Tamar Flash

15.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
127 papers, 11.0k citations indexed

About

Tamar Flash is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tamar Flash has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 11.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 50 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 33 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Tamar Flash's work include Motor Control and Adaptation (83 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (41 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (33 papers). Tamar Flash is often cited by papers focused on Motor Control and Adaptation (83 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (41 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (33 papers). Tamar Flash collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Tamar Flash's co-authors include Neville Hogan, Binyamin Hochner, John M. Hollerbach, Paolo Viviani, Neville Hogan, Graziano Fiorito, Ealan Henis, Germán Sumbre, Avi Karni and F.A. Mussa-Ivaldi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tamar Flash

126 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

The coordination of arm movements: an experimentally conf... 1982 2026 1996 2011 1985 1982 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. The coordination of arm movements: an experimentally confirmed mathematical model
    1985 3.1k citations Tamar Flash et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  2. Dynamic interactions between limb segments during planar arm movement
    1982 625 citations Tamar Flash et al. Biological Cybernetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tamar Flash Israel 47 7.2k 4.7k 2.6k 2.3k 1.2k 127 11.0k
Emilio Bizzi United States 66 13.9k 1.9× 8.9k 1.9× 1.6k 0.6× 2.9k 1.3× 2.2k 1.9× 137 18.1k
Emanuel Todorov United States 37 4.9k 0.7× 4.0k 0.9× 3.1k 1.2× 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 88 10.3k
Roland S. Johansson Sweden 72 16.7k 2.3× 10.7k 2.3× 1.8k 0.7× 3.2k 1.4× 833 0.7× 150 21.8k
Sten Grillner Sweden 84 8.9k 1.2× 5.2k 1.1× 380 0.1× 2.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 367 26.5k
Gregor Schöner Germany 61 9.8k 1.4× 3.8k 0.8× 944 0.4× 3.3k 1.5× 2.5k 2.1× 211 13.2k
Mitsuo Kawato Japan 84 21.1k 2.9× 8.6k 1.8× 4.4k 1.7× 7.2k 3.2× 2.4k 2.0× 392 28.9k
Francesco Lacquaniti Italy 74 11.6k 1.6× 8.6k 1.8× 762 0.3× 3.0k 1.3× 4.2k 3.5× 294 18.4k
Alain Berthoz France 73 11.0k 1.5× 1.3k 0.3× 598 0.2× 2.3k 1.0× 2.0k 1.7× 401 18.2k
Gerald E. Loeb United States 64 6.0k 0.8× 6.9k 1.5× 748 0.3× 659 0.3× 544 0.4× 285 12.1k
Auke Jan Ijspeert Switzerland 61 1.9k 0.3× 9.9k 2.1× 5.1k 2.0× 544 0.2× 493 0.4× 362 16.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tamar Flash

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tamar Flash

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Krausz, Nili E., et al.. (2024). Human arm redundancy: a new approach for the inverse kinematics problem. Royal Society Open Science. 11(2). 231036–231036. 2 indexed citations
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Dayan, Eran, et al.. (2018). Motion cues modulate responses to emotion in movies. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10881–10881. 11 indexed citations
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Abeles, Moshe, et al.. (2013). Compositionality in neural control: an interdisciplinary study of scribbling movements in primates. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 7. 103–103. 11 indexed citations
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Omlor, Lars, et al.. (2012). Expression of emotion in the kinematics of locomotion. Experimental Brain Research. 225(2). 159–176. 64 indexed citations
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Zullo, Letizia, Germán Sumbre, Claudio Agnisola, Tamar Flash, & Binyamin Hochner. (2009). Nonsomatotopic Organization of the Higher Motor Centers in Octopus. Current Biology. 19(19). 1632–1636. 88 indexed citations
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Omlor, Lars, et al.. (2008). An analytical formulation of the law of intersegmental coordination during human locomotion. Experimental Brain Research. 193(3). 371–385. 53 indexed citations
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Friedman, Jason & Tamar Flash. (2007). Task-Dependent Selection of Grasp Kinematics and Stiffness in Human Object Manipulation. Cortex. 43(3). 444–460. 53 indexed citations
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Biess, Armin, Dario G. Liebermann, & Tamar Flash. (2007). A Computational Model for Redundant Human Three-Dimensional Pointing Movements: Integration of Independent Spatial and Temporal Motor Plans Simplifies Movement Dynamics. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(48). 13045–13064. 96 indexed citations
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Yekutieli, Yoram, Rea Mitelman, Binyamin Hochner, & Tamar Flash. (2007). Analyzing Octopus Movements Using Three-Dimensional Reconstruction. Journal of Neurophysiology. 98(3). 1775–1790. 31 indexed citations
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Walker, Ian D., D.M. Dawson, Tamar Flash, et al.. (2005). Continuum robot arms inspired by cephalopods. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5804. 303–303. 230 indexed citations
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Liebermann, Dario G., Armin Biess, Jason Friedman, C.C.A.M. Gielen, & Tamar Flash. (2005). Intrinsic joint kinematic planning. I: Reassessing the Listing’s law constraint in the control of three-dimensional arm movements. Experimental Brain Research. 171(2). 139–154. 27 indexed citations
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Vetter, Philipp, Tamar Flash, & Daniel M. Wolpert. (2002). Planning Movements in a Simple Redundant Task. Current Biology. 12(6). 488–491. 33 indexed citations
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Flash, Tamar & Terrence J. Sejnowski. (2001). Computational approaches to motor control. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 11(6). 655–662. 89 indexed citations
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Handzel, Amir A. & Tamar Flash. (1999). Geometric Methods in the Study of Human Motor Control. 6(3). 309–321. 20 indexed citations
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Flash, Tamar & Neville Hogan. (1998). Optimization principles in motor control. MIT Press eBooks. 682–685. 26 indexed citations
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Handzel, Amir A. & Tamar Flash. (1995). The Geometry of Eye Rotations and Listing's Law. Neural Information Processing Systems. 8. 117–123. 15 indexed citations
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Flash, Tamar, Rivka Inzelberg, Edna Schechtman, & Amos D. Korczyn. (1992). Kinematic analysis of upper limb trajectories in Parkinson's disease. Experimental Neurology. 118(2). 215–226. 119 indexed citations
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Henis, Ealan & Tamar Flash. (1991). A Computational Mechanism to Account for Averaged Modified Hand Trajectories. Neural Information Processing Systems. 4. 619–626. 7 indexed citations
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Inzelberg, Rivka, Tamar Flash, & Amos D. Korczyn. (1990). Kinematic properties of upper-limb trajectories in Parkinson's disease and idiopathic torsion dystonia.. PubMed. 53. 183–9. 46 indexed citations
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Flash, Tamar. (1987). The control of hand equilibrium trajectories in multi-joint arm movements. Biological Cybernetics. 57(4-5). 257–274. 495 indexed citations

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