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Cyriel M. A. Pennartz

Cyriel M. A. Pennartz

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Neuroscience

D-Index
72
Citations
18283
World Ranking
2307
National Ranking
76

Cyriel M. A. Pennartz 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 Cyriel M. A. Pennartz sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 217 publications — 67th percentile

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

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

Cyriel M. A. Pennartz 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 Cyriel M. A. Pennartz sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Cyriel M. A. Pennartz is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily addresses various aspects of neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and sensory systems. Additional subfields include experimental and cognitive psychology as well as artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work extensively covers key topics such as neural dynamics and brain function, olfactory and sensory function studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, memory and neural mechanisms, visual perception and processing mechanisms, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Pennartz has published numerous articles, with recent papers that include:

  • An integrative, multiscale view on neural theories of consciousness (2024, Neuron)
  • How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis (2023, Nature Reviews Neuroscience)
  • The continued need for animals to advance brain research (2021, Neuron)
  • Multisensory task demands temporally extend the causal requirement for visual cortex in perception (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Indicators and criteria of consciousness: ethical implications for the care of behaviourally unresponsive patients (2022, BMC Medical Ethics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pennartz include Jorge F. Mejías, Umberto Olcese, Pietro Marchesi, Matthijs N. Oude Lohuis, and Sander M. Bohté. These partnerships reflect a sustained collaborative approach within their research community.

The most common venues for their publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PLoS Computational Biology

Best Publications

  • An improved index of phase-synchronization for electrophysiological data in the presence of volume-conduction, noise and sample-size bias.

    Martin A. Vinck;Robert Oostenveld;Marijn van Wingerden;Franscesco Battaglia

  • Putting a spin on the dorsal–ventral divide of the striatum

    Pieter Voorn;Louk J.M.J Vanderschuren;Henk J Groenewegen;Trevor W Robbins

  • The nucleus accumbens as a complex of functionally distinct neuronal ensembles : an integration of behavioural, electrophysiological and anatomical data

    C.M.A. Pennartz;H.J. Groenewegen;F.H. Lopes da Silva

  • The pairwise phase consistency: A bias-free measure of rhythmic neuronal synchronization

    Martin A. Vinck;Marijn van Wingerden;Thilo Womelsdorf;Thilo Womelsdorf;Pascal Fries;Pascal Fries

  • Hippocampus leads ventral striatum in replay of place-reward information

    Carien S. Lansink;Pieter M. Goltstein;Jan V. Lankelma;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • The hippocampus: hub of brain network communication for memory

    Francesco P. Battaglia;Karim Benchenane;Anton Sirota;Cyriel M.A. Pennartz

  • The ventral striatum in off-line processing: Ensemble reactivation during sleep and modulation by hippocampal ripples

    C. M. A. Pennartz;E. Lee;J. Verheul;P. Lipa

  • The hippocampal-striatal axis in learning, prediction and goal-directed behavior

    C.M.A. Pennartz;R. Ito;R. Ito;P.F.M.J. Verschure;P.F.M.J. Verschure;F.P. Battaglia

  • Diurnal modulation of pacemaker potentials and calcium current in the mammalian circadian clock

    Cyriel M. A. Pennartz;Marcel T. G. de Jeu;Nico P. A. Bos;Jeroen Schaap

  • Functions of gamma-band synchronization in cognition: from single circuits to functional diversity across cortical and subcortical systems

    Conrado A. Bosman;Carien S. Lansink;Cyriel M. A. Pennartz

  • Is a bird in the hand worth two in the future? The neuroeconomics of intertemporal decision-making

    Tobias Kalenscher;Cyriel M.A. Pennartz

  • Corticostriatal Interactions during Learning, Memory Processing, and Decision Making.

    C.M.A. Pennartz;J.D. Berke;A.M. Graybiel;R. Ito

  • Functional interaction between the hippocampus and nucleus accumbens shell is necessary for the acquisition of appetitive spatial context conditioning.

    Rutsuko Ito;Trevor W. Robbins;Cyriel M. Pennartz;Barry J. Everitt

  • Internally generated sequences in learning and executing goal-directed behavior

    Giovanni Pezzulo;Matthijs A.A. van der Meer;Carien S. Lansink;Cyriel M.A. Pennartz

  • The cellular framework for chemical signalling in the nucleus accumbens

    Gloria E. Meredith;Cyriel M.A. Pennartz;Henk J. Groenewegen

  • Presynaptic dopamine D1 receptors attenuate excitatory and inhibitory limbic inputs to the shell region of the rat nucleus accumbens studied in vitro.

    C.M.A. Pennartz;M.J. Dolleman-van der Weel;S.T. Kitai;F.H. Lopes da Silva

  • Synaptic plasticity in an in vitro slice preparation of the rat nucleus accumbens.

    C. M. A. Pennartz;R. F. Ameerun;H. J. Groenewegen;H. J. Groenewegen;F. H. Lopes da Silva

  • Direct physiological evidence for synaptic connectivity between medium-sized spiny neurons in rat nucleus accumbens in situ.

    Stefano Taverna;Yvette C. van Dongen;Henk J. Groenewegen;Cyriel M.A. Pennartz

  • Preferential Reactivation of Motivationally Relevant Information in the Ventral Striatum

    Carien S. Lansink;Pieter M. Goltstein;Jan V. Lankelma;Ruud N. J. M. A. Joosten

  • Hippocampal inputs to identified neurons in an in vitro slice preparation of the rat nucleus accumbens: evidence for feed-forward inhibition.

    C.M.A. Pennartz;S.T. Kitai

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Vinck
Martin Vinck Max Planck Society
Sander M. Daselaar
Sander M. Daselaar Radboud University
F.H. Lopes da Silva
F.H. Lopes da Silva University of Amsterdam
Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Paul F. M. J. Verschure Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Pieter Voorn
Pieter Voorn VU University Medical Center
Henk J. Groenewegen
Henk J. Groenewegen Amsterdam UMC
Bruce L. McNaughton
Bruce L. McNaughton University of California, Irvine
Laure Rondi-Reig
Laure Rondi-Reig Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Giovanni Pezzulo
Giovanni Pezzulo National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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