2026 Sophie Denève: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	38	8471	7829	396	365	89	8038

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Overview

Sophie Denève is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France. Their research spans neuroscience and computer science, with a significant focus on neural dynamics, brain function, and neural networks applications.

The scientist's work covers various fields and subfields, including:

Neuroscience
Computer Science

Cognitive Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

The main research topics include:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Neural Networks and Applications
Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Advanced Vision and Imaging

Denève has contributed to publications in several venues, with frequent appearances in:

PLoS Computational Biology
Nature Methods
Nature Communications
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
Nature

Selected recent publications include:

"Predictive learning as a network mechanism for extracting low-dimensional latent space representations," 2021, Nature Communications
"The supplementary material contains detailed mathematical derivations and proofs of all the main concepts explained in this article," 2020, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
"Efficient and robust coding in heterogeneous recurrent networks," 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
"Lightning Pose: improved animal pose estimation via semi-supervised learning, Bayesian ensembling and cloud-native open-source tools," 2024, Nature Methods
"A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour," 2025, Nature

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Anup Khanal
Guido T. Meijer
Jean-Paul Noel
Vincent Bouttier
Renaud Jardri

Best Publications

Reference frames for representing visual and tactile locations in parietal cortex.

Marie Avillac;Sophie Denève;Etienne Olivier;Alexandre Pouget

558
Citations
A computational perspective on the neural basis of multisensory spatial representations

Alexandre Pouget;Sophie Deneve;Jean-René Duhamel

535
Citations
Reading population codes: a neural implementation of ideal observers

Sophie Deneve;Peter E. Latham;Alexandre Pouget

523
Citations
Efficient codes and balanced networks

Sophie Denève;Christian K Machens

516
Citations
Efficient computation and cue integration with noisy population codes.

S. Deneve;P. E. Latham;A. Pouget

483
Citations
Bayesian spiking neurons i: Inference

Sophie Deneve

404
Citations
Evidence that cochlear-implanted deaf patients are better multisensory integrators.

J. Rouger;S. Lagleyre;B. Fraysse;S. Deneve

369
Citations
Statistically efficient estimation using population coding

Alexandre Pouget;Kechen Zhang;Sophie Deneve;Peter E. Latham

315
Citations
Predictive Coding of Dynamical Variables in Balanced Spiking Networks

Martin Boerlin;Christian K. Machens;Sophie Denève

310
Citations
Bayesian multisensory integration and cross-modal spatial links

Sophie Deneve;Alexandre Pouget

304
Citations
Circular inferences in schizophrenia

Renaud Jardri;Sophie Denève

214
Citations
What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia.

Charles-Edouard Notredame;Delphine Pins;Sophie Deneve;Renaud Jardri;Renaud Jardri

214
Citations
Neural processing as causal inference.

Timm Lochmann;Sophie Deneve;Sophie Deneve

198
Citations
Are Hallucinations Due to an Imbalance Between Excitatory and Inhibitory Influences on the Brain

Renaud Jardri;Kenneth Hugdahl;Matthew Hughes;Jérôme Brunelin

190
Citations
Narrow versus wide turning curves: what's best for a population code?

Alexandre Pouget;Sophie Deneve;Jean-Christophe Ducom;Peter E. Latham

175
Citations
Optimal sensorimotor integration in recurrent cortical networks: a neural implementation of Kalman filters.

Sophie Denève;Jean-René Duhamel;Alexandre Pouget

173
Citations
Experimental evidence for circular inference in schizophrenia.

Renaud Jardri;Sandrine Duverne;Alexandra S Litvinova;Sophie Denève

160
Citations
Online learning with hidden markov models

Gianluigi Mongillo;Sophie Deneve

154
Citations
The Brain as an Efficient and Robust Adaptive Learner.

Sophie Denève;Alireza Alemi;Ralph Bourdoukan

146
Citations
Spike-based population coding and working memory.

Martin Boerlin;Sophie Denève;Sophie Denève

143
Citations
Circular inference: mistaken belief, misplaced trust

Sophie Denève;Renaud Jardri;Renaud Jardri

137
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Renaud Jardri University of Lille

Boris Gutkin École Normale Supérieure

Alexandre Pouget University of Geneva

Jean-René Duhamel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Adrienne L. Fairhall University of Washington

Jean-Jacques E. Slotine MIT

Philip R. Corlett Yale University

Osvaldo Simeone Northeastern University

Evangelos S. Eleftheriou Axelera.ai

Bipin Rajendran King's College London

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