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Martha J. Farah publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Martha J. Farah sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 268 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Martha J. Farah D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Martha J. Farah sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 114 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1992 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For her rigorous empirical and theoretical analysis of visual cognition, in which understanding of normal function and analysis of neurological deficits illuminate and strengthen one another.

Overview

Martha J. Farah is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Their research focuses on various subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their recent scholarly work spans a range of topics that include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Health, Environment, and Cognitive Aging, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Mental Health Research Topics, Stress Responses and Cortisol, and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction.

Notable recent papers by Martha J. Farah include:

  • "Reflections on the past two decades of neuroscience" (2020), published in Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • "Human brain anatomy reflects separable genetic and environmental components of socioeconomic status" (2022), published in Science Advances
  • "The affective neuroscience of socioeconomic status: implications for mental health" (2020), published in BJPsych Bulletin
  • "Early childhood poverty and adult executive functioning: Distinct, mediating pathways for different domains of executive functioning" (2021), published in Developmental Science
  • "Randomized Manipulation of Early Cognitive Experience Impacts Adult Brain Structure" (2021), published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Their frequent co-authors include Yu Hao, Alain Dagher, Danilo Bzdok, Gideon Nave, and Philipp Koellinger.

Martha J. Farah has published multiple papers in several prominent academic venues, including:

  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • BJPsych Bulletin
  • Scientific Reports
  • The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics
  • Nature Reviews. Neuroscience

Over the course of their career, Martha J. Farah has received several awards. These include the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010, the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2008, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006, Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995, and the Troland Research Award from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1992. The Troland award was granted for rigorous empirical and theoretical analysis of visual cognition, highlighting the integration of understanding normal visual function with neurological deficits analysis.

Best Publications

  • Parts and wholes in face recognition

    James W. Tanaka;Martha J. Farah

  • Role of left inferior prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: A reevaluation

    Sharon L. Thompson-Schill;Mark D’Esposito;Geoffrey K. Aguirre;Martha J. Farah

  • Socioeconomic status and the developing brain

    Daniel A. Hackman;Martha J. Farah

  • Visual Agnosia

    Martha J. Farah

  • What is "special" about face perception?

    Martha J. Farah;Kevin D. Wilson;Maxwell Drain;James N. Tanaka

  • Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research

    Daniel A. Hackman;Martha J. Farah;Michael J. Meaney;Michael J. Meaney

  • Neurocognitive Correlates of Socioeconomic Status in Kindergarten Children.

    Kimberly G. Noble;Kimberly G. Noble;M. Frank Norman;Martha J. Farah

  • Socioeconomic Gradients Predict Individual Differences in Neurocognitive Abilities.

    Kimberly G. Noble;Kimberly G. Noble;Bruce D. McCandliss;Martha J. Farah

  • Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy

    Henry Greely;Barbara Sahakian;John Harris;Ronald C. Kessler

  • A computational model of semantic memory impairment: modality specificity and emergent category specificity.

    Martha J. Farah;James L. McClelland

  • Childhood poverty: specific associations with neurocognitive development.

    Martha J. Farah;David M. Shera;Jessica H. Savage;Laura Betancourt

  • Neurocognitive enhancement: what can we do and what should we do?

    Martha J. Farah;Judy Illes;Robert Cook-Deegan;Howard Gardner

  • The neurological basis of mental imagery: a componential analysis.

    Martha J. Farah

  • Different Underlying Impairments in Decision-making Following Ventromedial and Dorsolateral Frontal Lobe Damage in Humans

    Lesley K. Fellows;Martha J. Farah

  • Visual agnosia : disorders of object recognition and what they tell us about normal vision

    Martha J. Farah

  • Is visual imagery really visual? Overlooked evidence from neuropsychology.

    Martha J. Farah

  • The neural basis of mental imagery

    Martha J. Farah

  • Ventromedial frontal cortex mediates affective shifting in humans: evidence from a reversal learning paradigm

    Lesley K. Fellows;Martha J. Farah

  • What causes the face inversion effect

    M J Farah;J W Tanaka;H M Drain

  • Visual and spatial mental imagery: Dissociable systems of representation

    Martha J Farah;Katherine M Hammond;David N Levine;Ronald Calvanio

  • A computational model of semantic memory impairment: Modality specificity and emergent category specificity (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 120(4), 339–357)

    M. J. Farah;J. L. McClelland

Frequent Co-Authors

Kimberly G. Noble
Kimberly G. Noble Columbia University
Mark D'Esposito
Mark D'Esposito University of California, Berkeley
John A. Detre
John A. Detre University of Pennsylvania
Lynette J. Tippett
Lynette J. Tippett University of Auckland
Todd E. Feinberg
Todd E. Feinberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Thad A. Polk
Thad A. Polk University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hengyi Rao
Hengyi Rao University of Pennsylvania
Lesley K. Fellows
Lesley K. Fellows Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Geoffrey K. Aguirre
Geoffrey K. Aguirre University of Pennsylvania
Shaun P. Vecera
Shaun P. Vecera University of Iowa

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