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Frank Tong's Degrees
- PhD Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Psychology Stanford University
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frank Tong is a cognitive neuroscientist and centennial professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University. He grew up in Toronto, Canada. Tong is recognized for his research on the neural bases of human visual perception, visual consciousness, attentional selection, face and object recognition, and visual working memory. In more recent work, he is developing deep neural network models of the human visual system.
Frank Tong's Published Works
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Published Works
- Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain (2005) (1824)
- Decoding reveals the contents of visual working memory in early visual areas (2009) (1088)
- Binocular Rivalry and Visual Awareness in Human Extrastriate Cortex (1998) (799)
- Neural bases of binocular rivalry (2006) (610)
- Interocular rivalry revealed in the human cortical blind-spot representation (2001) (470)
- The effect of face inversion on the human fusiform face area (1998) (435)
- Cognitive neuroscience: Primary visual cortex and visual awareness (2003) (422)
- Can attention selectively bias bistable perception? Differences between binocular rivalry and ambiguous figures. (2004) (388)
- Robust representations for faces: evidence from visual search. (1999) (385)
- Decoding Seen and Attended Motion Directions from Activity in the Human Visual Cortex (2006) (359)
- Sparse estimation automatically selects voxels relevant for the decoding of fMRI activity patterns (2008) (349)
- Decoding patterns of human brain activity. (2012) (315)
- RESPONSE PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN FUSIFORM FACE AREA (2000) (311)
- Foundations of Vision (2018) (271)
- Training Improves Multitasking Performance by Increasing the Speed of Information Processing in Human Prefrontal Cortex (2009) (264)
- The Functional Impact of Mental Imagery on Conscious Perception (2008) (250)
- Neural mechanisms of object-based attention. (2015) (233)
- Multiscale Pattern Analysis of Orientation-Selective Activity in the Primary Visual Cortex (2010) (202)
- Attention Improves Encoding of Task-Relevant Features in the Human Visual Cortex (2011) (157)
- Filling-in of visual phantoms in the human brain (2005) (143)
- Perceptual Learning Selectively Refines Orientation Representations in Early Visual Cortex (2012) (122)
- Evaluating the Mind’s Eye (2011) (100)
- Competing Theories of Binocular Rivalry: A Possible Resolution (2001) (95)
- The Face of Controversy (2001) (89)
- Introspective judgments predict the precision and likelihood of successful maintenance of visual working memory. (2012) (83)
- Spatial specificity of working memory representations in the early visual cortex. (2014) (71)
- Accounting for Stimulus-Specific Variation in Precision Reveals a Discrete Capacity Limit in Visual Working Memory (2017) (69)
- Attention alters orientation processing in the human lateral geniculate nucleus (2015) (69)
- The timing of perceptual decisions for ambiguous face stimuli in the human ventral visual cortex. (2006) (67)
- Imagery and visual working memory: one and the same? (2013) (66)
- Prevalence of Selectivity for Mirror-Symmetric Views of Faces in the Ventral and Dorsal Visual Pathways (2012) (62)
- Out-of-body experiences: from Penfield to present (2003) (62)
- Temporal limitations in object processing across the human ventral visual pathway. (2007) (55)
- Expertise increases the functional overlap between face and object perception (2010) (53)
- Callosal Connections of Primary Visual Cortex Predict the Spatial Spreading of Binocular Rivalry Across the Visual Hemifields (2011) (44)
- Radial bias is not necessary for orientation decoding (2016) (44)
- Irrelevant objects of expertise compete with faces during visual search (2011) (43)
- Relationship between BOLD amplitude and pattern classification of orientation-selective activity in the human visual cortex (2012) (41)
- How attention extracts objects from noise. (2013) (40)
- Expertise for upright faces improves the precision but not the capacity of visual working memory (2014) (38)
- Evidence of Gradual Loss of Precision for Simple Features and Complex Objects in Visual Working Memory (2018) (34)
