Rutvik H. Desai

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

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Rutvik H. Desai is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rutvik H. Desai has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 28 papers in Social Psychology and 26 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Rutvik H. Desai's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (44 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (28 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (21 papers). Rutvik H. Desai is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (44 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (28 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (21 papers). Rutvik H. Desai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Russia. Rutvik H. Desai's co-authors include Jeffrey R. Binder, Lisa L. Conant, William W. Graves, Mark S. Seidenberg, Colin Humphries, Einat Liebenthal, Leonardo Fernandino, Eric J. Waldron, Ziad S. Saad and Daniel Glen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Rutvik H. Desai

63 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

Where Is the Semantic System? A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of 120 Functional Neuroimaging Studies

2009 2.9k citations Jeffrey R. Binder, Rutvik H. Desai et al. Cerebral Cortex profile →
The neurobiology of semantic memory

2011 1.3k citations Jeffrey R. Binder, Rutvik H. Desai profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rutvik H. Desai United States	30	6.1k	2.2k	2.2k	2.0k	577	66	7.4k
Lisa L. Conant United States	28	4.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	491 0.9×	63	5.5k
Uta Noppeney United Kingdom	46	5.5k 0.9×	2.9k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	565 1.0×	116	6.9k
Sharon L. Thompson‐Schill United States	52	9.8k 1.6×	3.1k 1.4×	2.3k 1.1×	3.7k 1.8×	466 0.8×	154	11.6k
D. Yves von Cramon Germany	45	5.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	774 1.3×	108	7.8k
Olaf Hauk United Kingdom	43	6.3k 1.0×	3.2k 1.4×	3.6k 1.6×	2.7k 1.3×	236 0.4×	90	8.3k
Marco Tettamanti Italy	36	3.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	281 0.5×	77	5.2k
Ricarda I. Schubotz Germany	38	4.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	217 0.4×	129	5.8k
Matti Laine Finland	53	6.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	2.8k 1.4×	296 0.5×	260	9.3k
Colin Humphries United States	32	6.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	234 0.4×	47	7.0k
Christian J. Fiebach Germany	43	4.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	693 0.3×	1.7k 0.8×	338 0.6×	104	5.6k

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Desai, Rutvik H., et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts. Brain and Language. 246. 105328–105328. 1 indexed citations

Johari, Karim, et al.. (2023). Right frontal HD-tDCS reveals causal involvement of time perception networks in temporal processing of concepts. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 16658–16658. 2 indexed citations

Riccardi, Nicholas, Chris Rorden, Julius Fridriksson, & Rutvik H. Desai. (2022). Canonical Sentence Processing and the Inferior Frontal Cortex: Is There a Connection?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 318–344. 7 indexed citations

Riccardi, Nicholas, Grigori Yourganov, Chris Rorden, Julius Fridriksson, & Rutvik H. Desai. (2019). Dissociating action and abstract verb comprehension post-stroke. Cortex. 120. 131–146. 22 indexed citations

Lai, Vicky T, et al.. (2019). Concrete processing of action metaphors: Evidence from ERP. Brain Research. 1714. 202–209. 29 indexed citations

Desai, Rutvik H.. (2019). Access and content of abstract concepts. Physics of Life Reviews. 29. 166–168. 3 indexed citations

Dam, Wessel O. van, et al.. (2019). Distinct neural mechanisms underlying conceptual knowledge of manner and instrument verbs. Neuropsychologia. 133. 107183–107183. 3 indexed citations

Speed, Laura J., Wessel O. van Dam, Gabriella Vigliocco, & Rutvik H. Desai. (2018). Movement Speed Affects Speed Language Comprehension.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations

Desai, Rutvik H., et al.. (2018). The multifaceted abstract brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1752). 20170122–20170122. 88 indexed citations

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Fernandino, Leonardo, Jeffrey R. Binder, Rutvik H. Desai, et al.. (2015). Concept Representation Reflects Multimodal Abstraction: A Framework for Embodied Semantics. Cerebral Cortex. 26(5). 2018–2034. 203 indexed citations

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Henderson, John M., Wonil Choi, Steven G. Luke, & Rutvik H. Desai. (2015). Neural correlates of fixation duration in natural reading: Evidence from fixation-related fMRI. NeuroImage. 119. 390–397. 59 indexed citations

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Graves, William W., et al.. (2014). Anatomy is strategy: Skilled reading differences associated with structural connectivity differences in the reading network. Brain and Language. 133. 1–13. 33 indexed citations

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Liebenthal, Einat, Rutvik H. Desai, Colin Humphries, Merav Sabri, & Anjali Desai. (2014). The functional organization of the left STS: a large scale meta-analysis of PET and fMRI studies of healthy adults. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 8. 289–289. 43 indexed citations

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Fernandino, Leonardo, Lisa L. Conant, Jeffrey R. Binder, et al.. (2013). Where is the action? Action sentence processing in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia. 51(8). 1510–1517. 94 indexed citations

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Binder, Jeffrey R., Rutvik H. Desai, William W. Graves, & Lisa L. Conant. (2009). Where Is the Semantic System? A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of 120 Functional Neuroimaging Studies. Cerebral Cortex. 19(12). 2767–2796. 2856 indexed citations breakdown →

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Saad, Ziad S., Daniel Glen, Gang Chen, et al.. (2008). A new method for improving functional-to-structural MRI alignment using local Pearson correlation. NeuroImage. 44(3). 839–848. 335 indexed citations

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Desai, Rutvik H.. (2007). A model of Frame and Verb Compliance in language acquisition. Neurocomputing. 70(13-15). 2273–2287. 6 indexed citations

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Desai, Rutvik H.. (2002). Bootstrapping in miniature language acquisition. Cognitive Systems Research. 3(1). 15–23. 5 indexed citations

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Desai, Rutvik H., Jay C. Buckey, & John A. Pearce. (2002). An orthogonal feature preserving filter. 1993 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. 814–817.

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Desai, Rutvik H., et al.. (1996). Salo: Combining Simulated Annealing And Local Optimization For Efficient Global Optimization. 8 indexed citations

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