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Horace Barlow

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Neuroscience

D-Index
72
Citations
29003
World Ranking
2260
National Ranking
227

Horace Barlow 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 Horace Barlow sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 164 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Horace Barlow 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 Horace Barlow sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 77th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
  • 2006 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
  • 2003 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society In recognition of his fundamental contributions to understanding how the eye and brain accomplish vision
  • 1992 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Horace Barlow was affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned multiple fields including Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Medicine. Their work also covered several subfields such as Pharmaceutical Science, Insect Science, and Dermatology.

Their recent publication was titled "Determination of chemical partitioning in vehicles using a skin surrogate for dermal absorption model refinement," published in 2025 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Barlow's frequent co-authors included:

  • Ruth Pendlington
  • David Sanders
  • David Sheffield
  • Stephen Glavin
  • Hequn Li

The venues where their work appeared included:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The main topics addressed in their research were:

  • Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery
  • Bee Products Chemical Analysis
  • Contact Dermatitis and Allergies

Throughout their career, Barlow received several awards recognizing their contributions, including:

  • Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (2009)
  • Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience (2006)
  • Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society (2003), awarded for fundamental contributions to understanding how the eye and brain accomplish vision
  • Member of Academia Europaea (1992)

Best Publications

  • Single units and sensation: a neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology?

    Horace B Barlow

  • The mechanism of directionally selective units in rabbit's retina.

    H B Barlow;W R Levick

  • Possible Principles Underlying the Transformations of Sensory Messages

    H. B. Barlow

  • The neural mechanism of binocular depth discrimination

    H. B. Barlow;C. Blakemore;J. D. Pettigrew

  • Summation and inhibition in the frog's retina

    H. B. Barlow

  • RETINAL GANGLION CELLS RESPONDING SELECTIVELY TO DIRECTION AND SPEED OF IMAGE MOTION IN THE RABBIT.

    H. B. Barlow;R. M. Hill;W. R. Levick

  • Change of organization in the receptive fields of the cat's retina during dark adaptation

    H. B. Barlow;R. Fitzhugh;S. W. Kuffler

  • Temporal and spatial summation in human vision at different background intensities

    H. B. Barlow

  • Redundancy reduction revisited.

    Horace Barlow

  • The versatility and absolute efficiency of detecting mirror symmetry in random dot displays

    H.B. Barlow;B.C. Reeves

  • EVIDENCE FOR A PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF THE WATERFALL PHENOMENON AND FIGURAL AFTER-EFFECTS.

    H B Barlow;R M Hill

  • Efficiency of human visual signal discrimination.

    AE Burgess;RF Wagner;RJ Jennings;HB Barlow

  • Selective Sensitivity to Direction of Movement in Ganglion Cells of the Rabbit Retina

    Horace B. Barlow;Richard M. Hill

  • Adaptation and decorrelation in the cortex

    Horace Barlow;Peter Földiák

  • The Ferrier Lecture, 1980: Critical Limiting Factors in the Design of the Eye and Visual Cortex

    Horace Basil Barlow

  • What does the eye see best

    Andrew B. Watson;Andrew B. Watson;H. B. Barlow;John G. Robson

  • Maintained activity in the cat's retina in light and darkness.

    S. W. Kuffler;R. Fitzhugh;H. B. Barlow

  • Changes in the maintained discharge with adaptation level in the cat retina

    H. B. Barlow;W. R. Levick

  • Responses to single quanta of light in retinal ganglion cells of the cat.

    H.B. Barlow;W.R. Levick;M. Yoon

  • Direction-Selective Units in Rabbit Retina: Distribution of Preferred Directions

    Clyde W. Oyster;Horace B. Barlow

  • Critical limiting factors in the design of the eye and visual cortex

    H. B. Barlow

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen W. Kuffler
Stephen W. Kuffler Harvard University
Colin Blakemore
Colin Blakemore City University of Hong Kong
John D. Pettigrew
John D. Pettigrew University of Queensland
Andrew B. Watson
Andrew B. Watson Apple (United States)
Matteo Carandini
Matteo Carandini University College London
Laurence R. Harris
Laurence R. Harris York University
J. Anthony Movshon
J. Anthony Movshon New York University
Bruno A. Olshausen
Bruno A. Olshausen University of California, Berkeley
Wolf Singer
Wolf Singer Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
Peter Lennie
Peter Lennie University of Rochester

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