2026 Stephen V. David: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	37	8676	8016	3682	3335	79	9559

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Overview

Stephen V. David is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a concentration on cognitive neuroscience. Additional areas of study include social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and developmental biology.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics including neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and music perception, hearing loss and rehabilitation, mentoring and academic development, health and medical research impacts, animal vocal communication and behavior, and neural networks and applications.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jacob R. Pennington, Charles R. Heller, Daniela Saderi, Leah P. Schwartz, and Jean Liénard.

Key publication venues for their work include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Journal of Neuroscience, and eNeuro.

Recent papers authored by or involving Stephen V. David are as follows:

"Dissociation of task engagement and arousal effects in auditory cortex and midbrain," 2021, eLife
"Neuronal selectivity to complex vocalization features emerges in the superficial layers of primary auditory cortex," 2021, PLoS Biology
"Task Engagement Improves Neural Discriminability in the Auditory Midbrain of the Marmoset Monkey," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
"A convolutional neural network provides a generalizable model of natural sound coding by neural populations in auditory cortex," 2023, PLoS Computational Biology
"Impact of gender on the formation and outcome of formal mentoring relationships in the life sciences," 2022, PLoS Biology

Best Publications

Spatial filter selection for EEG-based communication

Dennis J. McFarland;Lynn M. McCane;Stephen V. David;Jonathan R. Wolpaw

1232
Citations
Cortical Membrane Potential Signature of Optimal States for Sensory Signal Detection

Matthew J. McGinley;Stephen V. David;David A. McCormick

833
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
Estimating spatio-temporal receptive fields of auditory and visual neurons from their responses to natural stimuli.

Frédéric E. Theunissen;Stephen V. David;Nandini C. Singh;Anne Hsu

483
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Natural stimulus statistics alter the receptive field structure of v1 neurons.

Stephen V. David;William E. Vinje;Jack L. Gallant

429
Citations
Complete functional characterization of sensory neurons by system identification.

Michael C.-K. Wu;Stephen V. David;Jack L. Gallant

404
Citations
Task reward structure shapes rapid receptive field plasticity in auditory cortex

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

315
Citations
Task Difficulty and Performance Induce Diverse Adaptive Patterns in Gain and Shape of Primary Auditory Cortical Receptive Fields

Serin Atiani;Mounya Elhilali;Stephen V. David;Jonathan B. Fritz

281
Citations
Adaptive, behaviorally gated, persistent encoding of task-relevant auditory information in ferret frontal cortex

Jonathan B Fritz;Stephen V David;Susanne Radtke-Schuller;Pingbo Yin

269
Citations
Large-scale topology and the default mode network in the mouse connectome

James M. Stafford;Benjamin R. Jarrett;Oscar Miranda-Dominguez;Brian D. Mills

269
Citations
Phoneme representation and classification in primary auditory cortex.

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

255
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Does Attention Play a Role in Dynamic Receptive Field Adaptation to Changing Acoustic Salience in A1

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

249
Citations
Attention to stimulus features shifts spectral tuning of V4 neurons during natural vision.

Stephen V. David;Benjamin Y. Hayden;James A. Mazer;Jack L. Gallant

232
Citations
Estimating sparse spectro-temporal receptive fields with natural stimuli.

Stephen V. David;Nima Mesgarani;Shihab A. Shamma

224
Citations
Influence of context and behavior on stimulus reconstruction from neural activity in primary auditory cortex.

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

209
Citations
Predicting neuronal responses during natural vision.

Stephen V. David;Jack L. Gallant

190
Citations
Rapid synaptic depression explains nonlinear modulation of spectro-temporal tuning in primary auditory cortex by natural stimuli.

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

188
Citations
Emergent Selectivity for Task-Relevant Stimuli in Higher-Order Auditory Cortex

Serin Atiani;Serin Atiani;Stephen V. David;Stephen V. David;Diego Elgueda;Michael Locastro

169
Citations
Mechanisms of noise robust representation of speech in primary auditory cortex

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

167
Citations
Spectral receptive field properties explain shape selectivity in area V4.

Stephen V. David;Benjamin Y. Hayden;Jack L. Gallant

161
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