Walter Ritter

20.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
169 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

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Walter Ritter is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Ritter has authored 169 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 16 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Walter Ritter's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (69 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (40 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (35 papers). Walter Ritter is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (69 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (40 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (35 papers). Walter Ritter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Finland. Walter Ritter's co-authors include Herbert G. Vaughan, Richard Simson, Daniel C. Javitt, Daniel S. Ruchkin, David Friedman, John J. Foxe, Sophie Molholm, Louis D. Costa, Elyse Sussman and Colleen McCallum and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, American Journal of Psychiatry and Brain.

In The Last Decade

Walter Ritter

165 papers receiving 15.3k citations

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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.

Guidelines for using human event‐related potentials to study cognition: Recording standards and publication criteria

2000 1.6k citations Walter Ritter et al. Psychophysiology profile →
Event-Related Brain Potentials in Man

1978 783 citations Walter Ritter et al. profile →
Multisensory auditory–visual interactions during early sensory processing in humans: a high-density electrical mapping study

2002 705 citations Sophie Molholm, Walter Ritter et al. Cognitive Brain Research profile →
The sources of auditory evoked responses recorded from the human scalp

1970 553 citations Herbert G. Vaughan, Walter Ritter Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walter Ritter United States	63	13.9k	4.9k	1.5k	1.2k	1.1k	169	15.9k
Mikko Sams Finland	68	12.7k 0.9×	6.2k 1.3×	997 0.7×	2.1k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	228	15.0k
Claude Alain Canada	61	11.0k 0.8×	4.2k 0.9×	810 0.6×	871 0.7×	886 0.8×	267	12.0k
Christo Pantev Germany	67	12.8k 0.9×	2.8k 0.6×	912 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.8×	216	16.3k
Erich Schröger Germany	71	15.6k 1.1×	6.7k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	695 0.7×	288	16.6k
Kimmo Alho Finland	78	19.0k 1.4×	8.5k 1.7×	2.3k 1.6×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	210	21.0k
D. Yves von Cramon Germany	86	17.0k 1.2×	3.6k 0.7×	2.6k 1.8×	2.9k 2.4×	358 0.3×	241	20.8k
Terence W. Picton Canada	76	22.2k 1.6×	5.0k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	4.8k 4.6×	173	24.9k
Michael Scherg Germany	52	11.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.4×	575 0.4×	514 0.4×	654 0.6×	118	12.5k
Olivier Bertrand France	59	13.4k 1.0×	2.2k 0.4×	569 0.4×	810 0.7×	845 0.8×	173	15.5k
Thomas F. Münte Germany	73	13.8k 1.0×	3.7k 0.8×	3.9k 2.7×	2.5k 2.1×	602 0.6×	474	19.2k

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Deacon, Diana, et al.. (2013). Electrophysiological evidence for the action of a center-surround mechanism on semantic processing in the left hemisphere. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 936–936. 2 indexed citations

Ritter, Walter, et al.. (2012). Category effects: Is top-down control alone sufficient to elicit the mismatch negativity (MMN) component?. Biological Psychology. 92(2). 191–198. 6 indexed citations

Ritter, Walter, et al.. (2011). The representation of unattended, segmented sounds: A mismatch negativity (MMN) study. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 81(2). 121–126. 4 indexed citations

Sanctis, Pierfilippo De, Walter Ritter, Sophie Molholm, Simon P. Kelly, & John J. Foxe. (2008). Auditory Scene Analysis: the interaction of stimulation rate and frequency separation on pre‐attentive grouping. European Journal of Neuroscience. 27(5). 1271–1276. 14 indexed citations

Gomes, Hilary, et al.. (2008). The effects of interstimulus interval on event-related indices of attention: An auditory selective attention test of perceptual load theory. Clinical Neurophysiology. 119(3). 542–555. 17 indexed citations

Wang, Jingtian, et al.. (2005). Aging effects on the ERP correlates of involuntary attentional capture in speech sound analysis. Neurobiology of Aging. 27(8). 1164–1179. 3 indexed citations

Ritter, Walter, Elyse Sussman, Sophie Molholm, & John J. Foxe. (2002). Memory reactivation or reinstatement and the mismatch negativity. Psychophysiology. 39(2). 158–165. 35 indexed citations

Sussman, Elyse, István Winkler, Judith A. Kreuzer, et al.. (2002). Temporal integration: intentional sound discrimination does not modulate stimulus-driven processes in auditory event synthesis. Clinical Neurophysiology. 113(12). 1909–1920. 34 indexed citations

Molholm, Sophie, Hilary Gomes, & Walter Ritter. (2001). The detection of constancy amidst change in children: A dissociation of preattentive and intentional processing. Psychophysiology. 38(6). 969–978. 12 indexed citations

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Trott, Charlotte T., David Friedman, Walter Ritter, & Monica Fabiani. (1997). Item and source memory. Neuroreport. 8(15). 3373–3378. 108 indexed citations

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Kazmerski, Victoria A., David Friedman, & Walter Ritter. (1997). Mismatch negativity during attend and ignore conditions in Alzheimer's disease. Biological Psychiatry. 42(5). 382–402. 45 indexed citations

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Deacon, Diana, et al.. (1996). Storage of information in transient auditory memory. Cognitive Brain Research. 4(4). 305–317. 67 indexed citations

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Steinschneider, Mitchell, et al.. (1995). Cognitive event-related potentials in human and non-human primates: implications for the PCP/NMDA model of schizophrenia.. PubMed. 44. 161–75. 48 indexed citations

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Ritter, Walter, et al.. (1995). Traffic sign recognition using colour information. Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 22(4-7). 149–161. 28 indexed citations

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Lipton, R.B., et al.. (1995). Event-related potential correlates of early processing in normal aging. International Journal of Neuroscience. 80(1-4). 371–382. 17 indexed citations

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Friedman, David, Joan Gay Snodgrass, & Walter Ritter. (1994). Implicit retrieval processes in cued recall: Implications for aging effects in memory. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 16(6). 921–938. 13 indexed citations

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Friedman, David, Marla J. Hamberger, & Walter Ritter. (1993). Event-related potentials as indicators of repetition priming in young and older adults: Amplitude, duration, and scalp distribution.. Psychology and Aging. 8(1). 120–125. 37 indexed citations

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Ritter, Walter, Petri Paavilainen, Juha Lavikainen, et al.. (1992). Event-related potentials to repetition and change of auditory stimuli. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 83(5). 306–321. 123 indexed citations

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Friedman, David, Lois E. Putnam, Walter Ritter, Marla J. Hamberger, & Steven H. Herman. (1992). A Developmental Event‐Related Potential Study of Picture Matching in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: A Replication and Extension. Psychophysiology. 29(5). 593–609. 22 indexed citations

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Berman, Steven M., et al.. (1989). Channel probability and Nd: An event-related potential sign of attention strategies. Biological Psychology. 29(2). 107–124. 18 indexed citations

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