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:
- 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.
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.
- New paper by Michele Cox et al. in PNAS
- 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
- Alex Maier has been elected a Sloan Research Fellow
2012:
-eBook in Frontiers Human Neuroscience:
Maier, A., Panagiotaropoulos, T., Tsuchiya, N., Keliris, G.A. (eds)
Binocular Rivalry: A Gateway to Consciousnes
-Research Grant awarded by the WHITEHALL FOUNDATION
-New paper published in CURRENT BIOLOGY:
- 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
- Michele Cox nominated a Graduate Research Fellow
of the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
- Latest research featured in NATURE News Feature:
- Michele Cox received the 2012 VSS Student Travel Award
- 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”