Margaret Livingstone

Marge Livingstone, Ph.D.

Takeda Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

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Margaret Livingstone, PhD

Takeda Professor of Neurobiology
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Email: margaret_livingstone@hms.harvard.edu
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The Aim

The Livingstone Lab studies how we learn to recognize faces, objects, and scenes, with a focus on visual development.

The Impact

The Livingstone Lab studies how the brain develops the ability to recognize and differentiate between objects we see in everyday life, including faces, cars, and animals. Certain brain cells become specialized for these tasks based on our experiences. By understanding how these areas of the brain develop and function, this research can help explain why some people have difficulty recognizing forms and images, such as is the case with dyslexia and face blindness. This knowledge could lead to better support for people with vision or learning difficulties, and could improve diagnosis or treatment for related disorders.

A Closer Look

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Stereopsis and artistic talent: poor stereopsis among art students and established artists.
Authors: Authors: Livingstone MS, Lafer-Sousa R, Conway BR.
Psychol Sci
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Role of prefrontal cortex in conscious visual perception.
Authors: Authors: Libedinsky C, Livingstone M.
J Neurosci
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The benefit of symbols: monkeys show linear, human-like, accuracy when using symbols to represent scalar value.
Authors: Authors: Livingstone MS, Srihasam K, Morocz IA.
Anim Cogn
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Noninvasive functional MRI in alert monkeys.
Authors: Authors: Srihasam K, Sullivan K, Savage T, Livingstone MS.
Neuroimage
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Crossing the 'uncanny valley': adaptation to cartoon faces can influence perception of human faces.
Authors: Authors: Chen H, Russell R, Nakayama K, Livingstone M.
Perception
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A face feature space in the macaque temporal lobe.
Authors: Authors: Freiwald WA, Tsao DY, Livingstone MS.
Nat Neurosci
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Using fMRI to distinguish components of the multiple object tracking task.
Authors: Authors: Howe PD, Horowitz TS, Morocz IA, Wolfe J, Livingstone MS.
J Vis
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Perceptual and physiological evidence for a role for early visual areas in motion-induced blindness.
Authors: Authors: Libedinsky C, Savage T, Livingstone M.
J Vis
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Privileged coding of convex shapes in human object-selective cortex.
Authors: Authors: Haushofer J, Baker CI, Livingstone MS, Kanwisher N.
J Neurophysiol
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Multivariate patterns in object-selective cortex dissociate perceptual and physical shape similarity.
Authors: Authors: Haushofer J, Livingstone MS, Kanwisher N.
PLoS Biol
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