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Steven W. Kennerley publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven W. Kennerley sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 60 publications — 1st percentile

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Steven W. Kennerley D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven W. Kennerley sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • 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

  • Neurons in the frontal lobe encode the value of multiple decision variables

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Oscillatory phase coupling coordinates anatomically dispersed functional cell assemblies

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

  • Organization of action sequences and the role of the pre-SMA.

    Steve W Kennerley;Katsuyuki Sakai;Matthew F Rushworth

  • Callosotomy patients exhibit temporal uncoupling during continuous bimanual movements.

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

  • 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

  • Heterogeneous reward signals in prefrontal cortex.

    Jonathan D Wallis;Steven W Kennerley;Steven W Kennerley

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

    Steven W. Kennerley;Jonathan D. Wallis

  • Moving to Directly Cued Locations Abolishes Spatial Interference During Bimanual Actions

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

  • 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

  • Triple dissociation of attention and decision computations across prefrontal cortex

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

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

    Steven W. Kennerley;Mark E. Walton

  • Reward-dependent modulation of working memory in lateral prefrontal cortex

    Steven W. Kennerley;Jonathan D. Wallis

  • 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

  • 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

  • Single-Neuron Mechanisms Underlying Cost-Benefit Analysis in Frontal Cortex

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

  • Contrasting reward signals in the orbitofrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex

    Jonathan D. Wallis;Steven W. Kennerley

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy E.J. Behrens
Timothy E.J. Behrens University of Oxford
Jonathan D. Wallis
Jonathan D. Wallis University of California, Berkeley
Matthew F. S. Rushworth
Matthew F. S. Rushworth University of Oxford
Mark E. Walton
Mark E. Walton University of Oxford
Eliot Hazeltine
Eliot Hazeltine University of Iowa
Richard B. Ivry
Richard B. Ivry University of California, Berkeley
Sven Bestmann
Sven Bestmann University College London
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
David M. Bannerman
David M. Bannerman University of Oxford
Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London

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