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Cheryl L. Grady

Cheryl L. Grady

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2025
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Neuroscience
Canada
2026

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Best Female Scientists

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122
Citations
57098
World Ranking
498
National Ranking
15

Neuroscience

D-Index
123
Citations
59077
World Ranking
351
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Cheryl L. Grady is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and medicine, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and related subfields such as psychiatry and mental health, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, experimental and cognitive psychology, and neurology.

Their main fields of study include neuroscience with 66 publications and medicine with 43 publications. Specific subfields where their work is concentrated include cognitive neuroscience (59 publications), psychiatry and mental health (13 publications), endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism (9 publications), experimental and cognitive psychology (6 publications), and neurology (6 publications).

The topics addressed in their research cover several key areas:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Cheryl L. Grady has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia (13 publications)
  • Neurobiology of Aging (5 publications)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature (4 publications)
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2 publications)
  • Neuropsychologia (2 publications)

Frequent collaborators include Jenny Rieck, Nicole Gervais, Laura Gravelsins, Alana Brown, and Rebekah Reuben, each contributing to multiple coauthored publications.

Significant recent papers by Cheryl L. Grady and their coauthors include:

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams, 2020, Nature
  • Holding On to the Past: Older Adults Show Lingering Neural Activation of No-Longer-Relevant Items in Working Memory, 2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Reconfiguration and dedifferentiation of functional networks during cognitive control across the adult lifespan, 2021, Neurobiology of Aging
  • Bilingualism contributes to reserve and working memory efficiency: Evidence from structural and functional neuroimaging, 2021, Neuropsychologia
  • Scene memory and hippocampal volume in middle-aged women with early hormone loss, 2022, Neurobiology of Aging

Best Publications

  • The cognitive neuroscience of ageing

    Cheryl Grady

  • The functional organization of human extrastriate cortex: a PET-rCBF study of selective attention to faces and locations

    James V. Haxby;Barry Horwitz;Leslie G. Ungerleider;Jose Ma Maisog

  • Spatial pattern analysis of functional brain images using partial least squares.

    A.R. McIntosh;F.L. Bookstein;J.V. Haxby;C.L. Grady;C.L. Grady

  • Dissociation of object and spatial visual processing pathways in human extrastriate cortex

    James V. Haxby;Cheryl L. Grady;Barry Horwitz;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • Patterns of brain activity supporting autobiographical memory, prospection, and theory of mind, and their relationship to the default mode network

    R. Nathan Spreng;Cheryl L. Grady

  • Functional neuroanatomy of remote episodic, semantic and spatial memory: a unified account based on multiple trace theory

    Morris Moscovitch;R. Shayna Rosenbaum;Asaf Gilboa;Donna Rose Addis;Donna Rose Addis

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

    Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Felix Holzmeister;Colin F. Camerer;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber

  • Maintenance, reserve and compensation: the cognitive neuroscience of healthy ageing

    Roberto Cabeza;Marilyn Albert;Sylvie Belleville;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Age-Related Differences in Neural Activity during Memory Encoding and Retrieval: A Positron Emission Tomography Study

    Roberto Cabeza;Cheryl L. Grady;Lars Nyberg;Anthony R. McIntosh

  • Age-related changes in cortical blood flow activation during visual processing of faces and location

    Cheryl L. Grady;Jose Ma Maisog;Barry Horwitz;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • Event-related fMRI studies of episodic encoding and retrieval: meta-analyses using activation likelihood estimation.

    Julia Spaniol;Patrick S.R. Davidson;Alice S.N. Kim;Hua Han

  • Age-related reductions in human recognition memory due to impaired encoding.

    Cheryl L. Grady;Anthony R. McIntosh;Barry Horwitz;Jose Ma. Maisog

  • In Search of the Emotional Self: An fMRI Study Using Positive and Negative Emotional Words

    Philippe Fossati;Stephanie J. Hevenor;Simon J. Graham;Cheryl Grady

  • Cerebral glucose metabolism in childhood-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Susan E. Swedo;Mark B. Schapiro;Cheryl L. Grady;Deborah L. Cheslow

  • Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging

    Cheryl L. Grady

  • Angry, Disgusted, or Afraid? Studies on the Malleability of Emotion Perception

    Hillel Aviezer;Ran R. Hassin;Jennifer Ryan;Cheryl Grady

  • “What” and “where” in the human auditory system

    Claude Alain;Stephen R. Arnott;Stephanie Hevenor;Simon Graham

  • Positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease

    Ranjan Duara;Cheryl L. Grady;James V. Haxby;M. Sundaram

  • Changes in memory processing with age.

    Cheryl L. Grady;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Network analysis of cortical visual pathways mapped with PET

    AR McIntosh;CL Grady;LG Ungerleider;JV Haxby

Frequent Co-Authors

James V. Haxby
James V. Haxby Dartmouth College
Morris Moscovitch
Morris Moscovitch University of Toronto
Barry Horwitz
Barry Horwitz National Institutes of Health
Gordon Winocur
Gordon Winocur University of Toronto
Anthony R. McIntosh
Anthony R. McIntosh Simon Fraser University
Pietro Pietrini
Pietro Pietrini IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Fergus I. M. Craik
Fergus I. M. Craik University of Toronto
R. Shayna Rosenbaum
R. Shayna Rosenbaum York University
Marc J. Mentis
Marc J. Mentis New York University
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black University of Toronto

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