- Reciprocal-Wedge Transform for Space-Variant Sensing (1995) (33)
- Reprioritization of Features of Multidimensional Objects Stored in Visual Working Memory (2017) (30)
- Representational Dynamics of Facial Viewpoint Encoding (2017) (30)
- Characterizing the effects of feature salience and top-down attention in the early visual system. (2017) (30)
- Cortical Representation Of Space Around The Blind Spot (2005) (29)
- Neuroscience. The face of controversy. (2001) (28)
- Cortical representation of space around the blind spot. (2005) (23)
- The impact of early visual cortex transcranial magnetic stimulation on visual working memory precision and guess rate (2017) (23)
- The Occipital Face Area Is Causally Involved in Facial Viewpoint Perception (2015) (20)
- Multishot versus Single-Shot Pulse Sequences in Very High Field fMRI: A Comparison Using Retinotopic Mapping (2012) (19)
- Hysteresis in the dynamic perception of scenes and objects. (2014) (18)
- Specularity removal for shape-from-shading (1987) (18)
- Oculomotor Remapping of Visual Information to Foveal Retinotopic Cortex (2016) (18)
- Splitting the Spotlight of Visual Attention (2004) (16)
- Figure-Ground Modulation in the Human Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Is Distinguishable from Top-Down Attention (2019) (16)
- Perceptual Incongruence Influences Bistability and Cortical Activation (2009) (14)
- Dynamics of perceptual filling-in of visual phantoms revealed by binocular rivalry. (2007) (14)
- Neural representation of form-contingent color filling-in in the early visual cortex (2017) (12)
- Phase-encoded fmri investigation of retinotopic remapping responses (2010) (12)
- Noise-trained deep neural networks effectively predict human vision and its neural responses to challenging images (2021) (11)
- Direction-selective patterns of activity in human visual cortex suggest common neural substrates for different types of motion (2012) (10)
- Linear generalized Hough transform and its parallelization (1993) (10)
- Resolving the Spatial Profile of Figure Enhancement in Human V1 through Population Receptive Field Modeling (2019) (10)
- Brain at work: play by play (2001) (9)
- Convolutional neural networks trained with a developmental sequence of blurry to clear images reveal core differences between face and object processing (2021) (9)
- Visual denoising of object images along the ventral pathway (2010) (8)
- Reciprocal-wedge transform in motion stereo (1994) (7)
- On Improving the Accuracy of Line Extraction in Hough Space (1992) (6)
- Conscious perception can be both graded and discrete. (2021) (6)
- Visual expectations change subjective experience without changing performance (2019) (6)
- Removing Specularities from Color Images for Shape from Shading (1989) (6)
- Conformal transplantation of lightness to varying resolution sensors (1993) (6)
- Decoding motion direction from activity in human visual cortex (2010) (5)
- Brain areas involved in attentional control and perception of ambiguous figures (2010) (5)
- The hand-reversal illusion revisited (2012) (5)
- Integrating Theoretical Models with Functional Neuroimaging. (2017) (5)
- Parallel algorithms for line detection on a 1*N array processor (1991) (5)
- NEURAL CORRELATES OF PERCEPTUAL AWARENESS DURING BINOCULAR RIVALRY BETWEEN FACES AND HOUSES (1998) (5)
- The reciprocal-wedge transform for space-invariant sensing (1993) (5)
- Both variations in perceptual sensitivity and decisional response bias contribute to visual working memory performance (2014) (4)
- Camera model for reciprocal-wedge transform (1996) (4)
- Hysteresis in the Perception of Objects and Scenes (2013) (4)
- Binocular rivalry (2008) (4)
- Evaluating the robustness of object recognition to visual noise in humans and convolutional neural networks (2017) (3)
- Contrasting Bottom-up Saliency and Top-Down Attention in the Early Visual Pathway. (2015) (3)
- Reciprocal-wedge transform: a space-variant image representation (1995) (3)
- The emotional attentional blink is robust to divided attention (2018) (3)
- Aligning Brains and Minds (2011) (3)
- Can deep learning networks acquire the robustness of human recognition when faced with objects in visual noise? (2018) (3)
- A linear generalized Hough transform and its parallel implementation (1991) (3)
