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Galia Avidan 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 Galia Avidan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 121 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Galia Avidan 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 Galia Avidan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Galia Avidan is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a strong focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional areas of specialization include Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Physiology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably Face Recognition and Perception, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, as well as Diet and Metabolism Studies. Further research topics include Face Recognition and Analysis and Visual Attention and Saliency Detection.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Galia Avidan include Gidon Levakov, Ilan Shelef, Alon Kaplan, Hila Zelicha, and Anat Yaskolka Meir.

Notable publication venues where Galia Avidan has contributed extensively include the Journal of Vision, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Human Brain Mapping, Scientific Reports, and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Highlighted recent papers authored or co-authored by Galia Avidan are:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic masks the way people perceive faces, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • From a deep learning model back to the brain-Identifying regional predictors and their relation to aging, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • The effect of a high-polyphenol Mediterranean diet (Green-MED) combined with physical activity on age-related brain atrophy: the Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial Polyphenols Unprocessed Study (DIRECT PLUS), 2022, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Face masks disrupt holistic processing and face perception in school-age children, 2022, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • Mapping individual differences across brain network structure to function and behavior with connectome embedding, 2021, NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • Differential Processing of Objects under Various Viewing Conditions in the Human Lateral Occipital Complex

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Shimon Edelman;Galia Avidan

  • Center-periphery organization of human object areas.

    Ifat Levy;Uri Hasson;Galia Avidan;Galia Avidan;Talma Hendler;Talma Hendler

  • Congenital prosopagnosia: face-blind from birth

    Marlene Behrmann;Galia Avidan

  • Configural processing in autism and its relationship to face processing

    Marlene Behrmann;Galia Avidan;Grace Lee Leonard;Rutie Kimchi

  • Reduced structural connectivity in ventral visual cortex in congenital prosopagnosia.

    Cibu Thomas;Galia Avidan;Kate Humphreys;Kwan-jin Jung

  • Contrast Sensitivity in Human Visual Areas and Its Relationship to Object Recognition

    Galia Avidan;Michal Harel;Talma Hendler;Dafna Ben-Bashat

  • Detailed Exploration of Face-related Processing in Congenital Prosopagnosia: 1. Behavioral Findings

    Marlene Behrmann;Galia Avidan;Jonathan J. Marotta;Rutie Kimchi

  • Detailed Exploration of Face-related Processing in Congenital Prosopagnosia: 2. Functional Neuroimaging Findings

    Galia Avidan;Uri Hasson;Rafael Malach;Marlene Behrmann

  • Impaired holistic processing in congenital prosopagnosia

    Galia Avidan;Michal Tanzer;Marlene Behrmann

  • Shared and idiosyncratic cortical activation patterns in autism revealed under continuous real‐life viewing conditions

    Uri Hasson;Galia Avidan;Hagar Gelbard;Ignacio Vallines

  • Selective Dissociation Between Core and Extended Regions of the Face Processing Network in Congenital Prosopagnosia

    Galia Avidan;Michal Tanzer;Fadila Hadj-Bouziane;Ning Liu

  • A detailed investigation of facial expression processing in congenital prosopagnosia as compared to acquired prosopagnosia.

    Kate Humphreys;Galia Avidan;Marlene Behrmann

  • Structural imaging reveals anatomical alterations in inferotemporal cortex in congenital prosopagnosia.

    Marlene Behrmann;Galia Avidan;Fuqiang Gao;Sandra Black

  • Functional MRI reveals compromised neural integrity of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia.

    Galia Avidan;Marlene Behrmann

  • Face-selective Activation in a Congenital Prosopagnosic Subject

    Uri Hasson;Galia Avidan;Leon Y. Deouell;Shlomo Bentin

  • The COVID-19 pandemic masks the way people perceive faces.

    Erez Freud;Andreja Stajduhar;R Shayna Rosenbaum;Galia Avidan

  • Analysis of the Neuronal Selectivity Underlying Low fMRI Signals

    Galia Avidan;Uri Hasson;Talma Hendler;Ehud Zohary;Ehud Zohary

  • Bihemispheric Leftward Bias in a Visuospatial Attention-Related Network

    Tali Siman-Tov;Avi Mendelsohn;Tom Schonberg;Galia Avidan

  • Mapping higher-order relations between brain structure and function with embedded vector representations of connectomes.

    Gideon Rosenthal;František Váša;Alessandra Griffa;Patric Hagmann

  • Reduction in white matter connectivity, revealed by diffusion tensor imaging, may account for age-related changes in face perception

    Cibu Thomas;Linda Moya;Galia Avidan;Kate Humphreys

  • Cortical patterns of category-selective activation for faces, places and objects in adults with autism.

    Kate Humphreys;Uri Hasson;Galia Avidan;Nancy Minshew

Frequent Co-Authors

Marlene Behrmann
Marlene Behrmann Carnegie Mellon University
Ehud Zohary
Ehud Zohary Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Uri Hasson
Uri Hasson Princeton University
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Rafael Malach
Rafael Malach Weizmann Institute of Science
Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns Indiana University
Golan Shahar
Golan Shahar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ruth Kimchi
Ruth Kimchi University of Haifa
Beatriz Luna
Beatriz Luna University of Pittsburgh
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider National Institutes of Health

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