2026 Simon Hanslmayr: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	61	3608	3298	322	292	145	20021

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Neuroscience

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20021

Overview

Simon Hanslmayr is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Neuroscience, with significant contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Neurology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work extensively covers various topics, including:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Hanslmayr's recent publications illustrate a focus on neural oscillations and episodic memory. Selected recent papers include:

"The hippocampus as the switchboard between perception and memory," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Disentangling neocortical alpha/beta and hippocampal theta/gamma oscillations in human episodic memory formation," 2021, NeuroImage
"Theta rhythmicity governs human behavior and hippocampal signals during memory-dependent tasks," 2021, Nature Communications
"Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans," 2023, Nature Human Behaviour
"Alpha/beta power decreases during episodic memory formation predict the magnitude of alpha/beta power decreases during subsequent retrieval," 2021, Neuropsychologia

Research has been published frequently in several venues, notably:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS Biology
Neuropsychologia
Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Communications

Collaboration forms a considerable part of Hanslmayr's work, with frequent coauthors including:

Bernhard P. Staresina
Maria Wimber
Luca D. Kolibius
Kimron L. Shapiro
David T. Rollings

Best Publications

EEG alpha oscillations: The inhibition–timing hypothesis

Wolfgang Klimesch;Paul Sauseng;Simon Hanslmayr

4579
Citations
A shift of visual spatial attention is selectively associated with human EEG alpha activity

Paul Sauseng;Wolfgang Klimesch;Waltraud Stadler;M. Schabus

1001
Citations
Prestimulus oscillations predict visual perception performance between and within subjects.

Simon Hanslmayr;Alp Aslan;Tobias Staudigl;Wolfgang Klimesch

852
Citations
Increasing individual upper alpha power by neurofeedback improves cognitive performance in human subjects.

Simon Hanslmayr;Paul Sauseng;Michael Doppelmayr;Manuel Schabus

592
Citations
Neural mechanisms of motivated forgetting

Michael C. Anderson;Michael C. Anderson;Simon Hanslmayr

584
Citations
Oscillatory power decreases and long-term memory: the information via desynchronization hypothesis

Simon Hanslmayr;Tobias Staudigl;Marie-Christin Fellner

580
Citations
EEG alpha synchronization and functional coupling during top-down processing in a working memory task

Paul Sauseng;Wolfgang Klimesch;Michael Doppelmayr;Thomas Pecherstorfer

557
Citations
The electrophysiological dynamics of interference during the stroop task

Simon Hanslmayr;Bernhard Pastötter;Karl-Heinz Bäuml;Sieglinde Gruber

527
Citations
The role of alpha oscillations in temporal attention

Simon Hanslmayr;Joachim Gross;Wolfgang Klimesch;Kimron L. Shapiro

468
Citations
Are event-related potential components generated by phase resetting of brain oscillations? A critical discussion.

P. Sauseng;W. Klimesch;W.R. Gruber;S. Hanslmayr

452
Citations
Oscillations and Episodic Memory: Addressing the Synchronization/Desynchronization Conundrum

Simon Hanslmayr;Bernhard P. Staresina;Howard Bowman

404
Citations
Brain Oscillations Dissociate between Semantic and Nonsemantic Encoding of Episodic Memories

Simon Hanslmayr;Bernhard Spitzer;Karl-Heinz Bäuml

359
Citations
Event-related phase reorganization may explain evoked neural dynamics

Wolfgang Klimesch;Paul Sauseng;Simon Hanslmayr;Walter Roland Gruber

355
Citations
How brain oscillations form memories — A processing based perspective on oscillatory subsequent memory effects

Simon Hanslmayr;Tobias Staudigl

317
Citations
Hippocampal-Prefrontal Theta Oscillations Support Memory Integration

Alexander R. Backus;Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen;Szabolcs Szebényi;Simon Hanslmayr

315
Citations
Visual discrimination performance is related to decreased alpha amplitude but increased phase locking

Simon Hanslmayr;Wolfgang Klimesch;Paul Sauseng;Walter Gruber

310
Citations
Theta oscillations at encoding mediate the context-dependent nature of human episodic memory

Tobias Staudigl;Simon Hanslmayr

285
Citations
Theta coupling in the human electroencephalogram during a working memory task

Paul Sauseng;Wolfgang Klimesch;Michael Doppelmayr;Simon Hanslmayr

267
Citations
Upper alpha ERD and absolute power: their meaning for memory performance.

Wolfgang Klimesch;Michael Doppelmayr;Simon Hanslmayr

263
Citations
Modulating Human Memory via Entrainment of Brain Oscillations.

Simon Hanslmayr;Nikolai Axmacher;Cory S. Inman

250
Citations
Alpha Phase Reset Contributes to the Generation of ERPs

Simon Hanslmayr;Wolfgang Klimesch;Paul Sauseng;Paul Sauseng;Walter Gruber

235
Citations