News

2022:

- New draft of massive collaboration between Bastos Lab, Desimone Lab, our group and Miller Lab on bioRxiv


- Micala Maddox won Vanderbilt’s Professional Excellence Award - congratulations!


- Jacob Westerberg has a new paper in press at NeuroImage


- Check out our entry to the 3Blue1Brown Summer of Math Exposition (SoME#2) 


- Jacob Westerberg successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis - congratulations, Jake!


- Blake Mitchell and Brock Carlson were selected for NeuroDataReHack


- OpenScope collaboration with Bastos Lab was recommended for award


- Brock Carlson, Blake Mitchell and Jake Westerberg were awarded a Vanderbilt University Graduate School Travel Grant



- We have an invited review on binocular vision in press at Annual Reviews


- Blake Mitchell has a new paper in press at iScience



- Brock Carlson, Blake Mitchell & Jake Westerberg will present latest findings at VSS



- 
Jake Westerberg has a new paper in press at eLife 


- We were awarded a TIPs grant for research on the neuroscience of arousal with the Chang Lab



2021:

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- Jake Westerberg has a new paper in press at PNAS 

  

- Blake Mitchell was awarded an NIH T32 training grant.  



2020: 

- New paper with Leopold lab and Schmid lab in press at Current Biology 

- New paper with David Tovar (Wallace lab) and Tom Carlson in press at Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

- New paper with Kacie Dougherty (now: postdoc at Kastner lab) and Paul Martin in press at eNeuro

- New paper on the neuroscience of consciousness in press at Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics with Nao Tsuchiya

- Read our Current Biology Dispatch for de Jong et al.'s paper on measuring the activity of human brain cells 

- Jake Westerberg received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Eye Institute

- Jake won the Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Award ofthe Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

- New paper honoring Jack Pettigrew, co-authored with Olivia Carter, Bruno van Swinderen, David Leopold and Shaun Collin at JCN

- Michelle Schall was awarded the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology's 2020 Staff Award

- Jake Westerberg has received the Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award

 - Jake Westerberg has a new paper in press at eNeuro


2019: 

- Jake Westerberg has a new paper in press at Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

- Matthew Self and Pieter Roelfsema featured our paper in their dispatch.  

- Jan Brascamp featured our latest research in his dispatch for Current Biology 

- Kacie Dougherty was awarded the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology's 2019 Postdoctoral Award

- Michele Cox was awarded the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology's 2019 Dissertation Award

- Kacie Dougherty was awarded the inaugural NEI Postdoctoral Travel Grant of the Vision Sciences Society


- New paper with Tong lab in press at Current Biology


- Brock Carlson, Kacie Dougherty and Jake Westerberg will present our latest findings at VSS


- Jake Westerberg has a new paper in press at Journal of Neurophysiology


- Listen to our 3/10 @11AM radio interview with Vance Durbin, host of "Eye on Vision" on FM 89.3 WYPL



- Michele Cox has a new paper in press at Journal of Vision


- Kacie Dougherty has a new paper in press at Current Biology (see press release)



2018: 

- Kacie Dougherty successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis - congratulations, Kacie!

- Jake Westerberg won an NVIDIA GPU grant for his work that applies machine learning to neurophysiological data analysis.

- Jake Westerberg won the Vivien Casagrande Neuroscience Travel Award for his presentation at VSS

- Kacie Dougherty has a new paper in press at J Comp Neurol

- New paper with Wallace lab in press at JOCN 

- Kacie Dougherty received a Gordon Research Seminar Travel Award for the Gordon Research Conference on Thalamocortical Interactions


2017: 

- Michele Cox has a new paper in press at Cerebral Cortex [covered by Academic Minute and Science Friday]

- Upcoming chapter with Drs. Jeff Schall and Geoff Woodman in Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology

- Michele Cox successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis - congratulations, Michele!

- Jake Westerberg will present at SfN 2017, for which he won the 2017 FST student travel award. 

