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According to Wikipedia, Michael J. Tarr is an American cognitive neuroscientist who currently holds the Kavčić-Moura Professorship in Cognitive and Brain Science. He is a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, a recipient of the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 1997, a recipient of the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2003, a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Activation of the middle fusiform 'face area' increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects (1999) (1243)
Becoming a “Greeble” Expert: Exploring Mechanisms for Face Recognition (1997) (1011)
Visual object recognition (2002) (877)
The Fusiform Face Area is Part of a Network that Processes Faces at the Individual Level (2000) (871)
Mental rotation and orientation-dependence in shape recognition (1989) (829)
Early lateralization and orientation tuning for face, word, and object processing in the visual cortex (2003) (751)
The N170 occipito‐temporal component is delayed and enhanced to inverted faces but not to inverted objects: an electrophysiological account of face‐specific processes in the human brain (2000) (733)
FFA: a flexible fusiform area for subordinate-level visual processing automatized by expertise (2000) (686)
Rotating objects to recognize them: A case study on the role of viewpoint dependency in the recognition of three-dimensional objects (1995) (470)
Unraveling mechanisms for expert object recognition: bridging brain activity and behavior. (2002) (443)
Training ‘greeble’ experts: a framework for studying expert object recognition processes (1998) (424)
How are three-dimensional objects represented in the brain? (1994) (386)
Image-based object recognition in man, monkey and machine (1998) (386)
Is human object recognition better described by geon structural descriptions or by multiple views? Comment on Biederman and Gerhardstein (1993). (1995) (346)
Can Face Recognition Really be Dissociated from Object Recognition? (1999) (340)
Beyond faces and modularity: the power of an expertise framework (2006) (339)
Virtual reality in behavioral neuroscience and beyond (2002) (308)
Expertise Training with Novel Objects Leads to Left-Lateralized Facelike Electrophysiological Responses (2002) (301)
What Object Attributes Determine Canonical Views? (1999) (259)
Spatial language and spatial representation (1995) (251)
Three-dimensional object recognition is viewpoint dependent (1998) (245)
Do Humans Integrate Routes Into a Cognitive Map? Map- Versus Landmark-Based Navigation of Novel Shortcuts (2005) (245)
When does Human Object Recognition use a Viewer-Centered Reference Frame? (1990) (231)
Levels of categorization in visual recognition studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (1997) (216)
Path Integration from Optic Flow and Body Senses in a Homing Task (2002) (214)
Do humans integrate routes into a cognitive map? Map- versus landmark-based navigation of novel shortcuts. (2010) (207)
BOLD Activity during Mental Rotation and Viewpoint-Dependent Object Recognition (2002) (196)
Perceptual Other-Race Training Reduces Implicit Racial Bias (2009) (174)
Comparing 2D vector field visualization methods: a user study (2005) (159)
Visual expertise with nonface objects leads to competition with the early perceptual processing of faces in the human occipitotemporal cortex. (2004) (154)
Visual object recognition: do we know more now than we did 20 years ago? (2007) (151)
Learning to see faces and objects (2003) (149)
To What Extent Do Unique Parts Influence Recognition Across Changes in Viewpoint? (1995) (147)
Testing conditions for viewpoint invariance in object recognition. (1997) (144)
Is Color an Intrinsic Property of Object Representation? (2003) (134)
Explicating the Face Perception Network with White Matter Connectivity (2013) (130)
Illumination effects in face recognition (1998) (113)
Perceptual Expertise Effects Are Not All or None: Spatially Limited Perceptual Expertise for Faces in a Case of Prosopagnosia (2006) (111)
Why the visual recognition system might encode the effects of illumination (1998) (107)
THE INFLUENCE OF CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE ON VISUAL DISCRIMINATION (2003) (102)
DOES VISUAL SUBORDINATE-LEVEL CATEGORISATION ENGAGE THE FUNCTIONALLY DEFINED FUSIFORM FACE AREA? (2000) (100)
How Are Different Properties of a Scene Encoded in Visual Memory? (2000) (94)
