Richard A. Andersen

30.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
220 papers, 21.5k citations indexed

About

Richard A. Andersen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. Andersen has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 21.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 205 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 73 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 27 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Richard A. Andersen's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (94 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (91 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (88 papers). Richard A. Andersen is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (94 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (91 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (88 papers). Richard A. Andersen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Richard A. Andersen's co-authors include Lawrence H. Snyder, Christopher A. Buneo, Aaron P. Batista, David C. Bradley, Bijan Pesaran, David Zipser, He Cui, Sam Musallam, Jing Xing and Pietro Mazzoni and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Andersen

218 papers receiving 21.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

MULTIMODAL REPRESENTATION OF SPACE IN THE POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX AND ITS USE IN PLANNING MOVEMENTS

1997 1.0k citations Richard A. Andersen, Lawrence H. Snyder et al. profile →
Intentional Maps in Posterior Parietal Cortex

2002 949 citations Richard A. Andersen, Christopher A. Buneo profile →
Coding of intention in the posterior parietal cortex

1997 856 citations Lawrence H. Snyder, Aaron P. Batista et al. profile →
A back-propagation programmed network that simulates response properties of a subset of posterior parietal neurons

1988 842 citations Richard A. Andersen et al. profile →
Temporal structure in neuronal activity during working memory in macaque parietal cortex

2002 753 citations Bijan Pesaran, John S. Pezaris et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Reach Plans in Eye-Centered Coordinates

1999 548 citations Aaron P. Batista, Christopher A. Buneo et al. Science profile →
Intention, Action Planning, and Decision Making in Parietal-Frontal Circuits

2009 501 citations Richard A. Andersen et al. profile →
Decoding motor imagery from the posterior parietal cortex of a tetraplegic human

2015 387 citations Tyson Aflalo, Spencer Kellis et al. Science profile →

Peers

Richard A. Andersen

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Robert Oostenveld Netherlands

Andreas K. Engel Germany

William T. Newsome United States

Ole Jensen Netherlands

Itzhak Fried United States

Robert T. Knight United States

Mriganka Sur United States

Charles M. Schroeder United States

Michael M. Merzenich United States

Jan‐Mathijs Schoffelen Netherlands

Robert Oostenveld Netherlands

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Griggs, Whitney S., Sumner L. Norman, Mickaël Tanter, et al.. (2025). Functional ultrasound neuroimaging reveals mesoscopic organization of saccades in the lateral intraparietal area. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8752–8752. 1 indexed citations

Rabut, Claire, Sumner L. Norman, Whitney S. Griggs, et al.. (2024). Functional ultrasound imaging of human brain activity through an acoustically transparent cranial window. Science Translational Medicine. 16(749). eadj3143–eadj3143. 22 indexed citations

Wang, Po T., Luke Bashford, Spencer Kellis, et al.. (2023). Suppression of cortical electrostimulation artifacts using pre-whitening and null projection. Journal of Neural Engineering. 20(5). 56018–56018. 2 indexed citations

Griggs, Whitney S., Sumner L. Norman, Thomas Deffieux, et al.. (2023). Decoding motor plans using a closed-loop ultrasonic brain–machine interface. Nature Neuroscience. 27(1). 196–207. 24 indexed citations

Aflalo, Tyson, Jorge Gámez, Emily R. Rosario, et al.. (2023). Decoding and geometry of ten finger movements in human posterior parietal cortex and motor cortex. Journal of Neural Engineering. 20(3). 36020–36020. 13 indexed citations

Aflalo, Tyson, et al.. (2022). Stability of motor representations after paralysis. eLife. 11. 9 indexed citations

Chivukula, Srinivas, et al.. (2021). Neural encoding of actual and imagined touch within human posterior parietal cortex. eLife. 10. 19 indexed citations

Aflalo, Tyson, Srinivas Chivukula, Spencer Kellis, et al.. (2020). The human primary somatosensory cortex encodes imagined movement in the absence of sensory information. Communications Biology. 3(1). 757–757. 23 indexed citations

Reutskaja, Elena, Axel Lindner, Rosemarie Nagel, Richard A. Andersen, & Colin F. Camerer. (2018). Choice overload reduces neural signatures of choice set value in dorsal striatum and anterior cingulate cortex. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(12). 925–935. 29 indexed citations

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Aflalo, Tyson, Spencer Kellis, Christian Klaes, et al.. (2015). Decoding motor imagery from the posterior parietal cortex of a tetraplegic human. Science. 348(6237). 906–910. 387 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stetson, Chess & Richard A. Andersen. (2014). The Parietal Reach Region Selectively Anti-Synchronizes with Dorsal Premotor Cortex during Planning. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(36). 11948–11958. 20 indexed citations

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Andersen, Richard A., Lawrence H. Snyder, Aaron P. Batista, Christopher A. Buneo, & Yale E. Cohen. (2007). Posterior Parietal Areas Specialized for Eye Movements (Lip) and Reach (PRR) Using a Common Coordinate Frame. Novartis Foundation symposium. 218. 109–128. 34 indexed citations

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Andersen, Richard A., et al.. (2006). DARPA Autonomous Airborne Refueling Demonstration Program With Initial Results. Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2006). 674–685. 7 indexed citations

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Andersen, Richard A., Sam Musallam, & Bijan Pesaran. (2004). Selecting the signals for a brain–machine interface. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 14(6). 720–726. 237 indexed citations

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Snyder, Lawrence H., Aaron P. Batista, & Richard A. Andersen. (2000). Intention-related activity in the posterior parietal cortex: a review. Vision Research. 40(10-12). 1433–1441. 270 indexed citations

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Mazzoni, Pietro & Richard A. Andersen. (1998). Gaze coding in the posterior parietal cortex. MIT Press eBooks. 423–426. 5 indexed citations

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Sahani, Maneesh, John S. Pezaris, & Richard A. Andersen. (1997). On the Separation of Signals from Neighboring Cells in Tetrode Recordings. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 10. 222–228. 34 indexed citations

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Andersen, Richard A., et al.. (1993). Coordinate transformations in the representation of spatial information. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 3(2). 171–176. 239 indexed citations

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Kosslyn, Stephen M. & Richard A. Andersen. (1992). Frontiers in cognitive neuroscience. MIT Press eBooks. 35 indexed citations

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Andersen, Richard A. & Peter Brotchie. (1992). Spatial maps versus distributed representations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 15(4). 707–709. 2 indexed citations

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