H. B. Barlow

25.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
81 papers, 15.2k citations indexed

About

H. B. Barlow is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, H. B. Barlow has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 15.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in H. B. Barlow's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (36 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (26 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (16 papers). H. B. Barlow is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (36 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (26 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (16 papers). H. B. Barlow collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. H. B. Barlow's co-authors include W. R. Levick, John D. Pettigrew, Colin Blakemore, Richard Fitzhugh, Stephen W. Kuffler, Richard M. Hill, Barnaby C Reeves, Richard Hill, A. E. Burgess and R. F. Wagner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Brain.

In The Last Decade

H. B. Barlow

81 papers receiving 13.9k 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.

Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information

1983 3.2k citations H. B. Barlow profile →
The mechanism of directionally selective units in rabbit's retina.

1965 1.2k citations H. B. Barlow, W. R. Levick The Journal of Physiology profile →
The neural mechanism of binocular depth discrimination

1967 992 citations H. B. Barlow et al. The Journal of Physiology profile →
Unsupervised Learning

1989 648 citations H. B. Barlow Neural Computation profile →
Change of organization in the receptive fields of the cat's retina during dark adaptation

1957 610 citations H. B. Barlow, Richard Fitzhugh et al. The Journal of Physiology profile →
Retinal ganglion cells responding selectively to direction and speed of image motion in the rabbit

1964 607 citations H. B. Barlow, W. R. Levick et al. The Journal of Physiology profile →
Summation and inhibition in the frog's retina

1953 582 citations H. B. Barlow The Journal of Physiology profile →
Temporal and spatial summation in human vision at different background intensities

1958 557 citations H. B. Barlow The Journal of Physiology profile →
Increment thresholds at low intensities considered as signal/noise discriminations

1957 346 citations H. B. Barlow The Journal of Physiology profile →
Retinal Noise and Absolute Threshold

1956 342 citations H. B. Barlow Journal of the Optical Society of America profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
H. B. Barlow United Kingdom	49	10.3k	3.8k	3.2k	1.8k	1.3k	81	15.2k
T. N. Wiesel United States	27	17.9k 1.7×	8.0k 2.1×	5.0k 1.6×	2.7k 1.5×	1.8k 1.4×	29	24.7k
Torsten N. Wiesel United States	37	14.4k 1.4×	8.5k 2.2×	5.6k 1.8×	833 0.5×	683 0.5×	51	21.1k
J. Anthony Movshon United States	67	19.7k 1.9×	6.7k 1.8×	2.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	546 0.4×	189	21.2k
Charles D. Gilbert United States	60	14.3k 1.4×	6.5k 1.7×	2.4k 0.8×	780 0.4×	488 0.4×	97	16.9k
Robert Shapley United States	75	15.0k 1.5×	6.2k 1.6×	4.1k 1.3×	928 0.5×	346 0.3×	194	17.0k
Colin Blakemore United Kingdom	80	14.2k 1.4×	7.7k 2.1×	5.1k 1.6×	881 0.5×	256 0.2×	283	22.0k
David Marr United States	23	9.1k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	795 0.3×	6.6k 3.7×	1.9k 1.5×	31	19.3k
John H. R. Maunsell United States	70	21.6k 2.1×	5.6k 1.5×	2.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	461 0.4×	126	23.2k
Hugh R. Wilson Canada	57	11.8k 1.1×	1.9k 0.5×	782 0.2×	2.1k 1.2×	588 0.5×	183	13.7k
Guy A. Orban Belgium	83	19.1k 1.9×	4.1k 1.1×	2.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	291 0.2×	403	21.4k

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Barlow, H. B. & Bruno A. Olshausen. (2004). Convergent evidence for the visual analysis of optic flow through anisotropic attenuation of high spatial frequencies. Journal of Vision. 4(6). 1–1. 47 indexed citations

Barlow, H. B.. (1999). The neurologic of matching filters. Journal of Optical Technology. 66(9). 776–776. 4 indexed citations

Carandini, Matteo, H. B. Barlow, Allen Poirson, Lawrence P. O’Keefe, & J. Anthony Movshon. (1997). Adaptation to Contingencies in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex. Perception. 26(1_suppl). 106–106. 2 indexed citations

Tripathy, Srimant P., Alexander J. Mussap, & H. B. Barlow. (1996). Perceptual Grouping of Dots in Noise. Perception. 25(1_suppl). 160–160. 1 indexed citations

Barlow, H. B.. (1990). The Mechanical Mind. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 13(1). 15–24. 17 indexed citations

Barlow, H. B., et al.. (1989). Finding Minimum Entropy Codes. Neural Computation. 1(3). 412–423. 121 indexed citations

Barlow, H. B.. (1988). Neuroscience: a new era?. Nature. 331(6157). 571–571. 14 indexed citations

Barlow, H. B., et al.. (1987). Human contrast discrimination and the threshold of cortical neurons. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 4(12). 2366–2366. 65 indexed citations

Maloney, Robert K., Graeme Mitchison, & H. B. Barlow. (1987). Limit to the detection of Glass patterns in the presence of noise. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 4(12). 2336–2336. 49 indexed citations

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Barlow, H. B.. (1987). Efficiency, versatility, cognitive maps, and language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 10(4). 657–658. 1 indexed citations

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Levick, W. R., et al.. (1983). Performance of cat retinal ganglion cells at low light levels.. The Journal of General Physiology. 82(3). 405–426. 20 indexed citations

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Watson, Andrew B., H. B. Barlow, & John Robson. (1983). What does the eye see best?. Nature. 302(5907). 419–422. 216 indexed citations

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Burgess, A. E., R. F. Wagner, Robert J. Jennings, & H. B. Barlow. (1981). Efficiency of Human Visual Signal Discrimination. Science. 214(4516). 93–94. 354 indexed citations

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Barlow, H. B.. (1981). Critical limiting factors in the design of the eye and visual cortex. 191 indexed citations

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Barlow, H. B. & Barnaby C Reeves. (1979). The versatility and absolute efficiency of detecting mirror symmetry in random dot displays. Vision Research. 19(7). 783–793. 391 indexed citations

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Barlow, H. B. & D.P. Andrews. (1973). The site at which rhodopsin bleaching raises the scotopic threshold. Vision Research. 13(5). 903–908. 13 indexed citations

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Barlow, H. B., et al.. (1971). Responses to single quanta of light in retinal ganglion cells of the cat. Vision Research. 11. 87–101. 208 indexed citations

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Barlow, H. B. & D.P. Andrews. (1967). Sensitivity of Receptors and Receptor “Pools”. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 57(6). 837–837. 26 indexed citations

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Kuffler, Stephen W., Richard Fitzhugh, & H. B. Barlow. (1957). MAINTAINED ACTIVITY IN THE CAT'S RETINA IN LIGHT AND DARKNESS. The Journal of General Physiology. 40(5). 683–702. 245 indexed citations

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Barlow, H. B.. (1952). Eye movements during fixation. The Journal of Physiology. 116(3). 290–306. 175 indexed citations

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