- The Occipital Face Area is Causally Involved in Viewpoint Symmetry Judgments of Faces (2014) (2)
- The Radial Bias Is Not Necessary For Orientation Decoding (2014) (2)
- Accounting For Variable Precision In Visual Working Memory Reveals A Discrete Capacity Limit. (2015) (2)
- Human ventral temporal areas contain flexible position-invariant information about subordinate-level objects (2005) (2)
- Reciprocal-Wedge Transform in Active Stereo (1999) (2)
- Object-based selection is not mandatory: Perceptual load reduces the attentional boost of task-irrelevant features in the human visual cortex. (2013) (2)
- An investigation of the precision and capacity of human visual working memory (2010) (2)
- Working memory for complex objects revealed by fMRI decoding of human visual cortical activity (2012) (2)
- Pattern recognition of orientation-selective fMRI signals in the human visual cortex (2004) (2)
- Orientation-Tuned Surround Suppression in the Human LGN (2016) (2)
- Expertise for upright faces improves the precision but not the capacity of visual working memory (2014) (2)
- Backprojection for stereo matching using transputers (1992) (2)
- Transformation from position-specific to position-invariant coding of objects across the human visual pathway (2005) (1)
- More than maps: the fMRI orientation signal persists after removal of radial bias (2012) (1)
- Binocular Rivalry and Perceptual Filling-in of Visual Phantoms in Human Visual Cortex (2004) (1)
- Topographically specific effects of TMS over early visual cortex during visual working memory. (2015) (1)
- Noise-robust recognition of objects by humans and deep neural networks (2020) (1)
- Representations of Visual Imagery in Human Primary Visual Cortex (2004) (1)
- Degraded precision of consciously perceived targets in the attentional blink. (2015) (1)
- Neural correlates of perceptual learning in the human visual cortex (2010) (1)
- Perceptual expertise with cars leads to greater perceptual interference with faces but not objects (2010) (1)
- Precursors of orientation processing in the human LGN (2013) (1)
- Lack of experience with blurry visual input may cause CNNs to deviate from biological visual systems (2022) (1)
- How Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation over Early Visual Cortex impacts short-term memory precision and guess rate (2016) (1)
- Competition between domains of expertise in a visual search paradigm (2010) (1)
- Binocular rivalry can fully gate the formation of visual phantoms (2010) (1)
- Perceptual Learning Leads to Hemisphere-Specific Cortical Thickening (2011) (1)
- Maps of object animacy and aspect ratio in human high-level visual cortex. (2021) (1)
- Selectivity for Mirror-Symmetric Views of Faces in the Ventral and Dorsal Streams of the Human Visual System (2012) (1)
- The impact of early visual cortex TMS on visual working memory precision and guess rate (2017) (1)
- Cortical Mechanisms Underlying the Attentional Selection of Objects Embedded In Visual Noise (2012) (1)
- Spot Representation of Space Around the Blind (2007) (0)
- How many non-linear computations are required for CNNs to account for the response properties of the primary visual cortex (V1)? (2022) (0)
- Assessing Tilt Illusions in Human Visual Cortex Using fMRI and Multivariate Pattern Analysis (2013) (0)
- Neural decoding reveals the orientation-selective properties of early human visual area (2010) (0)
- Do noise-trained DNNs process noisy visual images in a more human-like manner? (2020) (0)
- Decoding the contents of visual working memory from activity in the human visual cortex (2010) (0)
- Stimulus strength and dominance duration in perceptual bi-stability. Part I: the unperceived stimulus affects the very first dominance epoch (2010) (0)
- Training with simulated lung nodules in X-rays can improve the localization performance of radiology residents (2019) (0)
- Attention can alter the temporal capacity of object processing in high-level visual areas (2010) (0)
- Attention improves decoding of stimulus orientation in early visual areas (2010) (0)
- Interactions between binocular rivalry and perceptual filling-in of visual phantoms (2010) (0)
- Multi-level neural mechanisms of object-based attention (2010) (0)
- Attentional enhancement of orientation responses in human visual cortex depends on task (2010) (0)
- Perceptual and mnemonic contents of mental imagery revealed by binocular rivalry (2007) (0)
