Susana Martinez-Conde

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Physiology at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center. Founding Member and President of the Neural Correlate Society and Executive Producer of the annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Former Executive Board Member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Advisory Board Member and Columnist for Scientific American Mind.

Cognitive Disorders Neurology Neuroscience Ophthalmology Psychiatry & Psychology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Physiology and Pharmacology

State University of New York

Neurobiology

Our research focuses on understanding the neural bases of our visual experience. How can the electrical activity of a neuron, or a neuronal population, convey the color or brightness of an object? How can we determine the signal from the noise in a train of electrical impulses within a neuron? What type of neural code do neurons use to communicate information to each other? How are neural impulses grouped to represent the different features of a visual scene? To address these questions we use a combination of techniques, including fMRI, electrophysiological recordings from single neurons, psychophysical measurements, and computational models of visual function.

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

September 5, 2013

Effect of stimulus width on simultaneous contrast

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

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

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

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

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

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