Okihide Hikosaka

38.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
220 papers, 27.4k citations indexed

About

Okihide Hikosaka is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Okihide Hikosaka has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 27.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 88 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 30 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Okihide Hikosaka's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (105 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (55 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (54 papers). Okihide Hikosaka is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (105 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (55 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (54 papers). Okihide Hikosaka collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and South Korea. Okihide Hikosaka's co-authors include Masayuki Matsumoto, Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin, R. H. Wurtz, Kae Nakamura, Yoriko Takikawa, Reiko Kawagoe, Katsuyuki Sakai, Robert H. Wurtz, Hiroyuki Nakahara and Masaki Isoda and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Okihide Hikosaka

214 papers receiving 26.8k citations

Hit Papers

Dopamine in Motivational Contr... 1983 2026 1997 2011 2010 2007 2009 2007 2000 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Dopamine in Motivational Control: Rewarding, Aversive, and Alerting
    2010 1.6k citations Okihide Hikosaka et al. profile →
  2. The Role of the Dorsal Striatum in Reward and Decision-Making: Figure 1.
    2007 1.0k citations Okihide Hikosaka et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  3. Two types of dopamine neuron distinctly convey positive and negative motivational signals
    2009 995 citations Okihide Hikosaka et al. profile →
  4. Lateral habenula as a source of negative reward signals in dopamine neurons
    2007 955 citations Okihide Hikosaka et al. profile →
  5. Role of the Basal Ganglia in the Control of Purposive Saccadic Eye Movements
    2000 919 citations Okihide Hikosaka et al. profile →
  6. Central mechanisms of motor skill learning
    2002 751 citations Okihide Hikosaka, Kae Nakamura et al. profile →
  7. The habenula: from stress evasion to value-based decision-making
    2010 712 citations Okihide Hikosaka profile →
  8. Parallel neural networks for learning sequential procedures
    1999 617 citations Okihide Hikosaka, Hiroyuki Nakahara et al. profile →
  9. Visual and oculomotor functions of monkey substantia nigra pars reticulata. III. Memory-contingent visual and saccade responses
    1983 534 citations Okihide Hikosaka et al. profile →
  10. Visual and oculomotor functions of monkey substantia nigra pars reticulata. IV. Relation of substantia nigra to superior colliculus
    1983 533 citations Okihide Hikosaka et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Okihide Hikosaka Japan 90 18.9k 10.8k 4.0k 3.6k 2.8k 220 27.4k
Ian Q. Whishaw Canada 83 13.0k 0.7× 11.2k 1.0× 2.8k 0.7× 2.7k 0.7× 3.4k 1.2× 406 24.8k
Bryan Kolb Canada 83 11.3k 0.6× 11.2k 1.0× 1.9k 0.5× 3.6k 1.0× 2.6k 0.9× 376 26.2k
Wolfram Schultz United Kingdom 81 21.5k 1.1× 15.4k 1.4× 2.9k 0.7× 5.7k 1.6× 1.1k 0.4× 192 32.7k
John P. Aggleton United Kingdom 91 22.2k 1.2× 14.5k 1.3× 1.2k 0.3× 2.1k 0.6× 2.1k 0.7× 311 28.7k
Jon H. Kaas United States 91 21.2k 1.1× 8.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.3× 4.4k 1.2× 5.0k 1.8× 417 29.6k
David G. Amaral United States 91 23.2k 1.2× 14.9k 1.4× 985 0.2× 4.3k 1.2× 2.5k 0.9× 269 33.2k
Patricia S. Goldman‐Rakic United States 108 29.0k 1.5× 16.2k 1.5× 2.1k 0.5× 6.8k 1.9× 2.1k 0.8× 218 42.9k
Andreas K. Engel Germany 79 27.2k 1.4× 9.0k 0.8× 1.6k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 1.7k 0.6× 309 31.7k
Ann M. Graybiel United States 112 16.5k 0.9× 25.8k 2.4× 10.6k 2.7× 11.7k 3.2× 3.2k 1.1× 352 43.7k
Gary Aston‐Jones United States 97 20.6k 1.1× 16.5k 1.5× 1.3k 0.3× 6.7k 1.8× 2.1k 0.8× 250 36.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kim, Hyoung F., et al.. (2024). Implication of regional selectivity of dopamine deficits in impaired suppressing of involuntary movements in Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 162. 105719–105719. 2 indexed citations
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Ghazizadeh, Ali & Okihide Hikosaka. (2022). Salience memories formed by value, novelty and aversiveness jointly shape object responses in the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6338–6338. 5 indexed citations
