Margaret Livingstone

Marge Livingstone, Ph.D.

Takeda Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Development and selectivity of object-recognition circuitry in the Primate Brain

We ask how tuning properties of individual neurons in high-level visual areas come to be selective for complex visual objects the animals have encountered (or not) during their development, and how these neurons com to be clustered at a gross level in the brain. We use single-unit electrophysiology, functional MRI, behavior, and modeling.

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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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