William E. Skaggs

8.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
35 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

William E. Skaggs is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Skaggs has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 25 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 3 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in William E. Skaggs's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (25 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (24 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers). William E. Skaggs is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (25 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (24 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers). William E. Skaggs collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. William E. Skaggs's co-authors include Bruce L. McNaughton, Carol A. Barnes, Matthew A. Wilson, Katalin M. Gothard, Misha Tsodyks, Terrence J. Sejnowski, James Knierim, Arthur T. Winfree, Wolfgang Jahnke and Jason L. Gerrard and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

William E. Skaggs

35 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Theta phase precession in hippocampal neuronal populations and the compression of temporal sequences

1996 1.2k citations William E. Skaggs, Bruce L. McNaughton et al. Hippocampus profile →
Replay of Neuronal Firing Sequences in Rat Hippocampus During Sleep Following Spatial Experience

1996 775 citations William E. Skaggs, Bruce L. McNaughton Science profile →
Deciphering The Hippocampal Polyglot: the Hippocampus as a Path Integration System

1996 667 citations Bruce L. McNaughton, Carol A. Barnes et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William E. Skaggs United States	23	5.2k	4.2k	485	435	286	35	5.8k
Alessandro Treves Italy	45	8.8k 1.7×	5.3k 1.3×	670 1.4×	631 1.5×	185 0.6×	143	10.0k
Francesco P. Battaglia Netherlands	31	5.9k 1.1×	3.4k 0.8×	366 0.8×	348 0.8×	176 0.6×	80	6.8k
Jozsef Csicsvari United States	41	9.8k 1.9×	9.0k 2.2×	733 1.5×	292 0.7×	176 0.6×	59	11.4k
Ádám Kepecs United States	38	5.0k 0.9×	3.2k 0.8×	326 0.7×	687 1.6×	123 0.4×	65	6.8k
Marlene Bartos Germany	31	3.7k 0.7×	4.0k 1.0×	663 1.4×	165 0.4×	122 0.4×	61	5.4k
Martin Deschênes Canada	55	7.0k 1.3×	6.8k 1.6×	553 1.1×	500 1.1×	143 0.5×	118	9.4k
Torkel Hafting Norway	19	5.9k 1.1×	4.9k 1.2×	552 1.1×	591 1.4×	624 2.2×	33	7.2k
John K. Chapin United States	34	4.7k 0.9×	4.1k 1.0×	499 1.0×	277 0.6×	85 0.3×	85	6.3k
Anthony M. Zador United States	47	6.9k 1.3×	4.6k 1.1×	465 1.0×	774 1.8×	141 0.5×	90	9.6k
Kevan A Martin Switzerland	48	8.7k 1.7×	6.5k 1.6×	358 0.7×	222 0.5×	129 0.5×	118	10.3k

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Skaggs, William E., et al.. (2016). The Cerebellum. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 2 indexed citations

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Skaggs, William E.. (2014). Fear of Holes. Scientific American Mind. 25(2). 12–12. 14 indexed citations

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Maurer, Andrew P., Sara N. Burke, P. Lipa, William E. Skaggs, & Carol A. Barnes. (2011). Greater running speeds result in altered hippocampal phase sequence dynamics. Hippocampus. 22(4). 737–747. 42 indexed citations

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Alexander, Gene E., Kewei Chen, Tricia L. Merkley, et al.. (2008). Age-Related Regional Network of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Gray Matter in the Rhesus Macaque. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(11). 2710–2718. 75 indexed citations

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Skaggs, William E., et al.. (2007). EEG Sharp Waves and Sparse Ensemble Unit Activity in the Macaque Hippocampus. Journal of Neurophysiology. 98(2). 898–910. 104 indexed citations

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Jarosiewicz, Beata & William E. Skaggs. (2004). Hippocampal Place Cells Are Not Controlled by Visual Input during the Small Irregular Activity State in the Rat. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(21). 5070–5077. 19 indexed citations

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Touretzky, David S., et al.. (2004). Deforming the hippocampal map. Hippocampus. 15(1). 41–55. 22 indexed citations

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Tsodyks, Misha, William E. Skaggs, Terrence J. Sejnowski, & Bruce L. McNaughton. (1998). Population dynamics and theta rhythm phase precession of hippocampal place cell firing: A spiking neuron model. Hippocampus. 6(3). 271–280. 269 indexed citations

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Skaggs, William E., Bruce L. McNaughton, Matthew A. Wilson, & Carol A. Barnes. (1996). Theta phase precession in hippocampal neuronal populations and the compression of temporal sequences. Hippocampus. 6(2). 149–172. 1183 indexed citations breakdown →

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Skaggs, William E. & Bruce L. McNaughton. (1996). Response : Replay of Hippocampal "Memories". Science. 274(5290). 1216–1217. 1 indexed citations

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Panzeri, Stefano, Gabriele E. M. Biella, Edmund T. Rolls, William E. Skaggs, & Alessandro Treves. (1996). Speed, noise, information and the graded nature of neuronal responses. Network Computation in Neural Systems. 7(2). 365–370. 33 indexed citations

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Treves, Alessandro, William E. Skaggs, & Carol A. Barnes. (1996). How much of the hippocampus can be explained by functional constraints?. Hippocampus. 6(6). 666–674. 20 indexed citations

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Panzeri, Stefano, Gabriele E. M. Biella, Edmund T. Rolls, William E. Skaggs, & Alessandro Treves. (1996). Speed, noise, information and the graded nature of neuronal responses. Network Computation in Neural Systems. 7(2). 365–370. 13 indexed citations

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Knierim, James, William E. Skaggs, Hemant S. Kudrimoti, & Bruce L. McNaughton. (1996). Vestibular and Visual Cues in Navigation: A Tale of Two Cities. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 781(1). 399–406. 13 indexed citations

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Skaggs, William E.. (1995). Relations between the theta rhythm and activity patterns of hippocampal neurons.. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 14 indexed citations

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Markus, Etan J., et al.. (1994). Spatial information content and reliability of hippocampal CA1 neurons: Effects of visual input. Hippocampus. 4(4). 410–421. 280 indexed citations

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Skaggs, William E., Bruce L. McNaughton, & Katalin M. Gothard. (1992). An Information-Theoretic Approach to Deciphering the Hippocampal Code. Neural Information Processing Systems. 5. 1030–1037. 351 indexed citations

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Skaggs, William E. & Bruce L. McNaughton. (1992). Computational approaches to hippocampal function. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2(2). 209–211. 24 indexed citations

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Skaggs, William E. & Bruce L. McNaughton. (1992). Computational approaches to hippocampal function. Current Biology. 2(4). 198–198. 2 indexed citations

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Courtemanche, Marc, William E. Skaggs, & Arthur T. Winfree. (1990). Stable three-dimensional action potential circulation in the Fitzhugh-Nagumo model. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 41(2). 173–182. 49 indexed citations

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