Carol L. Colby

11.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
42 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Carol L. Colby is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carol L. Colby has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Carol L. Colby's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (37 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (25 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (14 papers). Carol L. Colby is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (37 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (25 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (14 papers). Carol L. Colby collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Italy. Carol L. Colby's co-authors include Michael E. Goldberg, Jean‐René Duhamel, Kae Nakamura, Elisha P. Merriam, Christopher R. Genovese, David Melcher, Peter H. Schiller, Carl R. Olson, Ricardo Gattass and Charles G. Gross and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Carol L. Colby

42 papers receiving 8.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Updating of the Representation of Visual Space in Parietal Cortex by Intended Eye Movements

1992 1.4k citations Jean‐René Duhamel, Carol L. Colby et al. profile →
SPACE AND ATTENTION IN PARIETAL CORTEX

1999 1.2k citations Carol L. Colby, Michael E. Goldberg profile →
Ventral Intraparietal Area of the Macaque: Congruent Visual and Somatic Response Properties

1998 598 citations Jean‐René Duhamel, Carol L. Colby et al. Journal of Neurophysiology profile →
Ventral intraparietal area of the macaque: anatomic location and visual response properties

1993 533 citations Carol L. Colby, Jean‐René Duhamel et al. Journal of Neurophysiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carol L. Colby United States	30	7.7k	1.0k	967	860	699	42	8.3k
Frank Bremmer Germany	38	5.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	675 0.7×	592 0.7×	586 0.8×	129	6.0k
Mark W. Greenlee Germany	48	6.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	753 0.8×	427 0.5×	619 0.9×	246	7.9k
Jeffrey D. Schall United States	60	11.8k 1.5×	880 0.8×	673 0.7×	938 1.1×	1.6k 2.2×	151	12.7k
Leslie G. Ungerleider United States	22	9.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	421 0.5×	808 1.2×	30	10.0k
Bruce Bridgeman United States	45	6.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	418 0.5×	251 0.4×	173	7.0k
Tirin Moore United States	41	7.3k 0.9×	601 0.6×	678 0.7×	640 0.7×	1.5k 2.1×	101	8.5k
B. Fischer Germany	35	4.6k 0.6×	723 0.7×	329 0.3×	468 0.5×	548 0.8×	56	5.2k
Lawrence H. Snyder United States	40	7.5k 1.0×	662 0.6×	937 1.0×	275 0.3×	770 1.1×	94	8.3k
Donatella Spinelli Italy	49	5.5k 0.7×	595 0.6×	551 0.6×	520 0.6×	704 1.0×	167	7.3k
Stefan Everling Canada	47	8.3k 1.1×	868 0.8×	513 0.5×	421 0.5×	1.4k 2.0×	163	9.4k

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Colby, Carol L., et al.. (2014). S-cone Visual Stimuli Activate Superior Colliculus Neurons in Old World Monkeys: Implications for Understanding Blindsight. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 26(6). 1234–1256. 23 indexed citations

Colby, Carol L., et al.. (2013). Shape selectivity and remapping in dorsal stream visual area LIP. Journal of Neurophysiology. 111(3). 613–627. 42 indexed citations

Colby, Carol L., et al.. (2010). Representation of the Ipsilateral Visual Field by Neurons in the Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Cortex Depends on the Forebrain Commissures. Journal of Neurophysiology. 104(5). 2624–2633. 9 indexed citations

Melcher, David & Carol L. Colby. (2008). Trans-saccadic perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 12(12). 466–473. 221 indexed citations

Berman, Rebecca & Carol L. Colby. (2008). Attention and active vision. Vision Research. 49(10). 1233–1248. 47 indexed citations

Berman, Rebecca A., et al.. (2007). Dynamic Circuitry for Updating Spatial Representations. III. From Neurons to Behavior. Journal of Neurophysiology. 98(1). 105–121. 24 indexed citations

Heiser, Laura M. & Carol L. Colby. (2005). Spatial Updating in Area LIP Is Independent of Saccade Direction. Journal of Neurophysiology. 95(5). 2751–2767. 65 indexed citations

Berman, Rebecca A., Laura M. Heiser, Richard C. Saunders, & Carol L. Colby. (2005). Dynamic Circuitry for Updating Spatial Representations. I. Behavioral Evidence for Interhemispheric Transfer in the Split-Brain Macaque. Journal of Neurophysiology. 94(5). 3228–3248. 28 indexed citations

Heiser, Laura M., Rebecca A. Berman, Richard C. Saunders, & Carol L. Colby. (2005). Dynamic Circuitry for Updating Spatial Representations. II. Physiological Evidence for Interhemispheric Transfer in Area LIP of the Split-Brain Macaque. Journal of Neurophysiology. 94(5). 3249–3258. 29 indexed citations

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Colby, Carol L., Rebecca A. Berman, Laura M. Heiser, & Richard C. Saunders. (2005). Corollary discharge and spatial updating: when the brain is split, is space still unified?. Progress in brain research. 149. 187–205. 25 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Kae & Carol L. Colby. (2002). Updating of the visual representation in monkey striate and extrastriate cortex during saccades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(6). 4026–4031. 327 indexed citations

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Merriam, Elisha P., Carol L. Colby, Keith R. Thulborn, et al.. (2001). Stimulus–Response Incompatibility Activates Cortex Proximate to Three Eye Fields. NeuroImage. 13(5). 794–800. 67 indexed citations

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Gutkin, Boris, Carlo R. Laing, Carol L. Colby, Carson C. Chow, & Bard Ermentrout. (2001). Turning On and Off with Excitation: The Role of Spike-Timing Asynchrony and Synchrony in Sustained Neural Activity. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 11(2). 121–134. 144 indexed citations

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Berman, Rebecca A., Carol L. Colby, Christopher R. Genovese, et al.. (1999). Cortical networks subserving pursuit and saccadic eye movements in humans: An FMRI study. Human Brain Mapping. 8(4). 209–225. 226 indexed citations

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Colby, Carol L., Jean‐René Duhamel, & Michael E. Goldberg. (1993). Chapter 27 The analysis of visual space by the lateral intraparietal area of the monkey: the role of extraretinal signals. Progress in brain research. 95. 307–316. 53 indexed citations

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Goldberg, Michael E., Carol L. Colby, & Jean‐René Duhamel. (1990). Representation of Visuomotor Space in the Parietal Lobe of the Monkey. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 55(0). 729–739. 151 indexed citations

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Colby, Carol L., Ricardo Gattass, Carl R. Olson, & Charles G. Gross. (1988). Topographical organization of cortical afferents to extrastriate visual area PO in the macaque: A dual tracer study. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 269(3). 392–413. 353 indexed citations

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Schiller, Peter H. & Carol L. Colby. (1983). The responses of single cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the rhesus monkey to color and luminance contrast. Vision Research. 23(12). 1631–1641. 155 indexed citations

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Malpeli, Joseph G., Peter H. Schiller, & Carol L. Colby. (1981). Response properties of single cells in monkey striate cortex during reversible inactivation of individual lateral geniculate laminae.. Journal of Neurophysiology. 46(5). 1102–1119. 94 indexed citations

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Foote, Warren E., et al.. (1977). Differential effect of midbrain stimulation on X-sustained and Y-transient neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat. Brain Research. 127(1). 153–158. 18 indexed citations

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