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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.
Daumail, L. et al. (2023) Rapid adaptation of primate LGN neurons to drifting grating stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology 129 (6), 1447-1467.
Wang, J., Tong, F., Joanisse, M. F., & Booth, J. R. (2023). A sculpting effect of reading on later representational quality of phonology revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis in young children. Brain and Language, 239, 105252.
Jang, H., McCormack, D., & Tong, F. (2021). Noise-trained deep neural networks effectively predict human vision and its neural responses to challenging images. PLOS Biology, 18:496-498.
Jang, H. & Tong, F. (2021). Convolutional neural networks trained with a developmental sequence of blurry to clear images reveal core differences between face and object processing. Journal of Vision, 18:496-498.
Poltoratski, & Tong, F. (2020). Resolving the spatial profile of figure enhancement in human V1 through population receptive field modeling. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(16), 3292-3303..
Poltoratski, S., Maier, A., Newton, A. T., Tong, F. (2019). Figure-ground modulation in the human lateral geniculate nucleus is distinguishable from top-down attention. Current Biology, 29(12), 2051-2057.
Andersen, L. M., Overgaard, M., Tong, F. (2019). Visual expectations change subjective experience without changing performance. Consciousness & Cognition, 71, 59-69.
Keefe, J. M., Sy, J. L., Tong, F., & Zald, D. H. (2019). The emotional attentional blink is robust to divided attention. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 205-216.
Tong, F. (2018). Foundations of Vision. Leading chapter for Volume 2 of Sensation, Perception & Attention, The Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Editors John T. Serences and John Wixted.
Rademaker, R. L., Park, Y. E., Sack, A. T., & Tong, F. (2018). Evidence of gradual loss of precision for simple features and complex objects in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(6), 925-940.
Wook Hong S., Tong F. (2017). Neural representation of form-contingent color filling-in in the early visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 10.1167/17.13.10
Park Y., Sy J., Hong S., Tong F. (2017). Reprioritization of features of multidimensional objects stored in visual working memory. Psychological Science, 28, 1773-1785.
Poltoratski S., Ling S., McCormack D., Tong F. (2017). Characterizing the effects of feature salience and top-down attention in the early visual system. Journal of Neurophysiology, 10.1152/jn.00924.2016.
Kietzmann T. C., Gert A. L., Tong F., König P. (2017). Representational Dynamics of Facial Viewpoint Encoding. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience., 29(4):637-651.
Pratte, M. S., Park, Y. P., Rademaker, R. L., & Tong, F. (2017). Accounting for stimulus-specific variation in precision reveals a discrete capacity limit in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(1), 6-17.
Pratte, M. S., & Tong, F. (2016). Integrating theoretical models with functional neuroimaging. Journal of Mathematical Psychology
Pratte, M. S., Sy, J. L., Swisher, J. D., & Tong, F. (2016). Radial bias is not necessary for orientation decoding. Neuroimage, 127, 23-33.
Knapen, T., Swisher, J. D., Tong, F., & Cavanagh, P. (2016). Oculomotor remapping of visual information to foveal retinotopic cortex. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 10(54), 1-12.
Kietzmann, T. C., Poltaratski, S., König, P., Blake, R., Tong, F., & Ling, S. (2015). The occipital face area is causally involved in facial viewpoint perception. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(50): 16398-16403
Ling, S., Pratte, M. S., & Tong, F. (2015). Attention alters orientation processing in the human lateral geniculate nucleus. Nature Neuroscience, 18:496–498
Cohen, E. H., & Tong, F. (2015). Neural mechanisms of object-based attention.
Cerebral Cortex, 25: 1080-1092
Poltoratski, S., & Tong, F. (2014). Hysteresis in the dynamic perception of scenes and objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 143(5), 1875-1892.
Pratte, M. S., & Tong, F. (2014). Spatial specificity of working memory representations in the early visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 14(3):22, 1-12.
Lorenc, E. S., Pratte, M. S., Angeloni, C. F., & Tong, F. (2014). Expertise for upright faces improves the precision but not the capacity of visual working memory. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, Advanced online publication
Pratte, M. S., Ling, S., Swisher, J. D., & Tong, F. (2013). How attention extracts objects from noise.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 119: 1346-1356.
Tong, F. (2013). Imagery and visual working memory: one and the same?
Trends in Cognitive Science, 10(10), 489-490.
Rademaker, R. L., Tredway, C. H., & Tong, F. (2012). Introspective judgments predict the precision and likelihood of successful maintenance of visualworking memory.
Journal of Vision, 12(13), 21.
Jehee, J. F. M., Ling, S., Swisher, J. D., Tong, F. (2012). Perceptual learning selectively refines orientation representations in early visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 32: 16747-16753.
Kietzmann, T. C., Swisher, J. D., König, P., & Tong, F. (2012). Prevalence of selectivity for mirror-symmetric views of faces in the ventral and dorsal visual pathways. Journal of Neuroscience, 32: 11763-11772.
Tong, F., Harrison, S., Dewey, J., & Kamitani, Y. (2012). Relationship between BOLD amplitude and pattern classification of orientation-selective activity in the human visual cortex. Neuroimage, 63: 1212-1222.
Swisher, J.D., Sexton, J.A., Gatenby, J.C., Gore, J.C., Tong, F. (2012). Multishot versus Single-Shot Pulse Sequences in Very High Field fMRI: A Comparison Using Retinotopic Mapping. PLoS One. 7(4): e34626.
