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Yves Frégnac 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 Yves Frégnac sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 138 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Yves Frégnac 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 Yves Frégnac sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Louis D., Institut de France

Overview

Yves Frégnac is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France, focusing primarily on neuroscience. Their research work spans a range of topics centered around neural dynamics, visual perception, and advanced microscopy techniques.

The main fields of study covered in Frégnac's publications include:

  • Neuroscience

Within neuroscience, their subfields of study concentrate on:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Biophysics

The major research topics explored include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition

Frégnac has published their work frequently in several peer-reviewed venues, including:

  • eNeuro
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS Computational Biology

Notable recent publications representing a variety of topics and collaborations include:

  • "Assessment of optogenetically-driven strategies for prosthetic restoration of cortical vision in large-scale neural simulation of V1," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "A comprehensive data-driven model of cat primary visual cortex," 2024, PLoS Computational Biology
  • "How Blue is the Sky?," 2021, eNeuro
  • "An Anatomically Constrained Model of V1 Simple Cells Predicts the Coexistence of Push-Pull and Broad Inhibition," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Flagship Afterthoughts: Could the Human Brain Project (HBP) Have Done Better?," 2023, eNeuro

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Cyril Monier
  • Ján Antolík
  • Benoit Le Bec
  • Xoana G. Troncoso
  • Christophe Desbois

Among the awards received, Frégnac was honored with the Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Louis D., Institut de France in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Lidia Alonso-Nanclares;Stewart A. Anderson;German Barrionuevo

  • Visual input evokes transient and strong shunting inhibition in visual cortical neurons

    Lyle J. Borg-Graham;Cyril Monier;Yves Frégnac

  • Horizontal Propagation of Visual Activity in the Synaptic Integration Field of Area 17 Neurons

    Vincent Bringuier;Frédéric Chavane;Larry Glaeser;Yves Frégnac

  • Orientation and Direction Selectivity of Synaptic Inputs in Visual Cortical Neurons: A Diversity of Combinations Produces Spike Tuning

    Cyril Monier;Frédéric Chavane;Pierre Baudot;Lyle J Graham

  • Development of neuronal selectivity in primary visual cortex of cat.

    Y Frégnac;M Imbert

  • Minimal Hodgkin–Huxley type models for different classes of cortical and thalamic neurons

    Martin Pospischil;Maria Toledo-Rodriguez;Cyril Monier;Zuzanna Piwkowska

  • A cellular analogue of visual cortical plasticity

    Yves Frégnac;Daniel Shulz;Simon J. Thorpe;Elie Bienenstock

  • Early development of visual cortical cells in normal and dark-reared kittens: relationship between orientation selectivity and ocular dominance.

    Y Frégnac;M Imbert

  • The "silent" surround of V1 receptive fields: theory and experiments.

    Peggy Seriès;Jean Lorenceau;Yves Frégnac

  • The Neural and Molecular Bases of Learning: (Life Sciences Report 38 — Dahlem Konferenzen) edited by J. P. Changeux and M. Konishi, John Wiley & Sons, 1987. £55.00 (xiii + 559 pages) ISBN 0 471 91569 6

    Y. Fregnac

  • In vitro and in vivo measures of evoked excitatory and inhibitory conductance dynamics in sensory cortices

    C. Monier;J. Fournier;Y. Frégnac

  • Prediction of spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity from pairwise correlations.

    O. Marre;S. El Boustani;Y. Fregnac;A. Destexhe

  • Neuroscience: Where is the brain in the Human Brain Project?

    Yves Frégnac;Gilles Laurent

  • Big data and the industrialization of neuroscience: A safe roadmap for understanding the brain?

    Yves Frégnac

  • Spontaneous cortical activity is transiently poised close to criticality

    Gerald Hahn;Gerald Hahn;Adrian Ponce-Alvarez;Cyril Monier;Giacomo Benvenuti

  • Cellular analogs of visual cortical epigenesis. I. Plasticity of orientation selectivity.

    Y Fregnac;D Shulz;S Thorpe;E Bienenstock

  • Synaptic origin and stimulus dependency of neuronal oscillatory activity in the primary visual cortex of the cat.

    V Bringuier;Y Frégnac;A Baranyi;D Debanne

  • Temporal covariance of pre- and postsynaptic activity regulates functional connectivity in the visual cortex.

    Y. Fregnac;J. P. Burke;D. Smith;M. J. Friedlander

  • Communication through resonance in spiking neuronal networks.

    Gerald Hahn;Alejandro F. Bujan;Yves Frégnac;Ad Aertsen

  • Network-state modulation of power-law frequency-scaling in visual cortical neurons.

    Sami El Boustani;Olivier Marre;Sébastien Béhuret;Pierre Baudot

  • From Sensation to Perception

    Daniel Shulz;Yves Frégnac

  • Erratum: A cellular analogue of visual cortical plasticity

    Y. Frégnac;D. Shulz;Simon J. Thorpe;E. Bienenstock

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Destexhe
Alain Destexhe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thierry Bal
Thierry Bal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Henry Markram
Henry Markram École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ad Aertsen
Ad Aertsen University of Freiburg
Gabriel Peyré
Gabriel Peyré École Normale Supérieure
Hannah Monyer
Hannah Monyer German Cancer Research Center
Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Anders Lansner
Anders Lansner Royal Institute of Technology
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University

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