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 Nancy Kanwisher sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 370 publications — 89th percentile
89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nancy Kanwisher sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 120 D-Index — 96th percentile
96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.
Nancy Kanwisher is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research focus primarily in Neuroscience and Computer Science. Their work centers around cognitive neuroscience and areas such as computer vision, social psychology, artificial intelligence, and experimental and cognitive psychology.
The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects including face recognition and perception, neural dynamics and brain function, visual attention and saliency detection, visual perception and processing mechanisms, face recognition and analysis, action observation and synchronization, and memory and neural mechanisms.
Some of the recent papers by Nancy Kanwisher include:
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Throughout their career, Nancy Kanwisher has received several awards such as the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2016, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, the Golden Brain Award from the Minerva Foundation in 2007, membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2005, and the Troland Research Awards from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1999 for research on visual attention, awareness, and imagery including identification of specialized modules for face perception and place encoding.
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