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Overview

James V. Haxby is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and specializes in the field of neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research covers various subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, computer vision and pattern recognition, experimental and cognitive psychology, and information systems and management.

The primary topics of their work include functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, face recognition and perception, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, visual perception and processing mechanisms, face recognition and analysis, and visual attention and saliency detection.

James V. Haxby has published extensively, with some of the most recent papers being:

  • Hyperalignment: Modeling shared information encoded in idiosyncratic cortical topographies, 2020, eLife
  • Naturalistic stimuli reveal a dominant role for agentic action in visual representation, 2020, NeuroImage

A number of other notable publications featuring co-authorship with Haxby include:

  • DataLad: distributed system for joint management of code, data, and their relationship, 2021, The Journal of Open Source Software
  • The neural basis of intelligence in fine-grained cortical topographies, 2021, eLife
  • Shared neural codes for visual and semantic information about familiar faces in a common representational space, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Ma Feilong
  • M. Ida Gobbini
  • Samuel A. Nastase
  • Guo Jiahui
  • Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello

Their work is frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Vision, eLife, NeuroImage, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The distributed human neural system for face perception.

    James V. Haxby;Elizabeth A. Hoffman;M.Ida Gobbini

  • Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex

    James V. Haxby;M. Ida Gobbini;Maura L. Furey;Alumit Ishai

  • Beyond mind-reading: multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data

    Kenneth A. Norman;Sean M. Polyn;Greg J. Detre;James V. Haxby

  • 'What' and 'where' in the human brain.

    Leslie G. Ungerleider;James V. Haxby

  • Neural correlates of category-specific knowledge

    Alex Martin;Cheri L. Wiggs;Leslie G. Ungerleider;James V. Haxby

  • Distinct representations of eye gaze and identity in the distributed human neural system for face perception

    Elizabeth A. Hoffman;James V. Haxby

  • Human neural systems for face recognition and social communication.

    James V. Haxby;Elizabeth A. Hoffman;M.Ida Gobbini

  • Attribute-based neural substrates in temporal cortex for perceiving and knowing about objects

    Linda L. Chao;James V. Haxby;Alex Martin

  • A developmental functional mri study of prefrontal activation during performance of a go-no-go task

    B. J. Casey;Rolf J. Trainor;Jennifer L. Orendi;Anne B. Schubert

  • 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

  • Discrete Cortical Regions Associated with Knowledge of Color and Knowledge of Action

    Alex Martin;James V. Haxby;François M. Lalonde;Cheri L. Wiggs

  • 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

  • An Area Specialized for Spatial Working Memory in Human Frontal Cortex

    Susan M. Courtney;Laurent Petit;José Ma. Maisog;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • Transient and sustained activity in a distributed neural system for human working memory

    Susan M. Courtney;Leslie G. Ungerleider;Katrina Keil;James V. Haxby

  • Distributed representation of objects in the human ventral visual pathway

    Alumit Ishai;Leslie G. Ungerleider;Alex Martin;Jennifer L. Schouten

  • Neural systems for recognition of familiar faces.

    M. Ida Gobbini;M. Ida Gobbini;James V. Haxby

  • Object and Spatial Visual Working Memory Activate Separate Neural Systems in Human Cortex

    Susan M. Courtney;Leslie G. Ungerleider;Katrina Keil;James V. Haxby

  • 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

  • A neural system for human visual working memory

    Leslie G. Ungerleider;Susan M. Courtney;James V. Haxby

Frequent Co-Authors

Cheryl L. Grady
Cheryl L. Grady University of Toronto
Pietro Pietrini
Pietro Pietrini IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider National Institutes of Health
Barry Horwitz
Barry Horwitz National Institutes of Health
Emiliano Ricciardi
Emiliano Ricciardi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Maura L. Furey
Maura L. Furey Janssen (Belgium)
Alex Martin
Alex Martin National Institutes of Health
Susan M. Courtney
Susan M. Courtney Johns Hopkins University
Raja Parasuraman
Raja Parasuraman George Mason University
Alexander Todorov
Alexander Todorov University of Chicago

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