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Andreas Nieder 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 Andreas Nieder sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 172 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Andreas Nieder 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 Andreas Nieder sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

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

  • Representation of the Quantity of Visual Items in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex

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

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

    Andreas Nieder;Earl K. Miller

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

    Andreas Nieder;Earl K. Miller

  • Counting on neurons: the neurobiology of numerical competence.

    Andreas Nieder

  • Dopamine and Cognitive Control in Prefrontal Cortex

    Torben Ott;Torben Ott;Andreas Nieder

  • The neuronal code for number.

    Andreas Nieder

  • Temporal and Spatial Enumeration Processes in the Primate Parietal Cortex

    Andreas Nieder;Ilka Diester;Oana Tudusciuc

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

    Oana Tudusciuc;Andreas Nieder

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

    Ilka Diester;Andreas Nieder

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

    Andreas Nieder;Katharina Merten

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

    Andreas Nieder

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

    Pooja Viswanathan;Andreas Nieder

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

    Helen M. Ditz;Andreas Nieder

  • A neural correlate of sensory consciousness in a corvid bird

    Andreas Nieder;Lysann Wagener;Paul Rinnert

  • Neural correlates of categories and concepts

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

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

    Simon N. Jacob;Andreas Nieder

  • Relating magnitudes: the brain's code for proportions

    Simon N. Jacob;Daniela Vallentin;Andreas Nieder

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

    Simon N. Jacob;Andreas Nieder

  • Single neurons in monkey prefrontal cortex encode volitional initiation of vocalizations

    Steffen R. Hage;Andreas Nieder

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

    A. Nieder

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
David J. Freedman
David J. Freedman University of Chicago
Felix Blankenburg
Felix Blankenburg Freie Universität Berlin
Jonathan D. Wallis
Jonathan D. Wallis University of California, Berkeley
Simon B. Eickhoff
Simon B. Eickhoff Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Christian Grefkes
Christian Grefkes University of Cologne
Christian E. Elger
Christian E. Elger University Hospital Bonn
Jun Tanji
Jun Tanji Tohoku University
Nicola S. Clayton
Nicola S. Clayton University of Cambridge

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