2026 Emilio Salinas: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	39	8228	7598	3530	3192	101	9816

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Overview

Emilio Salinas is affiliated with Wake Forest University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems, and related subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Salinas's work covers a range of topics including:

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Neural dynamics and brain function
Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Motor Control and Adaptation

Their recent publications illustrate the scope and focus of their research. Selected papers include:

"Under time pressure, the exogenous modulation of saccade plans is ubiquitous, intricate, and lawful" (2021), published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
"Exogenous capture accounts for fundamental differences between pro- and antisaccade performance" (2022), published in eLife
"Stimulus salience conflicts and colludes with endogenous goals during urgent choices" (2023), published in iScience

Additional highly cited papers connected to topics relevant to their research include:

"Urgent Decision Making: Resolving Visuomotor Interactions at High Temporal Resolution" (2021), Annual Review of Vision Science
"A conflict between spatial selection and evidence accumulation in area LIP" (2022), Nature Communications

Salinas frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, suggesting active interdisciplinary partnerships. Regular coauthors include Terrence R. Stanford, Allison T Goldstein, Emily E Oor, Joshua A. Seideman, and Junda Zhu.

The scientist has contributed to journals and platforms with a focus on advancing knowledge in neuroscience and related disciplines. Their works have appeared multiple times in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), eLife, iScience, and Annual Review of Vision Science.

Best Publications

Correlated neuronal activity and the flow of neural information.

Emilio Salinas;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Terrence J. Sejnowski

1587
Citations
Flutter discrimination: neural codes, perception, memory and decision making.

Ranulfo Romo;Emilio Salinas

680
Citations
Vector reconstruction from firing rates

Emilio Salinas;L. F. Abbott

638
Citations
Somatosensory discrimination based on cortical microstimulation

Ranulfo Romo;Adrián Hernández;Anótonio Zainos;Emilio Salinas

602
Citations
Impact of Correlated Synaptic Input on Output Firing Rate and Variability in Simple Neuronal Models

Emilio Salinas;Terrence J. Sejnowski

579
Citations
Gain Modulation: A Major Computational Principle of the Central Nervous System

Emilio Salinas;Peter Thier

504
Citations
Periodicity and Firing Rate As Candidate Neural Codes for the Frequency of Vibrotactile Stimuli

Emilio Salinas;Adrián Hernández;Antonio Zainos;Ranulfo Romo

407
Citations
A model of multiplicative neural responses in parietal cortex

Emilio Salinas;L. F. Abbott

403
Citations
Gain Modulation in the Central Nervous System: Where Behavior, Neurophysiology, and Computation Meet

Emilio Salinas;Terrence J. Sejnowski

365
Citations
Transfer of coded information from sensory to motor networks

Emilio Salinas;L. F. Abbott

364
Citations
Perceptual decision making in less than 30 milliseconds

Terrence R Stanford;Swetha Shankar;Dino P Massoglia;M Gabriela Costello

301
Citations
Touch and go: decision-making mechanisms in somatosensation.

Ranulfo Romo;Emilio Salinas

287
Citations
Correlated Neuronal Discharges that Increase Coding Efficiency during Perceptual Discrimination

Ranulfo Romo;Adrián Hernández;Antonio Zainos;Emilio Salinas

269
Citations
Inhibitory synchrony as a mechanism for attentional gain modulation.

Paul H. E. Tiesinga;Jean-Marc Fellous;Jean-Marc Fellous;Emilio Treviño Salinas;Jorge V. Jose

186
Citations
Invariant Visual Responses From Attentional Gain Fields

Emilio Salinas;L. F. Abbott

171
Citations
Discrimination in the sense of flutter: new psychophysical measurements in monkeys.

Adrián Hernández;Emilio Salinas;Rafael Garcı́a;Ranulfo Romo

152
Citations
Coordinate transformations in the visual system: how to generate gain fields and what to compute with them.

Emilio Salinas;L.F. Abbott

141
Citations
Conversion of Sensory Signals into Motor Commands in Primary Motor Cortex

Emilio Salinas;Ranulfo Romo

117
Citations
The Countermanding Task Revisited: Fast Stimulus Detection Is a Key Determinant of Psychophysical Performance

Emilio Salinas;Terrence R. Stanford

116
Citations
Integrate-and-fire neurons driven by correlated stochastic input

Emilio Salinas;Terrence J. Sejnowski

111
Citations