William Bialek
Impact in
- Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.05%
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.1%
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
Papers in
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- Neural dynamics and brain function 80
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms 27
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- Gene Regulatory Network Analysis 27
- Co-authors
- Fred Rieke (9 shared papers)Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck (8 shared papers)Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck (12 shared papers)Michael J. Berry (6 shared papers)Elad Schneidman (7 shared papers)Thierry Mora (6 shared papers)Daniel Ruderman (4 shared papers)Steven Strong (5 shared papers)
- Journals
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (18 papers)Physical Review Letters (16 papers)Neural Computation (7 papers)Physical review. E (6 papers)Biophysical Journal (6 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesFranceItaly
In The Last Decade
William Bialek
165 papers receiving 18.9k citations
William Bialek's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 198
- Cognitive Neuroscience 10.6k
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 5.2k
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 3.2k
- Aging 361
- Developmental Biology 305
Countries citing papers authored by William Bialek
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Co-authors
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All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 169 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code Hit paper breakdown → | 1996 | 2163 |
| 2 | Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 1150 |
| 3 | Reading a Neural Code Hit paper breakdown → | 1991 | 804 |
| 4 | Statistics of natural images: Scaling in the woods Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 727 |
| 5 | Entropy and Information in Neural Spike Trains Hit paper breakdown → | 1998 | 727 |
| 6 | The information bottleneck method Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 658 |
| 7 | Efficiency and ambiguity in an adaptive neural code Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 612 |
| 8 | Probing the Limits to Positional Information Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 543 |
| 9 | Reproducibility and Variability in Neural Spike Trains Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 541 |
| 10 | Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 510 |
| 11 | Adaptive Rescaling Maximizes Information Transmission Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 503 |
| 12 | 2011 | 492 | |
| 13 | 1997 | 401 | |
| 14 | 2007 | 385 | |
| 15 | 2003 | 358 | |
| 16 | 2008 | 340 | |
| 17 | 2001 | 336 | |
| 18 | Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit flies Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 331 |
| 19 | 2005 | 326 | |
| 20 | 2000 | 261 |
About William Bialek
William Bialek is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 169 papers that have together received 19.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neural dynamics and brain function (80 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (27 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (27 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (27 papers), stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (24 papers), Neural Networks and Applications (23 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (13 papers) and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (10.6k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (5.2k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (3.2k citations), Aging (361 citations) and Developmental Biology (305 citations). William Bialek has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Fred Rieke, Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck, Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, Michael J. Berry, Elad Schneidman, Thierry Mora, Daniel Ruderman, Steven Strong, Thomas Gregor and R. Köberle. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters, Neural Computation, Physical review. E and Biophysical Journal.
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