- Upcoming chapters with Dr. Michael Schmid in Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science

- Kacie Dougherty has been selected to participate at this year’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course on Vision 

- Kacie Dougherty has successfully renewed her NIH T32 training grant the 3rd year in a row. 

- Jake Westerberg was awarded an NIH T32 training grant. 

- Kacie Dougherty has received the Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award

- 5-year R01 Research Grant awarded by the National Eye Institute

- Kacie Dougherty's and Jake Westerberg's presentations were selected for VSS2017

- Jake Westerberg's presentation was selected for Cosyne 2017

2016: 

- New paper with Schmid lab in press at Nature Sci. Rep. 

- SfN Symposium: "Mechanisms of object organization in the visual cortex" with Rudiger von der Heydt, Anitha Pasupathy and Hamutal Slovin

- Michele Cox received the Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award

- Michele Cox received a Gordon Research Seminar Travel Award

- Competitive Renewal granted for our Grant by the Knights Templar Eye Foundation

- New feature about our work in German version of "Scientific American"

- Symposium with Tony Movshon, Marty Usrey, Anna Roe, Bruce Cumming, Adam Kohn, Pieter Roelfsema at Gordon Research Conference

- New paper with Brett Foster, Biyu He, Christopher Honey, Karim Jerbi and Yuri Saalmann at Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience


2015:

- Kacie Dougherty has a new paper out at Cerebral Cortex




- Received a Career Starter Grant by the Knights Templar Eye Foundation




- Michele Cox has a new paper out at Neurosci. Consc.


- Kacie Dougherty was selected as an NEI Vision Training Fellow


- New paper with Schall lab in press at J. Neurophysiol.

- Kacie Dougherty received the 2015 VSS Student Travel Award

- New paper with Schmid lab in press at Prog. Neuriobiol.



2014:

- Kacie Dougherty won the 2014 VBI/FST travel award. 


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Alex Maier has been awarded the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award by the Society for Neuroscience.

- More collaborative work with Schmid lab published in J. Neurosci.

- Collaborative work with Schall lab published in J. Neurosci.

- New paper by Michele Cox published in Consciousness and Cognition. 


- New paper by our group published in Eye and Brain.

- Collaborative work with Wallace lab published in J. Neurosci.


2013:

- Dispatch published in Current Biology


- Collaborative work with Schmid lab published at J. Neurosci.

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- New paper by Michele Cox et al. in PNAS

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- Michele Cox and Alex Maier received a Tom Slick Research Award

  by the MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION

- Kacie Dougherty received the 2012 Lisa M. Quesenberry Foundation Award

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- Alex Maier has been elected a Sloan Research Fellow



2012:

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-eBook in Frontiers Human Neuroscience:

  Maier, A., Panagiotaropoulos, T., Tsuchiya, N., Keliris, G.A. (eds)

  Binocular Rivalry: A Gateway to Consciousnes


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-Research Grant awarded by the WHITEHALL FOUNDATION

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-New paper published in CURRENT BIOLOGY:

  Spaak, E., et al. (2012)



- SfN Minisymposium featuring our latest research:

  (with A. Owen, G. Kreiman, M. Boly, C. Tallon-Baudry & N. Tsuchiya):

  “The Neural Basis of Consciousness-Recent Advances and Breakthroughs”

- Discovery Grant awarded to collaboration between Roe Lab and Maier Lab

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- Michele Cox nominated a Graduate Research Fellow

  of the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

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- Latest research featured in NATURE News Feature:

  “Brain Imaging: fMRI 2.0”



- Michele Cox received the 2012 VSS Student Travel Award

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- Latest research featured in SCIENCENEWS (Vol.181 #4):

  “Consciousness Emerges” by Laura Sanders




2011:

- Michele Cox received an FST Student Travel Award

- Cosyne Workshop (with G. Tononi, S. Dehaene, A. Seth & N. Tsuchiya):

”Computational and Theoretical Approaches to the Problem of Consciousness”

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