2026 Steven W. Kennerley: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	33	9397	8669	696	645	60	8989

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Overview

Steven W. Kennerley is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cellular and molecular neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and social psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Cognitive Science and Mapping
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Kennerley has contributed to numerous publications in scientific venues. Some of the frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Frontiers in Neural Circuits
Nature Communications
Nature Neuroscience

Selected recent papers by Steven W. Kennerley are as follows:

A Diversity of Intrinsic Timescales Underlie Neural Computations, 2020, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
Transferring structural knowledge across cognitive maps in humans and models, 2020, Nature Communications
Distributional reinforcement learning in prefrontal cortex, 2024, Nature Neuroscience
Combined model-free and model-sensitive reinforcement learning in non-human primates, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
A circuit mechanism for decision-making biases and NMDA receptor hypofunction, 2020, eLife

Their collaborative work often involves frequent co-authors such as:

Timothy E.J. Behrens
Laurence T. Hunt
Timothy Müller
James L. Butler
Sebastijan Veselič

Best Publications

Action sets and decisions in the medial frontal cortex

M.F.S. Rushworth;M.F.S. Rushworth;M.E. Walton;S.W. Kennerley;D.M. Bannerman

1230
Citations
Optimal decision making and the anterior cingulate cortex.

Steven W Kennerley;Mark E Walton;Timothy E J Behrens;Timothy E J Behrens;Mark J Buckley

1198
Citations
Neurons in the frontal lobe encode the value of multiple decision variables

Steven W. Kennerley;Aspandiar F. Dahmubed;Antonio H. Lara;Jonathan D. Wallis

565
Citations
Double dissociation of value computations in orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate neurons.

Steven W Kennerley;Timothy E J Behrens;Timothy E J Behrens;Jonathan D Wallis;Jonathan D Wallis

546
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Frontal Cortex Subregions Play Distinct Roles in Choices between Actions and Stimuli

Peter H. Rudebeck;Timothy E. Behrens;Steven W. Kennerley;Mark G. Baxter

438
Citations
Weighing up the benefits of work: behavioral and neural analyses of effort-related decision making

M. E. Walton;S. W. Kennerley;D. M. Bannerman;P. E. M. Phillips

407
Citations
Oscillatory phase coupling coordinates anatomically dispersed functional cell assemblies

Ryan T. Canolty;Karunesh Ganguly;Steven W. Kennerley;Charles F. Cadieu

358
Citations
Organization of action sequences and the role of the pre-SMA.

Steve W Kennerley;Katsuyuki Sakai;Matthew F Rushworth

270
Citations
Callosotomy patients exhibit temporal uncoupling during continuous bimanual movements.

Steven W. Kennerley;Jörn Diedrichsen;Eliot Hazeltine;Andras Semjen

269
Citations
Neural Signatures of Value Comparison in Human Cingulate Cortex during Decisions Requiring an Effort-Reward Trade-off.

Miriam C. Klein-Flügge;Steven W. Kennerley;Karl Friston;Sven Bestmann

256
Citations
Heterogeneous reward signals in prefrontal cortex.

Jonathan D Wallis;Steven W Kennerley;Steven W Kennerley

236
Citations
Evaluating choices by single neurons in the frontal lobe: outcome value encoded across multiple decision variables.

Steven W. Kennerley;Jonathan D. Wallis

234
Citations
Moving to Directly Cued Locations Abolishes Spatial Interference During Bimanual Actions

Jörn Diedrichsen;Eliot Hazeltine;Steven Kennerley;Richard B. Ivry

220
Citations
Adaptive decision making and value in the anterior cingulate cortex.

Mark E. Walton;Paula L. Croxson;Timothy E.J. Behrens;Timothy E.J. Behrens;Steven W. Kennerley;Steven W. Kennerley

220
Citations
Triple dissociation of attention and decision computations across prefrontal cortex

LT Hunt;N Malalasekera;A De Berker;B Miranda;B Miranda;B Miranda

213
Citations
Decision Making and Reward in Frontal Cortex: Complementary Evidence From Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Studies

Steven W. Kennerley;Mark E. Walton

206
Citations
Reward-dependent modulation of working memory in lateral prefrontal cortex

Steven W. Kennerley;Jonathan D. Wallis

179
Citations
Behavioral modeling of human choices reveals dissociable effects of physical effort and temporal delay on reward devaluation.

Miriam C. Klein-Flügge;Steven W. Kennerley;Ana C. Saraiva;Will D. Penny

173
Citations
Reconciling persistent and dynamic hypotheses of working memory coding in prefrontal cortex

Sean E. Cavanagh;John P. Towers;Joni D. Wallis;Laurence T. Hunt;Laurence T. Hunt

164
Citations
Single-Neuron Mechanisms Underlying Cost-Benefit Analysis in Frontal Cortex

Takayuki Hosokawa;Steven W. Kennerley;Jennifer Sloan;Jonathan D. Wallis

151
Citations
Contrasting reward signals in the orbitofrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex

Jonathan D. Wallis;Steven W. Kennerley

134
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