2026 Shintaro Funahashi: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	37	8663	8003	313	293	131	12028

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Overview

Shintaro Funahashi is affiliated with the Beijing Institute of Technology in China and has a research portfolio primarily focused on neuroscience and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, neurology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's research topics include:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neurological disorders and treatments
Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Shintaro Funahashi has published extensively, with notable recent papers such as:

Effects of Microstate Dynamic Brain Network Disruption in Different Stages of Schizophrenia, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Population Receptive Field Characteristics in the between- and Within-Digit Dimensions of the Undominant Hand in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex, 2021, Cerebral Cortex
Influence of layered skull modeling on the frequency sensitivity and target accuracy in simulations of transcranial current stimulation, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
APOE ε4 and cognitive reserve effects on the functional network in the Alzheimer's disease spectrum, 2020, Brain Imaging and Behavior
Review of brain-computer interface based on steady-state visual evoked potential, 2022, Brain Science Advances

Their research has appeared frequently in several scientific venues, including:

Cerebral Cortex
Neuroscience Bulletin
Human Brain Mapping
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Shintaro Funahashi has collaborated with multiple researchers, with frequent coauthors being:

Jinglong Wu
Tianyi Yan
Tiantian Liu
Dingjie Suo
Guangying Pei

In addition to journal publications, the scientist has contributed to book literature, having published the title Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in 2022 under the publisher Brain Science.

Best Publications

Mnemonic coding of visual space in the monkey's dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Shintaro Funahashi;Charles J. Bruce;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

3396
Citations
Prefrontal neuronal activity in rhesus monkeys performing a delayed anti-saccade task.

Shintaro Funahashi;Matthew V. Chafee;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

873
Citations
Neuronal mechanisms of executive control by the prefrontal cortex.

Shintaro Funahashi

842
Citations
Dorsolateral prefrontal lesions and oculomotor delayed-response performance: evidence for mnemonic "scotomas"

Shintaro Funahashi;Charles J. Bruce;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

777
Citations
Visuospatial coding in primate prefrontal neurons revealed by oculomotor paradigms.

S. Funahashi;C. J. Bruce;P. S. Goldman-Rakic

563
Citations
Neuronal activity related to saccadic eye movements in the monkey's dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

S. Funahashi;C. J. Bruce;P. S. Goldman-Rakic

457
Citations
Working Memory in the Prefrontal Cortex

Shintaro Funahashi

343
Citations
Prefrontal cortex and neural mechanisms of executive function

Shintaro Funahashi;Jorge Mario Andreau

327
Citations
Persistent Spiking Activity Underlies Working Memory.

Christos Constantinidis;Shintaro Funahashi;Shintaro Funahashi;Daeyeol Lee;John D. Murray

320
Citations
Working memory and prefrontal cortex

Shintaro Funahashi;Kisou Kubota

297
Citations
Relating neuronal firing patterns to functional differentiation of cerebral cortex.

Shigeru Shinomoto;Hideaki Kim;Takeaki Shimokawa;Nanae Matsuno

281
Citations
Prefrontal cortex and working memory processes.

Shintaro Funahashi

276
Citations
Stable and dynamic coding for working memory in primate prefrontal cortex

Eelke Spaak;Kei Watanabe;Shintaro Funahashi;Mark G. Stokes

241
Citations
Neural mechanisms of dual-task interference and cognitive capacity limitation in the prefrontal cortex

Kei Watanabe;Shintaro Funahashi

240
Citations
Neocortical memory circuits.

P.S. Goldman-Rakic;S. Funahashi;C.J. Bruce

215
Citations
Prefrontal task-related activity representing visual cue location or saccade direction in spatial working memory tasks.

Kazuyoshi Takeda;Shintaro Funahashi

214
Citations
Thalamic mediodorsal nucleus and working memory.

Yumiko Watanabe;Shintaro Funahashi

155
Citations
Delay-period activity in the primate prefrontal cortex encoding multiple spatial positions and their order of presentation.

Shintaro Funahashi;Masato Inoue;Kisou Kubota

153
Citations
The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process does not reproduce spiking statistics of neurons in prefrontal cortex

Shigeru Shinomoto;Yutaka Sakai;Shintaro Funahashi

145
Citations
Population Vector Analysis of Primate Prefrontal Activity during Spatial Working Memory

Kazuyoshi Takeda;Shintaro Funahashi

112
Citations