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Overview

Diane M. Beck is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily centers on neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience as well as intersections with nuclear and high energy physics, computer vision and pattern recognition, experimental and cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work spans various themes related to neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, and face recognition and perception. Other thematic areas in their research include neural and behavioral psychology studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, memory processes and influences, and visual attention and saliency detection.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Diane M. Beck include Kara D. Federmeier, Pei-Ling Yang, Monica Fabiani, Gabriele Gratton, and Grace M. Clements. The partnerships reflect ongoing research efforts and joint publications.

The venues where this researcher has most commonly published are:

  • Journal of Vision
  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cerebral Cortex Communications
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Among recent significant publications are the following papers:

  • "The N300: An Index for Predictive Coding of Complex Visual Objects and Scenes," 2021, Cerebral Cortex Communications
  • "Separation of item and context in item-method directed forgetting," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "The Influence of Prestimulus 1/f-Like versus Alpha-Band Activity on Subjective Awareness of Auditory and Visual Stimuli," 2023, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Measurements of electron transport in liquid and gas Xenon using a laser-driven photocathode," 2020, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
  • "Familiarity influences visual detection in a task that does not require explicit recognition," 2023, Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Best Publications

  • To See or Not to See: Prestimulus α Phase Predicts Visual Awareness

    Kyle E. Mathewson;Gabriele Gratton;Monica Fabiani;Diane M. Beck

  • Top-down and bottom-up mechanisms in biasing competition in the human brain.

    Diane M. Beck;Sabine Kastner

  • Neural correlates of change detection and change blindness.

    Diane M. Beck;Geraint Rees;Christopher D. Frith;Nilli Lavie

  • Pulsed out of awareness: EEG alpha oscillations represent a pulsed-inhibition of ongoing cortical processing

    Kyle Elliott Mathewson;Alejandro Lleras;Diane M Beck;Monica Fabiani

  • Natural scene categories revealed in distributed patterns of activity in the human brain.

    Dirk B. Walther;Eamon Caddigan;Li Fei-Fei;Diane M. Beck

  • Spatial attention deficits in humans: a comparison of superior parietal and temporal-parietal junction lesions.

    Frances J. Friedrich;Robert Egly;Robert Egly;Robert D. Rafal;Diane Beck

  • Blinded by the load: attention, awareness and the role of perceptual load.

    Nilli Lavie;Diane M. Beck;Nikos Konstantinou

  • Simple line drawings suffice for functional MRI decoding of natural scene categories

    Dirk B. Walther;Barry Chai;Eamon Caddigan;Diane M. Beck

  • Stimulus Context Modulates Competition in Human Extrastriate Cortex

    Diane M Beck;Sabine Kastner

  • Making waves in the stream of consciousness: Entraining oscillations in eeg alpha and fluctuations in visual awareness with rhythmic visual stimulation

    Kyle E. Mathewson;Christopher Prudhomme;Monica Fabiani;Diane M. Beck

  • Look Here but Ignore What You See: Effects of Distractors at Fixation

    Diane M. Beck;Nilli Lavie

  • Rescuing stimuli from invisibility: Inducing a momentary release from visual masking with pre-target entrainment.

    Kyle E. Mathewson;Monica Fabiani;Gabriele Gratton;Diane M. Beck

  • Distinct contributions of functional and deep neural network features to representational similarity of scenes in human brain and behavior.

    Iris I.A. Groen;Michelle R. Greene;Christopher Baldassano;Li Fei-Fei

  • Right Parietal Cortex Plays a Critical Role in Change Blindness

    Diane M. Beck;Neil Muggleton;Vincent Walsh;Nilli Lavie

  • Differential connectivity within the Parahippocampal Place Area.

    Christopher Baldassano;Diane M. Beck;Li Fei-Fei

  • The Appeal of the Brain in the Popular Press.

    Diane M. Beck

  • Two Distinct Scene-Processing Networks Connecting Vision and Memory

    Christopher Baldassano;Andre Esteva;Li Fei-Fei;Diane M. Beck

  • Visual Scenes Are Categorized by Function

    Michelle R. Greene;Christopher Baldassano;Andre Esteva;Diane M. Beck

  • Perceptual-Load-Induced Selection as a Result of Local Competitive Interactions in Visual Cortex

    Ana Torralbo;Ana Torralbo;Diane M. Beck

  • Top-down influences on perceptual grouping.

    Diane M. Beck;Stephen E. Palmer

  • Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness

    Matthias Michel;Diane Beck;Ned Block;Hal Blumenfeld

  • Differential Connectivity Within the Parahippocampal Place Area

    Christopher Baldassano;Diane M. Beck;Li Fei-Fei

Frequent Co-Authors

Li Fei-Fei
Li Fei-Fei Stanford University
Monica Fabiani
Monica Fabiani University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gabriele Gratton
Gabriele Gratton University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kara D. Federmeier
Kara D. Federmeier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tony Ro
Tony Ro City University of New York
Nilli Lavie
Nilli Lavie University College London
Sabine Kastner
Sabine Kastner Princeton University
Chris I. Baker
Chris I. Baker National Institutes of Health
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Arthur F. Kramer
Arthur F. Kramer Northeastern University

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