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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Nancy Kanwisher

Nancy Kanwisher publishes mostly in Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Face Recognition and Perception, Visual perception and processing mechanisms and Neural dynamics and brain function.

ORCID 0000-0003-3853-7885 OpenAlex
World rank
#36,591
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#13,992
of 1,627,098
Works
458
Citations
67k
Citations per work
146.4
h-index
117
i10-index 240Top 0.2% in Cognitive Neuroscience
Nancy Kanwisher

What does Nancy Kanwisher research?

Nancy Kanwisher's work is mostly in Neuroscience (60%), Psychology (12%), Computer Science (10%).

Life Sciences: 274 works · 59.9% of their workNeuroscience: 274 works · 59.9% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 274 works · 59.9% of their workEverything else: 76 works · 16.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 53 works · 11.5% of their workPsychology: 53 works · 11.5% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 24 works · 5.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 14 works · 3.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 14 works · 3.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 44 works · 9.6% of their workComputer Science: 44 works · 9.6% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 44 works · 9.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 11 works · 2.3% of their workMedicine: 11 works · 2.3% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 11 works · 2.3% of their workTHEIR WORKNancy Kanwisher458works
Life Sciences60%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences12%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Neuroscience27459.9%
  2. Everything else7616.7%
    1. Psychology5311.5%
    1. Computer Science449.6%
    1. Medicine112.3%
  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience60% of their works
  2. 2Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition10% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology3% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology3% of their works
  6. 6Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nancy Kanwisher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neural Mechanisms, Face Perception, Visual Cortex, Neural Processing, Visual Perception, Cortical Networks, Neuronal Oscillations and Deep Learning.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Neural Mechanisms2742 topics
  2. Face Perception2181 topic
  3. Visual Cortex2181 topic
  4. Neural Processing1601 topic
  5. Visual Perception1601 topic
  6. Cortical Networks1011 topic
  7. Neuronal Oscillations1011 topic
  8. Deep Learning932 topics
  9. Prefrontal Cortex842 topics
  10. Cognitive Control561 topic
  11. Decision Making561 topic
  12. Saliency Detection561 topic
  13. Visual Attention561 topic
  14. Functional Connectivity471 topic
  15. Resting-State fMRI471 topic
  16. Face Recognition371 topic
  17. Facial Landmark Detection371 topic
  18. Hippocampus281 topic
  19. Memory281 topic

Where does Nancy Kanwisher work?

Nancy Kanwisher's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nancy Kanwisher have?

OpenAlex counts 458 works and 67,059 citations for Nancy Kanwisher, an h-index of 117, ranking #36,591 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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