Ken Nakayama

20.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
142 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Ken Nakayama is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Nakayama has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 29 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ken Nakayama's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (77 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (33 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (29 papers). Ken Nakayama is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (77 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (33 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (29 papers). Ken Nakayama collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. Ken Nakayama's co-authors include Gerald Silverman, Frank Tong, Shinsuke Shimojo, Bradley Duchaine, Brad Duchaine, Joo‐Hyun Song, Nancy Kanwisher, Laura Germine, Suzanne P. McKee and Zijiang J. He and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ken Nakayama

140 papers receiving 14.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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 Cambridge Face Memory Test: Results for neurologically intact individuals and an investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic participants

2005 768 citations Ken Nakayama et al. profile →
Serial and parallel processing of visual feature conjunctions

1986 699 citations Ken Nakayama, Gerald Silverman Nature profile →
Binocular Rivalry and Visual Awareness in Human Extrastriate Cortex

1998 633 citations Frank Tong, Ken Nakayama et al. Neuron profile →
Biological image motion processing: A review

1985 620 citations Ken Nakayama Vision Research profile →
Is the Web as good as the lab? Comparable performance from Web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments

2012 517 citations Laura Germine, Ken Nakayama et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Processing multiple visual objects is limited by overlap in neural channels 2014 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michael B. Cohen, Talia Konkle, Juliana Y. Rhee, Ken Nakayama, George A. Alvarez	70
2	The attentional requirements of consciousness 2012 ·Trends in Cognitive Sciences ·Michael A. Cohen, Patrick Cavanagh, Marvin M. Chun, Ken Nakayama	207
3	Where cognitive development and aging meet: Face learning ability peaks after age 30 2010 ·Cognition ·Laura Germine, Bradley Duchaine, Ken Nakayama	275
4	Situating visual search 2010 ·Vision Research ·Ken Nakayama, Paolo Martini	128
5	Functioning transferred free muscle innervated by part of the vascularized ulnar nerve connecting the contralateral cervical seventh root to themedian nerve: Case report 2007 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Ryosuke Kakinoki, Ryosuke Ikeguchi, Ken Nakayama, Takashi Nakamura	3
6	Two Distinct Visual Motion Mechanisms for Smooth Pursuit: Evidence from Individual Differences 2007 ·Neuron ·Jeremy Wilmer, Ken Nakayama	46
7	Fixation offset facilitates saccades and manual reaching for single but not multiple target displays 2006 ·Experimental Brain Research ·Joo‐Hyun Song, Ken Nakayama	25
8	A Study on the Wireless Repeater without Electric Power Supply Using ROF technology 2005 ·IEICE Technical Report; IEICE Tech. Rep. ·N. Nakajima, (unknown), (unknown), Kenichi Morimoto, (unknown), Ken Nakayama, (unknown), (unknown), Naoto Kishi	2
9	Orientation tuning of human face processing estimated by contrast matching in transparency displays 2005 ·Vision Research ·Paolo Martini, Elinor McKone, Ken Nakayama	17
10	Normal Greeble Learning in a Severe Case of Developmental Prosopagnosia 2004 ·Neuron ·Bradley Duchaine, (unknown), Edward J. Butterworth, Ken Nakayama	58
11	Rapid, Object-Based Learning in the Deployment of Transient Attention 2001 ·Perception ·Árni Kristjánsson, Manfred MacKeben, Ken Nakayama	67
12	Saccades require focal attention and are facilitated by a short-term memory system 1999 ·Vision Research ·Robert M. McPeek, Vera Maljkovic, Ken Nakayama	204
13	The effect of face inversion on the human fusiform face area 1998 ·Cognition ·Nancy Kanwisher, Frank Tong, Ken Nakayama	336
14	Binocular Rivalry and Visual Awareness in Human Extrastriate Cortex breakdown → 1998 ·Neuron ·Frank Tong, Ken Nakayama, J. Thomas Vaughan, Nancy Kanwisher	633
15	Abrupt learning and retinal size specificity in illusory-contour perception 1997 ·Current Biology ·Nava Rubin, Ken Nakayama, Robert Shapley	92
16	Attention to surfaces: beyond a Cartesian understanding of focal attention 1995 ·MIT Press eBooks ·Ken Nakayama, Zijiang J. He	18
17	Toward a general theory of stereopsis: Binocular matching, occluding contours, and fusion. 1994 ·Psychological Review ·Barton L. Anderson, Ken Nakayama	104
18	Stimulus discriminability in visual search 1994 ·Vision Research ·Preeti Verghese, Ken Nakayama	116
19	An occlusion-related mechanism of depth perception based on motion and interocular sequence 1988 ·Nature ·Shinsuke Shimojo, Gerald Silverman, Ken Nakayama	37
20	Cortical pooling in the perception of orientation (A) 1976 ·Journal of the Optical Society of America A ·Ken Nakayama, Christopher W. Tyler	1

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