Summary
Mark Lescroart joined the Cognitive & Brain Sciences group in thedepartment of w88 mobile at the University of Nevada, Reno in the spring of 2018. He got hisPh.D. at the University of Southern California working with IrvingBiederman and did postdoctoral research with Jack Gallant at UCBerkeley. He is originally from San Jose, California.
w88 mobile Interests
The goal of Dr. w88 mobile's lab is to understand how our brains transform patterns of light on our retinas into useful information about the world. The lab is specifically interested how different areas in the brain provide information about the identity and shape of objects, the structure of space, and the types of actions (such as running, jumping, and throwing) performed by humans around us. Dr. w88 mobile pursues these questions by making computational models of brain responses measured by fMRI. These models predict how the brain will respond to a wide variety of visual stimuli. Models developed by the lab can also be used to decode the image or movie clip that elicited a given visual response in the brain.
Courses Taught
- Measuring the human w88 mobile (PSY 413)
Education
- Ph.D. in w88 mobile, University of Southern California, 2011
- B.S. in Psychobiology, w88 mobile California, 2002
Publications
- w88 mobile, M.D., Nishimoto, S., & Gallant, J.L. (in preparation) Intermediate human visual areas represent the locations of boundary contours in naturalistic movies.
- Abdel-Ghaffar, Samy A; Huth, Alex G; Cowen, Alan S; Stansbury, Dustin E., w88 mobile, Mark D; Gallant, Jack L.; & Bishop, Sonia J. (under review) Occipital-temporal cortical tuning to emotional natural images predicts associated behaviors.
- w88 mobile, M.D. & Gallant, J.L (2019) Scene-selective areas in w88 mobile cortex represent the orientation and distance of large surfaces in scenes. Neuron. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.11.004
- w88 mobile, M. D., Kanwisher, N., & Golomb, J. D. (2016). No Evidence for Automatic Remapping of Stimulus Features or Location Found with fMRI. Frontiers in Systems w88 mobile, 10, 53. doi:10.3389/fnsys.2016.00053
- w88 mobile, M.D., Stansbury, D., & Gallant, J.L. (2015) Fourier power, subjective distance, and object categories all provide plausible models of BOLD responses in scene-selective w88 mobile.Frontiers in Computational w88 mobile, 9:135. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00135
- Gao, J. S., Huth, A. G., w88 mobile, M. D., & Gallant, J. L. (2015). Pycortex: an interactive surface visualizer for fMRI. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 9. doi:10.3389/fninf.2015.00023
- Sato, T., Uchida, G., w88 mobile, M. D., Kitazono, J., Okada, M., & Tanifuji, M. (2013) Object w88 mobile in inferior temporal cortex is organized hierarchically in a mosaic-like structure.The Journal of w88 mobile; 33(42), 16642-56. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5557-12.2013
- w88 mobile, M.D. & Biederman, I. Cortical w88 mobile medial axis structure. (2012) Cerebral Cortex. (New York, N.Y. : 1991). doi:10.1093/cercor/bhs046
- Hayworth, K.J., w88 mobile, M.D., & Biederman, I. (2011) Neural encoding of relative position.Journal of Experimental w88 mobile: Human Perception and Performance. 37(4), 1032-1050. doi:10.1037/a0022338
- w88 mobile, M.D., Biederman, I., Yue, X., & Davidoff, J. (2010) A cross-cultural study w88 mobile representation of shape: Sensitivity to generalized cone dimensions. w88 mobile Cognition.18:1, 50-66 First published on: 22 December 2008 (iFirst) [link/pdf]
- Kim, Jiye G., Biederman, I., w88 mobile, M.D., & Hayworth, K.J. (2009) Adaptation w88 mobile Lateral Occipital Complex (LOC): Shape or Semantics? w88 mobile Research, 49, 2297-2305
- Xu, X., Yue, X., w88 mobile, M.D., Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2009) Adaptation w88 mobile Fusiform Face Area (FFA): Image or Person?w88 mobile Research, 49, 2800-2807
Selected conference presentations
- w88 mobile, M.D., Agrawal, P, & Gallant, J.L. (2016) Both convolutional neural networks and voxel- wise encoding models of brain activity derived from ConvNets represent boundary-and surface- related features. Talk presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, FL.
- <w88 mobile, M.D., Stansbury, D. E., & Gallant, J.L. (2015) Semantics, space, and spatial frequency all describe the same representation in scene-selective areas of the human brain. Talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, Chicago, IL.
- w88 mobile, M.D. & Gallant, J.L. (2015) A model of the local environment predicts responses in human scene-selective cortex. Talk presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, FL.
- w88 mobile, M.D., Nishimoto, S., & Gallant, J.L. (2014) Intermediate human visual areas represent the locations of silhouette edges in natural movies. Talk presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
- w88 mobile, M.D., Nishimoto, S., & Gallant, J.L. (2013) Representation of object contour features in intermediate visual areas in the human brain. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
- w88 mobile, M.D. & Biederman, I. (2011) The medial axis structures of novel objects are spontaneously perceived despite variability in the objects' orientations and component part shapes. Talk presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
- w88 mobile, M.D. & Biederman, I. (2010) Voxels in LO distinguish objects with different arrangements of the same component parts. Talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA.
- w88 mobile, M.D., Hayworth, K.J., & Biederman, I. (2009) Is there an object-centered map in LOC? Poster presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL
- w88 mobile, M.D., Yue, X., Davidoff, J., & Biederman, I. (2007). A Cross-Cultural Study of the Representation of Shape Dimensions. Talk presented at OPAM. Long Beach, CA
- w88 mobile, M.D., Hayworth, K.J., & Biederman, I. (2007). Evidence for Relative Position Coding in the Posterior Fusiform Gyrus. Talk presented at Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA
Non-academic publications
- w88 mobile, M.D. Favorite Colors: C olor Preference Determined by Desirability of Objects.Scientific American Mind, Sept./Oct. 2010
- w88 mobile, M.D. The Healing Power of Touch: Tickling a rat's whiskers after it has a stroke prevents w88 mobile damage.Scientific American Mind, July/Aug. 2011
Awards
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National w88 mobile Service Award (Postdoctoral NRSA)
- Mapping the w88 mobile dimensions across the visual hierarchy(F32EY021710).
- Nov 2012-present
- USC Travel award for travel to OHBM w88 mobile, Barcelona, Spain
- Jun 2010
- Rockwell Dennis Hunt Scholastic Award from the w88 mobile California
- Awarded to the graduate student who is an alumnus and is most representative w88 mobile University's traditions and objectives
- Jan 2006
- Trustee (full tuition) Scholarship from the w88 mobile California
- 1998-2002
- Recognized as a USC Renaissance Scholar
- For outstanding study in disparate disciplines
- May 2002
- Phi Beta Kappa National Honor w88 mobile
- Spring 2001