Stephen Macknik
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American neuroscientist and science writer
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- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stephen Louis Macknik is an American neuroscientist and science writer. He is a Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Physiology & Pharmacology at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, where he directs the Laboratory of Translational Neuroscience. He directed laboratories previously at the Barrow Neurological Institute and University College London. He is best known for his studies on illusions, consciousness, attentional misdirection in stage magic, and cerebral blood flow.
Stephen Macknik's Published Works
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- The role of fixational eye movements in visual perception (2004) (1148)
- Microsaccades Counteract Visual Fading during Fixation (2005) (424)
- Saccades and microsaccades during visual fixation, exploration, and search: foundations for a common saccadic generator. (2008) (414)
- Neuronal correlates of visibility and invisibility in the primate visual system (1998) (405)
- The impact of microsaccades on vision: towards a unified theory of saccadic function (2013) (398)
- Microsaccades: a neurophysiological analysis (2009) (335)
- The function of bursts of spikes during visual fixation in the awake primate lateral geniculate nucleus and primary visual cortex (2002) (261)
- Task difficulty modulates the activity of specific neuronal populations in primary visual cortex (2008) (224)
- Microsaccadic eye movements and firing of single cells in the striate cortex of macaque monkeys (2000) (181)
- Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research (2008) (163)
- Saccadic velocity as an arousal index in naturalistic tasks (2013) (155)
- Visibility, visual awareness, and visual masking of simple unattended targets are confined to areas in the occipital cortex beyond human V1/V2. (2005) (145)
- Microsaccadic Efficacy and Contribution to Foveal and Peripheral Vision (2012) (130)
- Microsaccades counteract perceptual filling-in. (2008) (127)
- Task difficulty in mental arithmetic affects microsaccadic rates and magnitudes (2014) (120)
- Microsaccade and drift dynamics reflect mental fatigue (2013) (115)
- Distinctive Features of Saccadic Intrusions and Microsaccades in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (2011) (114)
- The role of feedback in visual masking and visual processing (2008) (107)
- Triggering mechanisms in microsaccade and saccade generation: a novel proposal (2011) (105)
- The role of spatiotemporal edges in visibility and visual masking. (2000) (100)
- An oculomotor continuum from exploration to fixation (2013) (95)
- Highly Informative Natural Scene Regions Increase Microsaccade Production during Visual Scanning (2014) (94)
- Microsaccades drive illusory motion in the Enigma illusion (2008) (93)
- Fixational eye movements across vertebrates: comparative dynamics, physiology, and perception. (2008) (91)
- Unsupervised clustering method to detect microsaccades. (2014) (91)
- Dichoptic Visual Masking Reveals that Early Binocular Neurons Exhibit Weak Interocular Suppression: Implications for Binocular Vision and Visual Awareness (2004) (86)
- Saccades during Attempted Fixation in Parkinsonian Disorders and Recessive Ataxia: From Microsaccades to Square-Wave Jerks (2013) (71)
- The effects of fixation target size and luminance on microsaccades and square-wave jerks (2013) (71)
- Microsaccades and Blinks Trigger Illusory Rotation in the “Rotating Snakes” Illusion (2012) (68)
- Analysis of Perceptual Expertise in Radiology – Current Knowledge and a New Perspective (2019) (68)
- Saccadic Eye Movement Metrics Reflect Surgical Residents' Fatigue (2014) (67)
- Tired in the Reading Room: The Influence of Fatigue in Radiology. (2017) (66)
- Fixational eye movements and binocular vision (2014) (65)
- Visual masking approaches to visual awareness. (2006) (63)
- Chapter 11 Visual masking approaches to visual awareness (2006) (61)
- “Small Blood Vessels: Big Health Problems?”: Scientific Recommendations of the National Institutes of Health Workshop (2016) (57)
- Windows on the mind. (2007) (56)
- Optical images of visible and invisible percepts in the primary visual cortex of primates. (1999) (56)
- Opinion: Finding the plot in science storytelling in hopes of enhancing science communication (2017) (55)