Very high density EEG elucidates spatiotemporal aspects of early visual processing (2017) (87)
Recognizing disguised faces (2012) (84)
Perceptual categorization of cat and dog silhouettes by 3- to 4-month-old infants. (2001) (82)
Race-Specific Perceptual Discrimination Improvement Following Short Individuation Training With Faces (2010) (81)
The role of surface pigmentation for recognition revealed by contrast reversal in faces and Greebles (2005) (79)
Rotation direction affects object recognition (2004) (76)
Do viewpoint-dependent mechanisms generalize across members of a class? (1998) (75)
BOLD5000, a public fMRI dataset while viewing 5000 visual images (2019) (75)
Micro-Valences: Perceiving Affective Valence in Everyday Objects (2012) (75)
Task-Specific Codes for Face Recognition: How they Shape the Neural Representation of Features for Detection and Individuation (2008) (74)
Orientation Priming of Novel Shapes in the Context of Viewpoint-Dependent Recognition (1997) (68)
Structural processing and implicit memory for possible and impossible figures. (1997) (68)
Gender Recognition of Human Faces Using Color (2008) (66)
Perceptual Expertise: Bridging Brain and Behavior (2009) (65)
Visual Object Recognition: Do We (Finally) Know More Now Than We Did? (2016) (65)
Quantitative comparative evaluation of 2D vector field visualization methods (2001) (65)
What defines a view? (2001) (62)
Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives (2009) (62)
Behavioral Change and Its Neural Correlates in Visual Agnosia After Expertise Training (2005) (60)
Humans do not switch between path knowledge and landmarks when learning a new environment (2007) (54)
Face categorization in visual scenes may start in a higher order area of the right fusiform gyrus: evidence from dynamic visual stimulation in neuroimaging. (2011) (52)
Visual Object Recognition: Can A Single Mechanism Suffice? (1998) (50)
Size Precedes View: Developmental Emergence of Invariant Object Representations in Lateral Occipital Complex (2015) (49)
Orientation dependence in three-dimensional object recognition (1989) (49)
A computational and evolutionary perspective on the role of representation in vision (1994) (48)
Object recognition in man, monkey, and machine (1999) (48)
Are Greebles like faces? Using the neuropsychological exception to test the rule (2004) (44)
Article Commentary: Orientation-Dependent Mechanisms in Shape Recognition: Further Issues (1991) (43)
Visual Pattern Recognition (1998) (43)
Does acquisition of Greeble expertise in prosopagnosia rule out a domain-general deficit? (2012) (42)
Comparing visual representations across human fMRI and computational vision. (2013) (38)
Is Region-of-Interest Overlap Comparison a Reliable Measure of Category Specificity? (2007) (37)
It's Pat! Sexing faces using only red and green (2010) (37)
Visual Object Perception and Long-term Memory (2008) (37)
Associative Processing Is Inherent in Scene Perception (2015) (35)
Recognizing Silhouettes and Shaded Images across Depth Rotation (1999) (33)
News On Views: Pandemonium Revisited (1999) (33)
Recognizing rotated faces and Greebles: What properties drive the face inversion effect? (2008) (32)
Structural Similarity and Spatiotemporal Noise Effects on Learning Dynamic Novel Objects (2006) (31)
Neural Taskonomy: Inferring the Similarity of Task-Derived Representations from Brain Activity (2019) (29)
RECONSIDERING THE ROLE OF STRUCTURE IN VISION (2006) (29)
BOLD5000: A public fMRI dataset of 5000 images (2018) (28)
Representation of three-dimensional object similarity in human vision (1997) (27)
Levels of categorization in visual recognition studied with functional MRI (1997) (27)
Perception Isn’t So Simple (2013) (25)
Internal representations for face detection: An application of noise‐based image classification to BOLD responses (2013) (24)
Differing views on views: comments on Biederman and Bar (1999) (2000) (24)
Visual learning of statistical relations among nonadjacent features: Evidence for structural encoding (2011) (23)
Visual judgment of similarity across shape transformations: evidence for a compositional model of articulated objects. (2008) (22)
A state-space model of cross-region dynamic connectivity in MEG/EEG (2016) (19)
Learning Neural Acoustic Fields (2022) (18)
The segmental structure of faces and its use in gender recognition. (2008) (16)
Co-analysis of brain structure and function using fMRI and diffusion-weighted imaging. (2012) (16)
Orientation-specific possibility priming for novel three-dimensional objects (1999) (16)
