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Pawan Sinha

Pawan Sinha

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
9329
World Ranking
4951
National Ranking
2345

Pawan Sinha publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pawan Sinha sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 201 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Pawan Sinha D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pawan Sinha sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For elucidating how humans learn to recognize visual objects, and for developing computational models of the mechanisms that mediate this learning.
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Pawan Sinha is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Epidemiology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to visual perception and processing mechanisms, tactile and sensory interactions, face recognition and perception, autism spectrum disorder research, neural dynamics and brain function, ophthalmology and visual impairment studies, as well as visual attention and saliency detection.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Pawan Sinha include:

  • Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence, 2021, Autism Research
  • Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures, 2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Mechanisms underlying simultaneous brightness contrast: Early and innate, 2020, Vision Research
  • Prenatal auditory experience and its sequelae, 2022, Developmental Science
  • White matter plasticity following cataract surgery in congenitally blind patients, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has frequently published in several distinguished venues, including:

  • Journal of Vision
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Developmental Science
  • Autism Research

Collaborative work has been carried out with frequent co-authors such as Sharon Gilad-Gutnick, Priti Gupta, Pragya Shah, Shlomit Ben-Ami, and Suma Ganesh, each with multiple joint publications.

Awards received by Pawan Sinha include the Troland Research Awards from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2007, recognizing contributions to understanding how humans learn to recognize visual objects and the development of computational models of these learning mechanisms. Earlier, in 2000, they were named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Face Recognition by Humans: Nineteen Results All Computer Vision Researchers Should Know About

    P. Sinha;B. Balas;Y. Ostrovsky;R. Russell

  • Effects of early experience on children's recognition of facial displays of emotion.

    Seth D. Pollak;Pawan Sinha

  • Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans

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

  • Autism as a disorder of prediction

    Pawan Sinha;Margaret M. Kjelgaard;Tapan K. Gandhi;Kleovoulos Tsourides

  • The role of eyebrows in face recognition.

    Javid Sadr;Izzat Jarudi;Pawan Sinha

  • The newly sighted fail to match seen with felt

    Richard Held;Yuri Ostrovsky;Beatrice de Gelder;Tapan Gandhi

  • Contribution of color to face recognition.

    Andrew W Yip;Pawan Sinha

  • Top-down influences on stereoscopic depth-perception

    Isabelle Bülthoff;Heinrich Bülthoff;Pawan Sinha

  • Role of learning in three-dimensional form perception

    Pawan Sinha;Tomaso Poggio

  • Contextually evoked object-specific responses in human visual cortex.

    David Cox;Ethan Meyers;Pawan Sinha

  • Perceiving illumination inconsistencies in scenes.

    Yuri Ostrovsky;Patrick Cavanagh;Pawan Sinha

  • Vision Following Extended Congenital Blindness

    Yuri Ostrovsky;Aaron Andalman;Pawan Sinha

  • Lateralization of face processing in the human brain

    Ming Meng;Tharian Cherian;Gaurav Singal;Pawan Sinha

  • Is pigmentation important for face recognition? Evidence from contrast negation.

    Richard Russell;Pawan Sinha;Irving Biederman;Marissa Nederhouser

  • Last but Not Least

    Pawan Sinha;Tomaso Poggio

  • Visual Parsing After Recovery From Blindness

    Yuri Ostrovsky;Ethan Meyers;Suma Ganesh;Umang Mathur

  • Face Processing in Humans is Compatible with a Simple Shape-Based Model of Vision

    Maximilian Riesenhuber;Izzat Jarudi;Sharon Gilad;Pawan Sinha

  • Face Recognition by Computers and Humans

    R. Chellappa;P. Sinha;P.J. Phillips

  • Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence

    Jonathan Cannon;Amanda M. O'Brien;Amanda M. O'Brien;Lindsay Bungert;Pawan Sinha

  • Recovering reflectance and illumination in a world of painted polyhedra

    P. Sinha;E. Adelson

  • Face Recognition by Humans: Nineteen Results All Computer Vision Researchers Should Know About Increased knowledge about the ways people recognize each other may help to guide efforts to develop practical automatic face-recognition systems.

    Pawan Sinha;Benjamin Balas;Yuri Ostrovsky;Richard Russell

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Peter J. Bex
Peter J. Bex Northeastern University
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Lotfi B. Merabet
Lotfi B. Merabet Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Galit Yovel
Galit Yovel Tel Aviv University
Irving Biederman
Irving Biederman University of Southern California

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