneman, H. C. Longuet–Higgins, Andrew Gillies, Peter Dayan, Jay Buckingham, Bruce Graham, David C. Sterratt and Geoffrey J. Goodhill and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

David Willshaw

98 papers receiving 4.2k citations

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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.

Non-Holographic Associative Memory

1969 649 citations David Willshaw, O. Buneman et al. Nature profile →
An analogue approach to the travelling salesman problem using an elastic net method

1987 542 citations David Willshaw et al. Nature profile →
How patterned neural connections can be set up by self-organization

1976 511 citations David Willshaw et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Willshaw United Kingdom	32	2.4k	1.6k	1.4k	756	694	100	4.6k
Surya Ganguli United States	37	2.5k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	434 0.6×	484 0.7×	119	5.1k
George Moore United States	28	3.2k 1.4×	2.0k 1.2×	717 0.5×	308 0.4×	294 0.4×	98	5.3k
Kevin Gurney United Kingdom	29	3.7k 1.6×	2.0k 1.3×	591 0.4×	511 0.7×	468 0.7×	107	6.2k
Joshua T Vogelstein United States	32	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	614 0.4×	673 0.9×	308 0.4×	116	4.1k
Valentino Braitenberg Germany	16	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	602 0.4×	298 0.4×	343 0.5×	25	3.6k
John P. Cunningham United States	33	4.9k 2.1×	2.1k 1.4×	868 0.6×	238 0.3×	702 1.0×	85	6.3k
T. J. Sejnowski United States	30	7.1k 3.0×	4.0k 2.5×	710 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	565 0.8×	48	9.9k
Tomoki Fukai Japan	36	3.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	567 0.4×	589 0.8×	765 1.1×	162	4.2k
Florentin Wörgötter Germany	41	2.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	316 0.4×	601 0.9×	290	6.1k
Sara A. Solla United States	36	1.9k 0.8×	944 0.6×	2.3k 1.6×	284 0.4×	446 0.6×	77	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Willshaw

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Eglen, Stephen J., Ben Marwick, Yaroslav O. Halchenko, et al.. (2017). Toward standard practices for sharing computer code and programs in neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience. 20(6). 770–773. 63 indexed citations

Willshaw, David, et al.. (2014). Analysis of Local and Global Topographic Order in Mouse Retinocollicular Maps. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(5). 1791–1805. 6 indexed citations

Tijms, Betty M., Peggy Seriès, David Willshaw, & Stephen M. Lawrie. (2011). Similarity-Based Extraction of Individual Networks from Gray Matter MRI Scans. Cerebral Cortex. 22(7). 1530–1541. 232 indexed citations

Bamford, Simeon A., Alan F. Murray, & David Willshaw. (2010). Synaptic rewiring for topographic mapping and receptive field development. Neural Networks. 23(4). 517–527. 11 indexed citations

Willshaw, David. (2006). Analysis of mouse EphA knockins and knockouts suggests that retinal axons programme target cells to form ordered retinotopic maps. Development. 133(14). 2705–2717. 28 indexed citations

Ijspeert, Auke Jan, John Hallam, & David Willshaw. (1998). Evolution of a central pattern generator for the swimming and trotting gaits of the salamander. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2 indexed citations

Gillies, Andrew & David Willshaw. (1998). A massively connected subthalamic nucleus leads to the generation of widespread pulses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 265(1410). 2101–2109. 51 indexed citations

Ijspeert, Auke Jan, John Hallam, & David Willshaw. (1997). Artificial Lampreys: Comparing Naturally and Artificially Evolved Swimming Controllers. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 256–265. 3 indexed citations

Willshaw, David, et al.. (1995). The Role of Activity in Synaptic Competition at the Neuromuscular Junction. Neural Information Processing Systems. 8. 96–102. 2 indexed citations

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Goodhill, Geoffrey J., Martin W. Simmen, & David Willshaw. (1995). An evaluation of the use of multidimensional scaling for understanding brain connectivity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 348(1325). 265–280. 28 indexed citations

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Graham, Bruce & David Willshaw. (1994). Capacity and Information Efficiency of a Brain-like Associative Net. Neural Information Processing Systems. 7. 513–520. 3 indexed citations

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Willshaw, David. (1994). Non-symbolic approaches to artificial intelligence and the mind. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences. 349(1689). 87–102. 4 indexed citations

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Buckingham, Jay & David Willshaw. (1993). On setting unit thresholds in an incompletely connected associative net. Network Computation in Neural Systems. 4(4). 441–459. 14 indexed citations

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Willshaw, David & Peter Dayan. (1992). SYNAPTIC LEARNING RULES. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Willshaw, David & Jay Buckingham. (1990). An assessment of Marr’s theory of the hippocampus as a temporary memory store. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 329(1253). 205–215. 83 indexed citations

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Willshaw, David & Peter Dayan. (1990). Optimal Plasticity from Matrix Memories: What Goes Up Must Come Down. Neural Computation. 2(1). 85–93. 123 indexed citations

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Willshaw, David. (1981). The establishment and the subsequent elimination of polyneuronal innervation of developing muscle: theoretical considerations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 212(1187). 233–252. 28 indexed citations

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Willshaw, David. (1980). Can the specificity of some nerve connections be accounted for by unspecific mechanisms?. Trends in Neurosciences. 3(6). 157–158.

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Willshaw, David, H. C. Longuet–Higgins, & O. Buneman. (1970). Models for the Brain. Nature. 225(5228). 178–178. 2 indexed citations

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Longuet–Higgins, H. C., David Willshaw, & O. Buneman. (1970). Theories of associative recall. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 3(2). 223–244. 49 indexed citations

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