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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Bradley Voytek is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States and has a focus on neuroscience, with a significant concentration in cognitive neuroscience. Their research portfolio includes 135 publications primarily in the field of neuroscience, with notable contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their main research topics cover neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, memory and neural mechanisms, receptor mechanisms and signaling, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Voytek has coauthored work frequently with Thomas Donoghue, Natalie Schaworonkow, Richard Gao, Sydney Smith, and Erik Peterson, with the highest number of collaborations being with Donoghue and Schaworonkow.

Key publication venues for their research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Translational Psychiatry, Journal of Neuroscience, and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, among others.

  • Parameterizing neural power spectra into periodic and aperiodic components (2020, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Neuronal timescales are functionally dynamic and shaped by cortical microarchitecture (2020, eLife)
  • Methodological considerations for studying neural oscillations (2021, European Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Modality-specific tracking of attention and sensory statistics in the human electrophysiological spectral exponent (2021, eLife)
  • Longitudinal changes in aperiodic and periodic activity in electrophysiological recordings in the first seven months of life (2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)

Their research spans various aspects of neural function, focusing on electrophysiological measures, neural oscillations, and cortical microarchitecture. The studies address both methodological perspectives and empirical data, contributing to understanding brain activity from early development through functional brain dynamics.

Among the recognitions received, Voytek was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Parameterizing neural power spectra into periodic and aperiodic components.

    Thomas Donoghue;Matar Haller;Erik J. Peterson;Paroma Varma

  • Inferring synaptic excitation/inhibition balance from field potentials.

    Richard Gao;Erik J. Peterson;Bradley Voytek

  • Complex Oscillatory Waves Emerging from Cortical Organoids Model Early Human Brain Network Development.

    Cleber A. Trujillo;Richard Gao;Priscilla D. Negraes;Jing Gu

  • Age-Related Changes in 1/f Neural Electrophysiological Noise.

    Bradley Voytek;Mark A. Kramer;John Case;Kyle Q. Lepage

  • Dynamic network communication as a unifying neural basis for cognition, development, aging, and disease.

    Bradley Voytek;Robert T. Knight

  • Brain Oscillations and the Importance of Waveform Shape

    Scott R. Cole;Bradley Voytek

  • Shifts in Gamma Phase–Amplitude Coupling Frequency from Theta to Alpha Over Posterior Cortex During Visual Tasks

    Bradley Voytek;Ryan T. Canolty;Ryan T. Canolty;Avgusta Shestyuk;Nathan E. Crone

  • Neuronal timescales are functionally dynamic and shaped by cortical microarchitecture

    Richard Gao;Ruud L van den Brink;Thomas Pfeffer;Bradley Voytek

  • Methodological considerations for studying neural oscillations.

    Thomas Donoghue;Natalie Schaworonkow;Bradley Voytek

  • Oscillatory dynamics coordinating human frontal networks in support of goal maintenance.

    Bradley Voytek;Andrew S Kayser;Andrew S Kayser;David Badre;David Fegen

  • Advances in human intracranial electroencephalography research, guidelines and good practices

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  • Modality-specific tracking of attention and sensory statistics in the human electrophysiological spectral exponent

    Leonhard Waschke;Thomas Donoghue;Lorenz Fiedler;Sydney Smith

  • Cycle-by-cycle analysis of neural oscillations

    Scott Cole;Bradley Voytek

  • Nonsinusoidal beta oscillations reflect cortical pathophysiology in Parkinson's disease

    Scott R. Cole;Roemer van der Meij;Erik J. Peterson;Coralie de Hemptinne

  • Parameterizing neural power spectra

    Matar Haller;Thomas Donoghue;Erik Peterson;Paroma Varma

  • Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia contributions to visual working memory.

    Bradley Voytek;Robert T. Knight

  • EEG power spectral slope differs by ADHD status and stimulant medication exposure in early childhood

    Madeline M. Robertson;Sarah Furlong;Bradley Voytek;Thomas Donoghue

  • Longitudinal changes in aperiodic and periodic activity in electrophysiological recordings in the first seven months of life.

    Natalie Schaworonkow;Bradley Voytek

  • Cerebral metabolic dysfunction and impaired vigilance in recently abstinent methamphetamine abusers.

    Edythe D. London;Steven M. Berman;Bradley Voytek;Sara L. Simon

  • Supraphysiological doses of levothyroxine alter regional cerebral metabolism and improve mood in bipolar depression.

    M Bauer;M Bauer;E D London;N Rasgon;N Rasgon;S M Berman

  • Dynamic Neuroplasticity after Human Prefrontal Cortex Damage

    Bradley Voytek;Matar Davis;Elena Yago;Francisco Barceló

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert T. Knight
Robert T. Knight University of California, Berkeley
Timothy Verstynen
Timothy Verstynen Carnegie Mellon University
Magnus Lindgren
Magnus Lindgren Lund University
Tor Endestad
Tor Endestad University of Oslo
Adam Gazzaley
Adam Gazzaley University of California, San Francisco
Paulina Due-Tønnessen
Paulina Due-Tønnessen Oslo University Hospital
Mark D'Esposito
Mark D'Esposito University of California, Berkeley
Edythe D. London
Edythe D. London University of California, Los Angeles
Nathan E. Crone
Nathan E. Crone Johns Hopkins University
Gene W. Yeo
Gene W. Yeo University of California, San Diego

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