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Lucia M. Vaina 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 Lucia M. Vaina sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 146 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Lucia M. Vaina 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 Lucia M. Vaina sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Lucia M. Vaina is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their scholarly activity emphasizes Cognitive Neuroscience, with additional work in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, Genetics, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's research covers several interconnected topics, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Cardiovascular and diving-related complications
  • Cardiovascular syncope and autonomic disorders
  • High altitude and hypoxia
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces

Lucia M. Vaina has authored multiple papers across various publication venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Effect of Residual Interatrial Shunt on Migraine Burden After Transcatheter Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale," 2020, published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
  • "A computational paradigm for real-time MEG neurofeedback for dynamic allocation of spatial attention," 2020, published in BioMedical Engineering OnLine
  • "Neural activity underlying the detection of an object movement by an observer during forward self-motion: Dynamic decoding and temporal evolution of directional cortical connectivity," 2020, published in Progress in Neurobiology
  • "Auditory cues facilitate object movement processing in human extrastriate visual cortex during simulated self-motion: A pilot study," 2021, published in Brain Research
  • "Cortical dynamics following real-time MEG neurofeedback training of the speed of shifting spatial attention: a pilot study," 2022, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
  • BioMedical Engineering OnLine
  • Progress in Neurobiology
  • Brain Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kunjan D. Rana
  • Sheraz Khan
  • Matti Hämäläinen
  • Abhisek Samal
  • Finnegan J. Calabro

Lucia M. Vaina has been recognized as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) since 2005.

Best Publications

  • Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans

    Lucia M. Vaina;Jeffrey Solomon;Sanjida Chowdhury;Pawan Sinha

  • Representation and recognition of the movements of shapes.

    David Marr;Lucia Vaina

  • Intact "biological motion" and "structure from motion" perception in a patient with impaired motion mechanisms: a case study.

    Lucia M. Vaina;Marjorie Lemay;Don C. Bienfang;Albert Y. Choi

  • Two stages of visual processing for radial and circular motion

    Maria Concetta Morrone;Dc Burr;Lm Vaina

  • Mapping the signal-to-noise-ratios of cortical sources in magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography.

    Daniel M. Goldenholz;Seppo P. Ahlfors;Seppo P. Ahlfors;Matti S. Hämäläinen;Matti S. Hämäläinen;Dahlia Sharon

  • Selective impairment of visual motion interpretation following lesions of the right occipito-parietal area in humans

    L. M. Vaina

  • Large receptive fields for optic flow detection in humans

    David C Burr;M Concetta Morrone;Lucia M Vaina

  • Functional Segregation of Color and Motion Processing in the Human Visual Cortex: Clinical Evidence

    Lucia M. Vaina

  • Neural systems underlying learning and representation of global motion

    Lucia M. Vaina;John W. Belliveau;Eric B. des Roziers;Thomas A. Zeffiro

  • Impairment of the perception of second order motion but not first order motion in a patient with unilateral focal brain damage.

    Lucia M. Vaina;Alan Cowey

  • Matters of Intelligence

    Lucia M. Vaina

  • The selective impairment of the perception of first-order motion by unilateral cortical brain damage.

    Lucia M. Vaina;Nikos Makris;David Kennedy;Alan Cowey

  • Visual areas involved in the perception of human movement from dynamic form analysis.

    Lars Michels;CA Markus Lappe;Lucia Maria Vaina

  • Blindness to form from motion despite intact static form perception and motion detection.

    A Cowey;L.M Vaina

  • Optic Flow and Beyond

    Lucia M. Vaina;Scott A. Beardsley;Simon K. Rushton

  • Perception of first‐ and second‐order motion: Separable neurological mechanisms?

    Lucia M. Vaina;Alan Cowey;David Kennedy;David Kennedy

  • Perceptual deficits in patients with impaired recognition of biological motion after temporal lobe lesions.

    Lucia M. Vaina;Charles G. Gross

  • Regional cerebral correlates of global motion perception: evidence from unilateral cerebral brain damage.

    Lucia M. Vaina;Alan Cowey;Rhea T. Eskew;Marjorie LeMay

  • Learning to ignore: psychophysics and computational modeling of fast learning of direction in noisy motion stimuli

    Lucia M. Vaina;V. Sundareswaran;John G. Harris

  • Complex motion perception and its deficits.

    Lucia M Vaina

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Cowey
Alan Cowey University of Oxford
Matti Hämäläinen
Matti Hämäläinen Harvard Medical School
Ron Kikinis
Ron Kikinis Brigham and Women's Hospital
Steven M. Stufflebeam
Steven M. Stufflebeam Harvard University
Norberto M. Grzywacz
Norberto M. Grzywacz Loyola University Chicago
Colin W. G. Clifford
Colin W. G. Clifford University of New South Wales
Jyrki Ahveninen
Jyrki Ahveninen Harvard University
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli Northeastern University
Seppo P. Ahlfors
Seppo P. Ahlfors Harvard University
Randy L. Gollub
Randy L. Gollub Harvard Medical School

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