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Frank W. Ohl

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Neuroscience

D-Index
43
Citations
5779
World Ranking
7480
National Ranking
627

Frank W. Ohl 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 Frank W. Ohl sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 162 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Frank W. Ohl 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 Frank W. Ohl sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Frank W. Ohl is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Germany. Their research primarily lies within the field of Neuroscience, with a strong focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Sensory Systems.

Ohl's work covers several main topics including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics

Their publication record includes papers in notable venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Communications Biology
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Journal of Neural Engineering

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Ohl include:

  • Ketamine anaesthesia induces gain enhancement via recurrent excitation in granular input layers of the auditory cortex, 2020, The Journal of Physiology
  • Decentralized control and local information for robust and adaptive decentralized Deep Reinforcement Learning, 2021, Neural Networks
  • Task rule and choice are reflected by layer-specific processing in rodent auditory cortical microcircuits, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Acute and Long-Term Circuit-Level Effects in the Auditory Cortex After Sound Trauma, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Effects of Cortical Cooling on Sound Processing in Auditory Cortex and Thalamus of Awake Marmosets, 2022, Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Ohl frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Max F. K. Happel
  • Marcus Jeschke
  • Katrina E. Deane
  • Matthias Deliano
  • Malte Schilling

Best Publications

  • Change in pattern of ongoing cortical activity with auditory category learning

    F. W. Ohl;F. W. Ohl;H. Scheich;W. J. Freeman

  • Learning-induced plasticity in animal and human auditory cortex.

    Frank W Ohl;Henning Scheich

  • Enhanced cognitive flexibility in reversal learning induced by removal of the extracellular matrix in auditory cortex

    Max F. K. Happel;Hartmut Niekisch;Laura L. Castiblanco Rivera;Frank W. Ohl

  • Bilateral ablation of auditory cortex in Mongolian gerbil affects discrimination of frequency modulated tones but not of pure tones.

    Frank W. Ohl;Wolfram Wetzel;Thomas Wagner;Alexander Rech

  • Singular perturbation analysis of competitive neural networks with different time scales

    Anke Meyer-Bäse;Frank Ohl;Henning Scheich

  • Spectral Integration in Primary Auditory Cortex Attributable to Temporally Precise Convergence of Thalamocortical and Intracortical Input

    Max F K Happel;Marcus Jeschke;Frank W Ohl

  • Differential frequency conditioning enhances spectral contrast sensitivity of units in auditory cortex (field Al) of the alert Mongolian gerbil.

    Frank W. Ohl;Henning Scheich

  • Non-sensory cortical and subcortical connections of the primary auditory cortex in Mongolian gerbils: bottom-up and top-down processing of neuronal information via field AI.

    Eike Budinger;Anna Laszcz;Holger Lison;Henning Scheich

  • Fallacies in behavioural interpretation of auditory cortex plasticity

    Frank W. Ohl;Henning Scheich

  • Global versus local processing of frequency-modulated tones in gerbils: an animal model of lateralized auditory cortex functions.

    Wolfram Wetzel;Frank W. Ohl;Henning Scheich

  • Orderly cortical representation of vowels based on formant interaction.

    Frank W. Ohl;Henning Scheich

  • Right auditory cortex lesion in Mongolian gerbils impairs discrimination of rising and falling frequency-modulated tones.

    W Wetzel;F.W Ohl;T Wagner;H Scheich

  • The cognitive auditory cortex: task-specificity of stimulus representations.

    Henning Scheich;André Brechmann;Michael Brosch;Eike Budinger;Eike Budinger

  • Superposition of horseshoe‐like periodicity and linear tonotopic maps in auditory cortex of the Mongolian gerbil

    Holger Schulze;Andreas Hess;Frank W. Ohl;Henning Scheich

  • Differential Neuromodulation of Acquisition and Retrieval of Avoidance Learning by the Lateral Habenula and Ventral Tegmental Area

    Jason Shumake;Anton Ilango;Henning Scheich;Wolfram Wetzel

  • Topographic analysis of epidural pure-tone-evoked potentials in gerbil auditory cortex.

    Frank W. Ohl;H. Scheich;Walter J. Freeman

  • Neural basis of multisensory looming signals.

    Sascha Tyll;Björn Bonath;Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld;Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld;Hans-Jochen Heinze

  • Categorical discrimination of direction in frequency-modulated tones by Mongolian gerbils.

    W. Wetzel;T. Wagner;F.W. Ohl;H. Scheich

  • Dopamine-Modulated Recurrent Corticoefferent Feedback in Primary Sensory Cortex Promotes Detection of Behaviorally Relevant Stimuli

    Max F. K. Happel;Matthias Deliano;Juliane Handschuh;Frank W. Ohl;Frank W. Ohl

  • Stimulus duration influences perceived simultaneity in audiovisual temporal-order judgment

    Lars T. Boenke;Matthias Deliano;Frank W. Ohl;Frank W. Ohl

  • The cognitive auditory cortex: Task-specificity of stimulus representations

    H. Scheich

Frequent Co-Authors

Henning Scheich
Henning Scheich Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Daphna Weinshall
Daphna Weinshall Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Walter J. Freeman
Walter J. Freeman University of California, Berkeley
Eckart D. Gundelfinger
Eckart D. Gundelfinger Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Christoph Herrmann
Christoph Herrmann Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Barbara Caputo
Barbara Caputo Polytechnic University of Turin
Christoph Kayser
Christoph Kayser Bielefeld University
Peter Heil
Peter Heil Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Hynek Hermansky
Hynek Hermansky Johns Hopkins University

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