Exploration of complex visual feature spaces for object perception (2014) (15)
Conditions for viewpoint dependence and viewpoint invariance: What mechanisms are used to recognize an object? (1993) (14)
IS A PICTURE REALLY WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS? (1993) (13)
Figure-ground assignment to a translating contour: a preference for advancing vs. receding motion. (2009) (13)
Salary Patterns of Agricultural Economists in the Early 1980s (1982) (12)
Improving the accuracy of single-trial fMRI response estimates using GLMsingle (2022) (11)
The concurrent encoding of viewpoint-invariant and viewpoint-dependent information in visual object recognition (2017) (11)
Applying artificial vision models to human scene understanding (2015) (10)
Are chess experts any different from face, bird, or Greeble experts? (2004) (10)
Geon recognition is viewpoint dependent (1994) (10)
Objects of Expertise (2009) (9)
TIDEE: Tidying Up Novel Rooms using Visuo-Semantic Commonsense Priors (2022) (9)
Identifying faces across variations in lighting: Psychophysics and computation (2008) (9)
Defining an object's micro-valence through implicit measures (2010) (9)
Exploring spatiotemporal neural dynamics of the human visual cortex (2019) (9)
Can singular examples change implicit attitudes in the real-world? (2013) (9)
Selectivity for food in human ventral visual cortex (2023) (9)
Is Object Color Memory Categorical (2010) (8)
Are Greebles like faces (2004) (8)
GLMsingle: a toolbox for improving single-trial fMRI response estimates (2022) (8)
The functionally defined "face area" is engaged by subordinate-level recognition (1998) (7)
Visual perception II: High-level vision (2005) (7)
Inferring Perceptual Saliency Fields from Viewpoint-Dependent Recognition Data (1999) (7)
Awake, Offline Processing during Associative Learning (2016) (7)
Action Representation and Purpose: Re-evaluating the Foundations of Computational Vision (1993) (6)
Humans Follow Landmarks Over Path Integration (2004) (6)
Challenges and Opportunities in Instrumentation and Use of High-Density EEG for Underserved Regions (2018) (6)
Feature learning during the acquisition of perceptual expertise (1998) (5)
Generating complex three-dimensional stimuli (Greebles) for haptic expertise training (2005) (5)
GLMsingle: a turnkey solution for accurate single-trial fMRI response estimates (2021) (5)
llumination and shadows influence face recognition (1996) (5)
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus: Behavioral and neural correlates of face sexing using color (2010) (5)
Visual Recognition Circa 2008 (2009) (5)
The relative contributions of visual and semantic information in the neural representation of object categories (2019) (4)
Learning Intermediate Features of Object Affordances with a Convolutional Neural Network (2020) (4)
A method for real-time visual stimulus selection in the study of cortical object perception (2016) (4)
Exploring the spatio-temporal neural basis of face learning (2017) (4)
How Experience Shapes Vision (2006) (4)
Estimating Learning Effects: A Short-Time Fourier Transform Regression Model for MEG Source Localization (2014) (4)
Recognition of faces versus Greebles: A case study in model selection Case Studies in Bayesian Stati (2002) (4)
The Clark Kent Effect: What is the Role of Familiarity and Eyeglasses in Recognizing Disguised Faces? (2010) (4)
Micro-Valence: Nominally neutral visual objects have affective valence (2011) (4)
The geometry of "cognitive maps": Metric vs. ordinal structure (2010) (3)
Scaling Up Neural Datasets: A public fMRI dataset of 5000 scenes (2018) (3)
Title: Familiarity and the Recognition of Disguised Faces (2012) (3)
From perception to cognition (1993) (3)
Fine-grained temporal coding of visually-similar categories in the ventral visual pathway and prefrontal cortex (2013) (3)
Automatic Subordinate-Level Processing for Faces and Letters (1998) (2)
Exploring computational models of visual object perception (2012) (2)
Exploring spatio-temporal neural dynamics of the human visual cortex (2018) (2)
VISUAL REPRESENTATION: FROM FEATURES TO OBJECTS (1994) (2)
Human object recognition uses a viewer-centered frame of reference (1989) (2)
Object Categorization: Frontmatter (2009) (2)
Can Big Data Help Us Understand Human Vision (2017) (2)
Low-level tuning biases in higher visual cortex reflect the semantic informativeness of visual features (2022) (2)
SYMPTOM CONTROL OF CANCER PATIENTS AT A TEACHING HOSPITAL (1992) (2)