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Hikosaka, Okihide, et al.. (2022). Lateral habenula neurons signal step-by-step changes of reward prediction. iScience. 25(11). 105440–105440. 4 indexed citations
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Ghazizadeh, Ali & Okihide Hikosaka. (2021). Common coding of expected value and value uncertainty memories in the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia output. Science Advances. 7(20). 10 indexed citations
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Ghazizadeh, Ali, et al.. (2020). Brain Networks Sensitive to Object Novelty, Value, and Their Combination. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 1(1). tgaa034–tgaa034. 12 indexed citations
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Amita, Hidetoshi, Hyoung F. Kim, Ken‐ichi Inoue, Masahiko Takada, & Okihide Hikosaka. (2020). Optogenetic manipulation of a value-coding pathway from the primate caudate tail facilitates saccadic gaze shift. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1876–1876. 30 indexed citations
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Amita, Hidetoshi & Okihide Hikosaka. (2019). Indirect pathway from caudate tail mediates rejection of bad objects in periphery. Science Advances. 5(8). eaaw9297–eaaw9297. 15 indexed citations
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Hikosaka, Okihide, Hyoung F. Kim, Hidetoshi Amita, et al.. (2018). Direct and indirect pathways for choosing objects and actions. European Journal of Neuroscience. 49(5). 637–645. 37 indexed citations
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Ghazizadeh, Ali, Simon Hong, & Okihide Hikosaka. (2018). Prefrontal Cortex Represents Long-Term Memory of Object Values for Months. Current Biology. 28(14). 2206–2217.e5. 24 indexed citations
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Amita, Hidetoshi, et al.. (2018). Neuronal connections of direct and indirect pathways for stable value memory in caudal basal ganglia. European Journal of Neuroscience. 49(5). 712–725. 21 indexed citations
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Ghazizadeh, Ali, Whitney S. Griggs, David A. Leopold, & Okihide Hikosaka. (2018). Temporal–prefrontal cortical network for discrimination of valuable objects in long-term memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(9). E2135–E2144. 32 indexed citations
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Yasuda, Masaharu & Okihide Hikosaka. (2017). To Wait or Not to Wait—Separate Mechanisms in the Oculomotor Circuit of Basal Ganglia. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 11. 35–35. 12 indexed citations
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Kim, Hyoung F., Ali Ghazizadeh, & Okihide Hikosaka. (2015). Dopamine Neurons Encoding Long-Term Memory of Object Value for Habitual Behavior. Cell. 163(5). 1165–1175. 110 indexed citations
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Proulx, Christophe D., Okihide Hikosaka, & Roberto Malinow. (2014). Reward processing by the lateral habenula in normal and depressive behaviors. Nature Neuroscience. 17(9). 1146–1152. 336 indexed citations
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Hikosaka, Okihide, Shinya Yamamoto, Masaharu Yasuda, & Hyoung F. Kim. (2013). Why skill matters. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17(9). 434–441. 63 indexed citations
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Hikosaka, Okihide & Masaki Isoda. (2008). Brain mechanisms for switching from automatic to controlled eye movements. Progress in brain research. 171. 375–382. 20 indexed citations
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Nakahara, Hiroyuki, et al.. (2004). Responding to Modalities with Different Latencies. Neural Information Processing Systems. 17. 169–176. 2 indexed citations
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Hikosaka, Okihide, Rand Randall Martins, Kae Nakamura, et al.. (2002). Long-term retention of motor skill in macaque monkeys and humans. Experimental Brain Research. 147(4). 494–504. 66 indexed citations
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Sakai, Katsuyuki, Okihide Hikosaka, Satoru Miyauchi, et al.. (1999). Presupplementary Motor Area Activation during Sequence Learning Reflects Visuo-Motor Association. Journal of Neuroscience. 19(10). RC1–RC1. 140 indexed citations
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Hikosaka, Okihide. (1997). Chamges and Disorders in Voluntary Saccaedes during Develoment and Aging. 29(3). 213–219. 6 indexed citations

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