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Shihab A. Shamma

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
74
Citations
19568
World Ranking
2114
National Ranking
1007

Computer Science

D-Index
57
Citations
13947
World Ranking
3811
National Ranking
1812

Shihab A. Shamma 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 Shihab A. Shamma sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 275 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shihab A. Shamma 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 Shihab A. Shamma sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - IEEE Fellow For applications of signal processing to auditory neuroscience

Overview

Shihab A. Shamma is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on neuroscience and computer science, featuring significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience and signal processing. The scientist's work also intersects with experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The research topics covered by Shihab A. Shamma include:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Mounya Elhilali
  • Giovanni M. Di Liberto
  • Guilhem Marion
  • Carol Espy-Wilson
  • Jonathan B. Fritz

The scientist has published multiple papers in respected venues, such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), eLife, Journal of Neuroscience, and Cerebral Cortex Communications.

Recent papers by Shihab A. Shamma include:

  • Cortical encoding of melodic expectations in human temporal cortex (2020, eLife)
  • Dynamics and Hierarchical Encoding of Non-compact Acoustic Categories in Auditory and Frontal Cortex (2020, Current Biology)
  • Neural representation of linguistic feature hierarchy reflects second-language proficiency (2020, NeuroImage)
  • The Music of Silence. Part I: Responses to Musical Imagery Encode Melodic Expectations and Acoustics (2021, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Distinct higher-order representations of natural sounds in human and ferret auditory cortex (2021, eLife)

Shihab A. Shamma has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2018 for applications of signal processing to auditory neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Rapid task-related plasticity of spectrotemporal receptive fields in primary auditory cortex.

    Jonathan Fritz;Shihab Shamma;Mounya Elhilali;David Klein

  • Attentional Selection in a Cocktail Party Environment Can Be Decoded from Single-Trial EEG

    James A. O'Sullivan;Alan J. Power;Nima Mesgarani;Siddharth Rajaram

  • Multiresolution spectrotemporal analysis of complex sounds

    Taishih Chi;Powen Ru;Shihab A. Shamma

  • Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex

    Brian N. Pasley;Stephen V. David;Nima Mesgarani;Nima Mesgarani;Adeen Flinker

  • Auditory attention : focusing the searchlight on sound

    Jonathan B Fritz;Mounya Elhilali;Stephen V David;Shihab A Shamma

  • Auditory representations of acoustic signals

    X. Yang;K. Wang;S.A. Shamma

  • Spectro-temporal response field characterization with dynamic ripples in ferret primary auditory cortex.

    Didier A. Depireux;Jonathan Z. Simon;David J. Klein;Shihab A. Shamma

  • Temporal coherence and attention in auditory scene analysis

    Shihab A. Shamma;Mounya Elhilali;Christophe Micheyl

  • Spectro-temporal modulation transfer functions and speech intelligibility.

    Taishih Chi;Yujie Gao;Matthew C. Guyton;Powen Ru

  • On the role of space and time in auditory processing

    Shihab Shamma

  • Dichotomy of functional organization in the mouse auditory cortex

    Sharba Bandyopadhyay;Shihab A Shamma;Patrick O Kanold

  • Organization of response areas in ferret primary auditory cortex

    Shihab A. Shamma;James W. Fleshman;Philip R. Wiser;Huib Versnel

  • Analysis of dynamic spectra in ferret primary auditory cortex. I. Characteristics of single-unit responses to moving ripple spectra

    Nina Kowalski;Didier A. Depireux;Shihab A. Shamma

  • Task reward structure shapes rapid receptive field plasticity in auditory cortex

    Stephen V. David;Jonathan B. Fritz;Shihab A. Shamma

  • Robust spectrotemporal reverse correlation for the auditory system: optimizing stimulus design.

    David J. Klein;Didier A. Depireux;Jonathan Z. Simon;Shihab A. Shamma

  • A spectro-temporal modulation index (STMI) for assessment of speech intelligibility

    Mounya Elhilali;Taishih Chi;Shihab A Shamma

  • Speech processing in the auditory system. II: Lateral inhibition and the central processing of speech evoked activity in the auditory nerve.

    Shihab A. Shamma

  • Discrimination of speech from nonspeech based on multiscale spectro-temporal Modulations

    N. Mesgarani;M. Slaney;S.A. Shamma

  • Differential Dynamic Plasticity of A1 Receptive Fields during Multiple Spectral Tasks

    Jonathan B. Fritz;Mounya Elhilali;Shihab A. Shamma

  • The Case of the Missing Pitch Templates: How Harmonic Templates Emerge in the Early Auditory System

    Shihab Shamma;David J. Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan B. Fritz
Jonathan B. Fritz New York University
Stephen V. David
Stephen V. David Oregon Health & Science University
Nima Mesgarani
Nima Mesgarani Columbia University
Jonathan Z. Simon
Jonathan Z. Simon University of Maryland, College Park
Andrew J. Oxenham
Andrew J. Oxenham University of Minnesota
Alain de Cheveigné
Alain de Cheveigné École Normale Supérieure
Ramani Duraiswami
Ramani Duraiswami University of Maryland, College Park
Timothy D. Griffiths
Timothy D. Griffiths University College London
Malcolm Slaney
Malcolm Slaney Stanford University
Patrick O. Kanold
Patrick O. Kanold Johns Hopkins University

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