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Overview

Robert D. Rafal is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of neuroscience with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience. The scope of work encompasses various subfields, including social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as pharmacology.

The scientist's investigation covers diverse main topics such as:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Robert D. Rafal has contributed scholarly articles to various academic venues. Frequent publication sources include:

  • Neuropsychologia
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Journal of Intelligence
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Cortex

Notable papers authored by the scientist demonstrate the focus and evolution of research interests over the years. Recent publications include:

  • "Seeing without a Scene: Neurological Observations on the Origin and Function of the Dorsal Visual Stream," published in 2024 in the Journal of Intelligence
  • "Collothalamic projections to the human amygdala: hemispheric asymmetry modulates trait anxiety," published in 2025 in the Journal of Neurophysiology
  • "Indignation for moral violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex: preliminary TMS evidence," published in 2020 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in Robert D. Rafal's research include Carmelo M. Vicario, Giuseppe di Pellegrino, Chiara Lucifora, Mohammad Ali Salehinejad, and Michael A. Nitsche. These partnerships reflect intersections with multiple specialties relevant to cognitive and affective neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Effects of parietal injury on covert orienting of attention

    Michael I. Posner;John A. Walker;Frances J. Friedrich;Robert D. Rafal

  • Shifting visual attention between objects and locations: evidence from normal and parietal lesion subjects.

    Robert Egly;Jon Driver;Robert D. Rafal

  • Inhibition of return : Neural basis and function

    Michael I. Posner;Robert D. Rafal;Lisa S. Choate;Jonathan Vaughan

  • Neural systems control of spatial orienting.

    M. I. Posner;Y. Cohen;R. D. Rafal

  • Saccade preparation inhibits reorienting to recently attended locations.

    Robert D. Rafal;Peter A. Calabresi;Cameron W. Brennan;Toni K. Sciolto

  • How do the parietal lobes direct covert attention

    Michael I. Posner;John A. Walker;Frances A. Friedrich;Robert D. Rafal

  • Deficits in human visual spatial attention following thalamic lesions

    Robert D. Rafal;Michael I. Posner

  • Spatial attention deficits in humans: a comparison of superior parietal and temporal-parietal junction lesions.

    Frances J. Friedrich;Robert Egly;Robert Egly;Robert D. Rafal;Diane Beck

  • Competition Between Endogenous and Exogenous Orienting of Visual Attention

    Andrea Berger;Avishai Henik;Robert Rafal

  • Preserved figure-ground segregation and symmetry perception in visual neglect.

    Jon Driver;Gordon C. Baylis;Robert D. Rafal

  • COGNITION AND THE BASAL GANGLIA

    Robert D. Rafal;John A. Walker;Michael I. Posner;Frances J. Friedrich

  • Orienting of visual attention in progressive supranuclear palsy.

    Robert D. Rafal;Michael I. Posner;Joseph H. Friedman;Albrecht W. Inhoff

  • The neurology of inhibition: Integrating controlled and automatic processes.

    Robert Rafal;Avishai Henik

  • Neural fate of seen and unseen faces in visuospatial neglect: A combined event-related functional MRI and event-related potential study

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Noam Sagiv;Noam Sagiv;Noam Sagiv;Eliot Hazeltine;Russell A Poldrack;Russell A Poldrack

  • Toward a Functional Analysis of the Basal Ganglia

    Amy E. Hayes;Matthew C. Davidson;Steven W. Keele;Robert D. Rafal

  • The role of cerebellar structures in the execution of serial movements.

    Albrecht Werner Inhoff;Hans Christoph Diener;Robert D. Rafal;Richard Ivry

  • Extrageniculate vision in hemianopic humans: saccade inhibition by signals in the blind field

    R Rafal;J Smith;J Krantz;A Cohen

  • Visual extinction and stimulus repetition

    Gordon C. Baylis;Jon Driver;Robert D. Rafal

  • The neurology of visual attention.

    Robert Rafal;Lynn Robertson

  • A systematic study of visual extinction Between- and within-field deficits of attention in hemispatial neglect

    Patrik O. Vuilleumier;Robert D. Rafal

  • Axis-based neglect of visual shapes

    Jon Driver;Gordon C. Baylis;Susan J. Goodrich;Robert D. Rafal

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Ro
Tony Ro City University of New York
Avishai Henik
Avishai Henik Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Michael I. Posner
Michael I. Posner University of Oregon
Patrik Vuilleumier
Patrik Vuilleumier University of Geneva
Alessio Avenanti
Alessio Avenanti University of Bologna
Albrecht W. Inhoff
Albrecht W. Inhoff Binghamton University
Gordon C. Baylis
Gordon C. Baylis Western Kentucky University
Richard B. Ivry
Richard B. Ivry University of California, Berkeley
Stefan Van der Stigchel
Stefan Van der Stigchel Utrecht University
Tanja C.W. Nijboer
Tanja C.W. Nijboer Utrecht University

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