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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

James W. Bisley is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Neuroscience, with a total of 17 publications. Within this domain, their work is further specialized in subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to neural and sensory systems. Main topics include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Teleoperation and Haptic Systems
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

James W. Bisley has contributed to several publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Vision
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Nature Neuroscience

Among their notable papers are:

  • "The functional roles of neural remapping in cortex," 2020, Journal of Vision
  • "Bio-Inspired Haptic Feedback for Artificial Palpation in Robotic Surgery," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • "What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?," 2025, Nature Neuroscience
  • "A Simplified Model for Simulating Population Responses of Tactile Afferents and Receptors in the Skin," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • "The roles of the lateral intraparietal area and frontal eye field in guiding eye movements in free viewing search behavior," 2021, Journal of Neurophysiology

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Yelda Alkan
  • Koorosh Mirpour
  • Qiangqiang Ouyang
  • Juan Wu
  • Aviad Ozana

James W. Bisley received the honor of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2006. Their career focuses on advancing the understanding of brain function, perception, and sensory integration through experimental and theoretical approaches within neuroscience and related engineering fields.

Best Publications

  • Attention, Intention, and Priority in the Parietal Lobe

    James W. Bisley;Michael E. Goldberg

  • Neuronal Activity in the Lateral Intraparietal Area and Spatial Attention

    James W. Bisley;Michael E. Goldberg

  • The neural basis of visual attention.

    James W. Bisley

  • Saccades, salience and attention: the role of the lateral intraparietal area in visual behavior.

    Michael E. Goldberg;James W. Bisley;Keith D. Powell;Jacqueline Gottlieb

  • The what, where, and why of priority maps and their interactions with visual working memory

    Gregory J. Zelinsky;Gregory J. Zelinsky;James W. Bisley;James W. Bisley

  • Activity in the lateral intraparietal area predicts the goal and latency of saccades in a free-viewing visual search task.

    Anna E. Ipata;Angela L. Gee;Michael E. Goldberg;James W. Bisley

  • The role of the lateral intraparietal area of the monkey in the generation of saccades and visuospatial attention.

    Michael E. Goldberg;Michael E. Goldberg;James Bisley;James Bisley;Keith D. Powell;Jacqueline Gottlieb

  • LIP responses to a popout stimulus are reduced if it is overtly ignored

    Anna E Ipata;Angela L Gee;Jacqueline Gottlieb;James W Bisley;James W Bisley

  • One-Dimensional Dynamics of Attention and Decision Making in LIP

    Surya Ganguli;James W. Bisley;Jamie D. Roitman;Michael N. Shadlen

  • A Haptic Feedback System for Lower-Limb Prostheses

    R.E. Fan;M.O. Culjat;Chih-Hung King;M.L. Franco

  • Neural Correlates of Attention and Distractibility in the Lateral Intraparietal Area

    James W. Bisley;Michael E. Goldberg

  • A Rapid and Precise On-Response in Posterior Parietal Cortex

    James W. Bisley;B. Suresh Krishna;Michael E. Goldberg

  • Activity of neurons in cortical area MT during a memory for motion task.

    James W. Bisley;Daniel Zaksas;Jason A. Droll;Tatiana Pasternak

  • ENCODING OF OBJECT CURVATURE BY TACTILE AFFERENTS FROM HUMAN FINGERS

    A. W. Goodwin;V. G. Macefield;J. W. Bisley

  • The neural instantiation of a priority map.

    James W Bisley;Koorosh Mirpour

  • Neurons in the lateral intraparietal area create a priority map by the combination of disparate signals

    Anna E. Ipata;Angela L. Gee;James W. Bisley;James W. Bisley;Michael E. Goldberg

  • The Multiple Roles of Visual Cortical Areas MT/MST in Remembering the Direction of Visual Motion

    James W. Bisley;Tatiana Pasternak

  • Been there, seen that: a neural mechanism for performing efficient visual search.

    Koorosh Mirpour;Fabrice Arcizet;Wei Song Ong;James W. Bisley

  • Multi-Modal Haptic Feedback for Grip Force Reduction in Robotic Surgery.

    Ahmad Abiri;Jake Pensa;Anna Tao;Ji Ma

  • A Pure Salience Response in Posterior Parietal Cortex

    Fabrice Arcizet;Koorosh Mirpour;James W. Bisley

  • Optimization of a Pneumatic Balloon Tactile Display for Robot-Assisted Surgery Based on Human Perception

    Chih-Hung King;M.O. Culjat;M.L. Franco;J.W. Bisley

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael E. Goldberg
Michael E. Goldberg Columbia University
Jacqueline Gottlieb
Jacqueline Gottlieb Columbia University
Gregory J. Zelinsky
Gregory J. Zelinsky Stony Brook University
Gregory P. Carman
Gregory P. Carman University of California, Los Angeles
Geoffrey F. Woodman
Geoffrey F. Woodman Vanderbilt University
Paolo Bartolomeo
Paolo Bartolomeo Allen Institute for Brain Science
Bradley R. Postle
Bradley R. Postle University of Wisconsin–Madison
Frank Tong
Frank Tong Vanderbilt University
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University
Martin Rolfs
Martin Rolfs Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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