Functionally localized representations contain distributed information: insight from simulations of deep convolutional neural networks (2017) (2)
Vision: Object Recognition (2006) (2)
Viewpoint-dependent image features in human object representation (1992) (1)
Interaction of visual and auditory expertise in birders (2010) (1)
Containing errors in computations for neural sensing: Does a hierarchical-referencing strategy lead to energy savings? (2016) (1)
A texture statistics encoding model reveals hierarchical feature selectivity across human visual cortex (2023) (1)
Structural connectivity of face selective cortical regions with high definition fiber tracking (2011) (1)
Red-green, but not blue-yellow, color manipulations affect memory of facial identity (2004) (1)
Running Head : FACE AND OBJECT RECOGNITION Does visual subordinate-level categorization engage the functionally-de ned fusiform face area ? (1998) (1)
Temporal and Semantic Effects on Multisensory Integration (2016) (1)
Unsupervised learning of higher order statistics of visual features: evidence for relational encoding (2010) (1)
Unraveling the visual and semantic components of object representation (2011) (1)
Dynamic reorganization of the middle fusiform gyrus: long-term bird expertise predicts decreased face selectivity (2008) (1)
Incorporating natural language into vision models improves prediction and understanding of higher visual cortex (2022) (1)
Reconstruction and purpose (1994) (1)
Learning intermediate features of affordances with a convolutional neural network (2018) (1)
Functional Context Affects Scene Processing (2021) (1)
Functional Context Affects Scene Processing (2020) (1)
Greebles actually do look like faces (but not in the way you thought). (2015) (1)
Anterior to posterior parahippocampal organization of scene information (2014) (1)
Behavioral markers of expertise (2006) (1)
Principles of Mental Imagery. Ronald A. Finke. Mit Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990. x, 179 pp., illus. $19.95; Mental Imagery. On the Limits of Cognitive Science. Mark Rollins. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1989. xx, 170 pp. $21.50. (1990) (1)
Alpha Net: Adaptation with Composition in Classifier Space (2020) (1)
Can Neural Signals for Visual Preference Predict Real-World Choices? (2012) (1)
The neural representation of dynamic real-world auditory/visual events (2010) (1)
Mixing hierarchical edge detection and medial axis models of object perception. (2015) (1)
Estimating lighting models in a scene through lightness judgments (2010) (0)
Integrating Human and Machine Vision : In Honor of Shimon Ullman Symposium Organizer : (2008) (0)
Integrating Human and Machine Vision : In Honor of Shimon Ullman Symposium Organizer : (2008) (0)
White-matter connectivity of brain regions recruited during the perception of dynamic objects. (2015) (0)
A normal N170 response in acquired prosopagnosia with damage to right anterior temporal lobe (2010) (0)
Human shortcut performance in a structured maze environment (2010) (0)
Scene Recognition Workshop, Tübingen July 3-5, 1996 (1996) (0)
Quantifying the Roles of Visual, Linguistic, and Visual-Linguistic Complexity in Verb Acquisition (2023) (0)
How to catch a thief: Teaching observers to recognize disguised faces (2004) (0)
Early visual areas recruited in automatic contextual processing of words (2012) (0)
Neural Selectivity for Real-World Object Size In Natural Images (2023) (0)
Neural Taskonomy: Explaining high-level visual processing of natural scenes using task-derived representations (2021) (0)
Does differential shape-contour processing precede or follow category-selective processing? (2016) (0)
Does optic flow contribute to human path integration (2010) (0)
How to rob a bank and get away with it: Recognizing disguised faces (2010) (0)
Seeing beyond faces: The social significance of being an other-race expert (2010) (0)
Dynamics of feedback-driven visual learning (2011) (0)
Very high density EEG elucidates spatiotemporal aspects of early visual processing (2017) (0)
Computational Approaches to Human Shape Representation. (1994) (0)
Does contrast reversal affect the recognition of common objects (2010) (0)
BEYOND FACES AND MODULARITY ( for Trends in Cognitive Science ) (2005) (0)
Deformation of perceived shape with multiple illumination sources (2010) (0)
Recognition of familiar objects is impaired by contrast reversal (2003) (0)
Lights, camera, action! An interaction between illumination and viewpoint change in object recognition (2010) (0)
