2026 Winrich A. Freiwald: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	45	6839	6290	2955	2659	109	10503

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society in recognition of their ground-breaking discoveries of primate cortical areas that selectively encode visual information about faces, the computational principles underlying face encoding in these areas, and the implications of these discoveries for social cognition.
2018 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation
2017 - Perl-UNC Prize, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Discovery of brain mechanisms of face recognition.
2016 - W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons

Overview

Winrich A. Freiwald is a researcher affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Their work spans various subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's research encompasses key topics such as Face Recognition and Perception, Neural dynamics and brain function, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Visual Attention and Saliency Detection, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Face recognition and analysis, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nature Methods
Journal of Vision
Nature Communications

Winrich A. Freiwald has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

Ben Deen
Ilaria Sani
Bradley Caron
Daniel Bullock
Franco Pestilli

Highlighted recent papers by the researcher are:

Geometric deep learning enables 3D kinematic profiling across species and environments, 2021, Nature Methods
Efficient inverse graphics in biological face processing, 2020, Science Advances
The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node, 2021, Nature Communications
A fast link between face perception and memory in the temporal pole, 2021, Science
Evolutionary and biomedical insights from a marmoset diploid genome assembly, 2021, Nature

Several awards have been conferred upon Freiwald recognizing their contributions in neuroscience and related disciplines. These include:

Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society, 2020, for discoveries of primate cortical areas encoding visual face information and implications for social cognition
Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation, 2018
Perl-UNC Prize, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017, for discovery of brain mechanisms of face recognition
W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2016

Best Publications

A cortical region consisting entirely of face-selective cells.

Doris Y. Tsao;Winrich A. Freiwald;Roger B. H. Tootell;Margaret S. Livingstone

1378
Citations
Functional compartmentalization and viewpoint generalization within the macaque face-processing system.

Winrich A. Freiwald;Doris Y. Tsao

810
Citations
Faces and objects in macaque cerebral cortex.

Doris Y Tsao;Winrich A Freiwald;Winrich A Freiwald;Tamara A Knutsen;Joseph B Mandeville

795
Citations
Comparing face patch systems in macaques and humans.

Doris Y. Tsao;Sebastian Moeller;Winrich A. Freiwald

764
Citations
A face feature space in the macaque temporal lobe

Winrich A Freiwald;Doris Y Tsao;Margaret S Livingstone

532
Citations
Patches with Links: A Unified System for Processing Faces in the Macaque Temporal Lobe

Sebastian Moeller;Winrich A. Freiwald;Doris Y. Tsao

498
Citations
Marmosets: A Neuroscientific Model of Human Social Behavior

Cory T. Miller;Winrich A. Freiwald;David A. Leopold;Jude F. Mitchell

370
Citations
A dedicated network for social interaction processing in the primate brain

J. Sliwa;Winrich A. Freiwald

320
Citations
Patches of face-selective cortex in the macaque frontal lobe

Doris Y Tsao;Nicole Schweers;Sebastian Moeller;Winrich A Freiwald

320
Citations
An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging

Michael P. Milham;Michael P. Milham;Lei Ai;Bonhwang Koo;Ting Xu

266
Citations
Coherent oscillatory activity in monkey area v4 predicts successful allocation of attention.

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257
Citations
Oscillatory Synchrony in the Monkey Temporal Lobe Correlates with Performance in a Visual Short-term Memory Task

Catherine Tallon-Baudry;Sunita Mandon;Winrich A. Freiwald;Andreas K. Kreiter

211
Citations
High-Level Prediction Signals in a Low-Level Area of the Macaque Face-Processing Hierarchy

Caspar M. Schwiedrzik;Winrich A. Freiwald

192
Citations
Face Processing Systems: From Neurons to Real-World Social Perception

Winrich Freiwald;Bradley Duchaine;Galit Yovel

192
Citations
Neural Coding: Higher-Order Temporal Patterns in the Neurostatistics of Cell Assemblies

Laura Martignon;Gustavo Deco;Kathryn Laskey;Mathew Diamond

188
Citations
Testing non-linearity and directedness of interactions between neural groups in the macaque inferotemporal cortex.

Winrich A. Freiwald;Winrich A. Freiwald;Pedro Valdes;Jorge Bosch;Rolando Biscay

171
Citations
Cingulate cortex: Diverging data from humans and monkeys

Michael W. Cole;Nick Yeung;Winrich A. Freiwald;Matthew Botvinick

158
Citations
What Makes a Cell Face Selective? The Importance of Contrast

Shay Ohayon;Winrich A. Freiwald;Doris Y. Tsao

143
Citations
Stimulus dependent intercolumnar synchronization of single unit responses in cat area 17

Winrich A. Freiwald;Andreas K. Kreiter;Wolf Singer

131
Citations
Two areas for familiar face recognition in the primate brain

Sofia M. Landi;Winrich A. Freiwald

130
Citations
Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging

Michael Milham;Christopher I. Petkov;Daniel S. Margulies;Charles E. Schroeder

115
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Doris Y. Tsao University of California, Berkeley

David A. Leopold National Institutes of Health

Frank Q. Ye National Institutes of Health

Michael W. Cole Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Nick Yeung University of Oxford

Ravi S. Menon University of Western Ontario

Matthew Botvinick Yale University

Stefan Everling University of Western Ontario

Kevin S. Weiner University of California, Berkeley

Jakob Seidlitz University of Pennsylvania

External Links

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