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Kevin Gurney

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
14303
World Ranking
8419
National Ranking
620

Kevin Gurney 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 Kevin Gurney sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 158 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kevin Gurney 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 Kevin Gurney sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Kevin Gurney is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom and specializes in neuroscience, with a focus on neural dynamics and brain function. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their work extensively addresses topics such as neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neurological disorders and treatments, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Kevin Gurney has published research in several scientific venues, including:

  • Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham)
  • Reviews in the Neurosciences
  • IEEE Access
  • Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Neural Computation

Recent papers associated with Kevin Gurney include:

  • Agent Architecture for Adaptive Behaviors in Autonomous Driving, 2020, IEEE Access
  • Making decisions in the dark basement of the brain: A look back at the GPR model of action selection and the basal ganglia, 2021, Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham)
  • Role of the basal ganglia in innate and learned behavioural sequences, 2023, Reviews in the Neurosciences
  • The NK1 antagonist L-733,060 facilitates sequence learning, 2023, Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Differential Dopamine Receptor-Dependent Sensitivity Improves the Switch Between Hard and Soft Selection in a Model of the Basal Ganglia, 2022, Neural Computation

Frequent collaborators include Mark D. Humphries, Natalia Favila, Paul G. Overton, Olivier Codol, and Paul L. Gribble. These collaborators have coauthored multiple publications with Gurney, reflecting ongoing research partnerships in their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • An introduction to neural networks

    Kevin Gurney

  • Network 'small-world-ness': a quantitative method for determining canonical network equivalence.

    Mark D. Humphries;Kevin Gurney

  • The basal ganglia: a vertebrate solution to the selection problem?

    P. Redgrave;T.J. Prescott;K. Gurney

  • The short-latency dopamine signal: a role in discovering novel actions?

    Peter Redgrave;Kevin Gurney

  • A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. I. A new functional anatomy.

    Kevin N. Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave

  • The brainstem reticular formation is a small-world, not scale-free, network

    M.D Humphries;K Gurney;T.J Prescott

  • Is the short-latency dopamine response too short to signal reward error?

    Peter Redgrave;Tony J. Prescott;Kevin Gurney

  • The Basal Ganglia and Cortex Implement Optimal Decision Making Between Alternative Actions

    Rafal Bogacz;Kevin Gurney

  • A physiologically plausible model of action selection and oscillatory activity in the basal ganglia.

    Mark D. Humphries;Robert D. Stewart;Kevin N. Gurney

  • A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. II. Analysis and simulation of behaviour.

    Kevin N. Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave

  • What is reinforced by phasic dopamine signals

    Peter Redgrave;Kevin Gurney;John Reynolds

  • Layered control architectures in robots and vertebrates

    Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave;Kevin Gurney

  • A robot model of the basal ganglia: Behavior and intrinsic processing

    Tony J. Prescott;Fernando M. Montes González;Kevin Gurney;Mark D. Humphries

  • Computational models of the basal ganglia: from robots to membranes.

    Kevin Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Jeffery R. Wickens;Peter Redgrave

  • Dopaminergic Control of the Exploration-Exploitation Trade-Off via the Basal Ganglia.

    Mark D Humphries;Mark D Humphries;Mehdi Khamassi;Mehdi Khamassi;Kevin Gurney

  • The nucleus accumbens as a nexus between values and goals in goal-directed behavior: a review and a new hypothesis.

    Francesco Mannella;Kevin Gurney;Gianluca Baldassarre

  • 2009 Special Issue: Dopamine-modulated dynamic cell assemblies generated by the GABAergic striatal microcircuit

    Mark D. Humphries;Ric Wood;Kevin Gurney

  • Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Real-Time Signal-Processing and Control Applications: A Model-Validated FPGA Approach

    M.J. Pearson;A.G. Pipe;B. Mitchinson;K. Gurney

  • A New Framework for Cortico-Striatal Plasticity: Behavioural Theory Meets In Vitro Data at the Reinforcement-Action Interface

    Kevin N. Gurney;Mark D. Humphries;Peter Redgrave

  • The role of intra-thalamic and thalamocortical circuits in action selection.

    M.D. Humphries;K.N. Gurney

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony J. Prescott
Tony J. Prescott University of Sheffield
Peter Redgrave
Peter Redgrave University of Sheffield
Amir Hussain
Amir Hussain Edinburgh Napier University
Chris Melhuish
Chris Melhuish University of the West of England
Anthony G. Pipe
Anthony G. Pipe University of the West of England
Paul G. Overton
Paul G. Overton University of Sheffield
Gianluca Baldassarre
Gianluca Baldassarre National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Christian Beste
Christian Beste TU Dresden
Rafal Bogacz
Rafal Bogacz University of Oxford
Sten Grillner
Sten Grillner Karolinska Institute

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