- Spikiness and animacy as potential organizing principles of human ventral visual cortex. (2023) (0)
- Activation in Early Retinotopic Cortex Recognition Alters the Spatial Pattern of fMRI (2015) (0)
- the Human Ventral Visual Pathway Temporal Limitations in Object Processing Across (2015) (0)
- Variable-resolution motion stereo using reciprocal-wedge transform (1993) (0)
- Perceptual organization predicts variability in visual working memory performance across displays and items. (2017) (0)
- Reprioritization of features of multi-dimensional objects stored in visual working memory. (2015) (0)
- Decoding orientation-selective responses to real and illusory contours (2010) (0)
- Cortical feedback mediates figure-ground modulation in the human lateral geniculate nucleus (2018) (0)
- fMRI Pattern Similarity Analysis Reveals Oblique Effects Throughout The Human Visual Cortex (2016) (0)
- Is initial training with blurry images beneficial for the development of object recognition systems? (2021) (0)
- When participants report zero confidence in their visual working memory, how much information do they really have? (2021) (0)
- Effects of perceptual grouping in human primary visual cortex (2010) (0)
- Evidence of a feature-based attentional template in early visual areas during the absence of visual stimulation (2014) (0)
- A perceptual basis for the lighting of Caravaggio's faces (2004) (0)
- Understanding the functional roles of top-down feedback in the visual system (2021) (0)
- Neural Representation of Form-Based Color Filling-In in Early Visual Cortex (2011) (0)
- A novel learning-based paradigm to investigate the visual-cognitive bases of lung nodule detection (2019) (0)
- Evidence for full amodal completion of occluded images in low- and high-level ventral visual cortex. (2022) (0)
- A luminance-based mechanism mediates active filling-in of the blind spot (2010) (0)
- Distinct effects of boundary detection and figure enhancement in the early visual cortex (2017) (0)
- Decreased temporal processing capacity for objects as a function of ascending the ventral visual pathway (2004) (0)
- Working-Memory Task Motion Information Is Spatially Localized in a Visual (2015) (0)
- A sculpting effect of reading on later representational quality of phonology revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis in young children (2023) (0)
- Spatial Scales of Orientation Selective BOLD Responses in the Human Visual Cortex (2009) (0)
- The emotional attentional blink is robust to divided attention (2018) (0)
- High-resolution retinotopic mapping at 7 Tesla with multishot 3D sequences (2010) (0)
- Visual working memory capacity for orientation depends on stimulus form (2016) (0)
- Bottlenecks in cortical processing of objects: a category specific phenomenon (2010) (0)
- Neural decoding of seen and attended motion directions from human cortical activity (2010) (0)
- Dynamic Visual Representations of Scenes and Objects: The Forest to the Tree (2012) (0)
- Occluded object completion occurs in full across human visual cortex but emerges gradually across layers of CORnet-S (2022) (0)
- A temporal benefit of covert spatial orienting across visual hemifields. (2014) (0)
- How many non-linear computations are required for CNNs to account for the response properties of V1? (2022) (0)
- In this issue of Neuron, Haxby and colleagues describe a new method for aligning functional brain activity patterns across participants.Their study demonstrates thatobjects aresimilarlyrepresented across different brains, allowing for reliable classification of one person's brain activity based on a (2011) (0)
- Both Precision and Capacity of Visual Working Memory Are Impaired by Face Inversion (2012) (0)
- Visual crowding disrupts the cortical representation of letters in early visual areas (2019) (0)
- Can attention bias bistable perception? Differences between rivalry and ambiguous figures. (2010) (0)
- Sparse adaptation among LGN neurons in the awake behaving primate (2020) (0)
- Effects of attention and cognitive load on cortical responses to irrelevant stimuli (2004) (0)
- Spot Representation of Space Around the Blind (2007) (0)
- Corrigendum to “Visual expectations change subjective experience without changing performance” [Conscious. Cogn. 71 (2019) 59–69] (2023) (0)
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