Zoe Kourtzi

9.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
134 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Zoe Kourtzi is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Zoe Kourtzi has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 papers in Social Psychology and 11 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Zoe Kourtzi's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (76 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (66 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (42 papers). Zoe Kourtzi is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (76 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (66 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (42 papers). Zoe Kourtzi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Zoe Kourtzi's co-authors include Nancy Kanwisher, Kalanit Grill‐Spector, Andrew E. Welchman, Christian F. Altmann, Sheng Li, HH Bülthoff, Nikos K. Logothetis, Maggie Shiffrar, Bart Krekelberg and Vaia Lestou and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zoe Kourtzi

127 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

4 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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 lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition

2001 1.1k citations Zoe Kourtzi, Nancy Kanwisher et al. Vision Research profile →
Representation of Perceived Object Shape by the Human Lateral Occipital Complex

2001 687 citations Zoe Kourtzi, Nancy Kanwisher profile →
Activation in Human MT/MST by Static Images with Implied Motion

2000 563 citations Zoe Kourtzi, Nancy Kanwisher Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience profile →
Cortical Regions Involved in Perceiving Object Shape

2000 546 citations Zoe Kourtzi, Nancy Kanwisher Journal of Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zoe Kourtzi United Kingdom	37	6.1k	1.1k	1.0k	684	374	134	6.8k
Frank Tong United States	35	7.9k 1.3×	825 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	807 1.2×	241 0.6×	121	8.7k
John T. Serences United States	47	8.2k 1.4×	515 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	409 0.6×	292 0.8×	115	8.7k
Mark W. Greenlee Germany	48	6.3k 1.0×	753 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	311 0.5×	283 0.8×	246	7.9k
Vincent Walsh United Kingdom	45	7.6k 1.3×	899 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	345 0.5×	922 2.5×	114	9.5k
Allison B. Sekuler Canada	42	4.5k 0.7×	553 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	962 1.4×	165 0.4×	149	5.0k
H. Steven Scholte Netherlands	38	3.9k 0.6×	583 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	332 0.5×	232 0.6×	117	5.0k
Gordon C. Baylis United States	46	7.0k 1.1×	933 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	784 1.1×	599 1.6×	91	7.8k
Leslie G. Ungerleider United States	22	9.0k 1.5×	1.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	551 0.8×	606 1.6×	30	10.0k
Bruce Bridgeman United States	45	6.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	417 0.6×	397 1.1×	173	7.0k
Alumit Ishai Switzerland	24	6.2k 1.0×	862 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	804 1.2×	308 0.8×	33	6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Zoe Kourtzi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zoe Kourtzi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zoe Kourtzi

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Yang, Zhihan, Ye Du, Yongping Zheng, et al.. (2025). ADFound: A Foundation Model for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 29(11). 8395–8408.

Li, Rui, Eric L. Harshfield, Steven Bell, et al.. (2024). Predicting Incident Dementia in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Comparison of Machine Learning and Traditional Statistical Models. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100235–100235.

Emir, Uzay, et al.. (2024). Recurrent inhibition refines mental templates to optimize perceptual decisions. Science Advances. 10(31). eado7378–eado7378. 3 indexed citations

Giorgio, Joseph, William J. Jagust, Suzanne L. Baker, et al.. (2022). A robust and interpretable machine learning approach using multimodal biological data to predict future pathological tau accumulation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1887–1887. 20 indexed citations

Leong, Victoria, et al.. (2021). A New Remote Guided Method for Supervised Web-Based Cognitive Testing to Ensure High Quality Data. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

Kemper, Valentin G., Ke Jia, Joseph Giorgio, et al.. (2020). Fine-scale computations for adaptive processing in the human brain. eLife. 9. 13 indexed citations

Emir, Uzay, et al.. (2019). Learning to optimize perceptual decisions through suppressive interactions in the human brain. Nature Communications. 10(1). 474–474. 39 indexed citations

Luft, Caroline Di Bernardi, Rosalind Baker, Peter Bentham, & Zoe Kourtzi. (2015). Learning temporal statistics for sensory predictions in mild cognitive impairment. Neuropsychologia. 75. 368–380. 6 indexed citations

Christian, Julie, et al.. (2015). Socio-cognitive profiles for visual learning in young and older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 7. 105–105. 6 indexed citations

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Kourtzi, Zoe. (2014). Adaptive shape coding in the human visual brain. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 1457–1457. 1 indexed citations

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Mayhew, Stephen, et al.. (2010). Learning Shapes the Representation of Visual Categories in the Aging Human Brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 22(12). 2899–2912. 13 indexed citations

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Kourtzi, Zoe, Bart Krekelberg, & Richard van Wezel. (2008). Linking form and motion in the primate brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 12(6). 230–236. 80 indexed citations

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Li, Sheng, et al.. (2008). Multivoxel Pattern Selectivity for Perceptually Relevant Binocular Disparities in the Human Brain. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(44). 11315–11327. 133 indexed citations

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Chandrasekaran, Chandramouli, et al.. (2006). Neural Correlates of Disparity-Defined Shape Discrimination in the Human Brain. Journal of Neurophysiology. 97(2). 1553–1565. 73 indexed citations

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Altmann, Christian F., Wolfgang Grodd, Zoe Kourtzi, HH Bülthoff, & Hans-Otto Karnath. (2005). Similar cortical correlates underlie visual object identification and orientation judgement. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 16 indexed citations

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Moutoussis, Konstantinos, Georgios A. Keliris, Zoe Kourtzi, & Nikos K. Logothetis. (2005). A binocular rivalry study of motion perception in the human brain. Vision Research. 45(17). 2231–2243. 53 indexed citations

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Altmann, Christian F., et al.. (2004). Shape Saliency Modulates Contextual Processing in the Human Lateral Occipital Complex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 16(5). 794–804. 52 indexed citations

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Tolias, Andreas S., Zoe Kourtzi, & Nikos K. Logothetis. (2003). Functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation: a technique for studying the properties of neuronal networks. MIT Press eBooks. 109–125. 2 indexed citations

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Kourtzi, Zoe. (2003). ‘But still, it moves’. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 8(2). 47–49. 26 indexed citations

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Epstein, Russell A., Nancy Kanwisher, Paul E. Downing, & Zoe Kourtzi. (2001). Functional Neuroimaging of Visual Recognition. MIT Press eBooks. 109–152. 41 indexed citations

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