Paul Apicella

6.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
41 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

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Paul Apicella is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Apicella has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 25 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 11 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Paul Apicella's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (28 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (17 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (17 papers). Paul Apicella is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (28 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (17 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (17 papers). Paul Apicella collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Italy. Paul Apicella's co-authors include Wolfram Schultz, T. Ljungberg, Eugenio Scarnati, Eric Legallet, Sabrina Ravel, Elisabeth Trouche, Tomas Ljungberg, Pierangelo Sardo, Marc Deffains and Christelle Baunez and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Trends in Neurosciences and Journal of Neurophysiology.

In The Last Decade

Paul Apicella

40 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Responses of monkey dopamine neurons to reward and conditioned stimuli during successive steps of learning a delayed response task

1993 925 citations Wolfram Schultz, Paul Apicella et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Responses of monkey dopamine neurons during learning of behavioral reactions

1992 751 citations T. Ljungberg, Paul Apicella et al. Journal of Neurophysiology profile →
Neuronal activity in monkey ventral striatum related to the expectation of reward

1992 595 citations Wolfram Schultz, Paul Apicella et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Striatal function scrutinized through the PAN-TAN-FSI triumvirate 2025 ·Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience ·Paul Apicella, (unknown), Kévin Marche	0
2	Beta Oscillations in Monkey Striatum Encode Reward Prediction Error Signals 2023 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·(unknown), Kévin Marche, Etienne Combrisson, Paul Apicella, Andrea Brovelli	10
3	Activity of fast‐spiking interneurons in the monkey striatum during reaching movements guided by external cues or by a free choice 2020 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Kévin Marche, Paul Apicella	2
4	Temporal processing in the striatum: Interplay between midbrain dopamine neurons and striatal cholinergic interneurons 2020 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·(unknown), Paul Apicella	11
5	The role of the intrinsic cholinergic system of the striatum: What have we learned from TAN recordings in behaving animals? 2017 ·Neuroscience ·Paul Apicella	49
6	Differences between Dorsal and Ventral Striatum in the Sensitivity of Tonically Active Neurons to Rewarding Events 2017 ·Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience ·Kévin Marche, (unknown), Paul Apicella	30
7	Cortical and Thalamic Excitation Mediate the Multiphasic Responses of Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons to Motivationally Salient Stimuli 2014 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Natalie M. Doig, Peter J. Magill, Paul Apicella, J. Paul Bolam, Andrew Sharott	102
8	Linking reward processing to behavioral output: motor and motivational integration in the primate subthalamic nucleus 2013 ·Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience ·Juan F. Espinosa‐Parrilla, Christelle Baunez, Paul Apicella	21
9	Tonically active neurons in the striatum differentiate between delivery and omission of expected reward in a probabilistic task context 2009 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Paul Apicella, Marc Deffains, Sabrina Ravel, Eric Legallet	47
10	Leading tonically active neurons of the striatum from reward detection to context recognition 2007 ·Trends in Neurosciences ·Paul Apicella	135
11	Influence of Spatial Information on Responses of Tonically Active Neurons in the Monkey Striatum 2006 ·Journal of Neurophysiology ·Sabrina Ravel, Pierangelo Sardo, Eric Legallet, Paul Apicella	35
12	Reward-related neuronal activity in the subthalamic nucleus of the monkey 2005 ·Neuroreport ·(unknown), Christelle Baunez, (unknown), (unknown), Paul Apicella	63
13	Tonically active neurons in the primate striatum and their role in the processing of information about motivationally relevant events 2002 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Paul Apicella	100
14	Responses of tonically discharging neurons in the monkey striatum to primary rewards delivered during different behavioral states 1997 ·Experimental Brain Research ·Paul Apicella, Eric Legallet, Elisabeth Trouche	120
15	Responses of tonically discharging neurons in monkey striatum to visual stimuli presented under passive conditions and during task performance 1996 ·Neuroscience Letters ·Paul Apicella, Eric Legallet, Elisabeth Trouche	24
16	Neglect of contralateral visual stimuli in monkeys with unilateral striatal dopamine depletion 1991 ·Behavioural Brain Research ·Paul Apicella, Eric Legallet, André Nieoullon, Elisabeth Trouche	30
17	Responses of monkey midbrain dopamine neurons during delayed alternation performance 1991 ·Brain Research ·Tomas Ljungberg, Paul Apicella, Wolfram Schultz	88
18	Tonically discharging neurons of monkey striatum respond to preparatory and rewarding stimuli 1991 ·Experimental Brain Research ·Paul Apicella, Eugenio Scarnati, Wolfram Schultz	149
19	Responses to reward in monkey dorsal and ventral striatum 1991 ·Experimental Brain Research ·Paul Apicella, T. Ljungberg, Eugenio Scarnati, Wolfram Schultz	285
20	Experimental Bradykinesia in the Monkey: Speed Control Impairments after Lesion of the Substantia Nigra 1989 ·Brain Behavior and Evolution ·Elisabeth Trouche, Daniel Beaubaton, François Viallet, Paul Apicella	1

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