2026 Alexandre Pouget: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	69	2580	2358	60	57	145	27506

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Neuroscience

2580

2358

145

27506

Research.com Recognitions

2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Alexandre Pouget is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and specializes in neuroscience, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research contributions span multiple subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, artificial intelligence, sensory systems, and social psychology.

Their main research topics encompass a variety of neural and behavioral studies, notably:

Neural dynamics and brain function
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Pouget include:

"Catalyzing next-generation Artificial Intelligence through NeuroAI", 2023, published in Nature Communications
"Mice alternate between discrete strategies during perceptual decision-making", 2022, published in Nature Neuroscience
"Synaptic plasticity as Bayesian inference", 2021, published in Nature Neuroscience
"A Brain-Wide Map of Neural Activity during Complex Behaviour", 2023, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"International Brain Initiative: An Innovative Framework for Coordinated Global Brain Research Efforts", 2020, published in Neuron

Frequent publication venues for Pouget's work include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Neuron
Nature Neuroscience
Nature
Nature Communications

Among frequent collaborators are:

Anne K. Churchland
Anthony M. Zador
Anne E. Urai
Charles Findling
Zachary F. Mainen

Throughout their career, Pouget has been recognized with the award of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2000.

Best Publications

The Bayesian brain: the role of uncertainty in neural coding and computation

David C. Knill;Alexandre Pouget

3058
Citations
Neural correlations, population coding and computation

Bruno B. Averbeck;Peter E. Latham;Alexandre Pouget

2049
Citations
Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes.

Wei Ji Ma;Jeffrey M Beck;Peter E Latham;Alexandre Pouget

1869
Citations
Information processing with population codes

Alexandre Pouget;Peter Dayan;Richard Zemel

983
Citations
Bayesian brain : probabilistic approaches to neural coding

賢治銅谷;信石井;Alexandre Pouget;Rajesh P. N. Rao

818
Citations
Probabilistic Population Codes for Bayesian Decision Making

Jeffrey M. Beck;Wei Ji Ma;Wei Ji Ma;Roozbeh Kiani;Timothy Hanks

814
Citations
Probabilistic brains: knowns and unknowns

Alexandre Pouget;Jeffrey M Beck;Wei Ji Ma;Wei Ji Ma;Peter E Latham

775
Citations
Brain Plasticity Through the Life Span: Learning to Learn and Action Video Games

Daphne Bavelier;C. Shawn Green;Alexandre Pouget;Paul Schrater

695
Citations
The cost of accumulating evidence in perceptual decision making.

Jan Drugowitsch;Rubén Moreno-Bote;Anne K. Churchland;Michael N. Shadlen

668
Citations
Information-limiting correlations

Rubén Moreno-Bote;Jeffrey Beck;Ingmar Kanitscheider;Xaq Pitkow

643
Citations
Confidence and certainty: distinct probabilistic quantities for different goals.

Alexandre Pouget;Jan Drugowitsch;Adam Kepecs

603
Citations
INFERENCE AND COMPUTATION WITH POPULATION CODES

Alexandre Pouget;Peter Dayan;Richard S. Zemel

601
Citations
Neural correlates of reliability-based cue weighting during multisensory integration

Christopher R Fetsch;Alexandre Pouget;Alexandre Pouget;Gregory C DeAngelis;Gregory C DeAngelis;Dora E Angelaki;Dora E Angelaki

567
Citations
Reference frames for representing visual and tactile locations in parietal cortex.

Marie Avillac;Sophie Denève;Etienne Olivier;Alexandre Pouget

558
Citations
Spatial transformations in the parietal cortex using basis functions

Alexandre Pouget;Terrence J. Sejnowski

554
Citations
A computational perspective on the neural basis of multisensory spatial representations

Alexandre Pouget;Sophie Deneve;Jean-René Duhamel

535
Citations
Reading population codes: a neural implementation of ideal observers

Sophie Deneve;Peter E. Latham;Alexandre Pouget

523
Citations
Probabilistic interpretation of population codes

Richard S. Zemel;Peter Dayan;Alexandre Pouget

500
Citations
Efficient computation and cue integration with noisy population codes.

S. Deneve;P. E. Latham;A. Pouget

483
Citations
Improved Probabilistic Inference as a General Learning Mechanism with Action Video Games

C. Shawn Green;Alexandre Pouget;Daphne Bavelier

461
Citations