Steve K. Esser

6.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
16 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Steve K. Esser is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Steve K. Esser has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Steve K. Esser's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (10 papers), Sleep and Wakefulness Research (10 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (6 papers). Steve K. Esser is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (10 papers), Sleep and Wakefulness Research (10 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (6 papers). Steve K. Esser collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Switzerland. Steve K. Esser's co-authors include Giulio Tononi, Reto Huber, Marcello Massimini, Fabio Ferrarelli, Harpreet Singh, Sean Hill, Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Michael Murphy, Brady A. Riedner and Dharmendra S. Modha and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Steve K. Esser

16 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Breakdown of Cortical Effective Connectivity During Sleep

2005 1.1k citations Marcello Massimini, Fabio Ferrarelli et al. Science profile →
A Low Power, Fully Event-Based Gesture Recognition System

2017 559 citations Arnon Amir, Brian Taba et al. profile →
Cortical Firing and Sleep Homeostasis

2009 525 citations Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Umberto Olcese et al. Neuron profile →

Peers

Steve K. Esser

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Marco Congedo France

Christos Constantinidis United States

Karunesh Ganguly United States

A Oeltermann Germany

Mark Laubach United States

Tonio Ball Germany

Lance M. Optican United States

Giorgio Bonmassar United States

Paul L. Nunez United States

Catherine Tallon‐Baudry France

Marco Congedo France

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616 ×1.1

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steve K. Esser

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

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Amir, Arnon, Brian Taba, David Van Den Berg, et al.. (2017). A Low Power, Fully Event-Based Gesture Recognition System. 7388–7397. 559 indexed citations breakdown →

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Esser, Steve K., Rathinakumar Appuswamy, Paul Merolla, John V. Arthur, & Dharmendra S. Modha. (2015). Backpropagation for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing. Neural Information Processing Systems. 28. 1117–1125. 170 indexed citations

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Cassidy, Andrew S., Paul Merolla, John V. Arthur, et al.. (2013). Cognitive computing building block: A versatile and efficient digital neuron model for neurosynaptic cores. 1–10. 171 indexed citations

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Amir, Arnon, Pallab Datta, W. P. Risk, et al.. (2013). Cognitive computing programming paradigm: A Corelet Language for composing networks of neurosynaptic cores. 1–10. 110 indexed citations

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Murphy, Michael, Reto Huber, Steve K. Esser, et al.. (2011). The Cortical Topography of Local Sleep. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 11(19). 2438–2446. 39 indexed citations

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Esser, Steve K., Anthony Ndirango, & Dharmendra S. Modha. (2010). Binding sparse spatiotemporal patterns in spiking computation. 50. 1–9. 7 indexed citations

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Olcese, Umberto, Steve K. Esser, & Giulio Tononi. (2010). Sleep and Synaptic Renormalization: A Computational Study. Journal of Neurophysiology. 104(6). 3476–3493. 71 indexed citations

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Vyazovskiy, Vladyslav V., Umberto Olcese, Ugo Faraguna, et al.. (2009). Cortical Firing and Sleep Homeostasis. Neuron. 63(6). 865–878. 525 indexed citations breakdown →

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Esser, Steve K., Sean Hill, & Giulio Tononi. (2009). Breakdown of Effective Connectivity During Slow Wave Sleep: Investigating the Mechanism Underlying a Cortical Gate Using Large-Scale Modeling. Journal of Neurophysiology. 102(4). 2096–2111. 71 indexed citations

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Huber, Reto, Sara Määttä, Steve K. Esser, et al.. (2008). Measures of Cortical Plasticity after Transcranial Paired Associative Stimulation Predict Changes in Electroencephalogram Slow-Wave Activity during Subsequent Sleep. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(31). 7911–7918. 102 indexed citations

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Huber, Reto, Steve K. Esser, Fabio Ferrarelli, et al.. (2007). TMS-Induced Cortical Potentiation during Wakefulness Locally Increases Slow Wave Activity during Sleep. PLoS ONE. 2(3). e276–e276. 184 indexed citations

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Riedner, Brady A., Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Reto Huber, et al.. (2007). Sleep Homeostasis and Cortical Synchronization: III. A High-Density EEG Study of Sleep Slow Waves in Humans. SLEEP. 30(12). 1643–1657. 318 indexed citations

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Esser, Steve K., Sean Hill, & Giulio Tononi. (2007). Sleep Homeostasis and Cortical Synchronization: I. Modeling the Effects of Synaptic Strength on Sleep Slow Waves. SLEEP. 30(12). 1617–1630. 247 indexed citations

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Massimini, Marcello, Fabio Ferrarelli, Steve K. Esser, et al.. (2007). Triggering sleep slow waves by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(20). 8496–8501. 347 indexed citations

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Esser, Steve K., Sean Hill, & Giulio Tononi. (2005). Modeling the Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Cortical Circuits. Journal of Neurophysiology. 94(1). 622–639. 119 indexed citations

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Massimini, Marcello, Fabio Ferrarelli, Reto Huber, et al.. (2005). Breakdown of Cortical Effective Connectivity During Sleep. Science. 309(5744). 2228–2232. 1073 indexed citations breakdown →

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