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Neuroscience

D-Index
52
Citations
15620
World Ranking
5221
National Ranking
2337

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Statistics
  • Cognition

His primary areas of study are Neuroscience, Perception, Bayesian inference, Artificial intelligence and Probabilistic logic. His Neural coding study in the realm of Neuroscience connects with subjects such as Distributed memory and Miller. His research integrates issues of Visual perception and Speech recognition in his study of Bayesian inference.

His work deals with themes such as Machine learning and Pattern recognition, which intersect with Artificial intelligence. In his study, which falls under the umbrella issue of Machine learning, Artificial neural network and Motion perception is strongly linked to Bayesian probability. His work investigates the relationship between Probabilistic logic and topics such as Probability distribution that intersect with problems in Sensory processing, Approximate inference, Range and Mnemonic.

His most cited work include:

  • Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes. (1098 citations)
  • Causal inference in multisensory perception. (619 citations)
  • Changing concepts of working memory. (555 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of investigation include Artificial intelligence, Perception, Bayesian probability, Cognitive psychology and Working memory. His Artificial intelligence study combines topics in areas such as Stimulus, Machine learning and Pattern recognition. His Perception study is concerned with Neuroscience in general.

The various areas that Wei Ji Ma examines in his Bayesian probability study include Econometrics and Categorization. His Cognitive psychology research includes themes of Visual short-term memory and Cognition. The Bayesian inference study combines topics in areas such as Inference and Bayes' theorem.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Artificial intelligence (53.85%)
  • Perception (31.22%)
  • Bayesian probability (28.96%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Artificial intelligence (53.85%)
  • Perception (31.22%)
  • Bayesian probability (28.96%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Wei Ji Ma spends much of his time researching Artificial intelligence, Perception, Bayesian probability, Working memory and Stimulus. The concepts of his Artificial intelligence study are interwoven with issues in Machine learning and Pattern recognition. Wei Ji Ma combines subjects such as Cognition, Sensory system and Decision rule with his study of Perception.

To a larger extent, Wei Ji Ma studies Neuroscience with the aim of understanding Working memory. In his research, Speech recognition is intimately related to Visual search, which falls under the overarching field of Stimulus. Within one scientific family, Wei Ji Ma focuses on topics pertaining to Sensory cue under Bayes' theorem, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Motion perception and Causal inference.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory. (79 citations)
  • A diverse range of factors affect the nature of neural representations underlying short-term memory. (46 citations)
  • Bayesian comparison of explicit and implicit causal inference strategies in multisensory heading perception (34 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Statistics
  • Cognition

His scientific interests lie mostly in Bayesian probability, Perception, Artificial intelligence, Cognition and Categorization. His Bayesian probability research includes elements of Sensory system, Visual cortex and Neural coding. His Perception research is classified as research in Neuroscience.

His Neuroscience study which covers Range that intersects with Short-term memory. His Artificial intelligence study incorporates themes from Machine learning and Pattern recognition. Wei Ji Ma has included themes like Artificial neural network and Cognitive psychology in his Cognition study.

Best Publications

  • Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes.

    Wei Ji Ma;Jeffrey M Beck;Peter E Latham;Alexandre Pouget

  • Changing concepts of working memory.

    Wei Ji Ma;Masud Husain;Paul M Bays

  • Causal inference in multisensory perception.

    Konrad P. Körding;Ulrik Beierholm;Wei Ji Ma;Steven Quartz

  • A detection theory account of change detection

    Patrick Wilken;Wei Ji Ma

  • Probabilistic Population Codes for Bayesian Decision Making

    Jeffrey M. Beck;Wei Ji Ma;Wei Ji Ma;Roozbeh Kiani;Timothy Hanks

  • Probabilistic brains: knowns and unknowns

    Alexandre Pouget;Jeffrey M Beck;Wei Ji Ma;Wei Ji Ma;Peter E Latham

  • Variability in encoding precision accounts for visual short-term memory limitations

    Ronald Van Den Berg;Hongsup Shin;Wen Chuang Chou;Ryan George

  • Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory.

    Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky;Edward Awh;Gordon D.A. Brown

  • Not noisy, just wrong: the role of suboptimal inference in behavioral variability

    Jeffrey M. Beck;Wei Ji Ma;Xaq Pitkow;Peter E. Latham

  • Factorial Comparison of Working Memory Models

    Ronald van den Berg;Edward Awh;Wei Ji Ma

  • Sound-induced flash illusion as an optimal percept.

    Ladan Shams;Wei Ji Ma;Ulrik Beierholm

  • Neural coding of uncertainty and probability.

    Wei Ji Ma;Mehrdad Jazayeri

  • Sensory uncertainty decoded from visual cortex predicts behavior

    Ruben S van Bergen;Wei Ji Ma;Michael S Pratte;Janneke F M Jehee

  • Lip-reading aids word recognition most in moderate noise: a Bayesian explanation using high-dimensional feature space.

    Wei Ji Ma;Xiang Zhou;Lars A. Ross;John J. Foxe;John J. Foxe

  • Organizing probabilistic models of perception.

    Wei Ji Ma

  • The importance of autonomy for rural Chinese children's motivation for learning

    Mingming Zhou;Wei Ji Ma;Edward L. Deci

  • Practical Bayesian optimization for model fitting with Bayesian adaptive direct search

    Luigi Acerbi;Wei Ji Ma

  • A neural basis of probabilistic computation in visual cortex

    Edgar Y. Walker;R. James Cotton;R. James Cotton;Wei Ji Ma;Andreas S. Tolias;Andreas S. Tolias

  • Humans incorporate attention-dependent uncertainty into perceptual decisions and confidence

    Rachel N. Denison;William T. Adler;Marisa Carrasco;Wei Ji Ma

  • A diverse range of factors affect the nature of neural representations underlying short-term memory.

    A. Emin Orhan;Wei Ji Ma

  • Behavior and neural basis of near-optimal visual search

    Wei Ji Ma;Vidhya Navalpakkam;Vidhya Navalpakkam;Jeffrey M Beck;Ronald van den Berg

  • A Fast and Simple Population Code for Orientation in Primate V1

    P. Berens;A. S. Ecker;R. J. Cotton;W. J. Ma

  • Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27

    Luigi Acerbi;Wei Ji Ma;Sethu Vijayakumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandre Pouget
Alexandre Pouget University of Geneva
Clayton E. Curtis
Clayton E. Curtis New York University
Anthony A. Wright
Anthony A. Wright The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Ladan Shams
Ladan Shams University of California, Los Angeles
Andreas S. Tolias
Andreas S. Tolias Baylor College of Medicine
Marisa Carrasco
Marisa Carrasco New York University
Jonathan Winawer
Jonathan Winawer New York University
Dora E. Angelaki
Dora E. Angelaki New York University
Edward Awh
Edward Awh University of Chicago

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