Mayank Mehta

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Mayank Mehta is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Sensory Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Mayank Mehta has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 6 papers in Sensory Systems. Recurrent topics in Mayank Mehta's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (26 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (22 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (22 papers). Mayank Mehta is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (26 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (22 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (22 papers). Mayank Mehta collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and India. Mayank Mehta's co-authors include Bert Sakmann, Thomas T. G. Hahn, Matthew Wilson, Bruce L. McNaughton, Carol A. Barnes, Michael C. Quirk, Omar J. Ahmed, Carl C.H. Petersen, Amiram Grinvald and Zahra M. Aghajan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Mayank Mehta

40 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

  1. Interaction of sensory responses with spontaneous depolarization in layer 2/3 barrel cortex
    2003 531 citations Carl C.H. Petersen, Thomas T. G. Hahn et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mayank Mehta United States 25 2.6k 2.2k 240 207 181 41 2.9k
James F.A. Poulet Germany 30 2.4k 0.9× 2.2k 1.0× 232 1.0× 227 1.1× 126 0.7× 47 3.6k
Bassam V. Atallah United States 11 2.0k 0.8× 1.8k 0.9× 189 0.8× 130 0.6× 149 0.8× 13 2.6k
Dmitriy Aronov United States 22 2.2k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 270 1.1× 167 0.8× 105 0.6× 27 3.1k
Albert K. Lee United States 20 2.2k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 135 0.6× 106 0.5× 141 0.8× 33 2.6k
Cornelius Schwarz Germany 30 2.1k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 206 0.9× 215 1.0× 416 2.3× 77 2.8k
Eva Pastalkova United States 15 2.6k 1.0× 2.3k 1.1× 125 0.5× 110 0.5× 243 1.3× 22 3.3k
Randy M. Bruno United States 31 3.7k 1.4× 3.4k 1.6× 345 1.4× 192 0.9× 207 1.1× 49 4.9k
Kechen Zhang United States 19 1.8k 0.7× 1.0k 0.5× 159 0.7× 104 0.5× 148 0.8× 45 2.3k
Nicholas A. Steinmetz United States 28 3.5k 1.3× 1.8k 0.8× 282 1.2× 229 1.1× 93 0.5× 47 4.0k
Ulf Knoblich United States 17 2.9k 1.1× 2.5k 1.2× 193 0.8× 176 0.9× 195 1.1× 21 3.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mayank Mehta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mayank Mehta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mayank Mehta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mayank Mehta based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mayank Mehta. Mayank Mehta is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Choudhary, Krishna, Sven Berberich, Thomas T. G. Hahn, James M. McFarland, & Mayank Mehta. (2024). Spontaneous persistent activity and inactivity in vivo reveals differential cortico-entorhinal functional connectivity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3542–3542.
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Mehta, Mayank, et al.. (2021). Enhanced hippocampal theta rhythmicity and emergence of eta oscillation in virtual reality. Nature Neuroscience. 24(8). 1065–1070. 24 indexed citations
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Moore, Jason J., et al.. (2021). Linking hippocampal multiplexed tuning, Hebbian plasticity and navigation. Nature. 599(7885). 442–448. 39 indexed citations
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Moore, Jason J., Pascal Ravassard, David Ho, et al.. (2017). Dynamics of cortical dendritic membrane potential and spikes in freely behaving rats. Science. 355(6331). 72 indexed citations
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Acharya, Lavanya, Zahra M. Aghajan, Cliff Vuong, Jason J. Moore, & Mayank Mehta. (2015). Causal Influence of Visual Cues on Hippocampal Directional Selectivity. Cell. 164(1-2). 197–207. 107 indexed citations
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Aghajan, Zahra M., Lavanya Acharya, Jason J. Moore, et al.. (2014). Impaired spatial selectivity and intact phase precession in two-dimensional virtual reality. Nature Neuroscience. 18(1). 121–128. 167 indexed citations
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Cushman, Jesse D., Daniel Aharoni, Pascal Ravassard, et al.. (2013). Multisensory Control of Multimodal Behavior: Do the Legs Know What the Tongue Is Doing?. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e80465–e80465. 35 indexed citations
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Mehta, Mayank, et al.. (2012). Nonlinear-dynamics theory of up-down transitions in neocortical neural networks. Physical Review E. 85(2). 21908–21908. 30 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Omar J. & Mayank Mehta. (2012). Running Speed Alters the Frequency of Hippocampal Gamma Oscillations. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(21). 7373–7383. 127 indexed citations
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Hahn, Thomas T. G., James M. McFarland, Sven Berberich, Bert Sakmann, & Mayank Mehta. (2012). Spontaneous persistent activity in entorhinal cortex modulates cortico-hippocampal interaction in vivo. Nature Neuroscience. 15(11). 1531–1538. 96 indexed citations
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Resnik, Ernesto, J. M. McFarland, Rolf Sprengel, Bert Sakmann, & Mayank Mehta. (2012). The Effects of GluA1 Deletion on the Hippocampal Population Code for Position. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(26). 8952–8968. 29 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhiping, et al.. (2011). Speed Controls the Amplitude and Timing of the Hippocampal Gamma Rhythm. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e21408–e21408. 80 indexed citations
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McFarland, James M., Thomas T. G. Hahn, & Mayank Mehta. (2011). Explicit-Duration Hidden Markov Model Inference of UP-DOWN States from Continuous Signals. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e21606–e21606. 16 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Omar J. & Mayank Mehta. (2009). The hippocampal rate code: anatomy, physiology and theory. Trends in Neurosciences. 32(6). 329–338. 93 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Kari L., Francesco P. Battaglia, Kenneth D. Harris, et al.. (2007). The Upshot of Up States in the Neocortex: From Slow Oscillations to Memory Formation. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(44). 11838–11841. 48 indexed citations
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Mehta, Mayank. (2005). Role of Rhythms in Facilitating Short-Term Memory. Neuron. 45(1). 7–9. 11 indexed citations
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Petersen, Carl C.H., Thomas T. G. Hahn, Mayank Mehta, Amiram Grinvald, & Bert Sakmann. (2003). Interaction of sensory responses with spontaneous depolarization in layer 2/3 barrel cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(23). 13638–13643. 531 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mehta, Mayank. (2003). Cooperative LTP can map memory sequences on dendritic branches. Trends in Neurosciences. 27(2). 69–72. 48 indexed citations
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Mehta, Mayank, Michael C. Quirk, & Matthew Wilson. (2000). Experience-Dependent Asymmetric Shape of Hippocampal Receptive Fields. Neuron. 25(3). 707–715. 355 indexed citations
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Mehta, Mayank & Hagai Bergman. (1995). Loss of frequencies in autocorrelations and a procedure to recover them. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 62(1-2). 65–71. 8 indexed citations

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