2026 Doris Y. Tsao: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	45	6809	6262	2944	2648	85	12642

Doris Y. Tsao publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Doris Y. Tsao sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 887+

This scientist: 85 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Doris Y. Tsao D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Doris Y. Tsao sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society in recognition of their ground-breaking discoveries of primate cortical areas that selectively encode visual information about faces, the computational principles underlying face encoding in these areas, and the implications of these discoveries for social cognition.
2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2018 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
2017 - Perl-UNC Prize, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Discovery of brain mechanisms of face recognition.
2016 - W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons
2014 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation
2012 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Doris Y. Tsao is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Biophysics.

The main topics of their work include:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Face Recognition and Perception
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
Cell Image Analysis Techniques
Face recognition and analysis
Visual Attention and Saliency Detection

Recent papers by Tsao demonstrate significant contributions to understanding visual and neural processing:

"A map of object space in primate inferotemporal cortex", 2020, Nature
"Catalyzing next-generation Artificial Intelligence through NeuroAI", 2023, Nature Communications
"The Mind of a Mouse", 2020, Cell
"Unsupervised deep learning identifies semantic disentanglement in single inferotemporal face patch neurons", 2021, Nature Communications
"The macaque face patch system: a turtle's underbelly for the brain", 2020, Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators with Tsao include Janis K. Hesse, Frank F. Lanfranchi, Matthew Botvinick, Le Chang, and Daniel A. Wagenaar.

Publishing activity shows a range of venues with recurring contributions in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature
Cell
Nature Neuroscience

Doris Y. Tsao has received several awards that highlight various aspects of their research career, such as:

Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society, 2020, in recognition of discoveries related to primate cortical areas encoding facial information and computational principles of face encoding
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 2018
Perl-UNC Prize, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017, for discovery of brain mechanisms of face recognition
W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2016
Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation, 2014
National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award, 2012
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2009

Best Publications

A cortical region consisting entirely of face-selective cells.

Doris Y. Tsao;Winrich A. Freiwald;Roger B. H. Tootell;Margaret S. Livingstone

1378
Citations
Functional compartmentalization and viewpoint generalization within the macaque face-processing system.

Winrich A. Freiwald;Doris Y. Tsao

810
Citations
Mechanisms of face perception.

Doris Y. Tsao;Margaret S. Livingstone

807
Citations
Faces and objects in macaque cerebral cortex.

Doris Y Tsao;Winrich A Freiwald;Winrich A Freiwald;Tamara A Knutsen;Joseph B Mandeville

795
Citations
Comparing face patch systems in macaques and humans.

Doris Y. Tsao;Sebastian Moeller;Winrich A. Freiwald

764
Citations
The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain

Le Chang;Doris Y. Tsao;Doris Y. Tsao

680
Citations
A face feature space in the macaque temporal lobe

Winrich A Freiwald;Doris Y Tsao;Margaret S Livingstone

532
Citations
Patches with Links: A Unified System for Processing Faces in the Macaque Temporal Lobe

Sebastian Moeller;Winrich A. Freiwald;Doris Y. Tsao

498
Citations
Nanotools for Neuroscience and Brain Activity Mapping

A. Paul Alivisatos;Anne M. Andrews;Edward S. Boyden;Miyoung Chun

408
Citations
Stereopsis activates V3A and caudal intraparietal areas in macaques and humans

Doris Y. Tsao;Wim Vanduffel;Wim Vanduffel;Yuka Sasaki;Denis Fize

391
Citations
A map of object space in primate inferotemporal cortex.

Pinglei Bao;Liang She;Mason McGill;Doris Y. Tsao;Doris Y. Tsao

386
Citations
Specialized Color Modules in Macaque Extrastriate Cortex

Bevil R. Conway;Sebastian Moeller;Doris Y. Tsao

332
Citations
Patches of face-selective cortex in the macaque frontal lobe

Doris Y Tsao;Nicole Schweers;Sebastian Moeller;Winrich A Freiwald

320
Citations
Ultrasonic Neuromodulation Causes Widespread Cortical Activation via an Indirect Auditory Mechanism

Tomokazu Sato;Mikhail G. Shapiro;Doris Y. Tsao;Doris Y. Tsao

316
Citations
Repeated fMRI using iron oxide contrast agent in awake, behaving macaques at 3 Tesla.

Francisca Pais Leite;Doris Tsao;Wim Vanduffel;Denis Fize

313
Citations
Neuroimaging weighs in: humans meet macaques in "primate" visual cortex.

Roger B. H. Tootell;Doris Y. Tsao;Wim Vanduffel

307
Citations
An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging

Michael P. Milham;Michael P. Milham;Lei Ai;Bonhwang Koo;Ting Xu

266
Citations
Single-Unit Recordings in the Macaque Face Patch System Reveal Limitations of fMRI MVPA

Julien Dubois;Archy Otto de Berker;Doris Ying Tsao

192
Citations
The Mind of a Mouse

Larry F. Abbott;Davi D. Bock;Edward M. Callaway;Winfried Denk

186
Citations
Anatomical Connections of the Functionally Defined “Face Patches” in the Macaque Monkey

Piercesare Grimaldi;Kadharbatcha S. Saleem;Doris Tsao

147
Citations
What Makes a Cell Face Selective? The Importance of Contrast

Shay Ohayon;Winrich A. Freiwald;Doris Y. Tsao

143
Citations