Galit Yovel

10.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Galit Yovel is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Galit Yovel has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 53 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 38 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Galit Yovel's work include Face Recognition and Perception (97 papers), Face recognition and analysis (40 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (32 papers). Galit Yovel is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (97 papers), Face recognition and analysis (40 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (32 papers). Galit Yovel collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Galit Yovel's co-authors include Nancy Kanwisher, Brad Duchaine, Bradley Duchaine, Elinor McKone, Vadim Axelrod, Talia Brandman, Vincent Walsh, Ken A. Paller, David Pitcher and Boaz Sadeh and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Galit Yovel

110 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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 fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Galit Yovel Israel	46	6.9k	2.7k	2.1k	840	358	112	7.7k
Bradley Duchaine United States	44	6.1k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	802 1.0×	545 1.5×	71	6.9k
Galia Avidan Israel	33	5.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	456 0.5×	346 1.0×	98	5.6k
Jason J.S. Barton Canada	49	6.9k 1.0×	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	461 0.5×	621 1.7×	272	8.1k
Elinor McKone Australia	43	4.5k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	709 0.8×	509 1.4×	101	5.2k
M. Ida Gobbini United States	29	10.1k 1.5×	3.6k 1.3×	1.7k 0.8×	2.0k 2.4×	548 1.5×	57	11.6k
Stefan R. Schweinberger Germany	55	7.7k 1.1×	3.8k 1.4×	1.9k 0.9×	997 1.2×	335 0.9×	195	8.4k
Catherine J. Mondloch Canada	38	5.8k 0.8×	3.9k 1.4×	1.8k 0.9×	785 0.9×	647 1.8×	117	7.0k
Kalanit Grill‐Spector United States	49	12.9k 1.9×	2.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	906 2.5×	128	14.2k
Daphne Maurer Canada	52	8.9k 1.3×	4.6k 1.7×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.6×	1.5k 4.2×	211	11.2k
Aina Puce United States	45	10.4k 1.5×	3.2k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 2.1×	928 2.6×	105	12.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Galit Yovel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Galit Yovel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Galit Yovel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Galit Yovel. Galit Yovel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Goshen‐Gottstein, Yonatan, et al.. (2024). Group information enhances recognition of both learned and unlearned face appearances.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 128(2). 262–280. 1 indexed citations

Yovel, Galit, et al.. (2024). Distinct Yet Proximal Face- and Body-Selective Brain Regions Enable Clutter-Tolerant Representations of the Face, Body, and Whole Person. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(24). e1871232024–e1871232024. 1 indexed citations

Yovel, Galit, et al.. (2022). Perceptual similarity modulates effects of learning from variability on face recognition. Vision Research. 201. 108128–108128. 4 indexed citations

Abudarham, Naphtali, et al.. (2021). Face Recognition Depends on Specialized Mechanisms Tuned to View‐Invariant Facial Features: Insights from Deep Neural Networks Optimized for Face or Object Recognition. Cognitive Science. 45(9). e13031–e13031. 18 indexed citations

Yovel, Galit, et al.. (2020). Independent contributions of the face, body, and gait to the representation of the whole person. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 83(1). 199–214. 3 indexed citations

Yovel, Galit, et al.. (2018). Same critical features are used for identification of familiarized and unfamiliar faces. Vision Research. 157. 105–111. 10 indexed citations

Tsourides, Kleovoulos, et al.. (2018). Recognizing Facial Slivers. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 30(7). 951–962. 12 indexed citations

Arizpe, Joseph, Vincent Walsh, Galit Yovel, & Chris I. Baker. (2016). The categories, frequencies, and stability of idiosyncratic eye-movement patterns to faces. Vision Research. 141. 191–203. 40 indexed citations

Bronfman, Zohar Z., et al.. (2016). The Electrophysiological Signature of Remember–Know Is Confounded with Memory Strength and Cannot Be Interpreted as Evidence for Dual-process Theory of Recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 29(2). 322–336. 19 indexed citations

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Axelrod, Vadim, Moshe Bar, Geraint Rees, & Galit Yovel. (2014). Neural Correlates of Subliminal Language Processing. Cerebral Cortex. 25(8). 2160–2169. 43 indexed citations

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Tavor, Ido, et al.. (2013). Separate parts of occipito-temporal white matter fibers are associated with recognition of faces and places. NeuroImage. 86. 123–130. 66 indexed citations

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Yovel, Galit, et al.. (2012). A face inversion effect without a face. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 631–631. 26 indexed citations

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Amit, Elinor, et al.. (2012). Activation of ventral visual cortex supports distance representation. Brain and Cognition. 2 indexed citations

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Yovel, Galit, et al.. (2012). Can massive but passive exposure to faces contribute to face recognition abilities?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 38(2). 285–289. 28 indexed citations

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Sadeh, Boaz & Galit Yovel. (2010). Why is the N170 enhanced for inverted faces? An ERP competition experiment. NeuroImage. 53(2). 782–789. 85 indexed citations

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Yovel, Galit, et al.. (2010). It's all in your head: Why is the body inversion effect abolished for headless bodies?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 36(3). 759–767. 80 indexed citations

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Bar‐Haim, Yair, et al.. (2009). The Role of Skin Colour in Face Recognition. Perception. 38(1). 145–148. 34 indexed citations

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McKone, Elinor & Galit Yovel. (2009). Why does picture-plane inversion sometimes dissociate perception of features and spacing in faces, and sometimes not? Toward a new theory of holistic processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 16(5). 778–797. 230 indexed citations

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Levy, Jerre, et al.. (2003). Facilitation and disruption of lateralized syllable processing by unattended stimuli in the opposite visual field. Brain and Language. 85(3). 432–440. 1 indexed citations

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Mintz, Matti, et al.. (1998). Dissociation Between Startle and Prepulse Inhibition in Rats Exposed to γ Radiation at Day 15 of Embryogeny. Brain Research Bulletin. 45(3). 289–296. 12 indexed citations

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