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Frank Tong is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience, with a significant concentration on Cognitive Neuroscience. Within this field, they have contributed to subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biophysics, and Media Technology.

The topics addressed by Frank Tong's work cover a range of areas related to vision and brain function. These include:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Face recognition and analysis
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Image Processing Techniques and Applications

Tong has published extensively, with key papers spanning from 2020 to 2024. Notable recent publications include:

  • Improved modeling of human vision by incorporating robustness to blur in convolutional neural networks, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Spikiness and animacy as potential organizing principles of human ventral visual cortex, 2023, Cerebral Cortex
  • Noise-trained deep neural networks effectively predict human vision and its neural responses to challenging images, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • Convolutional neural networks trained with a developmental sequence of blurry to clear images reveal core differences between face and object processing, 2021, Journal of Vision
  • Resolving the Spatial Profile of Figure Enhancement in Human V1 through Population Receptive Field Modeling, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience

Frank Tong frequently publishes in the Journal of Vision, with 29 contributions, and also has publications in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, and Nature Communications.

Their collaborative work involves multiple co-authors, notably:

  • Hojin Jang
  • Hui-Yuan Miao
  • David Coggan
  • Loïc Daumail
  • Lasyapriya Pidaparthi

Best Publications

  • Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain

    Yukiyasu Kamitani;Frank Tong;Frank Tong

  • Decoding reveals the contents of visual working memory in early visual areas

    Stephenie A. Harrison;Frank Tong

  • Binocular Rivalry and Visual Awareness in Human Extrastriate Cortex

    Frank Tong;Ken Nakayama;J.Thomas Vaughan;Nancy Kanwisher;Nancy Kanwisher

  • Neural bases of binocular rivalry.

    Frank Tong;Ming Meng;Randolph Blake

  • Primary visual cortex and visual awareness.

    Frank Tong

  • Interocular rivalry revealed in the human cortical blind-spot representation

    Frank Tong;Stephen A. Engel

  • The effect of face inversion on the human fusiform face area

    Nancy Kanwisher;Frank Tong;Ken Nakayama

  • Can attention selectively bias bistable perception? Differences between binocular rivalry and ambiguous figures.

    Ming Meng;Frank Tong

  • Robust representations for faces: Evidence from visual search.

    Frank Tong;Ken Nakayama

  • RESPONSE PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN FUSIFORM FACE AREA

    Frank Tong;Ken Nakayama;Morris Moscovitch;Oren Weinrib

  • Decoding seen and attended motion directions from activity in the human visual cortex

    Yukiyasu Kamitani;Frank Tong

  • The Functional Impact of Mental Imagery on Conscious Perception

    Joel Pearson;Joel Pearson;Colin W.G. Clifford;Frank Tong

  • Training Improves Multitasking Performance by Increasing the Speed of Information Processing in Human Prefrontal Cortex

    Paul E. Dux;Michael N. Tombu;Stephenie Harrison;Baxter P. Rogers

  • Decoding Patterns of Human Brain Activity

    Frank Tong;Michael S. Pratte

  • Sparse estimation automatically selects voxels relevant for the decoding of fMRI activity patterns.

    Okito Yamashita;Masa-aki Sato;Taku Yoshioka;Frank Tong

  • Attention Improves Encoding of Task-Relevant Features in the Human Visual Cortex

    Janneke F. M. Jehee;Devin K. Brady;Frank Tong

  • Multiscale pattern analysis of orientation-selective activity in the primary visual cortex.

    J. D. Swisher;J. C. Gatenby;J. C. Gore;B. A. Wolfe

  • Evaluating the Mind’s Eye The Metacognition of Visual Imagery

    Joel Pearson;Joel Pearson;Rosanne L. Rademaker;Frank Tong

  • Perceptual Learning Selectively Refines Orientation Representations in Early Visual Cortex

    J. F. M. Jehee;S. Ling;J. D. Swisher;R. S. van Bergen

  • Filling-in of visual phantoms in the human brain

    Ming Meng;David A Remus;Frank Tong

  • Neural Mechanisms of Object-Based Attention

    Elias H. Cohen;Frank Tong

  • Foundations of Vision

    Frank Tong

Frequent Co-Authors

Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake Vanderbilt University
Joel Pearson
Joel Pearson University of New South Wales
Isabel Gauthier
Isabel Gauthier Vanderbilt University
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University
René Marois
René Marois Vanderbilt University
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
Colin W. G. Clifford
Colin W. G. Clifford University of New South Wales
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

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