Hong, S. W., Tong, F., & Seiffert, A. E. (2012). Direction-selective patterns of activity in human visual cortex suggest common neural substrates for different types of motion. Neuropsychologia, 50(4): 514-21.
Tong, F., & Pratte, M. S. (2012). Decoding patterns of human brain activity. Annual Review of Psychology, 63: 483-509.
Jehee, J. F. M., Brady, D. K., Tong, F. (2011). Attention improves encoding of task-relevant features in the human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(22): 8210-8219.
Tong, F. (2011). Aligning brains and minds. Neuron, 72: 199-201.
Pearson, J., Rademaker, R. L., & Tong, F. (2011). Evaluating the mind's eye: The metacognition of visual imagery. Psychological Science, 22: 1535-1542.
Genç, E. Bergmann, J., Tong, F., Blake, R., Singer, W., & Kohler, A. (2011). Callosal connections of primary visual cortex predict the spatial spreading of binocular rivalry across the visual hemifields. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5(161): 1-12.
McGugin, R. W., McKeeff, T. J., Tong, F., & Gauthier, I. (2011). Irrelevant objects of expertise compete with faces during visual search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(2): 309 - 317.
McKeeff, T. J., McGugin, R. W., Tong, F., & Gauthier, I. (2010). Expertise increases the functional overlap between face and object perception. Cognition, 117(3): 355-360.
Swisher, J.D., Gatenby, J.C., Gore, J.C., Wolfe, B.A., Moon, C.-H., Kim, S.-G., Tong, F. (2010). Multiscale pattern analysis of orientation-selective activity in the primary visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 30: 325-330.
Harrison, S. A., & Tong, F. (2009). Decoding reveals the contents of visual working memory in early visual areas. Nature, 458: 632-635.
Dux, P. E., Tombu, M. N., Harrison, S., Rogers, B. P., Tong, F., & Marois, R. (2009). Training improves multitasking performance by increasing the speed of information processing in human prefrontal cortex. Neuron, 63: 127-138.
Brouwer, G. J., Tong, F., Hagoort, P., & van Ee, R. (2009). Perceptual incongruence influences bistability and cortical activation. PLoS ONE, 4(3): e5056.
Yamashita, O., Sato, M.-A., Yoshioka, T., Tong, F., Kamitani, Y. (2008). Sparse estimation automatically selects voxels relevant for the decoding of MRI activity patterns. Neuroimage, 42: 1414-1429.
Pearson, J., Clifford, C., & Tong, F. (2008) The functional impact of mental imagery on conscious perception. Current Biology, 18(13): 982-986.
Meng, M., Ferneyhough, E., & Tong, F. (2007). Dynamics of perceptual filling-in of visual phantoms revealed by binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 7(13):8, 1–15.
McKeeff, T. J., Remus, D. A., & Tong, F. (2007). Temporal limitations in object processing across the human ventral visual pathway. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(1): 382-393.
McKeeff, T. J., & Tong, F. (2007). The timing of perceptual decisions for ambiguous face stimuli in the human ventral visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 17: 669-678.
Tong, F., Meng, M., & Blake, R. (2006). Neural bases of binocular rivalry. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10: 502-511.
Kamitani, Y., & Tong, F. (2006). Decoding seen and attended motion directions from activity in the human visual cortex. Current Biology, 16: 1096-1102.
Awater, H., Kerlin, J. K., Evans, K. K., & Tong, F. (2005). Cortical representation of space around the blind spot. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94: 3314-3324.
Meng, M., Remus, D. R., & Tong, F. (2005). Filling-in of visual phantoms in the human brain. Nature Neuroscience, 8: 1248-1254.
Kamitani, Y., Tong, F. (2005). Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain. Nature Neuroscience, 8: 679-85.
Tong, F. (2004). Splitting the spotlight of visual attention. Neuron, 42: 524-526.
Meng, M., Tong F. (2004). Can attention selectively bias bistable perception? Differences between binocular rivalry and ambiguous figures. Journal of Vision, 4: 539-51.
Tong, F. (2003). Primary visual cortex and visual awareness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4: 219-229.
Tong, F. (2003). Out-of-body experiences: from Penfield to present. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7: 104-106.
Tong, F., & Engel, S. A. (2001). Interocular rivalry revealed in the human cortical blind-spot representation. Nature, 411: 195-199.
Tong, F. (2001). Competing theories of binocular rivalry: A possible resolution. Brain and Mind, 2: 55-83.
Cohen, J. D., & Tong, F. (2001). The face of controversy: Modular vs. distributed representations in the brain. Science, 293: 2405-2407.
Tong, F. (2001). Brain at work: Play by play. Nature Neuroscience, 4: 560-562.
Tong, F., Nakayama, K., Moscovitch, M., Weinrib, O., & Kanwisher, N. (2000). Response properties of the human fusiform face area. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17: 257-279.
Tong, F., & Nakayama, K. (1999). Robust representations for face: Evidence from visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25: 1016-1035.
Kanwisher, N., Tong, F., & Nakayama, K. (1998). The effects of face inversion on the human fusiform face area. Cognition, 68: B1- B11.
Tong, F., Nakayama, K., Vaughan, J. T., & Kanwisher, N. (1998). Binocular rivalry and visual awareness in human extrastriate cortex. Neuron, 21: 753-759.
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