John A. Assad

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

John A. Assad is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. Assad has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in John A. Assad's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (27 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (21 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 papers). John A. Assad is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (27 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (21 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 papers). John A. Assad collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and France. John A. Assad's co-authors include Camillo Padoa‐Schioppa, David J. Freedman, Gaby Maimon, Louis J. Toth, Gordon M. Shepherd, David P. Corey, John H. R. Maunsell, Emad N. Eskandar, Todd M. Herrington and Carrie J. McAdams and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Neuron and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

John A. Assad

39 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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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.

Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value

2006 1.1k citations Camillo Padoa‐Schioppa, John A. Assad Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John A. Assad United States	30	3.7k	936	521	413	332	39	4.6k
Anne K. Churchland United States	30	3.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	433 0.8×	260 0.6×	369 1.1×	52	4.4k
Carlos D. Brody United States	39	5.5k 1.5×	2.0k 2.2×	430 0.8×	395 1.0×	397 1.2×	73	6.2k
C. Daniel Salzman United States	29	4.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.8×	286 0.5×	423 1.0×	517 1.6×	41	5.0k
Camillo Padoa‐Schioppa United States	26	4.0k 1.1×	705 0.8×	207 0.4×	154 0.4×	345 1.0×	40	4.5k
Tobias H. Donner Germany	38	5.6k 1.5×	728 0.8×	354 0.7×	152 0.4×	603 1.8×	78	6.1k
Carl R. Olson United States	41	5.0k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	328 0.6×	702 1.7×	543 1.6×	84	6.0k
Roozbeh Kiani United States	30	6.0k 1.6×	726 0.8×	280 0.5×	213 0.5×	651 2.0×	57	6.8k
Ádám Kepecs United States	38	5.0k 1.3×	3.2k 3.5×	687 1.3×	1.1k 2.6×	277 0.8×	65	6.8k
Jacqueline Gottlieb United States	34	4.5k 1.2×	510 0.5×	311 0.6×	386 0.9×	847 2.6×	56	5.5k
Amos Arieli Israel	28	5.9k 1.6×	2.6k 2.8×	276 0.5×	305 0.7×	267 0.8×	52	6.5k

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Spagnolo, Barbara, Antonio Balena, Rui T. Peixoto, et al.. (2022). Tapered fibertrodes for optoelectrical neural interfacing in small brain volumes with reduced artefacts. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations

Mikhael, John G., et al.. (2022). Dopamine mediates the bidirectional update of interval timing.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 136(5). 445–452. 3 indexed citations

Spagnolo, Barbara, Antonio Balena, Rui T. Peixoto, et al.. (2022). Tapered fibertrodes for optoelectrical neural interfacing in small brain volumes with reduced artefacts. Nature Materials. 21(7). 826–835. 42 indexed citations

Pisanello, Ferruccio, Leonardo Sileo, Ian Antón Oldenburg, et al.. (2014). Multipoint-Emitting Optical Fibers for Spatially Addressable In Vivo Optogenetics. Neuron. 82(6). 1245–1254. 148 indexed citations

Freedman, David J., et al.. (2013). Biased Associative Representations in Parietal Cortex. Neuron. 77(1). 180–191. 34 indexed citations

Freedman, David J. & John A. Assad. (2011). A proposed common neural mechanism for categorization and perceptual decisions. Nature Neuroscience. 14(2). 143–146. 104 indexed citations

Maimon, Gaby & John A. Assad. (2009). Beyond Poisson: Increased Spike-Time Regularity across Primate Parietal Cortex. Neuron. 62(3). 426–440. 153 indexed citations

Herrington, Todd M. & John A. Assad. (2009). Neural Activity in the Middle Temporal Area and Lateral Intraparietal Area during Endogenously Cued Shifts of Attention. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(45). 14160–14176. 45 indexed citations

Herrington, Todd M., et al.. (2009). The Effect of Microsaccades on the Correlation between Neural Activity and Behavior in Middle Temporal, Ventral Intraparietal, and Lateral Intraparietal Areas. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(18). 5793–5805. 83 indexed citations

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Maimon, Gaby & John A. Assad. (2006). A cognitive signal for the proactive timing of action in macaque LIP. Nature Neuroscience. 9(7). 948–955. 147 indexed citations

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Seitz, Aaron R., et al.. (2006). Activity of Tonically Active Neurons in the Monkey Putamen During Initiation and Withholding of Movement. Journal of Neurophysiology. 95(4). 2391–2403. 37 indexed citations

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Maimon, Gaby & John A. Assad. (2006). Parietal Area 5 and the Initiation of Self-Timed Movements versus Simple Reactions. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(9). 2487–2498. 44 indexed citations

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Padoa‐Schioppa, Camillo & John A. Assad. (2006). Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value. Nature. 441(7090). 223–226. 1081 indexed citations breakdown →

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Freedman, David J. & John A. Assad. (2006). Experience-dependent representation of visual categories in parietal cortex. Nature. 443(7107). 85–88. 401 indexed citations

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Williams, Ziv M., John C. Elfar, Emad N. Eskandar, Louis J. Toth, & John A. Assad. (2003). Parietal activity and the perceived direction of ambiguous apparent motion. Nature Neuroscience. 6(6). 616–623. 132 indexed citations

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Assad, John A.. (1999). A Biased View of Attention. Neuron. 22(4). 642–644. 2 indexed citations

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Eskandar, Emad N. & John A. Assad. (1999). Dissociation of visual, motor and predictive signals in parietal cortex during visual guidance. Nature Neuroscience. 2(1). 88–93. 152 indexed citations

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Maunsell, John H. R., et al.. (1999). Visual response latencies of magnocellular and parvocellular LGN neurons in macaque monkeys. Visual Neuroscience. 16(1). 1–14. 217 indexed citations

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Assad, John A. & John H. R. Maunsell. (1995). Neuronal correlates of inferred motion in primate posterior parietal cortex. Nature. 373(6514). 518–521. 186 indexed citations

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Assad, John A., Gordon M. Shepherd, & David P. Corey. (1991). Tip-link integrity and mechanical transduction in vertebrate hair cells. Neuron. 7(6). 985–994. 386 indexed citations

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