2026 Barbara L. Finlay: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	60	3799	3476	1737	1565	153	15237

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Research.com Recognitions

1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Barbara L. Finlay is a researcher affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their work spans neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and other related subfields. The research covers neural dynamics and brain function, memory and neural mechanisms, as well as areas like zebrafish biomedical research applications and functional brain connectivity studies.

Finlay has multiple recent publications, including:

The neuroecology of the water-to-land transition and the evolution of the vertebrate brain, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Self-organization of cortical areas in the development and evolution of neocortex, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The Multiple Contexts of Brain Scaling: Phenotypic Integration in Brain and Behavioral Evolution, 2022, Brain Behavior and Evolution
Self-organization of cortical areas in the development and evolution of neocortex: a network growth model, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Focusing the eyes and recognizing objects: evo-devo and the sensitive period, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include Nabil Imam, Malcolm A. MacIver, Ryutaro Uchiyama, Matthew Kielo, and Brandon M. Trude.

Finlay's publications tend to appear in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Brain Behavior and Evolution, and Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.

Their main fields of study focus on:

Neuroscience
Psychology

Subfields include:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Paleontology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cell Biology
Artificial Intelligence

The primary research topics covered are:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural Networks and Applications
Child and Animal Learning Development
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

In 1998, Finlay was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

Linked regularities in the development and evolution of mammalian brains

Barbara L. Finlay;Richard B. Darlington

1795
Citations
Translating developmental time across mammalian species.

B Clancy;R.B Darlington;B.L Finlay

1450
Citations
Extrapolating brain development from experimental species to humans.

Barbara Clancy;Barbara L. Finlay;Richard B. Darlington;K.J.S. Anand;K.J.S. Anand

977
Citations
Modeling Transformations of Neurodevelopmental Sequences across Mammalian Species

Alan D. Workman;Christine J. Charvet;Barbara Clancy;Richard B. Darlington

872
Citations
Developmental structure in brain evolution.

Barbara L. Finlay;Richard B. Darlington;Nicholas Nicastro

648
Citations
Quantitative studies of single-cell properties in monkey striate cortex. I. Spatiotemporal organization of receptive fields

P. H. Schiller;B. L. Finlay;S. F. Volman

603
Citations
Author's Response: Developmental structure in brain evolution

Barbara L. Finlay;Richard B. Darlington;Nicholas Nicastro

571
Citations
Quantitative studies of single-cell properties in monkey striate cortex. II. Orientation specificity and ocular dominance

P. H. Schiller;B. L. Finlay;S. F. Volman

430
Citations
Web-based method for translating neurodevelopment from laboratory species to humans.

Barbara Clancy;Brandon Kersh;James Hyde;Richard B. Darlington

354
Citations
Local differences in the amount of early cell death in neocortex predict adult local specializations

Barbara L. Finlay;Michael Slattery

319
Citations
Quantitative studies of single-cell properties in monkey striate cortex. III. Spatial frequency.

P. H. Schiller;B. L. Finlay;S. F. Volman

280
Citations
The early development of thalamocortical and corticothalamic projections.

Brad Miller;Larry Chou;Barbara L. Finlay

214
Citations
A conserved pattern of brain scaling from sharks to primates

Kara E. Yopak;Thomas J. Lisney;Richard B. Darlington;Shaun P. Collin

209
Citations
Patterns of Vertebrate Neurogenesis and the Paths of Vertebrate Evolution

Barbara L. Finlay;Michael N. Hersman;Richard B. Darlington

203
Citations
Topography of visual and somatosensory projections to the superior colliculus of the golden hamster

Barbara L. Finlay;Sue E. Schneps;Karen G. Wilson;Gerald E. Schneider

190
Citations
Cell death in the mammalian visual system during normal development : I. Retinal ganglion cells.

D. R. Sengelaub;B. L. Finlay

189
Citations
Developmental mechanisms channeling cortical evolution

Barbara L. Finlay;Ryutaro Uchiyama

188
Citations
The Limbic System in Mammalian Brain Evolution

R.L. Reep;B.L. Finlay;R.B. Darlington

167
Citations
Neural development in metatherian and eutherian mammals: variation and constraint.

R.B. Darlington;S.A. Dunlop;B.L. Finlay

157
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The course of human events: predicting the timing of primate neural development

Barbara Clancy;Richard B. Darlington;Barbara L. Finlay

155
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