2026 Zoe Kourtzi: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	45	6831	6283	533	490	221	10921

Overview

Zoe Kourtzi is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research is concentrated within the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and its intersections with artificial intelligence, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and radiology.

Their recent publications reflect a strong engagement with topics related to brain function, neurodegeneration, and the advancement of machine learning techniques in healthcare. Selected recent papers include:

"GABA and glutamate deficits from frontotemporal lobar degeneration are associated with disinhibition" (2020, Brain)
"Modelling prognostic trajectories of cognitive decline due to Alzheimer's disease" (2020, NeuroImage Clinical)
"Recurrent Processing Drives Perceptual Plasticity" (2020, Current Biology)
"Neurodegenerative disease of the brain: a survey of interdisciplinary approaches" (2023, Journal of The Royal Society Interface)
"A robust and interpretable machine learning approach using multimodal biological data to predict future pathological tau accumulation" (2022, Nature Communications)

Frequent coauthors contributing to collaborative work with Kourtzi include Joseph Giorgio, Peter Tiňo, Ke Jia, Elisa Zamboni, and Rainer Goebel.

A number of publication venues have hosted Kourtzi's research, demonstrating a presence in interdisciplinary and domain-specific journals and platforms. These venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Alzheimer's & Dementia
arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
Apollo (University of Cambridge)

Kourtzi's work covers several main research topics, notably:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function
Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
Machine Learning in Healthcare
Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

Overall, their contributions reflect an integration of advanced neuroimaging, computational modeling, and clinical research to address cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases. This body of work is situated at the intersection of neuroscience and technology, exploring biological data through interpretable machine learning and interdisciplinary approaches.

Best Publications

The lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition.

Kalanit Grill-Spector;Zoe Kourtzi;Nancy Kanwisher;Nancy Kanwisher

1754
Citations
Representation of Perceived Object Shape by the Human Lateral Occipital Complex

Zoe Kourtzi;Nancy Kanwisher;Nancy Kanwisher

1060
Citations
Activation in Human MT/MST by Static Images with Implied Motion

Zoe Kourtzi;Nancy Kanwisher

1004
Citations
Cortical Regions Involved in Perceiving Object Shape

Zoe Kourtzi;Nancy Kanwisher

849
Citations
Integration of Local Features into Global Shapes: Monkey and Human fMRI Studies

Zoe Kourtzi;Andreas S Tolias;Christian F Altmann;Marc Augath

438
Citations
Perceptual organization of local elements into global shapes in the human visual cortex.

Christian F. Altmann;Heinrich H. Bülthoff;Zoe Kourtzi

328
Citations
Representation of the Perceived 3-D Object Shape in the Human Lateral Occipital Complex

Zoe Kourtzi;Michael Erb;Wolfgang Grodd;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

231
Citations
3D shape perception from combined depth cues in human visual cortex.

Andrew E Welchman;Arne Deubelius;Verena Conrad;Heinrich H Bülthoff

221
Citations
Distributed neural plasticity for shape learning in the human visual cortex.

Zoe Kourtzi;Lisa R Betts;Pegah Sarkheil;Andrew E Welchman

195
Citations
Neural Representations for Object Perception: Structure, Category, and Adaptive Coding

Zoe Kourtzi;Charles E. Connor

193
Citations
Multivoxel Pattern Selectivity for Perceptually Relevant Binocular Disparities in the Human Brain

Tim J Preston;Shengqiao Li;Zoe Kourtzi;Andrew E Welchman

183
Citations
Object-selective responses in the human motion area MT/MST

Zoe Kourtzi;Heinrich H. Bülthoff;Michael Erb;Wolfgang Grodd

174
Citations
Learning Shapes the Representation of Behavioral Choice in the Human Brain

Shengqiao Li;Stephen D Mayhew;Zoe Kourtzi

155
Citations
Flexible coding for categorical decisions in the human brain.

Shengqiao Li;Dirk Ostwald;Martin Giese;Zoe Kourtzi

152
Citations
Implied motion from form in the human visual cortex.

Bart Krekelberg;Argiro Vatakis;Zoe Kourtzi

151
Citations
A matching advantage for dynamic human faces.

Ian M Thornton;Zoe Kourtzi

143
Citations
Neural coding of global form in the human visual cortex.

Dirk Ostwald;Judith M Lam;Shengqiao Li;Zoe Kourtzi

138
Citations
Learning and neural plasticity in visual object recognition.

Zoe Kourtzi;James J DiCarlo

121
Citations
Linking form and motion in the primate brain

Zoe Kourtzi;Bart Krekelberg;Richard J.A. van Wezel

112
Citations
Spatiotemporal characteristics of form analysis in the human visual cortex revealed by rapid event-related fMRI adaptation.

Zoe Kourtzi;Elisabeth Huberle

112
Citations
Neural substrates for action understanding at different description levels in the human brain

Vaia Lestou;Frank E. Pollick;Zoe Kourtzi

111
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin A. Giese University of Tübingen

Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Nikos K. Logothetis Chinese Academy of Sciences

Rainer Goebel Maastricht University

Wolfgang Grodd Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Nancy Kanwisher MIT

Andreas S. Tolias Baylor College of Medicine

Guy B. Williams University of Cambridge

William J. Jagust University of California, Berkeley

Maggie Shiffrar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

External Links

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