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Stephen L Macknik
Summary
Stephen L. Macknik trained as a postdoc with Zachary Mainen at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and David Hubel at Harvard Medical School. He has a BA in Psychobiology, Biology and Psychology from the Univ of California, Santa Cruz, and a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard Univ, with Margaret Livingstone. His research seeks to understand the neural underpinnings of visual awareness and attention, and the neural consequences of cerebral blood flow in the healthy brain and in neurological disorders.
Work details
Professor and Empire Innovator Scholar
Articles published in PeerJ
Effect of stimulus width on simultaneous contrast
Microsaccades restore the visibility of minute foveal targets
Perceptual elements in Penn & Teller’s “Cups and Balls” magic trick
The effects of fixation target size and luminance on microsaccades and square-wave jerks
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Examining the role of red background in magnocellular contribution to face perception
Sensitivity to the visual field origin of natural image patches in human low-level visual cortex
Tactile roughness perception in the presence of olfactory and trigeminal stimulants
Web party effect: a cocktail party effect in the web environment
The perception of shape from shading in a new light
Escape and avoidance learning in the earthworm Eisenia hortensis
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Blink and you’ll miss it: the role of blinking in the perception of magic tricks