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D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
10503
World Ranking
6839
National Ranking
2954

Winrich A. Freiwald publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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 Winrich A. Freiwald sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 109 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Winrich A. Freiwald D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Winrich A. Freiwald sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

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

    Winrich A. Freiwald;Doris Y. Tsao

  • Faces and objects in macaque cerebral cortex.

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

  • Comparing face patch systems in macaques and humans.

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

  • A face feature space in the macaque temporal lobe

    Winrich A Freiwald;Doris Y Tsao;Margaret S Livingstone

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

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

  • Marmosets: A Neuroscientific Model of Human Social Behavior

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

  • A dedicated network for social interaction processing in the primate brain

    J. Sliwa;Winrich A. Freiwald

  • Patches of face-selective cortex in the macaque frontal lobe

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

  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging

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

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

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  • 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

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

    Caspar M. Schwiedrzik;Winrich A. Freiwald

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

    Winrich Freiwald;Bradley Duchaine;Galit Yovel

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

    Laura Martignon;Gustavo Deco;Kathryn Laskey;Mathew Diamond

  • 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

  • Cingulate cortex: Diverging data from humans and monkeys

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

  • What Makes a Cell Face Selective? The Importance of Contrast

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

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

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

  • Two areas for familiar face recognition in the primate brain

    Sofia M. Landi;Winrich A. Freiwald

  • Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Doris Y. Tsao
Doris Y. Tsao University of California, Berkeley
David A. Leopold
David A. Leopold National Institutes of Health
Frank Q. Ye
Frank Q. Ye National Institutes of Health
Michael W. Cole
Michael W. Cole Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Nick Yeung
Nick Yeung University of Oxford
Ravi S. Menon
Ravi S. Menon University of Western Ontario
Matthew Botvinick
Matthew Botvinick Yale University
Stefan Everling
Stefan Everling University of Western Ontario
Kevin S. Weiner
Kevin S. Weiner University of California, Berkeley
Jakob Seidlitz
Jakob Seidlitz University of Pennsylvania

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