W. Grey Walter

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

W. Grey Walter is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Grey Walter has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 3 papers in Neurology and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in W. Grey Walter's work include EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (14 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (7 papers). W. Grey Walter is often cited by papers focused on EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (14 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (7 papers). W. Grey Walter collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. W. Grey Walter's co-authors include R. Cooper, Audrey Winter, W.C. McCallum, H. J. CROW, Harold W. Shipton, Jerome Cohen, B. R. Burmester, H. Weinberg, W. Storm van Leeuwen and W. A. Cobb and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, American Journal of Psychiatry and JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

In The Last Decade

W. Grey Walter

46 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Contingent Negative Variation : An Electric Sign of Senso... 1963 2026 1984 2005 1964 1963 500 1000 1.5k
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. Contingent Negative Variation : An Electric Sign of Sensori-Motor Association and Expectancy in the Human Brain
    1964 1.8k citations W. Grey Walter, R. Cooper et al. profile →
  2. The Living Brain
    1963 368 citations W. Grey Walter Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
W. Grey Walter United States 21 3.0k 539 485 387 338 49 4.2k
Mary A. B. Brazier United States 28 1.8k 0.6× 203 0.4× 703 1.4× 283 0.7× 205 0.6× 80 2.9k
Samuel Sutton United States 33 5.1k 1.7× 1.1k 2.1× 418 0.9× 719 1.9× 441 1.3× 75 6.0k
John A. Stern United States 33 2.3k 0.7× 1.0k 1.9× 234 0.5× 257 0.7× 893 2.6× 147 4.4k
D. von Cramon Germany 24 3.1k 1.0× 656 1.2× 201 0.4× 159 0.4× 249 0.7× 73 4.0k
Nancy K. Squires United States 31 4.7k 1.6× 1.0k 1.9× 439 0.9× 615 1.6× 402 1.2× 55 5.8k
Malcolm A. Jeeves United Kingdom 26 2.6k 0.9× 665 1.2× 235 0.5× 132 0.3× 569 1.7× 83 3.7k
J. Orbach United States 20 1.2k 0.4× 192 0.4× 384 0.8× 144 0.4× 288 0.9× 52 2.3k
Jerzy Konorski Poland 17 1.8k 0.6× 316 0.6× 802 1.7× 189 0.5× 519 1.5× 104 3.1k
B. Fischer Germany 35 4.6k 1.5× 723 1.3× 548 1.1× 205 0.5× 329 1.0× 56 5.2k
H Sakata Japan 16 4.6k 1.5× 428 0.8× 628 1.3× 151 0.4× 1.3k 3.8× 25 5.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by W. Grey Walter

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Grey Walter

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brandt, Matthias, H Wagner, & W. Grey Walter. (1977). Wachstumshormon, LH und FSH unter funktionsdynamischen Bedingungen im Serum sowie basale Kortisol- und Testosteron-Serumspiegel bei Schädelhirnverletzten unter Dexamethasonbehandlung. min - Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery. 20(3). 79–83. 1 indexed citations
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Weinberg, H., et al.. (1974). Emitted cerebral events. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 36(5). 449–456. 29 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey. (1968). The Contingent Negative Variation: An Electro-Cortical Sign of Sensori-Motor Reflex Association in Man. Progress in brain research. 22. 364–377. 15 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jerome & W. Grey Walter. (1966). THE INTERACTION OF RESPONSES IN THE BRAIN TO SEMANTIC STIMULI. Psychophysiology. 2(3). 187–196. 61 indexed citations
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Groen, Albert K., et al.. (1965). Effects of intravenously administered hypertonic urea solution. Acta Neurochirurgica. 13(1). 1–10. 4 indexed citations
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Ray, Charles D., Reginald G. Bickford, W. Grey Walter, & A Rémond. (1965). Experiences with telemetry of biomedical data by telephone, cable and satellite: Domestic and international. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 3(2). 169–177. 8 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey. (1965). Brain responses to semantic stimuli. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 9(1). 51–61. 39 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey. (1964). Slow potential waves in the human brain associated with expectancy, attention and decision. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 206(3). 309–322. 127 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey & H. J. CROW. (1964). Depth recording from the human brain. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 16(1-2). 68–72. 31 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey. (1964). THE CONVERGENCE AND INTERACTION OF VISUAL, AUDITORY, AND TACTILE RESPONSES IN HUMAN NONSPECIFIC CORTEX. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 112(1). 320–361. 135 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey. (1963). The Living Brain. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 368 indexed citations breakdown →
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Walter, W. Grey. (1960). The control of consciousness. Anaesthesia. 15(2). 105–122.
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Walter, W. Grey. (1960). ADOLF MEYER RESEARCH LECTURE. American Journal of Psychiatry. 116(8). 673–694. 4 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey. (1957). FUNDAMENTALS OF CYBERNETICS. BMJ. 2(5045). 629–629. 6 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey, et al.. (1954). The relationship between physiological variables and stereognosis. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 6(1). 29–44. 14 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey. (1954). The Electrical Activity of the Brain. Scientific American. 190(6). 54–63. 10 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey. (1953). Possible features of brain function and their imitation. 1(1). 134–136. 4 indexed citations
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Campbell, A. M. G., Josephine M. Guy, & W. Grey Walter. (1952). Two Cases of Cytomegalic Inclusion Encephalitis. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 27(136). 507–518. 7 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey & Harold W. Shipton. (1951). A toposcopic display system applied to neurophysiology. Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers. 11(7). 260–273. 5 indexed citations
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Walter, W. Grey & Harold W. Shipton. (1951). A new toposcopic display system. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 3(3). 281–292. 71 indexed citations

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