2026 James F.A. Poulet: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	36	8977	8291	754	716	54	6013

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Overview

James F.A. Poulet is affiliated with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems, Physiology, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers a broad range of topics, including:

Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
Neural dynamics and brain function
Random lasers and scattering media
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by James F.A. Poulet include:

"The Sensory Coding of Warm Perception," 2020, Neuron
"USH2A is a Meissner's corpuscle protein necessary for normal vibration sensing in mice and humans," 2020, Nature Neuroscience
"The cellular coding of temperature in the mammalian cortex," 2023, Nature
"Sensory Schwann cells set perceptual thresholds for touch and selectively regulate mechanical nociception," 2024, Nature Communications
"Dynamic conjugate F-SHARP microscopy," 2020, Light Science & Applications

James F.A. Poulet frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

Clarissa J. Whitmire
Ricardo Paricio-Montesinos
Gary R. Lewin
Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau
Phillip Bokiniec

Their research outputs have been published mainly in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Neuron
Nature Neuroscience
Nature

Best Publications

Internal brain state regulates membrane potential synchrony in barrel cortex of behaving mice

James F. A. Poulet;Carl C. H. Petersen

946
Citations
Experimental evidence for sparse firing in the neocortex.

Alison L. Barth;James F.A. Poulet;James F.A. Poulet

444
Citations
Barrel cortex function

Dirk Feldmeyer;Michael Brecht;Fritjof Helmchen;Carl C. H. Petersen

417
Citations
Thalamic control of cortical states.

James F A Poulet;Laura M J Fernandez;Sylvain Crochet;Carl C H Petersen

366
Citations
Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Sparse Coding of Active Touch

Sylvain Crochet;Sylvain Crochet;James F.A. Poulet;James F.A. Poulet;James F.A. Poulet;Yves Kremer;Carl C.H. Petersen

324
Citations
An embedded subnetwork of highly active neurons in the neocortex.

Lina Yassin;Brett L. Benedetti;Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau;Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau;Jing A. Wen

261
Citations
New insights into corollary discharges mediated by identified neural pathways.

James F.A. Poulet;Berthold Hedwig

253
Citations
The Cellular Basis of a Corollary Discharge

James F. A. Poulet;Berthold Hedwig;Berthold Hedwig

242
Citations
A corollary discharge maintains auditory sensitivity during sound production

James F. A. Poulet;Berthold Hedwig

228
Citations
The Sensory Coding of Warm Perception

Ricardo Paricio-Montesinos;Ricardo Paricio-Montesinos;Frederick Schwaller;Annapoorani Udhayachandran;Annapoorani Udhayachandran;Florian Rau;Florian Rau

187
Citations
Scattering compensation by focus scanning holographic aberration probing (F-SHARP)

Ioannis N. Papadopoulos;Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau;James F. A. Poulet;Benjamin Judkewitz

160
Citations
Coherent Phasic Excitation during Hippocampal Ripples

Nikolaus Maier;Álvaro Tejero-Cantero;Anja L. Dorrn;Jochen Winterer

143
Citations
Complex auditory behaviour emerges from simple reactive steering

Berthold Hedwig;James F. A. Poulet

130
Citations
The Cortical States of Wakefulness.

James F. A. Poulet;James F. A. Poulet;Sylvain Crochet;Sylvain Crochet

120
Citations
Single synaptic inputs drive high-precision action potentials in parvalbumin expressing GABA-ergic cortical neurons in vivo.

Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau;Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau;Jens Kremkow;Jens Kremkow;Jens Kremkow;James F. A. Poulet;James F. A. Poulet

112
Citations
Parvalbumin-Expressing GABAergic Neurons in Primary Motor Cortex Signal Reaching.

Luc Estebanez;Luc Estebanez;Diana Hoffmann;Diana Hoffmann;Birgit C. Voigt;Birgit C. Voigt;James F.A. Poulet;James F.A. Poulet

104
Citations
Mechanisms underlying phonotactic steering in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus revealed with a fast trackball system

B. Hedwig;J. F. A. Poulet

100
Citations
Precisely Timed Nicotinic Activation Drives SST Inhibition in Neocortical Circuits

Joanna Urban-Ciecko;Joanna Urban-Ciecko;Jean-Sebastien Jouhanneau;Jean-Sebastien Jouhanneau;Stephanie E. Myal;James F.A. Poulet;James F.A. Poulet

99
Citations
A somatosensory circuit for cooling perception in mice.

Nevena Milenkovic;Wen-Jie Zhao;Jan Walcher;Tobias Albert

96
Citations
In Vivo Monosynaptic Excitatory Transmission between Layer 2 Cortical Pyramidal Neurons

Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau;Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau;Jens Kremkow;Jens Kremkow;Jens Kremkow;Anja L. Dorrn;Anja L. Dorrn;James F.A. Poulet;James F.A. Poulet

92
Citations
Auditory orientation in crickets: Pattern recognition controls reactive steering

James F. A. Poulet;Berthold Hedwig

88
Citations