- Distinctive features of microsaccades in Alzheimer’s disease and in mild cognitive impairment (2013) (54)
- Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness (2019) (50)
- Microsaccades restore the visibility of minute foveal targets (2013) (48)
- Different fixational eye movements mediate the prevention and the reversal of visual fading (2014) (47)
- Simultaneous Recordings of Human Microsaccades and Drifts with a Contemporary Video Eye Tracker and the Search Coil Technique (2015) (47)
- Flicker distorts visual space constancy (1991) (47)
- The spatial and temporal effects of lateral inhibitory networks and their relevance to the visibility of spatiotemporal edges (2004) (45)
- Novel Visual Illusions Related to Vasarely's ‘Nested Squares’ Show That Corner Salience Varies with Corner Angle (2005) (45)
- Long-term all-optical interrogation of cortical neurons in awake-behaving nonhuman primates (2018) (44)
- Social Misdirection Fails to Enhance a Magic Illusion (2011) (42)
- Simultaneous recordings of ocular microtremor and microsaccades with a piezoelectric sensor and a video-oculography system (2013) (40)
- Saccadic suppression relies on luminance information (1995) (40)
- The linearity and selectivity of neuronal responses in awake visual cortex. (2009) (39)
- Abnormal Capillary Vasodynamics Contribute to Ictal Neurodegeneration in Epilepsy (2017) (37)
- Stronger Misdirection in Curved than in Straight Motion (2011) (37)
- Effects of long and short simulated flights on the saccadic eye movement velocity of aviators (2016) (37)
- Fixational Eye Movement Correction of Blink-Induced Gaze Position Errors (2014) (36)
- V1 neurons respond differently to object motion versus motion from eye movements (2015) (36)
- Magic and the brain. (2008) (33)
- Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline (2022) (32)
- Spatiotemporal functional organization of excitatory synaptic inputs onto macaque V1 neurons (2019) (31)
- Microsaccade Characteristics in Neurological and Ophthalmic Disease (2018) (30)
- BOLD Activation Varies Parametrically with Corner Angle Throughout Human Retinotopic Cortex (2007) (29)
- Sleights of Mind (2010) (24)
- Fundamentals of awareness : multi-sensory integration and high-order perception (2006) (23)
- Unchanging visions: the effects and limitations of ocular stillness (2017) (22)
- Advanced Circuit and Cellular Imaging Methods in Nonhuman Primates (2019) (21)
- A Review of Perceptual Expertise in Radiology-How it develops, How we can test it, and Why humans still matter in the era of Artificial Intelligence. (2020) (21)
- Corner salience varies linearly with corner angle during flicker-augmented contrast: a general principle of corner perception based on Vasarely's artworks. (2009) (21)
- Intersaccadic drift velocity is sensitive to short‐term hypobaric hypoxia (2014) (20)
- Modeling the Triggering of Saccades, Microsaccades, and Saccadic Intrusions (2018) (20)
- From Exploration to Fixation: An Integrative View of Yarbus’s Vision (2015) (19)
- Perceptual elements in Penn & Teller’s “Cups and Balls” magic trick (2013) (19)
- Fundamentals of vision : low and mid-level processes in perception (2006) (19)
- The Storytelling Brain: How Neuroscience Stories Help Bridge the Gap between Research and Society (2019) (18)
- Real magic: future studies of magic should be grounded in neuroscience (2009) (15)
- What do radiologists look for? Advances and limitations of perceptual learning in radiologic search (2020) (14)
- Optimizing the temporal dynamics of light to human perception (2012) (13)
- Effect of stimulus width on simultaneous contrast (2013) (12)
- Vision's First Steps: Anatomy, Physiology, and Perception in the Retina, Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, and Early Visual Cortical Areas (2011) (11)
- Changes in visibility as a function of spatial frequency and microsaccade occurrence (2017) (10)
- Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (2011) (8)
- Neural and BOLD responses to visibility and invisibility in the visual system of humans and primates (2005) (8)
- Science in culture: Mind tricks (2007) (8)
- Wakes and Spokes: New Motion-Induced Brightness Illusions (1999) (8)
- A MRI-Based Toolbox for Neurosurgical Planning in Nonhuman Primates. (2020) (7)
- Mandating Limits on Workload, Duty, and Speed in Radiology. (2022) (7)
- What It Means to Be You (2013) (7)
