2026 Shihab A. Shamma: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	74	2114	1930	1007	900	275	19568
Computer Science	57	3811	3705	1811	1747	248	13947

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Neuroscience

2114

1930

1007

900

275

19568

Computer Science

3811

3705

1811

1747

248

13947

Neuroscience

D-Index

Citations

19568

World Ranking

2114

National Ranking

1007

Computer Science

D-Index

Citations

13947

World Ranking

3811

National Ranking

1811

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

993
Citations
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

897
Citations
Multiresolution spectrotemporal analysis of complex sounds

Taishih Chi;Powen Ru;Shihab A. Shamma

829
Citations
Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex

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

706
Citations
Auditory attention : focusing the searchlight on sound

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

667
Citations
Auditory representations of acoustic signals

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

568
Citations
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

550
Citations
Temporal coherence and attention in auditory scene analysis

Shihab A. Shamma;Mounya Elhilali;Christophe Micheyl

535
Citations
Spectro-temporal modulation transfer functions and speech intelligibility.

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

428
Citations
On the role of space and time in auditory processing

Shihab Shamma

344
Citations
Dichotomy of functional organization in the mouse auditory cortex

Sharba Bandyopadhyay;Shihab A Shamma;Patrick O Kanold

328
Citations
Organization of response areas in ferret primary auditory cortex

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

320
Citations
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

319
Citations
Task reward structure shapes rapid receptive field plasticity in auditory cortex

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

315
Citations
Robust spectrotemporal reverse correlation for the auditory system: optimizing stimulus design.

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

311
Citations
A spectro-temporal modulation index (STMI) for assessment of speech intelligibility

Mounya Elhilali;Taishih Chi;Shihab A Shamma

305
Citations
Speech processing in the auditory system. II: Lateral inhibition and the central processing of speech evoked activity in the auditory nerve.

Shihab A. Shamma

297
Citations
Discrimination of speech from nonspeech based on multiscale spectro-temporal Modulations

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

297
Citations
Differential Dynamic Plasticity of A1 Receptive Fields during Multiple Spectral Tasks

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

289
Citations
The Case of the Missing Pitch Templates: How Harmonic Templates Emerge in the Early Auditory System

Shihab Shamma;David J. Klein

284
Citations