William Bialek
Impact in
- Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.05%
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.2%
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
Papers in
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- Neural dynamics and brain function 75
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms 25
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- Gene Regulatory Network Analysis 25
- Co-authors
- Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck (7 shared papers)Fred Rieke (7 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)Steven Strong (5 shared papers)Daniel Ruderman (4 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
148 papers receiving 17.6k citations
William Bialek's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 195
- Cognitive Neuroscience 9.9k
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 5.0k
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 3.0k
- Aging 353
- Developmental Biology 268
Countries citing papers authored by William Bialek
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Fields of papers citing papers by William Bialek
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Co-authors
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All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 153 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code Hit paper breakdown → | 1996 | 1941 |
| 2 | Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 1100 |
| 3 | Reading a Neural Code Hit paper breakdown → | 1991 | 739 |
| 4 | Entropy and Information in Neural Spike Trains Hit paper breakdown → | 1998 | 687 |
| 5 | Statistics of natural images: Scaling in the woods Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 662 |
| 6 | The information bottleneck method Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 584 |
| 7 | Efficiency and ambiguity in an adaptive neural code Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 580 |
| 8 | Probing the Limits to Positional Information Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 527 |
| 9 | Reproducibility and Variability in Neural Spike Trains Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 512 |
| 10 | Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 483 |
| 11 | 2000 | 482 | |
| 12 | 2011 | 465 | |
| 13 | 1997 | 384 | |
| 14 | 2007 | 375 | |
| 15 | 2003 | 333 | |
| 16 | 2008 | 332 | |
| 17 | 2005 | 310 | |
| 18 | Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit flies Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 308 |
| 19 | 2001 | 303 | |
| 20 | 2005 | 244 |
About William Bialek
William Bialek is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 153 papers that have together received 18.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neural dynamics and brain function (75 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (25 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (25 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (25 papers), Neural Networks and Applications (23 papers), stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (22 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (11 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (9.9k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (5.0k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (3.0k citations), Aging (353 citations) and Developmental Biology (268 citations). William Bialek has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck, Fred Rieke, Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, Michael J. Berry, Elad Schneidman, Thierry Mora, Steven Strong, Daniel Ruderman, 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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