Shape-shifters: Visual judgment of similarity across shape transformations (2010) (0)
Object Categorization: Visual Learning for Optimal Decisions in the Human Brain (2009) (0)
Recognition of Faces versus (2001) (0)
Project Description Understanding Unsteady Bioflows through Simulation , Modeling , Visualization , Art , and Psychology (2005) (0)
A dynamic cue for figure ground assignment: Advancing vs. receding (2010) (0)
Spatially restricted perceptual expertise for faces in a case of prosopagnosia (2010) (0)
Neural Representations of Objects (2001) (0)
Open Scholarship for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers (2013) (0)
Illumination dependency in object recognition (1994) (0)
BOLD5000, a public fMRI dataset while viewing 5000 visual images (2019) (0)
Learned spatiotemporal signatures are used for object recognition (2003) (0)
Representations of Shape in Object Recognition and Long-Term Visual Memory. (1993) (0)
Rich Representations with Exposed Semantics for Deep Visual Reasoning (2016) (0)
Dynamics of face detection revealed by fMRI: the right FFA gets it first (2010) (0)
Contrast reversals in faces and objects: The effect of albedo (2010) (0)
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Vision. (1992) (0)
“Micro-valence”: Nominally neutral objects have affective valence (2011) (0)
Exploring spatio-temporal neural basis of scene processing with MEG/EEG using a convolutional neural network (2016) (0)
Real-time fMRI search for the visual components of object perception (2014) (0)
Probing the role of motion in object recognition (2004) (0)
Combined Functional and Structural Mapping of Superior Temporal Sulcus (2018) (0)
Real-time Optimization for Visual Feature Identification (2018) (0)
Dissemination and Democratization of Open Access (2013) (0)
2 Objects of Expertise (2009) (0)
Neural coding of dynamic articulating objects (2012) (0)
Development of size- and view-invariance in LOC: an fMR-adaptation study (2013) (0)
A public fMRI dataset of 5000 scenes: a resource for human vision science (2018) (0)
The Neural Representation of Real-World Object Size in Natural Images (2022) (0)
Visual and Semantic Contributions to Object Perception (2012) (0)
Object Categorization: Preface (2009) (0)
What Object Attributes Determine Canonical Views? Introduction (1998) (0)
An “other-race” effect in perceptual expertise: The interaction between task and stimulus familiarity in bird experts (2010) (0)
Ordinal structure in route navigation (2010) (0)
Not all views are created equal: Object identity momentum via dynamic displays (2010) (0)
Dependence on path integration and landmarks when learning a new environment (2010) (0)
Erratum: Why the visual recognition system might encode the effects of illumination (Vision Research (1998) 38 (2259) PII S0042698998000418) (1999) (0)
Scene-Space Encoding within the Functional Scene-Selective Network. (2015) (0)
Task-specific feature codes for face processing (2010) (0)
The influence of non-visual information in visual judgments (1999) (0)
Informative associations between feature, spatial, and category selectivity in human visual cortex (2022) (0)
Towards a model for mid-level feature representation of scenes (2014) (0)
Share, DL, 151 Sherman, HL, 85 Spivey-Knowlton, M., 227 Stewart, MT, 85 (1995) (0)
How does object processing change with perceptual expertise (2010) (0)
SINNOR: Evaluating a simple image-based neural network for object (and face) recognition (2010) (0)
Special issue on “Visual Object Perception” (1999) (0)
The lateral occipital complex (LOC) shows viewpoint dependence for learning novel three-dimensional objects (2014) (0)
Region-based representations of faces (2010) (0)
Deep Black-Box Optimization with Influence Functions (2019) (0)
Spatial and identity associative processing in scene selective cortex (2013) (0)
Neural coding of point-light dynamic objects (2014) (0)
Object Categorization: Plate section (2009) (0)
Object-motion and recognition 1 Do we remember the motions of objects ? (2003) (0)
Early experience with low-pass filtered images facilitates visual category learning in a neural network model (2023) (0)
Why is human vision so poor in early development? The impact of initial sensitivity to low spatial frequencies on visual category learning (2022) (0)
Neural mechanisms of dynamic object encoding (2013) (0)
AUTOMATED THUMBNAL SELECTION FOR ONLINE VIDEO CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS (2017) (0)

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