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D-Index
84
Citations
21623
World Ranking
1404
National Ranking
706

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Dora E. Angelaki is affiliated with New York University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, neurology, and artificial intelligence. The main research focus areas include neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, memory and neural mechanisms, tactile and sensory interactions, autism spectrum disorder research, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and sleep and wakefulness research.

Their recent publications reflect the diverse nature of their research. Notable papers include:

  • Standardized and reproducible measurement of decision-making in mice (2021, eLife)
  • Spatial modulation of hippocampal activity in freely moving macaques (2021, Neuron)
  • Individuals with autism spectrum disorder have altered visual encoding capacity (2021, PLoS Biology)
  • A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Tracking the Mind's Eye: Primate Gaze Behavior during Virtual Visuomotor Navigation Reflects Belief Dynamics (2020, Neuron)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Angelaki include:

  • Jean-Paul Noel
  • Kaushik J. Lakshminarasimhan
  • Eric Avila
  • Gregory C. DeAngelis
  • Xaq Pitkow

Angelaki's work has been published repeatedly in several key venues, demonstrating a consistent contribution to high-impact neuroscience forums. These venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Over their career, Angelaki has received recognition including election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, both in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Vestibular System: The Many Facets of a Multimodal Sense

    Dora E. Angelaki;Kathleen E. Cullen

  • Neural correlates of multisensory cue integration in macaque MSTd

    Yong Gu;Dora E Angelaki;Gregory C DeAngelis;Gregory C DeAngelis

  • Neural correlates of reliability-based cue weighting during multisensory integration

    Christopher R Fetsch;Alexandre Pouget;Alexandre Pouget;Gregory C DeAngelis;Gregory C DeAngelis;Dora E Angelaki;Dora E Angelaki

  • Dynamic Reweighting of Visual and Vestibular Cues during Self-Motion Perception

    Christopher R. Fetsch;Amanda H. Turner;Gregory C. DeAngelis;Dora E. Angelaki

  • Multisensory integration: psychophysics, neurophysiology, and computation.

    Dora E Angelaki;Yong Gu;Gregory C DeAngelis

  • The Vestibular System: A Sixth Sense

    Jay M. Goldberg;Victor J. Wilson;Kathleen E. Cullen;Dora E. Angelaki

  • A normalization model of multisensory integration

    Tomokazu Ohshiro;Dora E Angelaki;Gregory C DeAngelis

  • Neurons compute internal models of the physical laws of motion

    Dora E. Angelaki;Aasef G. Shaikh;Andrea M. Green;J. David Dickman

  • Visual and Nonvisual Contributions to Three-Dimensional Heading Selectivity in the Medial Superior Temporal Area

    Yong Gu;Paul V. Watkins;Dora E. Angelaki;Gregory C. DeAngelis

  • Bridging the gap between theories of sensory cue integration and the physiology of multisensory neurons

    Christopher R. Fetsch;Gregory C. DeAngelis;Dora E. Angelaki

  • A functional link between area MSTd and heading perception based on vestibular signals

    Yong Gu;Gregory C DeAngelis;Dora E Angelaki

  • Computation of Inertial Motion: Neural Strategies to Resolve Ambiguous Otolith Information

    Dora E. Angelaki;M. Quinn McHenry;J. David Dickman;Shawn D. Newlands

  • Perceptual learning reduces interneuronal correlations in macaque visual cortex

    Yong Gu;Sheng Liu;Christopher R. Fetsch;Yun Yang

  • Multisensory integration in macaque visual cortex depends on cue reliability.

    Michael L. Morgan;Gregory C. DeAngelis;Dora E. Angelaki

  • Inertial representation of angular motion in the vestibular system of rhesus monkeys. I. Vestibuloocular reflex.

    D. E. Angelaki;B. J. M. Hess

  • Standardized and reproducible measurement of decision-making in mice.

    Valeria Aguillon-Rodriguez;Dora Angelaki;Hannah Bayer

  • Representation of Vestibular and Visual Cues to Self-Motion in Ventral Intraparietal Cortex

    Aihua Chen;Gregory C. DeAngelis;Dora E. Angelaki

  • Models of membrane resonance in pigeon semicircular canal type II hair cells

    D. E. Angelaki;M. J. Correia

  • How Can Single Sensory Neurons Predict Behavior

    Xaq Pitkow;Xaq Pitkow;Sheng Liu;Dora E. Angelaki;Dora E. Angelaki;Gregory C. DeAngelis

  • Spatiotemporal processing of linear acceleration: primary afferent and central vestibular neuron responses.

    D. E. Angelaki;J. D. Dickman

  • A computational perspective on autism

    Ari Rosenberg;Jaclyn Sky Patterson;Dora E. Angelaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory C. DeAngelis
Gregory C. DeAngelis University of Rochester
J. David Dickman
J. David Dickman Baylor College of Medicine
Kathleen E. Cullen
Kathleen E. Cullen Johns Hopkins University
Kikuro Fukushima
Kikuro Fukushima Hokkaido University
Alexandre Pouget
Alexandre Pouget University of Geneva
Jean A. Büttner-Ennever
Jean A. Büttner-Ennever Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Victor J. Wilson
Victor J. Wilson Rockefeller University
Lloyd B. Minor
Lloyd B. Minor Stanford University
Adrian A. Perachio
Adrian A. Perachio The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Anne K. Churchland
Anne K. Churchland University of California, Los Angeles

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