2026 Daniel M. Wolpert: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	110	536	486	308	272	297	71810

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Neuroscience

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71810

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2010 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation

Overview

Daniel M. Wolpert is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines within neuroscience and psychology, focusing extensively on motor control and adaptation as well as neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Their research covers a variety of topics, including:

Motor Control and Adaptation
Neural dynamics and brain function
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Muscle activation and electromyography studies
Action Observation and Synchronization
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Children's Physical and Motor Development

Daniel M. Wolpert has contributed significantly to the fields of neuroscience with 66 publications and psychology with 23 publications. Their subfields of study indicate a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, complemented by work in developmental and educational psychology, biomedical engineering, social psychology, and control and systems engineering.

The following recent papers illustrate the diversity of their research interests and collaborations:

"Contextual inference in learning and memory," 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
"The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning," 2023, Annual Review of Neuroscience
"Multiple decisions about one object involve parallel sensory acquisition but time-multiplexed evidence incorporation," 2021, eLife
"Model-Free Robust Optimal Feedback Mechanisms of Biological Motor Control," 2020, Neural Computation
"Contextual inference underlies the learning of sensorimotor repertoires," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their frequent co-authors include:

J. Randall Flanagan
Michael N. Shadlen
Ariel Zylberberg
James N. Ingram
Máté Lengyel

The majority of their publications appear in prominent venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
eLife
Journal of Neurophysiology
PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS ONE

Awards received by Daniel M. Wolpert include:

Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2012
Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation, 2010

Best Publications

An Internal Model for Sensorimotor Integration

Daniel M. Wolpert;Zoubin Ghahramani;Michael I. Jordan

4316
Citations
Noise in the nervous system.

A. Aldo Faisal;Luc P. J. Selen;Daniel M. Wolpert

3332
Citations
Signal-dependent noise determines motor planning

Christopher M. Harris;Daniel M. Wolpert

3135
Citations
Internal models in the cerebellum

Daniel M Wolpert;R.Chris Miall;Mitsuo Kawato

2940
Citations
Forward models for physiological motor control

R. C. Miall;D. M. Wolpert

2860
Citations
Multiple paired forward and inverse models for motor control

D. M. Wolpert;M. Kawato

2805
Citations
Computational principles of movement neuroscience

Daniel M. Wolpert;Zoubin Ghahramani

2528
Citations
Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning

Konrad P. Körding;Daniel M. Wolpert

2493
Citations
Central cancellation of self-produced tickle sensation.

Sarah-J. Blakemore;Daniel M. Wolpert;Chris D. Frith

1754
Citations
Principles of sensorimotor learning.

Daniel M. Wolpert;Jörn Diedrichsen;J. Randall Flanagan

1671
Citations
Abnormalities in the awareness and control of action.

Christopher D. Frith;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore;Daniel M. Wolpert

1564
Citations
A unifying computational framework for motor control and social interaction

Daniel M. Wolpert;Kenji Doya;Mitsuo Kawato

1557
Citations
Is the cerebellum a smith predictor

R. C. Miall;D. J. Weir;D. M. Wolpert;J. F. Stein

1508
Citations
Why can't you tickle yourself?

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore;Daniel Wolpert;Chris Frith

1214
Citations
Motor prediction

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1181
Citations
Abnormalities in the awareness of action

Sarah Jayne Blakemore;Daniel M. Wolpert;Christopher D. Frith

1155
Citations
Computational approaches to motor control.

Daniel M. Wolpert

1151
Citations
Bayesian decision theory in sensorimotor control.

Konrad P. Körding;Daniel M. Wolpert

1075
Citations
Spatio-Temporal Prediction Modulates the Perception of Self-Produced Stimuli

Sarah-J. Blakemore;Chris D. Frith;Daniel M. Wolpert

1073
Citations
Perspectives and problems in motor learning

Daniel M. Wolpert;Zoubin Ghahramani;J. Randall Flanagan

1065
Citations
Explaining the symptoms of schizophrenia: abnormalities in the awareness of action.

Chris D Frith;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore;Daniel M Wolpert

981
Citations