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62
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12416
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3559
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Leah Krubitzer is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies

Leah Krubitzer has contributed to recent publications such as:

  • "Distributed Motor Control of Limb Movements in Rat Motor and Somatosensory Cortex: The Sensorimotor Amalgam Revisited" (2020), published in Cerebral Cortex
  • "Of mice and monkeys: Somatosensory processing in two prominent animal models" (2021), published in Progress in Neurobiology
  • "Coevolution of motor cortex and behavioral specializations associated with flight and echolocation in bats" (2022), published in Current Biology
  • "Phenotypic Alterations in Cortical Organization and Connectivity across Different Time Scales" (2022), published in Brain Behavior and Evolution
  • "Functional characterization of the fronto-parietal reaching and grasping network: reversible deactivation of M1 and areas 2, 5, and 7b in awake behaving monkeys" (2022), published in Journal of Neurophysiology

Frequent publication venues for Krubitzer include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Behavior and Evolution
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Progress in Neurobiology

The scientist has collaborated often with:

  • Mackenzie Englund
  • Mary K. L. Baldwin
  • Dylan F. Cooke
  • Carlos R. Pineda
  • Samaan Faridjoo

Leah Krubitzer received the Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation award in 1998.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Frontal eye field as defined by intracortical microstimulation in squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, and macaque monkeys: I. Subcortical connections

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  • The organization of neocortex in mammals: are species differences really so different?

    Leah Krubitzer;Leah Krubitzer

  • The organization and connections of somatosensory cortex in marmosets

    LA Krubitzer;JH Kaas

  • Somatotopic organization of cortical fields in the lateral sulcus of Homo sapiens: evidence for SII and PV

    Elizabeth Disbrow;Tim Roberts;Leah Krubitzer

  • Cortical connections of MT in four species of primates: areal, modular, and retinotopic patterns.

    L A Krubitzer;J H Kaas

  • A redefinition of somatosensory areas in the lateral sulcus of macaque monkeys

    Leah Krubitzer;Janine Clarey;Rowan Tweedale;Guy Elston

  • The magnificent compromise: cortical field evolution in mammals.

    Leah Krubitzer

  • The evolution of the neocortex in mammals: how is phenotypic diversity generated?

    Leah Krubitzer;Jon Kaas

  • Cortical connections of the second somatosensory area and the parietal ventral area in macaque monkeys

    Elizabeth Disbrow;Elizabeth Disbrow;Evangelos Litinas;Gregg H. Recanzone;Jeffrey Padberg

  • Functional MRI at 1.5 tesla: A comparison of the blood oxygenation level-dependent signal and electrophysiology

    Elizabeth A. Disbrow;Daniel A. Slutsky;Timothy P. L. Roberts;Leah A. Krubitzer

  • Microelectrode maps, myeloarchitecture, and cortical connections of three somatotopically organized representations of the body surface in the parietal cortex of squirrels.

    L. A. Krubitzer;M. A. Sesma;J. H. Kaas

  • Parallel Evolution of Cortical Areas Involved in Skilled Hand Use

    Jeffrey Padberg;Joao G Franca;Dylan F Cooke;Juliana Gm Soares

  • Early blindness results in abnormal corticocortical and thalamocortical connections.

    S.J. Karlen;D.M. Kahn;L. Krubitzer

  • The evolution of visual cortex: where is V2?

    Marcello G.P Rosa;Leah A Krubitzer

  • Area 3a: Topographic Organization and Cortical Connections in Marmoset Monkeys

    Kelly J. Huffman;Leah Krubitzer

  • Organization of somatosensory cortex in monotremes: in search of the prototypical plan.

    Leah Krubitzer;Paul Manger;Jack Pettigrew;Mike Calford

  • In search of a unifying theory of complex brain evolution.

    Leah Krubitzer

  • Massive cross-modal cortical plasticity and the emergence of a new cortical area in developmentally blind mammals

    Dianna M. Kahn;Leah Krubitzer

  • Nature versus nurture revisited: an old idea with a new twist.

    Leah Krubitzer;Dianna M Kahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon H. Kaas
Jon H. Kaas Vanderbilt University
Gregg H. Recanzone
Gregg H. Recanzone University of California, Davis
Zoltán Molnár
Zoltán Molnár University of Oxford
Michael B. Calford
Michael B. Calford Australian National University
Tingrui Pan
Tingrui Pan University of California, Davis
Timothy P.L. Roberts
Timothy P.L. Roberts Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Srikantan S. Nagarajan
Srikantan S. Nagarajan University of California, San Francisco
Colin Blakemore
Colin Blakemore City University of Hong Kong
Marcello G. P. Rosa
Marcello G. P. Rosa Monash University
Pasko Rakic
Pasko Rakic Yale University

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