Spencer Kellis

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Spencer Kellis is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Spencer Kellis has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 49 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Spencer Kellis's work include EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (56 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (44 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (34 papers). Spencer Kellis is often cited by papers focused on EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (56 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (44 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (34 papers). Spencer Kellis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Spencer Kellis's co-authors include Richard A. Andersen, Charles Y. Liu, Brian Lee, Tyson Aflalo, Christian Klaes, Bradley Greger, P.A. House, Kelsie Pejsa, Richard B. Brown and Ying Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Spencer Kellis

71 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Decoding motor imagery from the posterior parietal cortex of a tetraplegic human

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

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Spencer Kellis United States	20	1.6k	1.2k	423	388	126	76	2.0k
Marc W. Slutzky United States	22	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	493 1.2×	336 0.9×	123 1.0×	54	2.1k
Francis R. Willett United States	17	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	524 1.2×	508 1.3×	120 1.0×	31	2.2k
Erik J. Aarnoutse Netherlands	22	1.6k 1.0×	815 0.7×	178 0.4×	256 0.7×	137 1.1×	50	1.8k
Chethan Pandarinath United States	19	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	312 0.7×	517 1.3×	97 0.8×	38	2.1k
Sam Musallam United States	17	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	437 1.0×	447 1.2×	118 0.9×	32	1.9k
Maryam Saleh United States	7	2.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.7×	733 1.7×	623 1.6×	94 0.7×	9	2.7k
Justin C. Sanchez United States	29	1.8k 1.1×	1.8k 1.6×	574 1.4×	631 1.6×	300 2.4×	121	2.9k
Roy E. Crist United States	8	2.7k 1.7×	1.5k 1.3×	438 1.0×	398 1.0×	58 0.5×	8	3.1k
Sergey D. Stavisky United States	20	1.7k 1.0×	980 0.8×	289 0.7×	438 1.1×	63 0.5×	39	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Spencer Kellis

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Wang, Po T., et al.. (2026). Real-Time Brain-Computer Interface Control of Walking Exoskeleton with Bilateral Sensory Feedback. Brain stimulation. 103065–103065.

Xiao, Y. L., Spencer Kellis, Christopher F. Reiche, & Florian Solzbacher. (2025). Understanding and Addressing Variability Through Recalibration in a Brain–Computer Interface for Intelligent Vehicle Control Using Long-Term Implanted Human Neural Data: A Case Study. IEEE Access. 13. 50379–50393.

Aflalo, Tyson, et al.. (2024). Enhanced control of a brain–computer interface by tetraplegic participants via neural-network-mediated feature extraction. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 9(6). 917–934. 5 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

Li, Jun, et al.. (2023). Stereotactic frame-based electrode insertion: the accuracy of increasingly oblique insertion angles. Turkish Neurosurgery. 34(1). 128–134.

Wang, Po T., Susan J. Shaw, Hui Gong, et al.. (2023). Benchtop and bedside validation of a low-cost programmable cortical stimulator in a testbed for bi-directional brain-computer-interface research. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16. 1075971–1075971. 7 indexed citations

Bashford, Luke, Spencer Kellis, Kelsie Pejsa, et al.. (2023). S1 represents multisensory contexts and somatotopic locations within and outside the bounds of the cortical homunculus. Cell Reports. 42(4). 112312–112312. 7 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

Nune, George, Daniel R. Kramer, Morgan B. Lee, et al.. (2020). Gamma-band modulation in the human amygdala during reaching movements. Neurosurgical FOCUS. 49(1). E4–E4. 3 indexed citations

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Nune, George, et al.. (2020). Beta-band modulation in the human hippocampus during a conflict response task. Journal of Neural Engineering. 17(6). 66003–66003. 6 indexed citations

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Lee, Morgan B., et al.. (2019). Clinical neuroprosthetics: Today and tomorrow. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 68. 13–19. 15 indexed citations

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Kramer, Daniel R., et al.. (2019). Functional Frequency Discrimination From Cortical Somatosensory Stimulation in Humans. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13. 832–832. 5 indexed citations

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Kramer, Daniel R., George Nune, Morgan B. Lee, et al.. (2019). Directional tuning during reach planning in the supramarginal gyrus using local field potentials. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 64. 214–219. 7 indexed citations

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Lee, Brian, Daniel R. Kramer, M Salas, et al.. (2018). Engineering Artificial Somatosensation Through Cortical Stimulation in Humans. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 12. 24–24. 56 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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Andersen, Richard A., Spencer Kellis, Christian Klaes, & Tyson Aflalo. (2014). Toward More Versatile and Intuitive Cortical Brain–Machine Interfaces. Current Biology. 24(18). R885–R897. 66 indexed citations

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Stacey, William C., Spencer Kellis, Paras R. Patel, Bradley Greger, & Christopher R. Butson. (2012). Signal distortion from microelectrodes in clinical EEG acquisition systems. Journal of Neural Engineering. 9(5). 56007–56007. 15 indexed citations

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Kellis, Spencer, et al.. (2011). Platinum microwire for subdural electrocorticography over human neocortex: Millimeter-scale spatiotemporal dynamics. PubMed. 2011. 4761–5. 9 indexed citations

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Kellis, Spencer, Kai J. Miller, Kyle E. Thomson, et al.. (2010). Decoding spoken words using local field potentials recorded from the cortical surface. Journal of Neural Engineering. 7(5). 56007–56007. 179 indexed citations

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Baker, Justin, et al.. (2009). Multi-scale recordings for neuroprosthetic control of finger movements. PubMed. 2009. 4573–4577. 12 indexed citations

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