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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society In recognition of his comprehensive analyses of the primate cerebral cortex, its evolution, functional organization, and plastic response to injury
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jon H. Kaas is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Neuroscience with a substantial emphasis on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Frequent publication venues for Jon H. Kaas include:

  • The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

  • "Similar Microglial Cell Densities across Brain Structures and Mammalian Species: Implications for Brain Tissue Function," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Escaping the nocturnal bottleneck, and the evolution of the dorsal and ventral streams of visual processing in primates," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Comparative Functional Anatomy of Marmoset Brains," 2020, ILAR Journal
  • "Cortical connections of the functional domain for climbing or running in posterior parietal cortex of galagos," 2021, The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • "The dorsal stream of visual processing and action-specific domains in parietal and frontal cortex in primates," 2023, The Journal of Comparative Neurology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Hui-Xin Qi
  • Iwona Stepniewska
  • Chia-Chi Liao
  • Jamie L. Reed
  • Paul R. Manger

Jon H. Kaas has received several awards throughout their career, including:

  • Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society (2006) for comprehensive analyses of the primate cerebral cortex, its evolution, functional organization, and plastic response to injury
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000)
  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (1994)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1991)

Best Publications

  • Massive cortical reorganization after sensory deafferentation in adult macaques

    Tim P. Pons;Preston E. Garraghty;Alexander K. Ommaya;Jon H. Kaas

  • Topographic reorganization of somatosensory cortical areas 3b and 1 in adult monkeys following restricted deafferentation

    M. M. Merzenich;J. H. Kaas;J. Wall;R. J. Nelson

  • Plasticity of sensory and motor maps in adult mammals.

    Jon H. Kaas

  • Subdivisions of auditory cortex and processing streams in primates

    Jon H. Kaas;Troy A. Hackett

  • Somatosensation in social perception

    Christian Keysers;Jon H. Kaas;Valeria Gazzola

  • PROGRESSION OF CHANGE FOLLOWING MEDIAN NERVE SECTION IN THE CORTICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE HAND IN AREAS 3b AND 1 IN ADULT OWL AND SQUIRREL MONKEYS

    M.M. Merzenich;J.H. Kaas;J.T. Wall;M. Sur

  • Reorganization of retinotopic cortical maps in adult mammals after lesions of the retina

    Jon H. Kaas;Leah A. Krubitzer;Yuzo M. Chino;Andy L. Langston

  • Multiple representations of the body within the primary somatosensory cortex of primates.

    Jon H. Kaas;Randall J. Nelson;Mriganka Sur;Chia-Sheng Lin

  • The reorganization of somatosensory cortex following peripheral nerve damage in adult and developing mammals

    J H Kaas;M M Merzenich;H P Killackey

  • A representation of the visual field in the caudal third of the middle tempral gyrus of the owl monkey (Aotus trivirgatus).

    John M. Allman;Jon H. Kaas

  • What, if anything, is SI? Organization of first somatosensory area of cortex

    Kaas Jh

  • Frontal eye field as defined by intracortical microstimulation in squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, and macaque monkeys. II. Cortical connections.

    Michael F. Huerta;Leah A. Krubitzer;Jon H. Kaas

  • Topographic Maps are Fundamental to Sensory Processing

    Jon H Kaas

  • The relationship of corpus callosum connections to electrical stimulation maps of motor, supplementary motor, and the frontal eye fields in owl monkeys

    H J Gould;C G Cusick;T P Pons;Jon H Kaas

  • Architectonic identification of the core region in auditory cortex of macaques, chimpanzees, and humans.

    Troy A. Hackett;Todd M. Preuss;Jon H. Kaas

  • The Geometric Structure of the Brain Fiber Pathways

    Van J. Wedeen;Douglas L. Rosene;Ruopeng Wang;Guangping Dai

  • Supplementary eye field as defined by intracortical microstimulation: connections in macaques.

    Michael F. Huerta;Jon H. Kaas

  • Tonotopic organization, architectonic fields, and connections of auditory cortex in macaque monkeys

    A. Morel;P. E. Garraghty;J. H. Kaas

  • Double representation of the body surface within cytoarchitectonic area 3b and 1 in “SI” in the owl monkey (aotus trivirgatus)

    Michael M. Merzenich;Jon H. Kaas;Jon H. Kaas;Mriganka Sur;Chia-Sheng Lin

  • Large-Scale Sprouting of Cortical Connections After Peripheral Injury in Adult Macaque Monkeys

    Sherre L. Florence;Hilary B. Taub;Jon H. Kaas

Frequent Co-Authors

Iwona Stepniewska
Iwona Stepniewska Vanderbilt University
Kenneth C. Catania
Kenneth C. Catania Vanderbilt University
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Suzana Herculano-Houzel Vanderbilt University
Leah Krubitzer
Leah Krubitzer University of California, Davis
Preston E. Garraghty
Preston E. Garraghty Indiana University
Todd M. Preuss
Todd M. Preuss Emory University
Vivien A. Casagrande
Vivien A. Casagrande Vanderbilt University
Troy A. Hackett
Troy A. Hackett Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Michael M. Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich University of California, San Francisco

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