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Stephen L Macknik

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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.

Neuroscience Ophthalmology Psychiatry & Psychology

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Professor and Empire Innovator Scholar

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Ophthalmology, Neurology and Physiology/Pharmacology

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PeerJ Contributions

September 5, 2013

Effect of stimulus width on simultaneous contrast

6 citations

641 downloads

2,469 views

Veronica Shi, Jie Cui, Xoana G. Troncoso, Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.146 PubMed 24032092

August 1, 2013

Microsaccades restore the visibility of minute foveal targets

25 citations

469 downloads

2,211 views

Francisco M. Costela, Michael B. McCamy, Stephen L. Macknik, Jorge Otero-Millan, Susana Martinez-Conde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.119 PubMed 23940832

February 12, 2013

Perceptual elements in Penn & Teller’s “Cups and Balls” magic trick

10 citations

2,961 downloads

30,188 views

Hector Rieiro, Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19 PubMed 23638353

February 12, 2013

Simultaneous recordings of ocular microtremor and microsaccades with a piezoelectric sensor and a video-oculography system

22 citations

857 downloads

4,050 views

Michael B. McCamy, Niamh Collins, Jorge Otero-Millan, Mohammed Al-Kalbani, Stephen L. Macknik, Davis Coakley, Xoana G. Troncoso, Gerard Boyle, Vinodh Narayanan, Thomas R. Wolf, Susana Martinez-Conde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14 PubMed 23638348

February 12, 2013

The effects of fixation target size and luminance on microsaccades and square-wave jerks

39 citations

785 downloads

3,682 views

Michael B. McCamy, Ali Najafian Jazi, Jorge Otero-Millan, Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9 PubMed 23638403

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April 23, 2020

Lightness induction enhancements and limitations at low frequency modulations across a variety of stimulus contexts

69 downloads

440 views

Louis Nicholas Vinke, Arash Yazdanbakhsh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8918 PubMed 32351782

November 26, 2019

Oxidative stress and antioxidants in the trabecular meshwork

1 citation

162 downloads

481 views

Mingxuan Wang, Yajuan Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8121 PubMed 31788363

November 20, 2019

Importance of considering interoceptive abilities in alexithymia assessment

1 citation

294 downloads

494 views

Alicia Fournier, Olivier Luminet, Michael Dambrun, Frédéric Dutheil, Sonia Pellissier, Laurie Mondillon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7615 PubMed 31768300

June 12, 2019

Estimating biological accuracy of DSM for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder based on multivariate analysis for small samples

1 citation

238 downloads

935 views

Dimitri M. Abramov, Vladimir V. Lazarev, Saint Clair Gomes Junior, Carlos Alberto Mourao-Junior, Monique Castro-Pontes, Carla Q. Cunha, Leonardo C. deAzevedo, Evelyne Vigneau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7074 PubMed 31223531

May 7, 2019

Cortical modulation of pupillary function: systematic review

2 citations

420 downloads

1,464 views

Costanza Peinkhofer, Gitte M. Knudsen, Rita Moretti, Daniel Kondziella

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6882 PubMed 31119083

May 7, 2019

Accuracy of a deep convolutional neural network in detection of retinitis pigmentosa on ultrawide-field images

4 citations

339 downloads

1,135 views

Hiroki Masumoto, Hitoshi Tabuchi, Shunsuke Nakakura, Hideharu Ohsugi, Hiroki Enno, Naofumi Ishitobi, Eiko Ohsugi, Yoshinori Mitamura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6900 PubMed 31119087

January 31, 2019

Subjective assessment for super recognition: an evaluation of self-report methods in civilian and police participants

3 citations

305 downloads

1,034 views

Sarah Bate, Gavin Dudfield

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6330 PubMed 30723622

January 23, 2019

Temporal whole field sawtooth flicker without a spatial component elicits a myopic shift following optical defocus irrespective of waveform direction in chicks

2 citations

214 downloads

678 views

Melanie J. Murphy, Nina Riddell, David P. Crewther, David Simpson, Sheila G. Crewther

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6277 PubMed 30697484

December 10, 2018

Technology-assisted white cane: evaluation and future directions

4 citations

798 downloads

1,682 views

Izaz Khan, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6058 PubMed 30581666

November 27, 2018

Fast cyclic stimulus flashing modulates perception of bi-stable figure

203 downloads

790 views

Henrikas Vaitkevicius, Vygandas Vanagas, Alvydas Soliunas, Algimantas Svegzda, Remigijus Bliumas, Rytis Stanikunas, Janus J. Kulikowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6011 PubMed 30515361

November 6, 2018

Effects of mixed reality head-mounted glasses during 90 minutes of mental and manual tasks on cognitive and physiological functions

2 citations

352 downloads

1,526 views

Carole Cometti, Christos Païzis, Audrey Casteleira, Guillaume Pons, Nicolas Babault

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5847 PubMed 30416883

October 23, 2018

Non-visual exploration of novel objects increases the levels of plasticity factors in the rat primary visual cortex

