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Overview

David Whitney is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their primary research lies within the field of Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Their work also touches on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their research topics center predominantly around visual perception and processing mechanisms. Additional areas of focus include face recognition and perception, neural dynamics and brain function, neural and behavioral psychology studies, AI applications in cancer detection, multisensory perception and integration, and visual attention and saliency detection.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by David Whitney include:

  • Serial dependence in visual perception: A meta-analysis and review, 2023, Journal of Vision
  • Illusion of visual stability through active perceptual serial dependence, 2022, Science Advances
  • Serial dependence revealed in history-dependent perceptual templates, 2021, Current Biology
  • Optimizing perception: Attended and ignored stimuli create opposing perceptual biases, 2020, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Dissociating implicit and explicit ensemble representations reveals the limits of visual perception and the richness of behavior, 2021, Scientific Reports

David Whitney frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Vision (41 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (5 publications)
  • Current Biology (3 publications)
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics (3 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)

Frequent co-authors that David Whitney has collaborated with include:

  • Mauro Manassi (20 co-authored publications)
  • Yuki Murai (16 co-authored publications)
  • Zhihang Ren (16 co-authored publications)
  • Jefferson Ortega (15 co-authored publications)
  • Teresa Cañas-Bajo (11 co-authored publications)

Best Publications

  • Visual Crowding: a fundamental limit on conscious perception and object recognition

    David Whitney;Dennis M. Levi;Dennis M. Levi

  • Serial dependence in visual perception.

    Jason Fischer;David Whitney

  • Rapid extraction of mean emotion and gender from sets of faces

    Jason Haberman;David Whitney

  • Seeing the mean: ensemble coding for sets of faces.

    Jason Haberman;David Whitney

  • Ensemble Perception

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  • Serial Dependence in the Perception of Faces

    Alina Liberman;Jason Fischer;Jason Fischer;David Whitney;David Whitney

  • Latency difference, not spatial extrapolation

    David Whitney;Ikuya Murakami

  • Serial Dependence across Perception, Attention, and Memory

    Anastasia Kiyonaga;Jason M. Scimeca;Daniel P. Bliss;David Whitney

  • Motion distorts visual space: shifting the perceived position of remote stationary objects.

    David Whitney;Patrick Cavanagh

  • The influence of visual motion on perceived position.

    David Whitney

  • Illusory spatial offset of a flash relative to a moving stimulus is caused by differential latencies for moving and flashed stimuli.

    David Whitney;Ikuya Murakami;Patrick Cavanagh

  • Serial dependence in position occurs at the time of perception.

    Mauro Manassi;Alina Liberman;Anna Kosovicheva;Kathy Zhang

  • The visual system discounts emotional deviants when extracting average expression

    Jason Haberman;David Whitney

  • Ensemble perception: Summarizing the scene and broadening the limits of visual processing.

    Jason Haberman;David Whitney

  • Averaging facial expression over time

    Jason Haberman;Tom Harp;David Whitney

  • The psychophysics of visual motion and global form processing in autism

    Kami Koldewyn;David Whitney;Susan M. Rivera

  • Holistic crowding: selective interference between configural representations of faces in crowded scenes.

    Elizabeth G. Louie;David W. Bressler;David Whitney

  • Perceiving Group Behavior: Sensitive Ensemble Coding Mechanisms for Biological Motion of Human Crowds

    Timothy D. Sweeny;Steve Haroz;David Whitney

  • Perceiving Crowd Attention Ensemble Perception of a Crowd’s Gaze

    Timothy D. Sweeny;David Whitney

  • How Capacity Limits of Attention Influence Information Visualization Effectiveness

    S. Haroz;D. Whitney

  • Visually Guided Reaching Depends on Motion Area MT

    David Whitney;Amanda Ellison;Nichola J. Rice;Derek Arnold

  • Serial dependence in visual perception

    Jason Fischer;Jennifer Shankey;David Whitney

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University
Árni Kristjánsson
Árni Kristjánsson University of Iceland
Susan M. Rivera
Susan M. Rivera University of California, Davis
Melvyn A. Goodale
Melvyn A. Goodale University of Western Ontario
Lynn C. Robertson
Lynn C. Robertson University of California, Berkeley
Kami Koldewyn
Kami Koldewyn Bangor University
Frédéric E. Theunissen
Frédéric E. Theunissen University of California, Berkeley
Dennis M. Levi
Dennis M. Levi University of California, Berkeley
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley
Randi J Hagerman
Randi J Hagerman University of California, Davis

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