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Neuroscience

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97
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World Ranking
818
National Ranking
446

Psychology

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Citations
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831
National Ranking
524

Overview

Alex Martin is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has a substantial body of research focusing on Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Sensory Systems, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Martin's research encompasses multiple main topics such as Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Multisensory Perception and Integration, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques, Face Recognition and Perception, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies.

Throughout their career, Martin has frequently collaborated with a number of scholars, including Stephen J. Gotts with 24 coauthored publications, Jason A. Avery with 12, Andrew S. Persichetti with 10, Adrian W. Gilmore with 9, and John E. Ingeholm with 6 joint works.

Martin's work has been published in various scientific venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 11 publications
  • Journal of Neuroscience with 4 publications
  • Journal of Vision with 4 publications
  • Scientific Reports with 3 publications
  • Autism Research with 3 publications

Their recent papers include:

  • "Viewing images of foods evokes taste quality-specific activity in gustatory insular cortex," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Layer-Specific Contributions to Imagined and Executed Hand Movements in Human Primary Motor Cortex," 2020, Current Biology
  • "Evidence supporting a time-limited hippocampal role in retrieving autobiographical memories," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A Data-Driven Functional Mapping of the Anterior Temporal Lobes," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Dynamic Content Reactivation Supports Naturalistic Autobiographical Recall in Humans," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Repetition and the brain: neural models of stimulus-specific effects

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Richard Henson;Alex Martin

  • Neural correlates of category-specific knowledge

    Alex Martin;Cheri L. Wiggs;Leslie G. Ungerleider;James V. Haxby

  • The Representation of Object Concepts in the Brain

    Alex Martin

  • Representation of manipulable man-made objects in the dorsal stream.

    Linda L. Chao;Alex Martin

  • Attribute-based neural substrates in temporal cortex for perceiving and knowing about objects

    Linda L. Chao;James V. Haxby;Alex Martin

  • Semantic memory and the brain: structure and processes.

    Alex Martin;Linda L Chao

  • Discrete Cortical Regions Associated with Knowledge of Color and Knowledge of Action

    Alex Martin;James V. Haxby;François M. Lalonde;Cheri L. Wiggs

  • Facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorders: a review of behavioral and neuroimaging studies.

    Madeline B. Harms;Alex Martin;Gregory L. Wallace

  • Distributed representation of objects in the human ventral visual pathway

    Alumit Ishai;Leslie G. Ungerleider;Alex Martin;Jennifer L. Schouten

  • Properties and mechanisms of perceptual priming.

    Cheri L Wiggs;Alex Martin

  • Word production and comprehension in Alzheimer's diseáse: The breakdown of semantic knowledge

    Alex Martin;Paul Fedio

  • Trouble at Rest: How Correlation Patterns and Group Differences Become Distorted After Global Signal Regression

    Ziad S. Saad;Stephen J. Gotts;Kevin Murphy;Gang Chen

  • Integration of auditory and visual information about objects in superior temporal sulcus.

    Michael S Beauchamp;Kathryn E Lee;Brenna D Argall;Alex Martin

  • The effect of face inversion on activity in human neural systems for face and object perception.

    James V Haxby;Leslie G Ungerleider;Vincent P Clark;Jennifer L Schouten

  • Quinolinic acid and kynurenine pathway metabolism in inflammatory and non-inflammatory neurological disease.

    M. P. Heyes;K. Saito;J. S. Crowley;L. E. Davis

  • Pictures of Appetizing Foods Activate Gustatory Cortices for Taste and Reward

    W. Kyle Simmons;Alex Martin;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Quinolinic acid in cerebrospinal fluid and serum in HIV-1 infection: relationship to clinical and neurological status.

    Melvyn P. Heyes;Bruce J. Brew;Alex Martin;Richard W. Price

  • Parallel visual motion processing streams for manipulable objects and human movements.

    Michael S. Beauchamp;Kathryn E. Lee;James V. Haxby;Alex Martin

  • Sources and implications of whole-brain fMRI signals in humans.

    Jonathan D. Power;Mark Plitt;Timothy O. Laumann;Alex Martin

  • Unraveling multisensory integration: patchy organization within human STS multisensory cortex.

    Michael S Beauchamp;Brenna D Argall;Jerzy Bodurka;Jeff H Duyn

  • fMRI Responses to Video and Point-Light Displays of Moving Humans and Manipulable Objects

    Michael S. Beauchamp;Kathryn E. Lee;James V. Haxby;Alex Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory L. Wallace
Gregory L. Wallace George Washington University
Lauren Kenworthy
Lauren Kenworthy Center for Autism and Related Disorders
W. Kyle Simmons
W. Kyle Simmons Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
James V. Haxby
James V. Haxby Dartmouth College
Michael S. Beauchamp
Michael S. Beauchamp University of Pennsylvania
Peter A. Bandettini
Peter A. Bandettini National Institutes of Health
Jonathan D. Power
Jonathan D. Power Cornell University
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider National Institutes of Health
Robert W. Cox
Robert W. Cox National Institutes of Health
Paul Fedio
Paul Fedio National Institutes of Health

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