November 2008

Rosanne Rademaker joins the lab as a visiting graduate student.

August 2008

Elias Cohen joins the lab as a post-doc.

July 2008

Joel Pearson’s paper The functional impact of mental imagery on conscious perception is published in Current Biology.

June 2008

Ben Wolfe enters the Tong Lab as a new RA.

July 2007

The Tong Lab bids farewell to former RA John Dewey, who will enter graduate school at Michigan State in the fall. Good luck, John!

Also, two new post-docs arrive: Janneke Jehee and Jascha Swisher. Welcome to Nashville!

January 2007

The new 7T MRI scanner at VUIIS is up and running!

September 2006

Former research assistant Emma Ferneyhough heads off to graduate school at NYU. Good luck, Emma!

June 1, 2006

Ming Meng receives his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Congrats to Dr. Meng!

May 6, 2006

Research from the Tong lab is highlighted on the cover of the May 6 issue of New Scientist magazine

April 2006

Joel Pearson, who earned his Ph.D in a record-breaking 2.5 years, is a new post-doc affiliated with the lab!

January 2006

Young Investigator Award – Frank has been awarded the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's Young Investigator Award for 2006

December 2005

Scientific American : Yukiyasu Kamitani and Frank Tong have been selected for the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 50 award of 2004-2005, which honors 50 individuals, teams, companies or organizations for leadership in technology in research, business or policymaking. They received this award for leading research in neural imaging.

September 2005

Nature Neuroscience - Ming Meng's study of perceptual filling-in of visual phantoms appears in the Sept issue of Nature Neuroscience. Way to go Ming!

May 8, 2005

New York Times Sunday Magazine talks about Kamitani & Tong's visual mind-reading study in their article "Of Two Minds".

April 25, 2005

New York Times highlights an fMRI study of visual "mind-reading" from the Tong lab.

click here to see Yuki and Frank's Nature Neuroscience paper on "Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain."