2026 Andreas Nieder: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	64	3263	2983	283	264	172	15029

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Neuroscience

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Overview

Andreas Nieder is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and specializes in the field of neuroscience, with a predominant focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including statistics and probability, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, and social psychology.

The scientist has explored multiple main topics in their work. These include cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, neural dynamics and brain function, animal vocal communication and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, primate behavior and ecology, visual perception and processing mechanisms, and mathematics education and teaching techniques.

Among their recent publications are significant papers such as:

A neural correlate of sensory consciousness in a corvid bird, 2020, Science
The Adaptive Value of Numerical Competence, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Resolving the prefrontal mechanisms of adaptive cognitive behaviors: A cross-species perspective, 2023, Neuron
Socio-ecological correlates of neophobia in corvids, 2021, Current Biology
The Evolutionary History of Brains for Numbers, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Andreas Nieder frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Katharina F. Brecht, Lysann Wagener, Diana A. Liao, Maximilian E. Kirschhock, and Ylva Kersten.

Their work is published in a range of venues, with frequent appearances in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Current Biology
Nature Communications
Journal of Neuroscience
Science Advances

Best Publications

Representation of number in the brain.

Andreas Nieder;Stanislas Dehaene

1128
Citations
Representation of the Quantity of Visual Items in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex

Andreas Nieder;David J. Freedman;Earl K. Miller

965
Citations
Coding of Cognitive Magnitude: Compressed Scaling of Numerical Information in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex

Andreas Nieder;Earl K. Miller

739
Citations
A parieto-frontal network for visual numerical information in the monkey

Andreas Nieder;Earl K. Miller

679
Citations
Counting on neurons: the neurobiology of numerical competence.

Andreas Nieder

596
Citations
Dopamine and Cognitive Control in Prefrontal Cortex

Torben Ott;Torben Ott;Andreas Nieder

505
Citations
The neuronal code for number.

Andreas Nieder

434
Citations
Temporal and Spatial Enumeration Processes in the Primate Parietal Cortex

Andreas Nieder;Ilka Diester;Oana Tudusciuc

399
Citations
Neuronal population coding of continuous and discrete quantity in the primate posterior parietal cortex.

Oana Tudusciuc;Andreas Nieder

332
Citations
Semantic associations between signs and numerical categories in the prefrontal cortex.

Ilka Diester;Andreas Nieder

314
Citations
A labeled-line code for small and large numerosities in the monkey prefrontal cortex.

Andreas Nieder;Katharina Merten

277
Citations
Supramodal numerosity selectivity of neurons in primate prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices

Andreas Nieder

243
Citations
Neuronal correlates of a visual “sense of number” in primate parietal and prefrontal cortices

Pooja Viswanathan;Andreas Nieder

227
Citations
Neurons selective to the number of visual items in the corvid songbird endbrain

Helen M. Ditz;Andreas Nieder

221
Citations
A neural correlate of sensory consciousness in a corvid bird

Andreas Nieder;Lysann Wagener;Paul Rinnert

220
Citations
Neural correlates of categories and concepts

Earl K Miller;Andreas Nieder;David J Freedman;Jonathan D Wallis

207
Citations
Notation-independent representation of fractions in the human parietal cortex.

Simon N. Jacob;Andreas Nieder

189
Citations
Relating magnitudes: the brain's code for proportions

Simon N. Jacob;Daniela Vallentin;Andreas Nieder

187
Citations
Tuning to non-symbolic proportions in the human frontoparietal cortex.

Simon N. Jacob;Andreas Nieder

184
Citations
Single neurons in monkey prefrontal cortex encode volitional initiation of vocalizations

Steffen R. Hage;Andreas Nieder

184
Citations
Seeing more than meets the eye: processing of illusory contours in animals.

A. Nieder

176
Citations