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Nikos K. Logothetis

Nikos K. Logothetis

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Neuroscience
China
2026
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Neuroscience
Germany
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
129
Citations
76470
World Ranking
284
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • 2005 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Neurosciences
  • 1999 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation

Overview

Nikos K. Logothetis is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant body of work in cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Their scholarship also covers molecular biology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as artificial intelligence.

The scientist has contributed extensively to understanding neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity, and visual perception and processing mechanisms. Additional areas of research include neuroscience and neuropharmacology, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, sleep and wakefulness studies, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications

Key recent papers authored by the scientist include:

  • Dynamic coupling of whole-brain neuronal and neurotransmitter systems, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Decoding internally generated transitions of conscious contents in the prefrontal cortex without subjective reports, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The Subcortical Atlas of the Rhesus Macaque (SARM) for neuroimaging, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Distinct ensembles in the noradrenergic locus coeruleus are associated with diverse cortical states, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Coupling of hippocampal theta and ripples with pontogeniculooccipital waves, 2020, Nature

The scientist has collaborated frequently with Michel Besserve, Shervin Safavi, Nelson K. Totah, Oxana Eschenko, and Lindsey Drayton.

Awards received by Nikos K. Logothetis include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2009)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008)
  • W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons (2008)
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Neurosciences (2005)
  • Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation (1999)

Best Publications

  • Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal

    Nikos K. Logothetis;Jon Pauls;Mark Augath;Torsten Trinath

  • What we can do and what we cannot do with fMRI

    Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Interpreting the BOLD signal.

    Nikos K. Logothetis;Brian A. Wandell

  • Visual Object Recognition

    Nikos K. Logothetis;David L. Sheinberg

  • The underpinnings of the BOLD functional magnetic resonance imaging signal.

    Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Shape representation in the inferior temporal cortex of monkeys

    Nikos K. Logothetis;Jon Pauls;Tomaso Poggio

  • Multistable phenomena: changing views in perception

    David A. Leopold;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • The neural basis of the blood-oxygen-level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging signal.

    Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Activity-Changes in Early Visual Cortex Reflect Monkeys' Percepts During Binocular Rivalry.

    David A. Leopold;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Negative functional MRI response correlates with decreases in neuronal activity in monkey visual area V1.

    Amir Shmuel;Mark Augath;Axel Oeltermann;Nikos K Logothetis

  • Scaling Brain Size, Keeping Timing: Evolutionary Preservation of Brain Rhythms

    Gyoergy Buzsaki;Nikos Logothetis;Wolf Singer

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  • Modelling and analysis of local field potentials for studying the function of cortical circuits

    Gaute T. Einevoll;Christoph Kayser;Nikos K. Logothetis;Stefano Panzeri

  • The role of temporal cortical areas in perceptual organization

    D. L. Sheinberg;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Neuronal Correlates of Subjective Visual Perception

    Nikos K. Logothetis;Jeffrey D. Schall

  • Very Slow Activity Fluctuations in Monkey Visual Cortex: Implications for Functional Brain Imaging

    David A. Leopold;Yusuke Murayama;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • What is rivalling during binocular rivalry

    Nikos K. Logothetis;David A. Leopold;David L. Sheinberg

  • Decorrelated neuronal firing in cortical microcircuits.

    Alexander S. Ecker;Philipp Berens;Georgios A. Keliris;Matthias Bethge

  • Neurophysiology of the BOLD fMRI Signal in Awake Monkeys

    Jozien B.M. Goense;Nikos K. Logothetis;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Can sliding-window correlations reveal dynamic functional connectivity in resting-state fMRI?

    Rikkert Hindriks;Mohit H. Adhikari;Yusuke Murayama;Marco Ganzetti

  • Multisensory Integration of Dynamic Faces and Voices in Rhesus Monkey Auditory Cortex

    Asif A. Ghazanfar;Joost X. Maier;Kari L. Hoffman;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Visual categorization shapes feature selectivity in the primate temporal cortex

    Natasha Sigala;Nikos K. Logothetis

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Kayser
Christoph Kayser Bielefeld University
Stefano Panzeri
Stefano Panzeri University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Andreas S. Tolias
Andreas S. Tolias Baylor College of Medicine
David A. Leopold
David A. Leopold National Institutes of Health
Christopher I. Petkov
Christopher I. Petkov Newcastle University
Andreas Bartels
Andreas Bartels Max Planck Society
Santiago Canals
Santiago Canals Spanish National Research Council
Asif A. Ghazanfar
Asif A. Ghazanfar Princeton University
Amir Shmuel
Amir Shmuel Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

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