Michael J. Arcaro

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Michael J. Arcaro is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Arcaro has authored 49 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, 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 6 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Arcaro's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (34 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (30 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (20 papers). Michael J. Arcaro is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (34 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (30 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (20 papers). Michael J. Arcaro collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Michael J. Arcaro's co-authors include Sabine Kästner, Margaret S. Livingstone, Mark A. Pinsk, Ryan E. B. Mruczek, Liang Wang, Peter F. Schade, Benjamin D. Singer, Stephanie A. McMains, Justin L. Vincent and Kevin S. Weiner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Arcaro

47 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Probabilistic Maps of Visual Topography in Human Cortex

2014 436 citations Liang Wang, Ryan E. B. Mruczek et al. Cerebral Cortex profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael J. Arcaro United States	25	2.2k	289	274	267	229	49	2.6k
D. Samuel Schwarzkopf United Kingdom	30	2.2k 1.0×	179 0.6×	372 1.4×	175 0.7×	183 0.8×	101	2.6k
Fang Fang China	29	2.7k 1.2×	384 1.3×	522 1.9×	135 0.5×	159 0.7×	139	3.3k
Alyssa A. Brewer United States	17	2.8k 1.3×	190 0.7×	292 1.1×	543 2.0×	473 2.1×	42	3.3k
Janine D. Mendola United States	19	2.5k 1.1×	147 0.5×	179 0.7×	330 1.2×	341 1.5×	48	2.9k
R B Tootell United States	8	1.9k 0.9×	171 0.6×	272 1.0×	153 0.6×	120 0.5×	10	2.0k
Timothy J. Andrews United Kingdom	34	2.9k 1.3×	677 2.3×	838 3.1×	168 0.6×	158 0.7×	103	3.3k
J.B. Reppas United States	5	4.4k 2.0×	322 1.1×	483 1.8×	475 1.8×	397 1.7×	7	4.7k
Vaidehi Natu United States	20	1.6k 0.7×	332 1.1×	344 1.3×	191 0.7×	46 0.2×	35	1.9k
Koen Nelissen Belgium	21	2.6k 1.2×	136 0.5×	317 1.2×	412 1.5×	95 0.4×	53	3.0k
Tomas Knapen Netherlands	26	2.0k 0.9×	61 0.2×	293 1.1×	146 0.5×	144 0.6×	67	2.3k

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Mackey, Allyson P., et al.. (2025). Humans have a longer period of cortical maturation across depth and hierarchy than macaques. PLoS Biology. 23(9). e3003378–e3003378.

Kästner, Sabine, et al.. (2025). Expansion of a conserved architecture drives the evolution of the primate visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(3). e2421585122–e2421585122. 4 indexed citations

Thaker, Nikhil G., et al.. (2024). Large Language Models Encode Radiation Oncology Domain Knowledge: Performance on the American College of Radiology Standardized Examination. 1(1). 43–50. 3 indexed citations

Scott, Lisa S. & Michael J. Arcaro. (2023). A domain-relevant framework for the development of face processing. Nature Reviews Psychology. 2(3). 183–195. 12 indexed citations

Kay, Kendrick, Kathryn Bonnen, Rachel N. Denison, Michael J. Arcaro, & David L. Barack. (2023). Tasks and their role in visual neuroscience. Neuron. 111(11). 1697–1713. 25 indexed citations

Arcaro, Michael J. & Margaret S. Livingstone. (2021). On the relationship between maps and domains in inferotemporal cortex. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 22(9). 573–583. 56 indexed citations

Arcaro, Michael J., Margaret S. Livingstone, Kendrick Kay, & Kevin S. Weiner. (2021). The retrocalcarine sulcus maps different retinotopic representations in macaques and humans. Brain Structure and Function. 227(4). 1227–1245. 5 indexed citations

Arcaro, Michael J., et al.. (2020). Anatomical correlates of face patches in macaque inferotemporal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(51). 32667–32678. 18 indexed citations

Natu, Vaidehi, Michael J. Arcaro, Michael Barnett, et al.. (2020). Sulcal Depth in the Medial Ventral Temporal Cortex Predicts the Location of a Place-Selective Region in Macaques, Children, and Adults. Cerebral Cortex. 31(1). 48–61. 29 indexed citations

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Arcaro, Michael J., Peter F. Schade, & Margaret S. Livingstone. (2019). Body map proto-organization in newborn macaques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(49). 24861–24871. 26 indexed citations

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Arcaro, Michael J., Lore Thaler, Derek J. Quinlan, et al.. (2018). Psychophysical and neuroimaging responses to moving stimuli in a patient with the Riddoch phenomenon due to bilateral visual cortex lesions. Neuropsychologia. 128. 150–165. 20 indexed citations

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Arcaro, Michael J. & Margaret S. Livingstone. (2017). A hierarchical, retinotopic proto-organization of the primate visual system at birth. eLife. 6. 130 indexed citations

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Arcaro, Michael J., Peter F. Schade, Justin L. Vincent, Carlos R. Ponce, & Margaret S. Livingstone. (2017). Seeing faces is necessary for face-domain formation. Nature Neuroscience. 20(10). 1404–1412. 158 indexed citations

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Arcaro, Michael J. & Sabine Kästner. (2015). Topographic organization of areas V3 and V4 and its relation to supra-areal organization of the primate visual system. Visual Neuroscience. 32. E014–E014. 31 indexed citations

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Arcaro, Michael J., Mark A. Pinsk, & Sabine Kästner. (2015). The Anatomical and Functional Organization of the Human Visual Pulvinar. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(27). 9848–9871. 113 indexed citations

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Wang, Liang, Ryan E. B. Mruczek, Michael J. Arcaro, & Sabine Kästner. (2014). Probabilistic Maps of Visual Topography in Human Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 25(10). 3911–3931. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

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Caplovitz, Gideon P., Michael J. Arcaro, & Sabine Kästner. (2010). Stage 3 and what we see. Cognitive Neuroscience. 1(3). 220–222. 1 indexed citations

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Arcaro, Michael J., Stephanie A. McMains, Benjamin D. Singer, & Sabine Kästner. (2009). Retinotopic Organization of Human Ventral Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(34). 10638–10652. 248 indexed citations

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Pinsk, Mark A., Michael J. Arcaro, Kevin S. Weiner, et al.. (2009). Neural Representations of Faces and Body Parts in Macaque and Human Cortex: A Comparative fMRI Study. Journal of Neurophysiology. 101(5). 2581–2600. 254 indexed citations

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Xu, Dongbin, et al.. (2005). The CARD-carrying caspase Dronc is essential for most, but not all,developmental cell death in Drosophila. Development. 132(9). 2125–2134. 152 indexed citations

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