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Sidney I. Wiener

Sidney I. Wiener

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
10168
World Ranking
8438
National Ranking
392

Overview

Sidney I. Wiener is affiliated with the Collège de France in France. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with an emphasis on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, and Social Psychology.

The main topics investigated by Wiener include Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neural dynamics and brain function, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering.

Wiener has produced a substantial body of work with notable publications spanning several well-regarded venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Progress in Neurobiology
  • Learning & Memory

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wiener include:

  • Distributed cell assemblies spanning prefrontal cortex and striatum, 2021, Current Biology
  • Time as the fourth dimension in the hippocampus, 2020, Progress in Neurobiology
  • Post-trauma behavioral phenotype predicts the degree of vulnerability to fear relapse after extinction in male rats, 2022, Current Biology
  • Flexible communication between cell assemblies and 'reader' neurons, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Rhythmic oscillations in the midbrain dopaminergic nuclei in mice, 2023, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Wiener collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their common co-authors include:

  • Ralitsa Todorova
  • Marco N. Pompili
  • Virginie Oberto
  • Hongying Gao
  • Gabriel Makdah

Overall, Sidney I. Wiener's scientific work presents a concentrated effort in understanding neural assemblies, brain function dynamics, and neurobehavioral processes, particularly through a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches within neuroscience and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Selective suppression of hippocampal ripples impairs spatial memory.

    Gabrielle Girardeau;Karim Benchenane;Sidney I Wiener;György Buzsáki

  • Coherent theta oscillations and reorganization of spike timing in the hippocampal- prefrontal network upon learning.

    Karim Benchenane;Adrien Peyrache;Mehdi Khamassi;Mehdi Khamassi;Patrick L. Tierney;Patrick L. Tierney

  • Comparison of spatial firing characteristics of units in dorsal and ventral hippocampus of the rat

    MW Jung;SI Wiener;BL McNaughton

  • Replay of rule-learning related neural patterns in the prefrontal cortex during sleep

    Adrien Peyrache;Mehdi Khamassi;Karim Benchenane;Sidney I Wiener

  • Spatial and behavioral correlates of hippocampal neuronal activity

    Sidney Wiener;C. A. Paul;H. Eichenbaum

  • Biologically based artificial navigation systems: review and prospects.

    Olivier Trullier;Olivier Trullier;Sidney I. Wiener;Alain Berthoz;Jean-Arcady Meyer

  • The hippocampus: hub of brain network communication for memory

    Francesco P. Battaglia;Karim Benchenane;Anton Sirota;Cyriel M.A. Pennartz

  • Learning-related patterns of CA1 spike trains parallel stimulation parameters optimal for inducing hippocampal long-term potentiation.

    Tim Otto;Howard Eichenbaum;Sidney I. Wiener;Cynthia G. Wible

  • Spatial and behavioral correlates of striatal neurons in rats performing a self-initiated navigation task

    SI Wiener

  • The organization of spatial coding in the hippocampus: a study of neural ensemble activity.

    H. Eichenbaum;S. I. Wiener;M. L. Shapiro;Neal J Cohen

  • Principal component analysis of ensemble recordings reveals cell assemblies at high temporal resolution

    Adrien Peyrache;Karim Benchenane;Mehdi Khamassi;Sidney I. Wiener

  • Inertial, substratal and landmark cue control of hippocampal CA1 place cell activity.

    Sidney I. Wiener;Victor A. Korshunov;René Garcia;Alain Berthoz

  • Background, But Not Foreground, Spatial Cues Are Taken as References for Head Direction Responses by Rat Anterodorsal Thalamus Neurons

    Michaël B. Zugaro;Alain Berthoz;Sidney I. Wiener

  • Fabrication technology for silicon-based microprobe arrays used in acute and sub-chronic neural recording

    S Herwik;S Kisban;A A A Aarts;A A A Aarts;K Seidl

  • Rapid Spatial Reorientation and Head Direction Cells

    Michaël B. Zugaro;Angelo Arleo;Alain Berthoz;Sidney I. Wiener

  • Spatial, behavioral and sensory correlates of hippocampal CA1 complex spike cell activity: Implications for information processing functions

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  • Enhanced hippocampal theta EEG during whole body rotations in awake restrained rats.

    Vladimir V. Gavrilov;Sidney I. Wiener;Alain Berthoz

  • Vestibular activity and cognitive development in children: perspectives.

    Sylvette R. Wiener-Vacher;Derek A. Hamilton;Sidney I Wiener

  • Position and behavioral modulation of synchronization of hippocampal and accumbens neuronal discharges in freely moving rats.

    E.T. Tabuchi;A.B. Mulder;S.I. Wiener

  • Video Head Impulse Tests with a Remote Camera System: Normative Values of Semicircular Canal Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Gain in Infants and Children.

    Sylvette R. Wiener-Vacher;Sidney I. Wiener

  • Reward value invariant place responses and reward site associated activity in hippocampal neurons of behaving rats.

    E. Tabuchi;A.B. Mulder;S.I. Wiener

  • Spatial and Behavioral Correlates of Hippocampal Neuronal Activity: A Primer for Computational Analysis

    Howard Eichenbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Berthoz
Alain Berthoz Collège de France
Patrick Ruther
Patrick Ruther University of Freiburg
György Buzsáki
György Buzsáki New York University
Bruno Poucet
Bruno Poucet Aix-Marseille University
Etienne Save
Etienne Save Aix-Marseille University
Oliver Paul
Oliver Paul University of Freiburg
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
Marie-Odile Krebs
Marie-Odile Krebs Université Paris Cité
Jean-Michel Raimond
Jean-Michel Raimond Collège de France

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