- Erratum: Loss of attentional stimulus selection after extrastriate cortical lesions in macaques (2000) (7)
- Characteristics of Spontaneous Square-Wave Jerks in the Healthy Macaque Monkey during Visual Fixation (2015) (7)
- Marvels of illusion: illusion and perception in the art of Salvador Dali (2015) (7)
- The Neuroscience of Illusion (2013) (6)
- What a Trip (2014) (5)
- Microsaccades reflect the dynamics of misdirected attention in magic (2019) (5)
- Input to cells in macaque V1 revealed with a novel grating stimulus (2010) (4)
- The role of feedback in visual masking, visual awareness and attention (2010) (4)
- Corner salience varies parametrically with corner angle during flicker-augmented contrast (2010) (4)
- The Age of Illusion (2016) (4)
- No Brain, No Pain (2013) (3)
- Microsaccade generation requires a foveal anchor (2020) (3)
- fMRI correlates of corner illusions show that BOLD activation varies gradually with corner angle (2005) (3)
- Microsaccades correct fixation errors due to blinks (2013) (3)
- Long-term all-optical interrogation of cortical neurons in awake-behaving non-human primates (2018) (3)
- Simultaneous recordings of ocular microtremor and fixational microsaccades with a piezoelectric sensor and a commercial video tracking system (2010) (3)
- Mind Over Magic (2010) (3)
- Visual Illusions in Radiology: Untrue Perceptions in Medical Images and Their Implications for Diagnostic Accuracy (2021) (2)
- Objective characterization of square-wave jerks differentiates progressive supranuclear palsy patients from healthy volunteers (2010) (2)
- Microsaccades in Applied Environments: Real-World Applications of Fixational Eye Movement Measurements (2020) (2)
- A Perspective on 3-D Visual Illusions (2008) (2)
- Microsaccades and blinks trigger illusory rotation in the Rotating Snakes illusion (2012) (2)
- Human eye visual hyperacuity: Controlled diffraction for image resolution improvement (2017) (2)
- Consciousness: Neurophysiology and Visual Awareness in (2009) (2)
- A novel variant of the Ouchi-Spillmann illusion (2011) (2)
- Perceptual hue, lightness, and chroma are represented in a multidimensional functional anatomical map in macaque V1 (2022) (2)
- 10 Top Illusions (2011) (2)
- Corrigendum: Analysis of Perceptual Expertise in Radiology – Current Knowledge and a New Perspective (2019) (2)
- Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions (2011) (2)
- The Neuroscience of Yorick's Ghost and Other Afterimages (2010) (2)
- Stronger perception of magic without social misdirection (2011) (2)
- The Plight of the Celebrity Scientist. (2016) (1)
- The efficacy and contribution of microsaccades (2012) (1)
- Microsaccades mediate perceptual alternations in Monet’s “Impression, sunrise” (2021) (1)
- Filling In (2013) (1)
- The Temporal Fusion Illusion and its neurophysiological correlates (2012) (1)
- And Yet It Doesn't Move (2015) (1)
- Spatiotemporal functional organization of excitatory synaptic inputs onto macaque V1 neurons (2020) (1)
- Microsaccades drive illusory motion in "Enigma" (2010) (1)
- Microsaccades scan highly informative image areas (2014) (1)
- Microsaccade and drift dynamics reflect mental fatigue during visual search (2013) (1)
- Art as Visual Research: Kinetic Illusions in OP Art (2013) (1)
- An Enduring Dialogue between Computational and Empirical Vision (2018) (1)
- Mind-Warping Visions (2011) (1)
- Vanished without a Trace (2013) (1)
- Low-Level Mechanisms for Processing of Junctions (2010) (1)
- V1 neurons can distinguish between motion in the world and visual displacements due to eye movements: a microsaccade study (2013) (1)
- Blood Flow Analysis in Epilepsy Using a Novel Stereological Approach (2013) (1)
- Visibility and visual masking of simple targets is confined to occipital cortex (2004) (1)
- Objective characterization of square-wave jerks in progressive supranuclear palsy patients and healthy volunteers (2010) (1)
- Area V1 responses to illusory corner-folds in Vasarely’s nested squares and the Alternating Brightness Star illusions (2019) (1)
- ErratumMicrosaccades Counteract Visual Fading during Fixation (2006) (1)
- Dichoptic visual masking reveals localized processing of visibility in human extrastriate cortex (2004) (1)
- Gaze mechanisms enabling the detection of faint stars in the night sky (2021) (1)
- V1 neurons can distinguish between motion in the world and visual displacements due to eye movements: a microsaccade study (2013) (1)
