Robert Gütig

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Robert Gütig is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Gütig has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Robert Gütig's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (5 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (2 papers). Robert Gütig is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (5 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (2 papers). Robert Gütig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Israel and United States. Robert Gütig's co-authors include Haim Sompolinsky, Stefan Rotter, Henning Plessner, Tilmann Betsch, Christiane Schwieren, Ad Aertsen, Claudia Eberlein, Tim Gollisch, Markus Meister and Dietmar Schmitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Robert Gütig

10 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

The tempotron: a neuron that learns spike timing–based de... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300 400 500
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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. The tempotron: a neuron that learns spike timing–based decisions
    2006 557 citations Robert Gütig, Haim Sompolinsky Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Gütig Germany 10 992 828 495 336 73 11 1.3k
Fopefolu Folowosele United States 8 722 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 620 1.3× 306 0.9× 46 0.6× 16 1.5k
K.M. Hynna United States 7 691 0.7× 1.0k 1.3× 594 1.2× 280 0.8× 40 0.5× 9 1.4k
Gergő Orbán Hungary 13 1.3k 1.3× 147 0.2× 377 0.8× 249 0.7× 54 0.7× 33 1.6k
Johannes Bill United States 12 445 0.4× 499 0.6× 263 0.5× 182 0.5× 47 0.6× 21 793
Xaq Pitkow United States 15 1.1k 1.1× 105 0.1× 364 0.7× 191 0.6× 75 1.0× 34 1.3k
Alfonso Renart Spain 15 1.6k 1.6× 349 0.4× 796 1.6× 174 0.5× 382 5.2× 25 1.8k
Alan A. Stocker United States 20 1.6k 1.6× 93 0.1× 201 0.4× 124 0.4× 39 0.5× 60 2.0k
Gianluigi Mongillo France 13 1.3k 1.3× 436 0.5× 656 1.3× 203 0.6× 146 2.0× 20 1.5k
Tom Binzegger Switzerland 7 1.0k 1.0× 179 0.2× 598 1.2× 72 0.2× 57 0.8× 8 1.3k
Guillaume Hennequin United Kingdom 13 789 0.8× 283 0.3× 377 0.8× 151 0.4× 113 1.5× 25 932

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Gütig

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert Gütig. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert Gütig 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 Robert Gütig. Robert Gütig is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Yu, Qiang, Misha Tsodyks, Haim Sompolinsky, Dietmar Schmitz, & Robert Gütig. (2025). Interactions between long- and short-term synaptic plasticity transform temporal neural representations into spatial. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(47). e2426290122–e2426290122.
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Gütig, Robert. (2016). Spiking neurons can discover predictive features by aggregate-label learning. Science. 351(6277). aab4113–aab4113. 82 indexed citations
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Gütig, Robert. (2014). To spike, or when to spike?. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 25. 134–139. 62 indexed citations
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Gütig, Robert, Tim Gollisch, Haim Sompolinsky, & Markus Meister. (2013). Computing Complex Visual Features with Retinal Spike Times. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e53063–e53063. 30 indexed citations
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Gütig, Robert & Haim Sompolinsky. (2009). Time-Warp–Invariant Neuronal Processing. PLoS Biology. 7(7). e1000141–e1000141. 58 indexed citations
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Gütig, Robert & Haim Sompolinsky. (2006). The tempotron: a neuron that learns spike timing–based decisions. Nature Neuroscience. 9(3). 420–428. 557 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gütig, Robert, Ad Aertsen, & Stefan Rotter. (2003). Analysis of higher-order neuronal interactions based on conditional inference. Biological Cybernetics. 88(5). 352–359. 20 indexed citations
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Gütig, Robert, et al.. (2003). Learning Input Correlations through Nonlinear Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience. 23(9). 3697–3714. 282 indexed citations
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Gütig, Robert, Ad Aertsen, & Stefan Rotter. (2002). Statistical Significance of Coincident Spikes: Count-Based Versus Rate-Based Statistics. Neural Computation. 14(1). 121–153. 31 indexed citations
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Betsch, Tilmann, Henning Plessner, Christiane Schwieren, & Robert Gütig. (2001). I Like it but I Don’t Know Why: A Value-Account Approach to Implicit Attitude Formation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 27(2). 242–253. 123 indexed citations
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Gütig, Robert & Claudia Eberlein. (1998). Quantum radiation from moving dielectrics in two, three, and more spatial dimensions. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 31(32). 6819–6838. 20 indexed citations

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