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David J. Tolhurst 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 David J. Tolhurst sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 126 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David J. Tolhurst 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 David J. Tolhurst sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

David J. Tolhurst is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. This association places them within one of the world's leading academic and research institutions.

Details regarding recent papers, co-authors, publication venues, book publications, and specific fields or subfields of study related to David J. Tolhurst are not available.

Similarly, there is no publicly listed information on main research topics or awards associated with their work at this time.

The absence of such data suggests that publicly accessible records currently do not provide detailed insights into their publication history or research focus. Nonetheless, their position at the University of Cambridge indicates engagement with academic research at a high level.

Best Publications

  • The statistical reliability of signals in single neurons in cat and monkey visual cortex.

    D.J. Tolhurst;J.A. Movshon;A.F. Dean

  • Spatial summation in the receptive fields of simple cells in the cat's striate cortex.

    J A Movshon;I D Thompson;D J Tolhurst

  • Psychophysical evidence for sustained and transient detectors in human vision

    J. J. Kulikowski;D. J. Tolhurst

  • Do we know what the early visual system does

    Matteo Carandini;Jonathan B. Demb;Valerio Mante;David J. Tolhurst

  • Spatial and temporal contrast sensitivity of neurones in areas 17 and 18 of the cat's visual cortex.

    J A Movshon;I D Thompson;D J Tolhurst

  • Receptive field organization of complex cells in the cat's striate cortex.

    J A Movshon;I D Thompson;D J Tolhurst

  • Amplitude spectra of natural images.

    D. J. Tolhurst;Y. Tadmor;Tang Chao

  • Separate channels for the analysis of the shape and the movement of a moving visual stimulus

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  • The Dependence of Response Amplitude and Variance of Cat Visual Cortical Neurones on Stimulus Contrast

    D. J. Tolhurst;J. A. Movshon;I. D. Thompson

  • Reaction times in the detection of gratings by human observers: A probabilistic mechanism

    D.J. Tolhurst

  • Sustained and transient channels in human vision.

    D.J. Tolhurst

  • Adaptation to square-wave gratings: inhibition between spatial frequency channels in the human visual system.

    D. J. Tolhurst

  • The structure and symmetry of simple-cell receptive-field profiles in the cat's visual cortex

    D J Field;D J Tolhurst

  • Camouflage and visual perception.

    Tom Troscianko;Christopher P Benton;P. George Lovell;David J Tolhurst

  • Spatial and temporal contrast sensitivity of striate cortical neurones

    David J. Tolhurst;J. Anthony Movshon;J. Anthony Movshon

  • Characterizing the sparseness of neural codes

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  • Edge detectors in human vision

    R. M. Shapley;D. J. Tolhurst

  • Calculating the contrasts that retinal ganglion cells and LGN neurones encounter in natural scenes.

    Y. Tadmor;D.J. Tolhurst

  • The human visual system is optimised for processing the spatial information in natural visual images

    C.A. Párraga;T. Troscianko;D.J. Tolhurst

  • On the variety of spatial frequency selectivities shown by neurons in area 17 of the cat.

    D. J. Tolhurst;I. D. Thompson

  • Trichromatic colour opponency in ganglion cells of the rhesus monkey retina.

    F M De Monasterio;P Gouras;D J Tolhurst

  • Orientation illusions and after-effects: inhibition between channels.

    David Tolhurst;Peter Gage Thompson

  • The Receptive-Field Organization of Simple Cells in Primary Visual Cortex of Ferrets under Natural Scene Stimulation

    Darragh Smyth;Ben Willmore;Gary E. Baker;Ian D. Thompson

  • Organization of the visual cortex in human albinism.

    Michael B. Hoffmann;David J. Tolhurst;Anthony T. Moore;Antony B. Morland

  • On the distinctness of simple and complex cells in the visual cortex of the cat.

    A F Dean;D J Tolhurst

  • Discrimination of changes in the second-order statistics of natural and synthetic images

    Y. Tadmor;D.J. Tolhurst

  • Concealed colour opponency in ganglion cells of the rhesus monkey retina.

    F M De Monasterio;P Gouras;D J Tolhurst

Frequent Co-Authors

Iain D. Gilchrist
Iain D. Gilchrist University of Bristol
Peter Gouras
Peter Gouras Columbia University
Jean-Claude Baron
Jean-Claude Baron Université Paris Cité
David J. Heeger
David J. Heeger New York University
Antony B. Morland
Antony B. Morland University of York
J. Anthony Movshon
J. Anthony Movshon New York University
Martin Stevens
Martin Stevens University of Exeter
Robert Shapley
Robert Shapley New York University
Colin J. Akerman
Colin J. Akerman University of Oxford
Jochen B. Fiebach
Jochen B. Fiebach Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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