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37
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5398
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8812
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3729

Peter D. Spear 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 Peter D. Spear sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 86 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Peter D. Spear 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 Peter D. Spear sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 37 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Peter D. Spear is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their academic work concentrates within the broad scope of scientific research without specific fields, topics, or publication records publicly detailed.

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Best Publications

  • Organization of visual pathways in normal and visually deprived cats.

    Unknown

  • Neural bases of visual deficits during aging.

    Peter D. Spear

  • Visual Response Properties of Neurons in the LGN of Normally Reared and Visually Deprived Macaque Monkeys

    Jonathan B. Levitt;Robert A. Schumer;Robert A. Schumer;S. Murray Sherman;Peter D. Spear

  • Effects of aging on the size, density, and number of rhesus monkey lateral geniculate neurons.

    Aneeq Ahmad;Peter D. Spear

  • Effects of aging on the primate visual system: spatial and temporal processing by lateral geniculate neurons in young adult and old rhesus monkeys.

    P. D. Spear;R. J. Moore;C. B. Y. Kim;Jin-Tang Xue

  • Thalamic projections to visual areas of the middle suprasylvian sulcus in the cat.

    Lillian Tong;Ronald E. Kalil;Peter D. Spear

  • Influence of the cortico-geniculate pathway on response properties of cat lateral geniculate neurons.

    E.E. Geisert;Arne Langsetmo;Peter D. Spear

  • Direction-specific deficits in horizontal optokinetic nystagmus following removal of visual cortex in the cat.

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  • Loss of retinal X-cells in cats with neonatal or adult visual cortex damage.

    Lillian Tong;Peter D. Spear;Ronald E. Kalil;Eileen C. Callahan

  • Effects of visual deprivation and alterations in binocular competition on responses of striate cortex neurons in the cat

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  • Effects of aging on the densities, numbers, and sizes of retinal ganglion cells in rhesus monkey

    Charlene B.Y. Kim;Bryony W. Tom;Peter D. Spear

  • Spreading of uncrossed retinal projection in superior colliculus of neonatally enucleated rabbits

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  • Pattern discrimination following removal of visual neocortex in the cat.

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  • Response properties of striate cortex neurons in cats raised with divergent or convergent strabismus.

    R. E. Kalil;P. D. Spear;A. Langsetmo

  • Ontogenesis of receptive field characteristics of superior colliculus neurons in the rabbit.

    Peter D. Spear;Kao Liang Chow;Richard H. Masland;E.H. Murphy

  • Effects of aging on numbers and sizes of neurons in histochemically defined subregions of monkey striate cortex.

    Charlene B.Y. Kim;Lee P. Pier;Peter D. Spear;Peter D. Spear

  • Morphological and functional effects of visual deprivation on the rabbit visual system.

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  • Striate cortex neurons of binocularly deprived kittens respond to visual stimuli through the closed eyelids.

    Peter D. Spear;Lillian Tong;Arne Langsetmo

  • How complete is physiological compensation in extrastriate cortex after visual cortex damage in kittens

    William Guido;Peter D. Spear;Lillian Tong

  • Neurophysiological mechanisms of recovery from visual cortex damage in cats: properties of lateral suprasylvian visual area neurons following behavioral recovery.

    P. D. Spear;T. P. Baumann

  • Recovery of pattern discrimination ability in rats receiving serial or one-stage visual cortex lesions.

    Peter D. Spear;Helen Barbas

  • Functional compensation in the lateral suprasylvian visual area following bilateral visual cortex damage in kittens.

    W Guido;P D Spear;L Tong

  • Critical period for the marked loss of retinal X-cells following visual cortex damage in cats.

    Eileen C. Callahan;Lillian Tong;Peter D. Spear

  • Single thalamic neurons project to both lateral suprasylvian visual cortex and area 17: A retrograde fluorescent double-labeling study

    Lillian Tong;Peter D. Spear

  • Responses of lateral geniculate neurons that survive long-term visual cortex damage in kittens and adult cats

    N Tumosa;MA McCall;W Guido;PD Spear

  • Relationship between numbers of retinal ganglion cells and lateral geniculate neurons in the rhesus monkey

    Peter D. Spear;Charlene B. Y. Kim;Aneeq Ahmad;Bryony W. Tom

Frequent Co-Authors

William Guido
William Guido University of Louisville
J. Anthony Movshon
J. Anthony Movshon New York University
Robert W. Williams
Robert W. Williams University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Leo M. Chalupa
Leo M. Chalupa University of California, Davis
S. Murray Sherman
S. Murray Sherman University of Chicago

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