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Matthew A. Wilson

Matthew A. Wilson

MIT
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
69
Citations
39683
World Ranking
2568
National Ranking
1211

Matthew A. Wilson 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 Matthew A. Wilson sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 149 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Matthew A. Wilson 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 Matthew A. Wilson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% 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

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Matthew A. Wilson is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their research focuses largely on Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, with additional work in Molecular Biology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Neurology.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques

Wilson has published in several frequent venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neural Engineering
  • eLife
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Wilson include:

  • An easy-to-assemble, robust, and lightweight drive implant for chronic tetrode recordings in freely moving animals, 2020, Journal of Neural Engineering
  • mPFC spindle cycles organize sparse thalamic activation and recently active CA1 cells during non-REM sleep, 2020, eLife
  • A Closed-Loop, All-Electronic Pixel-Wise Adaptive Imaging System for High Dynamic Range Videography, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers
  • Wnt- and glutamate-receptors orchestrate stem cell dynamics and asymmetric cell division, 2021, eLife
  • ONIX: a unified open-source platform for multimodal neural recording and perturbation during naturalistic behavior, 2024, Nature Methods

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • Jonathan P. Newman
  • Jie Zhang
  • Jakob Voigts
  • Francisco Flores
  • Mark T. Harnett

Wilson has been recognized with fellowships from various scientific organizations, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1995

Best Publications

  • Reactivation of hippocampal ensemble memories during sleep.

    Matthew A. Wilson;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • Dynamics of the hippocampal ensemble code for space

    Matthew A. Wilson;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • Theta phase precession in hippocampal neuronal populations and the compression of temporal sequences.

    William E. Skaggs;Bruce L. McNaughton;Matthew A. Wilson;Carol A. Barnes

  • Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state

    David J. Foster;Matthew A. Wilson

  • Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep

    Daoyun Ji;Matthew A Wilson

  • Memory of sequential experience in the hippocampus during slow wave sleep.

    Albert K. Lee;Matthew A. Wilson

  • Temporally Structured Replay of Awake Hippocampal Ensemble Activity during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

    Kenway Louie;Matthew A. Wilson

  • Requirement for Hippocampal CA3 NMDA Receptors in Associative Memory Recall

    Kazu Nakazawa;Michael C. Quirk;Raymond A. Chitwood;Masahiko Watanabe

  • Theta rhythms coordinate hippocampal-prefrontal interactions in a spatial memory task.

    Matthew W Jones;Matthew A Wilson

  • Coordinated Interactions between Hippocampal Ripples and Cortical Spindles during Slow-Wave Sleep

    Athanassios G Siapas;Matthew A Wilson

  • Prefrontal Phase Locking to Hippocampal Theta Oscillations

    Athanassios G. Siapas;Evgueniy V. Lubenov;Matthew A. Wilson

  • Dentate Gyrus NMDA Receptors Mediate Rapid Pattern Separation in the Hippocampal Network

    Thomas J. McHugh;Matthew W. Jones;Matthew W. Jones;Jennifer J. Quinn;Jennifer J. Quinn;Nina Balthasar;Nina Balthasar

  • Hippocampal Replay of Extended Experience

    Thomas J. Davidson;Fabian Kloosterman;Matthew A. Wilson

  • Disruption of ripple-associated hippocampal activity during rest impairs spatial learning in the rat

    Valérie Ego-Stengel;Matthew A. Wilson

  • Trajectory encoding in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex.

    Loren M Frank;Emery N Brown;Matthew Wilson

  • Role of experience and oscillations in transforming a rate code into a temporal code

    M. R. Mehta;A. K. Lee;M. A. Wilson

  • Impaired Hippocampal Representation of Space in CA1-Specific NMDAR1 Knockout Mice

    Thomas J McHugh;Kenneth I Blum;Joe Z Tsien;Susumu Tonegawa

  • NMDA receptors, place cells and hippocampal spatial memory.

    Kazu Nakazawa;Thomas J. McHugh;Thomas J. McHugh;Matthew A. Wilson;Susumu Tonegawa;Susumu Tonegawa

  • A Statistical Paradigm for Neural Spike Train Decoding Applied to Position Prediction from Ensemble Firing Patterns of Rat Hippocampal Place Cells

    Emery N. Brown;Loren M. Frank;Dengda Tang;Michael C. Quirk

  • Experience-Dependent Asymmetric Shape of Hippocampal Receptive Fields

    Mayank R. Mehta;Michael C. Quirk;Matthew A. Wilson

  • Hippocampal CA3 NMDA receptors are crucial for memory acquisition of one-time experience.

    Kazu Nakazawa;Linus D Sun;Michael C Quirk;Laure Rondi-Reig

Frequent Co-Authors

Emery N. Brown
Emery N. Brown MIT
Zhe Chen
Zhe Chen Aalborg University
Susumu Tonegawa
Susumu Tonegawa MIT
Loren M. Frank
Loren M. Frank University of California, San Francisco
Michael M. Halassa
Michael M. Halassa MIT
James M. Bower
James M. Bower The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Thomas J. McHugh
Thomas J. McHugh RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Patrick L. Purdon
Patrick L. Purdon Harvard University
Samuel J. Gershman
Samuel J. Gershman Harvard University
John E. Lisman
John E. Lisman Brandeis University

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