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99
Citations
45547
World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1990 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1985 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Semir Zeki is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans across Neuroscience and Psychology, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their research addresses several core topics including aesthetic perception and analysis, visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, multisensory perception and integration, face recognition and perception, creativity in education and neuroscience, and olfactory and sensory function studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • PsyCh Journal
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neurology
  • Handbook of Clinical Neurology

Recent publications authored or co-authored by them are:

  • The neural determinants of beauty, 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neuroaesthetics: The art, science, and brain triptych, 2020, PsyCh Journal
  • The differential power of extraneous influences to modify aesthetic judgments of biological and artifactual stimuli, 2020, PsyCh Journal
  • The neural determinants of abstract beauty, 2023, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Multiplexing" cells of the visual cortex and the timing enigma of the binding problem, 2020, European Journal of Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Semir Zeki are:

  • Samuel E. Rasche
  • Ahmad Beyh
  • Marco Paolini
  • Yan Bao
  • Alexander Leff

Their work has been published in book form as well, including the title "Neuroaesthetics" published by World Scientific in 2024.

Semir Zeki has received several awards and honors during their career:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (1990)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (1990)
  • Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation (1985)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • A direct demonstration of functional specialization in human visual cortex

    S. Zeki;J. D. G. Watson;C. J. Lueck;K. J. Friston

  • The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love.

    Andreas M. Bartels;Semir Zeki

  • A vision of the brain

    Semir Zeki

  • The neural basis of romantic love.

    Andreas Bartels;Semir Zeki

  • Area V5 of the Human Brain: Evidence from a Combined Study Using Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    J. D. G. Watson;R. Myers;R. S. J. Frackowiak;J. V. Hajnal

  • Functional organization of a visual area in the posterior bank of the superior temporal sulcus of the rhesus monkey

    S. M. Zeki

  • The functional logic of cortical connections

    S. Zeki;S. Shipp

  • Neural correlates of beauty.

    Hideaki Kawabata;Semir Zeki

  • Functional specialisation in the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey

    Zeki Sm

  • Response Properties and Receptive Fields of Cells in an Anatomically Defined Region of the Superior Temporal Sulcus in the Monkey

    R. Dubner;S.M. Zeki

  • Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain

    Semir Zeki

  • Uniformity and diversity of structure and function in rhesus monkey prestriate visual cortex.

    S M Zeki

  • The representation of colours in the cerebral cortex

    Zeki S

  • The topographic organization of rhesus monkey prestriate cortex.

    D C Essen;S M Zeki

  • Colour coding in the cerebral cortex: The reaction of cells in monkey visual cortex to wavelengths and colours

    S. Zeki

  • Toward A Brain-Based Theory of Beauty

    Tomohiro Ishizu;Semir Zeki

  • A century of cerebral achromatopsia.

    S. Zeki

  • Representation of central visual fields in prestriate cortex of monkey.

    S.M. Zeki

  • Colour coding in rhesus monkey prestriate cortex.

    S.M. Zeki

  • The colour centre in the cerebral cortex of man

    C. J. Lueck;C. J. Lueck;S. Zeki;K. J. Friston;M.-P. Deiber

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Bartels
Andreas Bartels Max Planck Society
Dominic Ffytche
Dominic Ffytche King's College London
Richard S. J. Frackowiak
Richard S. J. Frackowiak École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
John D.G. Watson
John D.G. Watson University of New South Wales
Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
Nikos K. Logothetis
Nikos K. Logothetis Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christopher Kennard
Christopher Kennard University of Oxford
Jean-Baptiste Poline
Jean-Baptiste Poline Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Claudio Galletti
Claudio Galletti University of Bologna
Wolf Singer
Wolf Singer Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience

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