Nathan Witthoft

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Nathan Witthoft is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Witthoft has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nathan Witthoft's work include Face Recognition and Perception (16 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (12 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers). Nathan Witthoft is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (16 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (12 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers). Nathan Witthoft collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Germany. Nathan Witthoft's co-authors include Jonathan Winawer, Michael C. Frank, Lera Boroditsky, Lisa Y. Wu, Alex R. Wade, Kalanit Grill‐Spector, Karen F. LaRocque, Golijeh Golarai, Anthony D. Wagner and Valerie A. Carr and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Witthoft

27 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination

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Phil McAleer United Kingdom

Peter Walker United Kingdom

Patryk A. Laurent United States

Damian Stanley United States

Uri Hasson Italy

Patricia E.G. Bestelmeyer United Kingdom

Clayton Hickey Italy

Bence Nánay Belgium

Anne M. Cleary United States

Sarah Weigelt Germany

Phil McAleer United Kingdom

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nathan Witthoft. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nathan Witthoft 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 Nathan Witthoft. Nathan Witthoft is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Weiner, Kevin S., Michael Barnett, Nathan Witthoft, et al.. (2017). Defining the most probable location of the parahippocampal place area using cortex-based alignment and cross-validation. NeuroImage. 170. 373–384. 53 indexed citations

Gomez, Jesse, Franco Pestilli, Nathan Witthoft, et al.. (2015). Functionally Defined White Matter Reveals Segregated Pathways in Human Ventral Temporal Cortex Associated with Category-Specific Processing. Neuron. 85(1). 216–227. 132 indexed citations

Winawer, Jonathan & Nathan Witthoft. (2015). Human V4 and ventral occipital retinotopic maps. Visual Neuroscience. 32. E020–E020. 48 indexed citations

Jacques, Corentin, Nathan Witthoft, Kevin S. Weiner, et al.. (2015). Corresponding ECoG and fMRI category-selective signals in human ventral temporal cortex. Neuropsychologia. 83. 14–28. 81 indexed citations

Witthoft, Nathan, Jonathan Winawer, & David M. Eagleman. (2015). Prevalence of Learned Grapheme-Color Pairings in a Large Online Sample of Synesthetes. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0118996–e0118996. 34 indexed citations

Yoon, Jennifer M. D., Nathan Witthoft, Jonathan Winawer, et al.. (2014). Cultural Differences in Perceptual Reorganization in US and Pirahã Adults. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e110225–e110225. 6 indexed citations

Witthoft, Nathan, Michael Nguyen, Golijeh Golarai, et al.. (2014). Visual Field Coverage of Category-Selective Regions in Human Visual Cortex Estimated Using Population Receptive Field Mapping. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 718–718. 2 indexed citations

Jacques, Corentin, Nathan Witthoft, Kevin S. Weiner, et al.. (2013). Electrocorticography of category-selectivity in human ventral temporal cortex: spatial organization, responses to single images, and coupling with fMRI. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 495–495. 2 indexed citations

LaRocque, Karen F., Mary Smith, Valerie A. Carr, et al.. (2013). Global Similarity and Pattern Separation in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe Predict Subsequent Memory. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(13). 5466–5474. 153 indexed citations

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Witthoft, Nathan, Mai Nguyen, Golijeh Golarai, et al.. (2013). Where Is Human V4? Predicting the Location of hV4 and VO1 from Cortical Folding. Cerebral Cortex. 24(9). 2401–2408. 47 indexed citations

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Witthoft, Nathan, Golijeh Golarai, Michael Nguyen, et al.. (2012). Anatomy, Retinotopy, & Category Selectivity in Human Ventral Visual Cortex. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 1177–1177. 1 indexed citations

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Yoon, Jennifer M. D., Nathan Witthoft, Jonathan Winawer, et al.. (2011). Thinking for Seeing: Enculturation of Visual-Referential Expertise as Demonstrated by Photo-Triggered Perceptual Reorganization of Two-Tone “Mooney” Images. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 1 indexed citations

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Rauschecker, Andreas M., Mohammad Dastjerdi, Kevin S. Weiner, et al.. (2011). Illusions of Visual Motion Elicited by Electrical Stimulation of Human MT Complex. PLoS ONE. 6(7). e21798–e21798. 14 indexed citations

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Winawer, Jonathan, Nathan Witthoft, Alexander C. Huk, & Lera Boroditsky. (2010). Common mechanisms for processing of perceived, inferred, and imagined visual motion. Journal of Vision. 5(8). 491–491.

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Witthoft, Nathan & Jonathan Winawer. (2010). An objective measure of the effect of adaptation on recognition of famous faces. Journal of Vision. 6(6). 874–874. 5 indexed citations

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Witthoft, Nathan & Jonathan Winawer. (2010). 10 Color-grapheme synesthetes with highly similar learned associations. Journal of Vision. 10(7). 871–871. 1 indexed citations

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Davidenko, Nicolas, Kalanit Grill‐Spector, & Nathan Witthoft. (2009). Exemplar Frequency Affects Unsupervised Learning of Shapes. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 1 indexed citations

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Davidenko, Nicolas, Nathan Witthoft, & Jonathan Winawer. (2008). Gender aftereffects in face silhouettes reveal face-specific mechanisms. Visual Cognition. 16(1). 99–103. 14 indexed citations

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Boroditsky, Lera, Jonathan Winawer, & Nathan Witthoft. (2006). How Looking at Someone You Don't Know Can Help You to Recognize Someone You Do. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 1 indexed citations

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Witthoft, Nathan & Jonathan Winawer. (2006). Synesthetic Colors Determined by Having Colored Refrigerator Magnets in Childhood. Cortex. 42(2). 175–183. 105 indexed citations

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