Faculty

I am interested in understanding how behavioral goals and other attentional factors influence perception and decision making. We use an integrative approach involving psychophysics, computational modeling, and fMRI to examine these issues. The lab is looking for graduate students, particularly those with a strong background in cognitive psychology or math/computer science.

Representative Publications

Serences, J.T. (2004) A comparison of methods for estimating the event-related BOLD signal in rapid fMRI. Neuroimage, 21(4):1690-1700

Serences, J.T, Schwarzbach, J., Courtney, S.M., Golay, X., Yantis, S. (2004) Control of object based attention in human cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 14(12):1346-57

Serences, J.T, Shomstein, S., Leber, A.B., Golay, X., Egeth, H.E., Yantis, S. (2005) Coordination of voluntary and stimulus-driven attentional control in human cortex. Psychological Science, 16(2):114-122

Serences, J.T., Yantis, S. (2006) Selective visual attention and perceptual coherence. Trends in Cognitive Science. 10(1):38-45.

Serences, J.T., Yantis, S. (2007) Spatially-selective representations of voluntary and stimulus-driven attentional priority in human occipital, parietal, and frontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, Feb;17(2):284-93.

Serences, J.T., Boynton, G.M. Feature-based attentional modulations in the absence of direct visual stimulation. Neuron 2007 Jul 19;55(2):301-12.

Dilks, D.D., Serences, J.T., Rosenau, B., Yantis, S., McCloskey, M. Human adult cortical reorganization and consequent visual distortion. Journal of Neuroscience 2007 Sep 5;27(36):9585-94.

Serences, J.T., Boynton, G.M. The representation of behavioral choice for motion in human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 2007 Nov 21;27(47):12893-9.

Casanova, R., Ryali, S., Serences, J., Laurienti, P.J., Maldjian, J. The impact of temporal regularization on estimates of the BOLD hemodynamic response function: a comparative analysis Neuroimage, 2008 May 1;40(4):1606-18.

Serences, J., Ester, E., Vogel, E., Awh, E. Stimulus-specific delay activity in human primary visual cortex (in press, Psychological Science)