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96
Citations
48154
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845
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456

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the relation between perceptual experience and neural activity in visual cortex, using neuroimaging and computational methods.
  • 1994 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David J. Heeger is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience. Other areas of study include genetics, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The main topics explored in their work cover neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural and behavioral psychology studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, motor control and adaptation, action observation and synchronization, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Jennifer B. Listman, Charlie S. Burlingham, Marisa Carrasco, Laura Dugué, and Wayne E. Mackey.

Common publication venues for Heeger's work are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Vision, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, arXiv (Cornell University), and Nature Communications.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by David J. Heeger are:

  • Differential impact of endogenous and exogenous attention on activity in human visual cortex, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A dynamic normalization model of temporal attention, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • A recurrent circuit implements normalization, simulating the dynamics of V1 activity, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A unified model of the task-evoked pupil response, 2022, Science Advances
  • Spared perilesional V1 activity underlies training-induced recovery of luminance detection sensitivity in cortically-blind patients, 2021, Nature Communications

Throughout their career, Heeger has received multiple awards, including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013, the Troland Research Awards from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2002 for contributions to understanding the relation between perceptual experience and neural activity in visual cortex, and a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Linear Systems Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Human V1

    Geoffrey M. Boynton;Stephen A. Engel;Gary H. Glover;David J. Heeger

  • Normalization of cell responses in cat striate cortex

    David J. Heeger

  • Normalization as a canonical neural computation.

    Matteo Carandini;David J. Heeger

  • The Normalization Model of Attention

    John H. Reynolds;David J. Heeger

  • What does fMRI tell us about neuronal activity

    David J. Heeger;David Ress

  • Linearity and Normalization in Simple Cells of the Macaque Primary Visual Cortex

    Matteo Carandini;David J. Heeger;J. Anthony Movshon

  • A model of neuronal responses in visual area MT.

    Eero P. Simoncelli;David J. Heeger

  • A Hierarchy of Temporal Receptive Windows in Human Cortex

    Uri Hasson;Eunice Yang;Ignacio Vallines;Ignacio Vallines;David J. Heeger

  • Perceptual image distortion

    P.C. Teo;D.J. Heeger

  • Model for the extraction of image flow

    David J. Heeger

  • Spatial attention affects brain activity in human primary visual cortex

    Sunil P. Gandhi;David J. Heeger;Geoffrey M. Boynton

  • Optical flow using spatiotemporal filters

    David J. Heeger

  • Decoding and reconstructing color from responses in human visual cortex

    Gijs Joost Brouwer;David Heeger

  • Summation and division by neurons in primate visual cortex

    Matteo Carandini;David J. Heeger

  • Retinotopy and functional subdivision of human areas MT and MST.

    Alexander C. Huk;Robert F. Dougherty;David J. Heeger

  • Neurocinematics: The Neuroscience of Film

    Uri Hasson;Uri Hasson;Uri Hasson;Ohad Landesman;Barbara Knappmeyer;Ignacio Vallines

  • Reliability of cortical activity during natural stimulation

    Uri Hasson;Rafael Malach;David J. Heeger

  • Two Retinotopic Visual Areas in Human Lateral Occipital Cortex

    Jonas Larsson;David J. Heeger

  • Neuronal activity in human primary visual cortex correlates with perception during binocular rivalry.

    Alex Polonsky;Randolph Blake;Jochen Braun;David J. Heeger

  • Activity in primary visual cortex predicts performance in a visual detection task.

    David Ress;Benjamin T. Backus;David J. Heeger

  • Subspace methods for recovering rigid motion I: algorithm and implementation

    David J. Heeger;David J. Heeger;Allan D. Jepson

Frequent Co-Authors

Marisa Carrasco
Marisa Carrasco New York University
Marlene Behrmann
Marlene Behrmann Carnegie Mellon University
Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake Vanderbilt University
Geoffrey M. Boynton
Geoffrey M. Boynton University of Washington
Uri Hasson
Uri Hasson Princeton University
Jonathan B. Demb
Jonathan B. Demb Yale University
Dov Sagi
Dov Sagi Weizmann Institute of Science
Nancy J. Minshew
Nancy J. Minshew University of Pittsburgh
Franco Pestilli
Franco Pestilli The University of Texas at Austin
Tobias H. Donner
Tobias H. Donner Universität Hamburg

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