My research
aims to understand human visual perception and its neural instantiation, and to
tackle those goals I use psychophysical techniques, human brain imaging,
virtual reality environments and computational modeling. My work focuses
largely on normal human adults, but I have collaborated with others in the
study of vision in clinical populations including individuals with
schizophrenia, autism and bipolar disorder. Over the years my work has included
studies of binocular vision, perception of biological motion, visual object
perception, illusory visual experiences including synesthesia, visual imagery, multi-sensory
interactions, the role of expectations in resolving perceptual confusion, and
the neural concomitants of visual
consciousness. My primary faculty
appointment is within Psychology, with ancillary affiliations with the Vanderbilt
Brain Institute and the Vanderbilt
Vision Research Center, both multidisciplinary groups of neuroscientists
involved in research and graduate and postdoctoral training programs.
Recent
publications
o Alais, D.,
Coorey, J., Blake, R., Davidson, M.J. (2023) tCFS: A new ‘CFS tracking’ paradigm reveals uniform suppression
depth regardless of target complexity or salience. eLife 12:RP91019.
o Cha, O. & Blake R. (2023) Procedure
for extracting temporal structure embedded within psychophysical data. Behavioral
Research Methods. Nov 22. E-Online.
doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02282-3.
o Wang,
G., Alais, D., Blake, R. & Han, S. (2023) CFS-crafter: an open-source tool for creating and analyzing images
for continuous flash suppression experiments. Behavioral Research Methods.
55, 2004-2020. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01903-7
o
Blake, R. (2022) The
perceptual magic of binocular rivalry. Current Directions in Psychological
Science, 31(2), 139-146. doi:10.1177/09637214211057564
o Ng, C.J., Blake, R., Banks, M.S., Tadin, D. & Yoon, G. (2021). Seeing the world like
never before: Human stereovision through perfect optics. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. 118(23): e2100126118. https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/23/e2100126118.full.pdf
o Blake, R. (2021) Reflections on Eriksen’s seminal essay on discrimination, performance and
learning without awareness. Attention,
Perception & Performance (special issue honoring Charles Eriksen). 83(2),543-557.
Online access
o Wen, P., Opoku-Baah,
C., Park, M. & Blake, R. (2020) Judging relative onsets and offsets of
audiovisual events. Vision, 4 (1), 17; https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/4/1/17/htm
o
Blake, R., Goodman, R.,
Tomarken, A.T. & Kim, H.Y. (2019) Individual
differences in continuous flash suppression: Potency and linkages to binocular rivalry
dynamic. Vision Research, 160, 10-23.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2019.04.003
o
Cha, O. & Blake, R. (2019)
Evidence for neural rhythms embedded within binocular rivalry. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, 116
(30) 14811-14812. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1905174116
o Park, M., Blake, R., Kim, Y.
& Kim, C.Y. (2019) Congruent audio-visual stimulation during adaptation
modulates the subsequently experienced visual motion aftereffect. Scientific
Reports, 9, 19391 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-54894-5
o Cha, O., Son, G., Chong S.C., Tovar, D. & Blake, R. (2019) Novel procedure for generating continuous flash suppression: Seurat meets Mondrian. Journal of Vision, 19(14): 1, 1-22.
o Brascamp, J., Sterzer,
P., Blake, R. & Knapen, T. (2018) Multistable perception, and the role of frontoparietal cortex in
perceptual inference, Annual Review of
Psychology, 69, 77-103.
Highly cited papers (Google
Scholar)
o
Blake, R. & Logothetis,
N. (2002) Visual competition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience,
3, 13-21.
o
Blake, R. & Shiffrar,
M. (2007) Perception of human motion. Annual Review of Psychology,
58, 47-73.
o
Grossman, E. & Blake, R. (2002) Brain
areas active during visual perception of biological motion. Neuron,
35, 1167-1176.
o
Blake,
R. (1989) A neural theory of binocular rivalry. Psychological Review,
96, 145-167.
o
Wilson, H.R., Blake, R. & Lee, S.H.
(2001) Dynamics of traveling waves in visual perception. Nature, 412, 907-910.
o
Tadin,
D., Lappin, J.S., Gilroy, L & Blake, R. (2003) Perceptual consquences of centre-surround
antagonism in visual motion processing. Nature,
424, 313-315.
o
Blake, R., Turner, L.M., Smolski, M.J., Pozdol, S.L. &
Stone, W.L. (2003) Visual recognition of biological motion is impaired in
children with autism. Psychological Science,
14, 151-157.
o
Blake, R., Tadin,
D., Sobel, K., Chong, S.C. & Raissian, R. (2006)
Strength of early visual adaptation depends on visual awareness. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, USA. 103, 4783-4788.
o
Palmeri,
T., Blake, R., Marois, R., Whetsell,
W. & Flanery, M. (2002) Perceptual reality of
synesthetic colors. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science, USA, 99, 4127-4131.
o
Polonsky
A, Blake R, Braun J & Heeger D (2000) Neuronal
activity in human primary visual cortex correlates with perception during
binocular rivalry. Nature Neuroscience,
3, 1153-1159.
Complete
listing of papers, books, chapters and presentations available here)
Randolph Blake
Vanderbilt University
111 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37240randolph.blake@vanderbilt.edu
Phone: (615) 343-7010 • Fax: (615)
343-8449