153 downloads

848 views

Catia M. Pereira, Marco Aurelio M. Freire, José R. Santos, Joanilson S. Guimarães, Gabriella Dias-Florencio, Sharlene Santos, Antonio Pereira, Sidarta Ribeiro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5678 PubMed 30370183

October 11, 2018

The material-weight illusion is a Bayes-optimal percept under competing density priors

1 citation

218 downloads

1,459 views

Megan A.K. Peters, Ling-Qi Zhang, Ladan Shams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5760 PubMed 30324029

October 4, 2018

Relationships between neuropsychological and antisaccade measures in multiple sclerosis patients

3 citations

294 downloads

2,624 views

Marisa Borges Ferreira, Paulo Alexandre Pereira, Marta Parreira, Ines Sousa, José Figueiredo, João José Cerqueira, Antonio Filipe Macedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5737 PubMed 30310755

April 18, 2018

Stability of an ophthalmic formulation of polyhexamethylene biguanide in gamma-sterilized and ethylene oxide sterilized low density polyethylene multidose eyedroppers

3 citations

1,348 downloads

1,993 views

Yassine Bouattour, Philip Chennell, Mathieu Wasiak, Mireille Jouannet, Valérie Sautou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4549 PubMed 29682408

April 3, 2018

No tears in heaven: did the media create the pseudo-phenomenon “altitude-adjusted lachrymosity syndrome (AALS)”?

327 downloads

8,259 views

Paul Wicks, Lee Lancashire

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4569 PubMed 29632743

March 26, 2018

The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): measuring perception, intelligence or executive function?

2 citations

709 downloads

2,487 views

Hanne Huygelier, Ruth Van der Hallen, Johan Wagemans, Lee de-Wit, Rebecca Chamberlain

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4524 PubMed 29607257

March 14, 2018

Saccadic inhibition in a guided saccade task

1 citation

230 downloads

1,185 views

Isabel Dombrowe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4493 PubMed 29576964

March 1, 2018

An extended research of crossmodal correspondence between color and sound in psychology and cognitive ergonomics

4 citations

522 downloads

1,949 views

Xiuwen Sun, Xiaoling Li, Lingyu Ji, Feng Han, Huifen Wang, Yang Liu, Yao Chen, Zhiyuan Lou, Zhuoyun Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4443 PubMed 29507834

October 31, 2017

A novel animal model for neuroinflammation and white matter degeneration

1 citation

599 downloads

1,457 views

Baohu Ji, Kerin Higa, Virawudh Soontornniyomkij, Atsushi Miyanohara, Xianjin Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3905 PubMed 29104820

April 25, 2017

A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies

9 citations

496 downloads

2,261 views

Brian Odegaard, David R. Wozny, Ladan Shams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3143 PubMed 28462016

March 28, 2017

The Sensed Presence Questionnaire (SenPQ): initial psychometric validation of a measure of the “Sensed Presence” experience

2 citations

621 downloads

2,928 views

Joseph M. Barnby, Vaughan Bell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3149 PubMed 28367379

January 24, 2017

No apparent influence of psychometrically-defined schizotypy on orientation-dependent contextual modulation of visual contrast detection

2 citations

344 downloads

1,613 views

Damien J. Mannion, Chris Donkin, Thomas J. Whitford

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2921 PubMed 28149692

November 1, 2016

Performance, usability and comparison of two versions of a new macular vision test: the handheld Radial Shape Discrimination test

3 citations

317 downloads

1,694 views

Jae Y. Ku, Ashli F. Milling, Noelia Pitrelli Vazquez, Paul C. Knox

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2650 PubMed 27833815

February 4, 2016

Examining the role of red background in magnocellular contribution to face perception

4 citations

312 downloads

1,884 views

Bhuvanesh Awasthi, Mark A. Williams, Jason Friedman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1617 PubMed 26925312

January 14, 2016

Faces in commonly experienced configurations enter awareness faster due to their curvature relative to fixation

7 citations

382 downloads

1,773 views

Pieter Moors, Johan Wagemans, Lee de-Wit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1565 PubMed 26839746

December 7, 2015

Trail Making Test performance contributes to subjective judgment of visual efficiency in older adults

1 citation

532 downloads

1,820 views

Annalisa Setti, James Loughman, George M. Savva, RoseAnne Kenny

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1407 PubMed 26664798

November 24, 2015

A predictive screening tool to detect diabetic retinopathy or macular edema in primary health care: construction, validation and implementation on a mobile application

10 citations

592 downloads

1,877 views

Cesar Azrak, Antonio Palazón-Bru, Manuel Vicente Baeza-Díaz, David Manuel Folgado-De la Rosa, Carmen Hernández-Martínez, José Juan Martínez-Toldos, Vicente Francisco Gil-Guillén

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1404 PubMed 26623187

June 23, 2015

Sensitivity to the visual field origin of natural image patches in human low-level visual cortex

4 citations

433 downloads

1,779 views

Damien J. Mannion

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1038 PubMed 26131378

May 12, 2015

Tactile roughness perception in the presence of olfactory and trigeminal stimulants

496 downloads

3,076 views