Walter Heiligenberg

6.7k total citations
96 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Walter Heiligenberg is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Heiligenberg has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 21 papers in Aquatic Science and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Walter Heiligenberg's work include Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (75 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (47 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (36 papers). Walter Heiligenberg is often cited by papers focused on Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (75 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (47 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (36 papers). Walter Heiligenberg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Walter Heiligenberg's co-authors include Masashi Kawasaki, Gary J. Rose, Mary Hagedorn, Leonard Maler, Joseph Bastian, John Dye, Joanne A. Matsubara, Clifford H. Keller, Walter Metzner and Carl D. Hopkins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Walter Heiligenberg

95 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Peers

Walter Heiligenberg
Joseph Bastian United States
Carl D. Hopkins United States
Theodore H. Bullock United States
Harold H. Zakon United States
Curtis C. Bell United States
Robert C. Eaton United States
Gerhard von der Emde Germany
T. H. Bullock United States
Leonard Maler Canada
Gary J. Rose United States
Joseph Bastian United States
Walter Heiligenberg
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Heiligenberg, Walter, et al.. (1996). Motor control of the jamming avoidance response of Apteronotus leptorhynchus: evolutionary changes of a behavior and its neuronal substrates. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 179(5). 653–674. 87 indexed citations
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Alves-Gomes, José, Guillermo Ortı́, Margo G. Haygood, Walter Heiligenberg, & Axel Meyer. (1995). Phylogenetic analysis of the South American electric fishes (order Gymnotiformes) and the evolution of their electrogenic system: a synthesis based on morphology, electrophysiology, and mitochondrial sequence data.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 12(2). 298–318. 146 indexed citations
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Heiligenberg, Walter & M. Kawasaki. (1992). An internal current source yields immunity of electrosensory information processing to unusually strong jamming in electric fish. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 171(3). 309–16. 6 indexed citations
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Keller, Clifford H., Masashi Kawasaki, & Walter Heiligenberg. (1991). The control of pacemaker modulations for social communication in the weakly electric fish Sternopygus. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 169(4). 441–50. 76 indexed citations
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Heiligenberg, Walter. (1991). Sensory control of behavior in electric fish. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 1(4). 633–637. 15 indexed citations
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Heiligenberg, Walter. (1991). The Neural Basis of Behavior: A Neuroethological View. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 14(1). 247–267. 46 indexed citations
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Heiligenberg, Walter. (1991). Neural Nets in Electric Fish. MIT Press eBooks. 331 indexed citations
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Heiligenberg, Walter. (1991). Recent advances in the study of electroreception. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 1(2). 187–191. 3 indexed citations
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Metzner, Walter & Walter Heiligenberg. (1991). The coding of signals in the electric communication of the gymnotiform fish Eigenmannia: From electroreceptors to neurons in the torus semicircularis of the midbrain. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 169(2). 135–150. 68 indexed citations
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Keller, Clifford H., Leonard Maler, & Walter Heiligenberg. (1990). Structural and functional organization of a diencephalic sensory‐motor interface in the gymnotiform fish, Eigenmannia. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 293(3). 347–376. 75 indexed citations
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Zupanc, Günther K. H. & Walter Heiligenberg. (1988). Sexual maturity dependent neural plasticity in the pre pacemaker nucleus of adult knifefish. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 14(1). 606. 1 indexed citations
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Kawasaki, Masashi, Gary J. Rose, & Walter Heiligenberg. (1988). Temporal hyperacuity in single neurons of electric fish. Nature. 336(6195). 173–176. 55 indexed citations
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Kawasaki, Masashi, Leonard Maler, Gary J. Rose, & Walter Heiligenberg. (1988). Anatomical and functional organization of the prepacemaker nucleus in gymnotiform electric fish: The accommodation of two behaviors in one nucleus. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 276(1). 113–131. 137 indexed citations
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Heiligenberg, Walter. (1988). Electrosensory Maps Form a Substrate for the Distributed and Parallel Control of Behavioral Responses in Weakly Electric Fish. Brain Behavior and Evolution. 31(1). 6–16. 14 indexed citations
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Kawasaki, Masashi & Walter Heiligenberg. (1988). Individual prepacemaker neurons can modulate the pacemaker cycle of the gymnotiform electric fish,Eigenmannia. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 162(1). 13–21. 55 indexed citations
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Heiligenberg, Walter. (1987). Central processing of sensory information in electric fish. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 161(4). 621–631. 49 indexed citations
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Wendler, Gernot & Walter Heiligenberg. (1969). Relative Koordination bei gekoppelten, rhythmisch tätigen Modellneuronen. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 33. 477–482. 4 indexed citations
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