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Neuroscience

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103
Citations
39341
World Ranking
685
National Ranking
382

Psychology

D-Index
97
Citations
35043
World Ranking
708
National Ranking
445

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Ken Nakayama is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including Neuroscience, Psychology, and Medicine, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Biochemistry, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics covered in their research include Advanced Glycation End Products research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Multisensory perception and integration, Aesthetic Perception and Analysis, and Child and Animal Learning Development.

Their recent publications highlight diverse aspects of these fields. Notable papers include:

  • Use of skin advanced glycation end product levels measured using a simple noninvasive method as a biological marker for the diagnosis of neuropsychiatric diseases, 2020, International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
  • Radial bias alters high-level motion perception, 2023, Vision Research
  • The ability to predict actions of others from distributed cues is still developing in 6- to 8-year-old children, 2021, Journal of Vision

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include Hiroki Yamashita, Eriko Fukushima, K. Shimomura, Hitoki Hirose, and Narihiro Orimo.

Their publications appear in journals such as the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, Vision Research, and the Journal of Vision.

Ken Nakayama has received recognition in the field with the Golden Brain Award from the Minerva Foundation in 2017 and was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Priming of pop-out: I. Role of features

    Vera Maljkovic;Ken Nakayama

  • Sustained and transient components of focal visual attention.

    Ken Nakayama;Manfred Mackeben

  • Serial and parallel processing of visual feature conjunctions

    Ken Nakayama;Gerald H. Silverman

  • The Cambridge Face Memory Test: results for neurologically intact individuals and an investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic participants.

    Brad Duchaine;Ken Nakayama

  • Biological image motion processing: A review

    Ken Nakayama

  • Binocular Rivalry and Visual Awareness in Human Extrastriate Cortex

    Frank Tong;Ken Nakayama;J.Thomas Vaughan;Nancy Kanwisher;Nancy Kanwisher

  • Sleep-dependent learning: a nap is as good as a night.

    Sara Mednick;Ken Nakayama;Robert Stickgold

  • Is the Web as good as the lab? Comparable performance from Web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments

    Laura Germine;Laura Germine;Ken Nakayama;Bradley C. Duchaine;Christopher F. Chabris

  • Priming of pop-out: II. The role of position.

    Vera Maljkovic;Ken Nakayama

  • Super-recognizers: People with extraordinary face recognition ability

    Richard Russell;Brad Duchaine;Ken Nakayama

  • Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable

    Jeremy B. Wilmer;Laura Germine;Christopher F. Chabris;Garga Chatterjee

  • Attentional requirements in a 'preattentive' feature search task

    Julian S. Joseph;Marvin M. Chun;Ken Nakayama

  • The role of attention in different visual-search tasks.

    Mary J. Bravo;Ken Nakayama

  • The effect of face inversion on the human fusiform face area

    Nancy Kanwisher;Frank Tong;Ken Nakayama

  • Optical velocity patterns, velocity-sensitive neurons, and space perception: a hypothesis.

    K Nakayama;J M Loomis

  • Stereoscopic Depth: Its Relation to Image Segmentation, Grouping, and the Recognition of Occluded Objects

    Ken Nakayama;Shinsuke Shimojo;Gerald H Silverman

  • Fitting the Mind to the World: Face Adaptation and Attractiveness Aftereffects

    Gillian Rhodes;Linda Jeffery;Tamara L. Watson;Colin W.G. Clifford

  • Visual surface representation: a critical link between lower-level and higher level vision

    K. Nakayama;Z. J. He;S. Shimojo;S. M Kosslyn

  • Experiencing and perceiving visual surfaces

    Ken Nakayama;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Robust representations for faces: Evidence from visual search.

    Frank Tong;Ken Nakayama

  • Hidden cognitive states revealed in choice reaching tasks.

    Joo-Hyun Song;Ken Nakayama

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinsuke Shimojo
Shinsuke Shimojo California Institute of Technology
Bradley Duchaine
Bradley Duchaine Dartmouth College
Philip S. Holzman
Philip S. Holzman Harvard University
George A. Alvarez
George A. Alvarez Harvard University
Christopher F. Chabris
Christopher F. Chabris Geisinger Health System
Nikolaus F. Troje
Nikolaus F. Troje York University
Nalini Ambady
Nalini Ambady Stanford University
Alfonso Caramazza
Alfonso Caramazza Harvard University
Marvin M. Chun
Marvin M. Chun Yale University

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