David Pitcher

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

David Pitcher is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Pitcher has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in David Pitcher's work include Face Recognition and Perception (40 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (21 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). David Pitcher is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (40 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (21 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). David Pitcher collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. David Pitcher's co-authors include Bradley Duchaine, Vincent Walsh, Leslie G. Ungerleider, Galit Yovel, Nancy Kanwisher, Lúcia Garrido, Vincent Walsh, Rebecca Saxe, Daniel D. Dilks and Christina Triantafyllou and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

David Pitcher

49 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Evidence for a Third Visual Pathway Specialized for Social Perception

2020 275 citations David Pitcher, Leslie G. Ungerleider Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Pitcher United Kingdom	19	2.3k	726	420	410	210	52	2.6k
Gyula Kovács Germany	32	2.4k 1.0×	800 1.1×	298 0.7×	382 0.9×	224 1.1×	98	2.7k
Stephan A. Brandt Germany	22	2.7k 1.2×	326 0.4×	171 0.4×	247 0.6×	401 1.9×	56	3.2k
Sascha Frühholz Switzerland	27	1.8k 0.8×	905 1.2×	112 0.3×	487 1.2×	72 0.3×	83	2.4k
Holger Wiese Germany	29	1.9k 0.8×	984 1.4×	432 1.0×	264 0.6×	47 0.2×	76	2.3k
David Soto United Kingdom	32	2.8k 1.2×	603 0.8×	129 0.3×	459 1.1×	90 0.4×	99	3.2k
Lúcia Garrido United Kingdom	19	1.3k 0.6×	610 0.8×	343 0.8×	274 0.7×	39 0.2×	37	1.6k
Corentin Jacques Belgium	29	3.0k 1.3×	887 1.2×	630 1.5×	274 0.7×	31 0.1×	59	3.2k
C.A. Heywood United Kingdom	25	2.0k 0.9×	453 0.6×	166 0.4×	385 0.9×	87 0.4×	47	2.3k
Alison Harris United States	19	2.1k 0.9×	636 0.9×	418 1.0×	235 0.6×	32 0.2×	32	2.6k
Kevin S. Weiner United States	32	4.2k 1.8×	692 1.0×	548 1.3×	395 1.0×	126 0.6×	93	4.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Pitcher

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Alam, Tirso RJ Gonzalez, Katya Krieger‐Redwood, Zhiyao Gao, et al.. (2025). A double dissociation between semantic and spatial cognition in visual to default network pathways. eLife. 13. 3 indexed citations

Kaiser, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Moving and Static Faces, Bodies, Objects, and Scenes Are Differentially Represented across the Three Visual Pathways. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 36(12). 2639–2651. 5 indexed citations

Pitcher, David, et al.. (2024). Visual neuroscience: A brain area tuned for processing social interactions. Current Biology. 34(2). R53–R55. 2 indexed citations

Cichy, Radoslaw Martin, et al.. (2024). Individual differences in internal models explain idiosyncrasies in scene perception. Cognition. 245. 105723–105723. 3 indexed citations

Pitcher, David, et al.. (2023). Seasonal mortality trends for hospitalised patients with acute kidney injury across England. BMC Nephrology. 24(1). 144–144. 3 indexed citations

Sliwinska, Magdalena W., et al.. (2022). Measuring the response to visually presented faces in the human lateral prefrontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 3(3). tgac036–tgac036. 8 indexed citations

Pitcher, David. (2021). Characterizing the Third Visual Pathway for Social Perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 25(7). 550–551. 7 indexed citations

Sliwinska, Magdalena W., et al.. (2021). Stimulating parietal regions of the multiple-demand cortex impairs novel vocabulary learning. Neuropsychologia. 162. 108047–108047. 6 indexed citations

Handwerker, Daniel A., Benjamín Gutiérrez, Vinai Roopchansingh, et al.. (2020). Theta-burst TMS to the posterior superior temporal sulcus decreases resting-state fMRI connectivity across the face processing network. Network Neuroscience. 4(3). 746–760. 18 indexed citations

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Pitcher, David & Leslie G. Ungerleider. (2020). Evidence for a Third Visual Pathway Specialized for Social Perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 25(2). 100–110. 275 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sliwinska, Magdalena W., et al.. (2020). Dual-site TMS demonstrates causal functional connectivity between the left and right posterior temporal sulci during facial expression recognition. Brain stimulation. 13(4). 1008–1013. 15 indexed citations

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Pitcher, David, et al.. (2016). The Superior Temporal Sulcus Is Causally Connected to the Amygdala: A Combined TBS-fMRI Study. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(5). 1156–1161. 58 indexed citations

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Pitcher, David, Bradley Duchaine, & Vincent Walsh. (2014). Combined TMS and fMRI Reveal Dissociable Cortical Pathways for Dynamic and Static Face Perception. Current Biology. 24(17). 2066–2070. 108 indexed citations

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Rezlescu, Constantin, et al.. (2011). Acquired prosopagnosia with spared within-class object recognition but impaired recognition of degraded basic-level objects. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 574–574. 1 indexed citations

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Pitcher, David, Daniel D. Dilks, Rebecca Saxe, & Nancy Kanwisher. (2011). Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face selective regions. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 654–654.

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Pitcher, David, Daniel D. Dilks, Rebecca Saxe, Christina Triantafyllou, & Nancy Kanwisher. (2011). Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions. NeuroImage. 56(4). 2356–2363. 325 indexed citations

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Pitcher, David, et al.. (2010). ‘Allowed to be There’: The Wider Family and Child Protection. Practice. 22(1). 17–31. 1 indexed citations

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Pitcher, David, Lúcia Garrido, ⁄ Walsh, & Brad Duchaine. (2008). TMS disrupts the perception and embodiment of facial expressions.. Journal of Neuroscience. 18 indexed citations

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Reilly, Joseph, David Pitcher, & Deva Ghosh. (2008). SEG Applied Research Workshop: Geophysical challenges in southeast Asia exploration. The Leading Edge. 27(10). 1282–1299. 5 indexed citations

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Pitcher, David, Lúcia Garrido, Vincent Walsh, & Bradley Duchaine. (2008). Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Disrupts the Perception and Embodiment of Facial Expressions. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(36). 8929–8933. 271 indexed citations

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