2026 Maurice J. Chacron: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	44	7246	6676	430	391	156	6160

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Overview

Maurice J. Chacron is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Neuroscience. Their work primarily focuses on neural dynamics and brain function, with several subfields and related topics explored throughout their career.

The main fields of study associated with their research include:

Neuroscience

Within Neuroscience, their subfields of study cover:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Neurology

The prominent topics of Maurice J. Chacron's research encompass:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
Vestibular and auditory disorders
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Stochastic dynamics and bifurcation

Maurice J. Chacron has published in various scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

Scientific Reports
iScience
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Neuroscience
The Journal of Physiology

Some recent publications include:

Neural Synchrony Gives Rise to Amplitude- and Duration-Invariant Encoding Consistent With Perception of Natural Communication Stimuli (2020), Frontiers in Neuroscience
Neural variability determines coding strategies for natural self-motion in macaque monkeys (2020), eLife
Population Coding of Natural Electrosensory Stimuli by Midbrain Neurons (2021), Journal of Neuroscience
The neural basis for violations of Weber's law in self-motion perception (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Sensory adaptation mediates efficient and unambiguous encoding of natural stimuli by vestibular thalamocortical pathways (2022), Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in Maurice J. Chacron's research include:

Michael G. Metzen
Kathleen E. Cullen
Mariana M. Márquez
Myriah Haggard
Amin Akhshi

Best Publications

Neural variability, detection thresholds, and information transmission in the vestibular system.

Soroush G. Sadeghi;Maurice J. Chacron;Michael C. Taylor;Kathleen E. Cullen

284
Citations
Negative Interspike Interval Correlations Increase the Neuronal Capacity for Encoding Time-Dependent Stimuli

Maurice J. Chacron;André Longtin;Leonard Maler

252
Citations
Parallel Processing of Sensory Input by Bursts and Isolated Spikes

Anne-Marie M. Oswald;Maurice J. Chacron;Brent Doiron;Joseph Bastian

250
Citations
Non-classical receptive field mediates switch in a sensory neuron's frequency tuning

Maurice J. Chacron;Brent Doiron;Leonard Maler;André Longtin

210
Citations
Inhibitory feedback required for network oscillatory responses to communication but not prey stimuli

Brent Doiron;Maurice J. Chacron;Leonard Maler;André Longtin

190
Citations
Plastic and nonplastic pyramidal cells perform unique roles in a network capable of adaptive redundancy reduction.

Joseph Bastian;Maurice J Chacron;Leonard Maler

163
Citations
Noise shaping by interval correlations increases information transfer.

Maurice J. Chacron;Benjamin Lindner;André Longtin

156
Citations
Suprathreshold stochastic firing dynamics with memory in P-type electroreceptors.

Maurice J. Chacron;André Longtin;Martin St-Hilaire;Len Maler

148
Citations
Receptive Field Organization Determines Pyramidal Cell Stimulus-Encoding Capability and Spatial Stimulus Selectivity

Joseph Bastian;Maurice J. Chacron;Leonard Maler

144
Citations
Statistics of the Vestibular Input Experienced during Natural Self-Motion: Implications for Neural Processing

Jérome Carriot;Mohsen Jamali;Maurice J. Chacron;Kathleen E. Cullen

142
Citations
Electroreceptor neuron dynamics shape information transmission

Maurice J Chacron;Leonard Maler;Joseph Bastian

137
Citations
Temporal processing across multiple topographic maps in the electrosensory system.

Rudiger Krahe;Joseph A. Bastian;Maurice J. Chacron

131
Citations
Nonlinear information processing in a model sensory system.

Maurice J. Chacron

121
Citations
Firing statistics of a neuron model driven by long-range correlated noise.

J W Middleton;M J Chacron;B Lindner;A Longtin

112
Citations
Interspike interval correlations, memory, adaptation, and refractoriness in a leaky integrate-and-fire model with threshold fatigue

Maurice J. Chacron;Khashayar Pakdaman;André Longtin

111
Citations
Population coding by electrosensory neurons.

Maurice J. Chacron;Joseph Bastian

106
Citations
Integrate-and-fire neurons with threshold noise: a tractable model of how interspike interval correlations affect neuronal signal transmission.

Benjamin Lindner;Maurice J. Chacron;André Longtin

106
Citations
Effects of restraint and immobilization on electrosensory behaviors of weakly electric fish.

Éva M. Hitschfeld;Sarah A. Stamper;Katrin Vonderschen;Eric S. Fortune

106
Citations
Efficient computation via sparse coding in electrosensory neural networks

Maurice J Chacron;André Longtin;Leonard Maler

105
Citations
Sparse and dense coding of natural stimuli by distinct midbrain neuron subpopulations in weakly electric fish.

Katrin Vonderschen;Maurice J. Chacron

105
Citations
Feedback and feedforward control of frequency tuning to naturalistic stimuli

Maurice J. Chacron;Leonard Maler;Joseph Bastian

101
Citations