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Adrienne L. Fairhall publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adrienne L. Fairhall sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 89 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Adrienne L. Fairhall D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adrienne L. Fairhall sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Adrienne L. Fairhall is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans the field of Neuroscience, with particular contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine

Fairhall has published extensively, with frequent contributions to venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Science Advances, and Current Biology.

Recent papers include:

  • Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions, 2021, Neuron
  • The Mind of a Mouse, 2020, Cell
  • Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • A complete biomechanical model of Hydra contractile behaviors, from neural drive to muscle to movement, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Dopamine neurons evaluate natural fluctuations in performance quality, 2022, Cell Reports

Frequent co-authors in Fairhall's publications include Alison Duffy, Zsofia Török, Elizabeth A. Buffalo, Rafael Yuste, and Shelyn Wongso.

In 2005, Fairhall was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Efficiency and ambiguity in an adaptive neural code.

    Adrienne L. Fairhall;Geoffrey D. Lewen;William Bialek;Robert R. de Ruyter van Steveninck

  • Fractional differentiation by neocortical pyramidal neurons.

    Brian Nils Lundstrom;Matthew H Higgs;Matthew H Higgs;William J Spain;William J Spain;Adrienne L Fairhall

  • Sensory adaptation

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  • Mosquitoes use vision to associate odor plumes with thermal targets

    Floris van Breugel;Jeff Riffell;Adrienne Fairhall;Michael H. Dickinson

  • Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions.

    Anaïs Llorens;Athina Tzovara;Athina Tzovara;Ludovic Bellier;Ilina Bhaya-Grossman

  • Shifts in coding properties and maintenance of information transmission during adaptation in barrel cortex.

    Miguel Maravall;Rasmus S Petersen;Adrienne L Fairhall;Ehsan Arabzadeh

  • Timescales of inference in visual adaptation.

    Barry Wark;Adrienne Fairhall;Fred Rieke

  • The Mind of a Mouse

    Larry F. Abbott;Davi D. Bock;Edward M. Callaway;Winfried Denk

  • Selectivity for Multiple Stimulus Features in Retinal Ganglion Cells

    Adrienne L. Fairhall;C. Andrew Burlingame;Ramesh Narasimhan;Robert A. Harris

  • What causes a Neuron to spike

    Blaise Agüera y Arcas;Adrienne L. Fairhall

  • Reinforcement learning with modulated spike timing dependent synaptic plasticity.

    Michael A. Farries;Adrienne L. Fairhall

  • Computation in a single Neuron: Hodgkin and Huxley revisited

    Blaise Agüera y Arcas;Adrienne L. Fairhall;William Bialek

  • Two-dimensional time coding in the auditory brainstem.

    Sean J. Slee;Matthew H. Higgs;Adrienne L. Fairhall;William J. Spain

  • Visual-Olfactory Integration in the Human Disease Vector Mosquito Aedes aegypti

    Clément Vinauger;Floris Van Breugel;Lauren T. Locke;Kennedy K.S. Tobin

  • Coding Principles in Adaptation.

    Alison I Weber;Kamesh Krishnamurthy;Adrienne L Fairhall

  • Dimensionality reduction in neuroscience.

    Rich Pang;Benjamin J. Lansdell;Adrienne L. Fairhall

  • Analysis of Neuronal Spike Trains, Deconstructed

    Johnatan Aljadeff;Johnatan Aljadeff;Benjamin J. Lansdell;Adrienne L. Fairhall;David Kleinfeld

  • Multiple Timescale Encoding of Slowly Varying Whisker Stimulus Envelope in Cortical and Thalamic Neurons In Vivo

    Brian Nils Lundstrom;Adrienne L. Fairhall;Miguel Maravall

  • Encoding properties of haltere neurons enable motion feature detection in a biological gyroscope.

    Jessica L. Fox;Adrienne L. Fairhall;Thomas L. Daniel

  • Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways.

    Aryeh Zolin;Raphael Cohn;Rich Pang;Andrew F. Siliciano

  • Cellular mechanisms for integral feedback in visually guided behavior.

    Bettina Schnell;Peter T. Weir;Eatai Roth;Adrienne L. Fairhall

Frequent Co-Authors

Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University
William J. Spain
William J. Spain University of Washington
Michael H. Dickinson
Michael H. Dickinson California Institute of Technology
William Bialek
William Bialek Princeton University
Eberhard E. Fetz
Eberhard E. Fetz University of Washington
Mathew E. Diamond
Mathew E. Diamond International School for Advanced Studies
Sophie Denève
Sophie Denève École Normale Supérieure
Nicholas J. Priebe
Nicholas J. Priebe The University of Texas at Austin
Nina F. Dronkers
Nina F. Dronkers University of California, Davis
Omar S. Akbari
Omar S. Akbari University of California, San Diego

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