2026 Marc W. Howard: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	40	7977	7369	3426	3100	115	10630
Psychology	35	9688	9064	5111	4664	86	9563

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Neuroscience

7977

7369

3426

3100

115

10630

Psychology

9688

9064

5111

4664

9563

Neuroscience

D-Index

Citations

10630

World Ranking

7977

National Ranking

3426

Psychology

D-Index

Citations

9563

World Ranking

9688

National Ranking

5111

Overview

Marc W. Howard is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Computer Science, with significant contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work focuses on key topics including Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Neural Networks and Applications, Memory Processes and Influences, and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Marc W. Howard has authored numerous publications in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Computational Brain & Behavior
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Hippocampus

Some recent papers include:

A temporal record of the past with a spectrum of time constants in the monkey entorhinal cortex, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Conjunctive representation of what and when in monkey hippocampus and lateral prefrontal cortex during an associative memory task, 2020, Hippocampus
Internally generated time in the rodent hippocampus is logarithmically compressed, 2022, eLife
"A compressed representation of spatial distance in the rodent hippocampus", 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Consistent population activity on the scale of minutes in the mouse hippocampus, 2022, Hippocampus

The scientist frequently collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, reflecting ongoing research partnerships. These include:

Ian M. Bright
Zoran Tiganj
Michael E. Hasselmo
Rui Cao
Per B. Sederberg

Best Publications

A distributed representation of temporal context

Marc W. Howard;Michael J. Kahana

1487
Citations
Theta and Gamma Oscillations during Encoding Predict Subsequent Recall

Per B. Sederberg;Michael J. Kahana;Marc W. Howard;Elizabeth J. Donner

989
Citations
Gamma Oscillations Correlate with Working Memory Load in Humans

Marc W. Howard;Daniel S. Rizzuto;Jeremy B. Caplan;Joseph R. Madsen

920
Citations
Contextual variability and serial position effects in free recall.

Marc W. Howard;Michael J. Kahana

585
Citations
Gradual Changes in Hippocampal Activity Support Remembering the Order of Events

Joseph R. Manns;Marc W. Howard;Howard Eichenbaum

489
Citations
A context-based theory of recency and contiguity in free recall.

Per B. Sederberg;Marc W. Howard;Michael J. Kahana

479
Citations
The temporal context model in spatial navigation and relational learning: toward a common explanation of medial temporal lobe function across domains.

Marc W. Howard;Mrigankka S. Fotedar;Aditya V. Datey;Michael E. Hasselmo

368
Citations
When Does Semantic Similarity Help Episodic Retrieval

Marc W Howard;Michael J Kahana

344
Citations
Age dissociates recency and lag recency effects in free recall.

Michael J. Kahana;Marc W. Howard;Franklin Zaromb;Arthur Wingfield

231
Citations
Ventral hippocampal neurons are shaped by experience to represent behaviorally relevant contexts.

Robert W. Komorowski;Carolyn G. Garcia;Alix Wilson;Shoai Hattori

225
Citations
The same hippocampal CA1 population simultaneously codes temporal information over multiple timescales

William Mau;David W. Sullivan;Nathaniel R. Kinsky;Michael E. Hasselmo

219
Citations
A unified mathematical framework for coding time, space, and sequences in the hippocampal region.

Marc W. Howard;Christopher J. MacDonald;Zoran Tiganj;Karthik H. Shankar

215
Citations
Time Cells in Hippocampal Area CA3.

Daniel M Salz;Zoran Tiganj;Srijesa Khasnabish;Annalyse Kohley

205
Citations
Associative Retrieval Processes in Episodic Memory

Michael J. Kahana;Marc W. Howard;Sean M. Polyn

188
Citations
The hippocampus, time, and memory across scales.

Marc W. Howard;Howard Eichenbaum

187
Citations
The temporal contiguity effect predicts episodic memory performance

Per B. Sederberg;Jonathan F. Miller;Marc W. Howard;Michael J. Kahana

185
Citations
A scale-invariant internal representation of time

Karthik H. Shankar;Marc W. Howard

182
Citations
A distributed representation of internal time.

Marc W. Howard;Karthik H. Shankar;William R. Aue;Amy H. Criss

162
Citations
Time and space in the hippocampus.

Marc W. Howard;Howard Eichenbaum

161
Citations
Aging selectively impairs recollection in recognition memory for pictures: evidence from modeling and receiver operating characteristic curves.

Marc W. Howard;Brandy Bessette-Symons;Yaofei Zhang;William J. Hoyer

151
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Kahana University of Pennsylvania

Michael E. Hasselmo Boston University

Howard Eichenbaum Boston University

Earl K. Miller MIT

Arthur Wingfield Brandeis University

Ueli Rutishauser Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

William J. Hoyer Syracuse University

Itzhak Fried University of California, Los Angeles

Mieke Verfaellie Boston University

Samuel J. Gershman Harvard University

External Links

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