Doris Y. Tsao

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

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