DAVID COGGAN









Contact Information

Room 422, Wilson Hall
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240


david.coggan@vanderbilt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

I am generally interested in how humans visually perceive objects in their environment. A primary focus of my research is to understand how visual cortex transforms raw visual input in order to facilitate object recognition. I am also investigating the role of cortical feedback on neural responses to objects in the lateral geniculate nucleus. I will be using a range of empirical techniques to address these questions, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), psychophysics and computational modelling.


Publications

Coggan, D. D., & Tong F. (2023). Spikiness and animacy as potential organizing principles of human ventral visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhad108.

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Coggan, D. D., Giannakopoulou, A., Ali, S., Goz, B., Watson, D. M., Hartley, T., Baker, D. H., & Andrews, T. J. (2019). A data-driven approach to stimulus selection reveals an image-based representation of objects in high-level visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping, pp. 1-16.

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Coggan, D. D., Baker, D. H., & Andrews, T. J. (2019). Selectivity for mid-level properties of faces and places in the fusiform face area and parahippocampal place area. European Journal of Neuroscience, pp. 1-10.

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Coggan, D. D., Allen, L. A., Farrar, O. R. H., Gouws, A. D., Morland, A. B., Baker, D. H., & Andrews, T. J. (2017). Differences in selectivity to natural images in early visual areas ( V1 – V3 ). Scientific Reports, 7(2444), 1-8.

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Coggan, D. D., Baker, D. H., & Andrews, T. J. (2016). The Role of Visual and Semantic Properties in the Emergence of Category-Specific Patterns of Neural Response in the Human Brain. ENeuro, 3(August), ENEURO.0158-16.2016.

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Coggan, D. D., Liu, W., Baker, D. H., & Andrews, T. J. (2016). Category-selective patterns of neural response in the ventral visual pathway in the absence of categorical information.. NeuroImage, 135, 107-114.

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Baker, D. H., Karapanagiotidis, T., Coggan, D. D., Wailes-Newson, K., & Smallwood, J. (2015). Brain networks underlying bistable perception. NeuroImage, 119, 229-234.

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