Michael Brecht

12.4k total citations
162 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Michael Brecht is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Brecht has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 79 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 39 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Brecht's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (75 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (56 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (41 papers). Michael Brecht is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (75 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (56 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (41 papers). Michael Brecht collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Michael Brecht's co-authors include Bert Sakmann, Troy W. Margrie, Arthur R. Houweling, Daniel E. Feldman, Albert K. Lee, Jérôme Epsztein, Bruno Preilowski, Andrea Burgalossi, Ian D. Manns and Wolf Singer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Brecht

156 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Brecht	5.8k	5.0k	1.2k	768	563	162	8.5k
Daniel Huber	4.6k 0.8×	4.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	847 1.1×	453 0.8×	51	7.7k
Dale Purves	3.9k 0.7×	4.5k 0.9×	2.3k 2.0×	805 1.0×	546 1.0×	280	9.8k
Henry Kennedy	8.5k 1.5×	3.5k 0.7×	2.7k 2.3×	532 0.7×	569 1.0×	151	12.2k
Anthony M. Zador	6.9k 1.2×	4.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	309 0.4×	774 1.4×	90	9.6k
Henning Scheich	7.4k 1.3×	2.8k 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	961 1.3×	1.4k 2.5×	283	11.9k
Huizhong W. Tao	4.5k 0.8×	4.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	305 0.4×	746 1.3×	86	6.2k
Rui M. Costa	4.8k 0.8×	5.5k 1.1×	2.4k 2.1×	711 0.9×	175 0.3×	108	10.6k
Rodolfó R. Llinás	5.5k 0.9×	5.5k 1.1×	2.9k 2.4×	490 0.6×	829 1.5×	110	10.6k
Robert C. Froemke	4.0k 0.7×	3.8k 0.8×	992 0.8×	1.8k 2.3×	529 0.9×	88	7.5k
Li I. Zhang	4.1k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	895 0.8×	332 0.4×	908 1.6×	74	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Brecht

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Brecht

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Brecht

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Fang, Chao, et al.. (2025). Assessment of elephant claustrum by combined histological analysis and high-resolution micro-CT. Neuroscience. 587. 131–138.

Tuncer, Murat, et al.. (2025). Males but not females report genital sensations evoked by fixed-parameter stimulation of somatosensory cortex. Brain. 148(11). 3872–3879.

Fritsch, Guido, Rolf Becker, Andreas Ochs, et al.. (2024). Macrovibrissae and microvibrissae inversion and lateralization in elephants. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1538(1). 85–97.

Jacob, Jens, Michael Brecht, Julia Sehl‐Ewert, et al.. (2024). Detection of novel orthoparamyxoviruses, orthonairoviruses and an orthohepevirus in European white-toothed shrews. Microbial Genomics. 10(8).

Holtze, Susanne, Guido Fritsch, Frank Göritz, et al.. (2023). The functional anatomy of elephant trunk whiskers. Communications Biology. 6(1). 591–591. 9 indexed citations

Doron, Guy, et al.. (2021). A network model of the barrel cortex combined with a differentiator detector reproduces features of the behavioral response to single-neuron stimulation. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(2). e1007831–e1007831. 9 indexed citations

Tukker, John J., Prateep Beed, Michael Brecht, et al.. (2021). Microcircuits for spatial coding in the medial entorhinal cortex. Physiological Reviews. 102(2). 653–688. 46 indexed citations

Doron, Guy, Naoya Takahashi, Christina Bocklisch, et al.. (2020). Perirhinal input to neocortical layer 1 controls learning. Science. 370(6523). 78 indexed citations

Ray, Saikat, Miao Li, Stefan Koch, et al.. (2020). Seasonal plasticity in the adult somatosensory cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(50). 32136–32144. 15 indexed citations

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Sanguinetti-Scheck, Juan Ignacio & Michael Brecht. (2020). Home, head direction stability, and grid cell distortion. Journal of Neurophysiology. 123(4). 1392–1406. 15 indexed citations

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Brecht, Michael, et al.. (2020). Play, but not observing play, engages rat medial prefrontal cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. 52(9). 4127–4138. 6 indexed citations

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Sanguinetti-Scheck, Juan Ignacio, et al.. (2019). Behavioral and neural correlates of hide-and-seek in rats. Science. 365(6458). 1180–1183. 54 indexed citations

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Ebbesen, Christian L., et al.. (2019). Highly structured, partner-sex- and subject-sex-dependent cortical responses during social facial touch. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4634–4634. 11 indexed citations

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Brecht, Michael, et al.. (2016). Neural correlates of ticklishness in the rat somatosensory cortex. Science. 354(6313). 757–760. 62 indexed citations

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Tang, Qiusong, Andrea Burgalossi, Christian L. Ebbesen, et al.. (2016). Functional Architecture of the Rat Parasubiculum. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(7). 2289–2301. 41 indexed citations

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Tukker, John J., Qiusong Tang, Andrea Burgalossi, & Michael Brecht. (2015). Head-Directional Tuning and Theta Modulation of Anatomically Identified Neurons in the Presubiculum. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(46). 15391–15395. 29 indexed citations

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Ray, Saikat, Robert K. Naumann, Andrea Burgalossi, et al.. (2014). Grid-Layout and Theta-Modulation of Layer 2 Pyramidal Neurons in Medial Entorhinal Cortex. Science. 343(6173). 891–896. 135 indexed citations

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Chorev, Edith & Michael Brecht. (2012). In vivo dual intra- and extracellular recordings suggest bidirectional coupling between CA1 pyramidal neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology. 108(6). 1584–1593. 21 indexed citations

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Epsztein, Jérôme, Albert K. Lee, Edith Chorev, & Michael Brecht. (2010). Impact of Spikelets on Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Cell Activity During Spatial Exploration. Science. 327(5964). 474–477. 85 indexed citations

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Mulder, Paul, et al.. (2006). Tactile guidance of prey capture in Etruscan shrews. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(44). 16544–16549. 109 indexed citations

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