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31005
World Ranking
1492
National Ranking
743

Overview

Albert M. Galaburda is affiliated with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to Neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional areas of study include Molecular Biology, Social Psychology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their scientific output addresses numerous topics, notably:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Color perception and design
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care

Galaburda's recent papers include:

  • "Shape-centered representations of bounded regions of space mediate the perception of objects," 2021, Cognitive Neuropsychology
  • "The form of reference frames in vision: The case of intermediate shape-centered representations," 2021, Neuropsychologia
  • "Maternal exposure to a high-magnitude earthquake during pregnancy influences pre-reading skills in early childhood," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Trans-trigeminal transport of masseter-derived neprilysin to hippocampus," 2020, Archives of Oral Biology
  • "Animal models of developmental dyslexia," 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience

The venues where Galaburda has frequently published include:

  • Cognitive Neuropsychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Archives of Oral Biology
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience

Colleagues who have coauthored multiple works with Galaburda include:

  • Gilles Vannuscorps
  • Alfonso Caramazza
  • Luis Federico Bátiz
  • Yasna Palmeiro-Silva
  • Gregory E. Rice

Best Publications

  • Cerebral lateralization. Biological mechanisms, associations, and pathology: II. A hypothesis and a program for research.

    Norman Geschwind;Albert M. Galaburda

  • The return of Phineas Gage: clues about the brain from the skull of a famous patient

    Hanna Damasio;Thomas Grabowski;Randall Frank;Albert M. Galaburda

  • Developmental dyslexia: Four consecutive patients with cortical anomalies

    Albert M. Galaburda;Gordon F. Sherman;Glenn D. Rosen;Francisco Aboitiz

  • Physiological and anatomical evidence for a magnocellular defect in developmental dyslexia

    Margaret S. Livingstone;Glenn D. Rosen;Frank W. Drislane;Albert M. Galaburda

  • Right-left asymmetrics in the brain

    Albert M. Galaburda;Marjorie LeMay;Thomas L. Kemper;Norman Geschwind

  • Cytoarchitectonic organization of the human auditory cortex.

    Albert Galaburda;Friedrich Sanides

  • Topographical Variation of the Human Primary Cortices: Implications for Neuroimaging, Brain Mapping, and Neurobiology

    J. Rademacher;V. S. Caviness;H. Steinmetz;A. M. Galaburda

  • Cytoarchitectonic abnormalities in developmental dyslexia: A case study

    Albert M. Galaburda;Thomas L. Kemper

  • Human Brain: Cytoarchitectonic Left-Right Asymmetries in the Temporal Speech Region

    Albert M. Galaburda;Friedrich Sanides;Norman Geschwind

  • Evidence for aberrant auditory anatomy in developmental dyslexia.

    Albert M. Galaburda;Matthew T. Menard;Glenn D. Rosen

  • Human cerebral cortex: Localization, parcellation, and morphometry with magnetic resonance imaging

    J. Rademacher;J. Rademacher;A. M. Galaburda;D. N. Kennedy;P. A. Filipek

  • Developmental dyslexia in women: neuropathological findings in three patients.

    Peter Humphreys;Peter Humphreys;Walter E. Kaufmann;Walter E. Kaufmann;Albert M. Galaburda;Albert M. Galaburda

  • Bridging cognition, the brain and molecular genetics: evidence from Williams syndrome.

    Ursula Bellugi;Liz Lichtenberger;Debra Mills;Albert Galaburda

  • Planum temporale asymmetry reappraisal since geschwind and levitsky

    Albert M. Galaburda;Joan Corsiglia;Glenn D. Rosen;Gordon F. Sherman

  • From genes to behavior in developmental dyslexia

    Albert M Galaburda;Joseph LoTurco;Franck Ramus;R Holly Fitch

  • Evidence for a magnocellular defect in developmental dyslexia.

    Albert Galaburda;Albert Galaburda;Albert Galaburda;Margaret Livingstone;Margaret Livingstone

  • The intrinsic architectonic and connectional organization of the superior temporal region of the rhesus monkey

    Albert M. Galaburda;Albert M. Galaburda;Deepak N. Pandya;Deepak N. Pandya

  • Cerebral dominance : the biological foundations

    Albert M. Galaburda;Norman Geschwind

  • Inferior Parietal Lobule: Divergent Architectonic Asymmetries in the Human Brain

    David Eidelberg;Albert M. Galaburda

  • Abnormal cortical complexity and thickness profiles mapped in Williams syndrome.

    Paul M. Thompson;Agatha D. Lee;Rebecca A. Dutton;Jennifer A. Geaga

  • Individual variability in cortical organization: its relationship to brain laterality and implications to function

    Albert M. Galaburda;Glenn D. Rosen;Glenn D. Rosen;Gordon F. Sherman;Gordon F. Sherman

Frequent Co-Authors

Glenn D. Rosen
Glenn D. Rosen Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Gordon F. Sherman
Gordon F. Sherman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ursula Bellugi
Ursula Bellugi Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Allan L. Reiss
Allan L. Reiss Stanford University
Debra L. Mills
Debra L. Mills Bangor University
Julie R. Korenberg
Julie R. Korenberg University of Utah
Victor H. Denenberg
Victor H. Denenberg University of Connecticut
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Arthur W. Toga
Arthur W. Toga University of Southern California
Mark A. Eckert
Mark A. Eckert Medical University of South Carolina

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