- How Neural Constraints Set Us Free to Create (2020) (1)
- Title : Changes in visibility as a function of spatial frequency and microsaccade occurrence Running title : Spatial frequency , microsaccades and visibility (2016) (0)
- Magicians have been testing and exploiting the limits of cognition and attention for hundreds of years . Neuroscientists are just beginning to catch up By (2008) (0)
- Color Helps Isolate Dorsal Stream Contribution to Shape-Recognition Task (2012) (0)
- A registration algorithm for microscopy images of the capillary bed (2015) (0)
- Your Twisted Little Mind (2012) (0)
- Dark and Bright Corners of the Mind (2013) (0)
- Media and Book Reviews (2012) (0)
- Perfectly Timed Advertising (2013) (0)
- An Unconventional Approach to Reducing Retinal Degeneration After Traumatic Ocular Injury (2016) (0)
- An Eye Movement Continuum from Exploration to Fixation (2013) (0)
- The Eyes Have It (2011) (0)
- What the Neuroscience and Psychology of Magic Reveal about Misinformation (2022) (0)
- Microsaccadic efficacy and contribution to the prevention of visual fading (2013) (0)
- El caso del planeta sobredimensionado (2017) (0)
- Mirages and Mind Benders the 10 Best Illusions of the Year (2012) (0)
- Out of This World (2014) (0)
- What's In a Face? (2011) (0)
- Why did Rubens add a parrot to Titian’s “Fall of Man”? An eye tracking investigation reveals attentional focus while viewing Italian Renaissance paintings (2022) (0)
- Eye gaze is critically important to humans, as social primates. Maybe that's why illusions involving eyes are so compelling. (2008) (0)
- Distinctive features of microsaccades in Alzheimer’s disease and in mild cognitive impairment (2013) (0)
- Art.-Macknik (N) (2011) (0)
- Apparent contrast peaks, rather than plateaus, as a function of stimulus duration (2010) (0)
- Truer Than Truth (2013) (0)
- Making the covert overt: Eye-movements reveal the misdirection of gaze and attention (2016) (0)
- The Aviator's Dilemma (2012) (0)
- Subject criterion can explain Bloch's law (2011) (0)
- In Plain Sight (2014) (0)
- Take Your Pick (2016) (0)
- The Illusions of Love (2011) (0)
- Luminance Increments Short-Latency Fixational Saccades Induced by (2015) (0)
- Hungry for Meaning (2010) (0)
- Microsaccades counteract perceptual fi lling-in Barrow Neurological (2008) (0)
- Posers and Fakers (2014) (0)
- David Hubel's Vision (2014) (0)
- All Deceptions Great and Small (2012) (0)
- Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness (2019) (0)
- Human Eye Visual Hyperacuity: A New Paradigm for Sensing? (2017) (0)
- Dal|[iacute]|'s Doubles (2015) (0)
- The neural basis of temporal brightness effects (2013) (0)
- Colors Out of Space (2011) (0)
- CORRIGENDUM (2011) (0)
- The neural correlates of flicker fusion (2013) (0)
- Author Response (2011) (0)
- Characteristics of square-wave jerks in the macaque monkey (2014) (0)
- The Role of feedback circuits in visibility, attention and awareness (2011) (0)
- Editorial Board and Contents (2018) (0)
- In Vivo Fiber-Coupled Pre-Clinical Confocal Laser-scanning Endomicroscopy (pCLE) of Hippocampal Capillaries in Awake Mice (2023) (0)
- This means you. (1969) (0)
- The Role of Abnormal Blood Flow in Age-Related Macular Degeneration (2013) (0)
- Hypobaric hypoxia increases intersaccadic drift velocity (2014) (0)
- The Case of the Oversized Planet (2016) (0)
- EVect of stimulus width on simultaneous (2013) (0)
- Yorick's Ghost and Other Afterimages (2013) (0)
- Gaze behavior during the averted detection of a simulated faint star (2017) (0)
- The neural correlates of Vasarely's artworks, or how shape perception can be built up in our brain (2010) (0)
- Title : Different fixational eye movements mediate the prevention and the reversal of visual fading Running title : Fading prevention by fixational eye movements (2014) (0)
- Food for Thought: Visual Illusions Good Enough to Eat (2013) (0)
- Afraid of Shadows (2012) (0)
- Interactive viscosity (2009) (0)
- Eyes Wide Shut: Gaze dynamics without vision, Symposium 6 at the 20th European Conference on Eye Movement Research (ECEM) in Alicante, 21.8.2019. (2019) (0)
- Neural Correlates of Vasarely's Nested Squares and the Alternating Brightness Star Illusion in area V1 (2013) (0)
- Through a Glass, Darkly (2017) (0)
- Reply to Gorea and Tyler: Casting light on previous bumps in the dark (2013) (0)
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