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Overview

Jody C. Culham is a researcher affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada, with a focus on neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, human-computer interaction, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their research topics cover diverse areas such as action observation and synchronization, visual perception and processing mechanisms, motor control and adaptation, face recognition and perception, child and animal learning development, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and applications and impacts of virtual reality.

Jody C. Culham has contributed to numerous scientific publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as the Journal of Vision, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Neuroscience, and Neuropsychologia.

Among their recent papers are:

  • The Treachery of Images: How Realism Influences Brain and Behavior, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Decoding motor imagery and action planning in the early visual cortex: Overlapping but distinct neural mechanisms, 2020, NeuroImage
  • The toolish hand illusion: embodiment of a tool based on similarity with the hand, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Familiar size affects perception differently in virtual reality and the real world, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Familiar size affects the perceived size and distance of real objects even with binocular vision, 2021, Journal of Vision

Frequent collaborators in their research include Karsten Babin, Kevin Stubbs, Gudrun Schwarzer, Yuqi Liu, and Laurie M. Wilcox.

Best Publications

  • Neuroimaging of cognitive functions in human parietal cortex

    Jody C Culham;Nancy G Kanwisher

  • Visually guided grasping produces fMRI activation in dorsal but not ventral stream brain areas

    Jody C. Culham;Stacey L. Danckert;Joseph F. X. Desouza;Joseph S. Gati

  • Human parietal cortex in action.

    Jody C Culham;Kenneth F Valyear

  • Ventral occipital lesions impair object recognition but not object-directed grasping: an fMRI study.

    Thomas W. James;Jody Culham;G. Keith Humphrey;A. David Milner

  • Cortical fMRI activation produced by attentive tracking of moving targets

    Jody C. Culham;Stephan A. Brandt;Stephan A. Brandt;Patrick Cavanagh;Nancy G. Kanwisher

  • The role of parietal cortex in visuomotor control: what have we learned from neuroimaging?

    Jody C. Culham;Cristiana Cavina-Pratesi;Anthony Singhal

  • Attention response functions: characterizing brain areas using fMRI activation during parametric variations of attentional load.

    Jody C Culham;Patrick Cavanagh;Nancy G Kanwisher;Nancy G Kanwisher

  • Distinguishing Subregions of the Human MT+ Complex Using Visual Fields and Pursuit Eye Movements

    Sean P. Dukelow;Joseph F. X. DeSouza;Jody C. Culham;Albert V. van den Berg

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals the Neural Substrates of Arm Transport and Grip Formation in Reach-to-Grasp Actions in Humans

    Cristiana Cavina-Pratesi;Simona Monaco;Patrizia Fattori;Claudio Galletti

  • Decoding Action Intentions from Preparatory Brain Activity in Human Parieto-frontal Networks

    Jason P Gallivan;D Adam McLean;Kenneth F Valyear;Charles E Pettypiece

  • The fusiform face area is not sufficient for face recognition: Evidence from a patient with dense prosopagnosia and no occipital face area

    Jennifer K E Steeves;Jody C Culham;Bradley C Duchaine;Cristiana Cavina Pratesi

  • Neural coding within human brain areas involved in actions

    Jason P Gallivan;Jody C Culham

  • Is That within Reach? fMRI Reveals That the Human Superior Parieto-Occipital Cortex Encodes Objects Reachable by the Hand

    Jason P. Gallivan;Cristiana Cavina-Pratesi;Jody C. Culham

  • Decoding the neural mechanisms of human tool use

    Jason P Gallivan;D Adam McLean;Kenneth F Valyear;Jody C Culham

  • A double dissociation between sensitivity to changes in object identity and object orientation in the ventral and dorsal visual streams: A human fMRI study

    Kenneth F. Valyear;Jody C. Culham;Nadder Sharif;David Westwood

  • Reaching for the unknown: multiple target encoding and real-time decision-making in a rapid reach task

    Craig S. Chapman;Jason P. Gallivan;Daniel K. Wood;Jennifer L. Milne

  • Bringing the real world into the fMRI scanner: repetition effects for pictures versus real objects.

    Jacqueline C. Snow;Charles E. Pettypiece;Teresa D. McAdam;Adam D. McLean

  • Decoding Effector-Dependent and Effector-Independent Movement Intentions from Human Parieto-Frontal Brain Activity

    Jason P. Gallivan;D. Adam McLean;Fraser W. Smith;Jody C. Culham

  • fMRI reveals a preference for near viewing in the human parieto-occipital cortex

    D. J. Quinlan;Jody C. Culham

  • Where One Hand Meets the Other: Limb-Specific and Action-Dependent Movement Plans Decoded from Preparatory Signals in Single Human Frontoparietal Brain Areas

    Jason P. Gallivan;Jason P. Gallivan;D. Adam McLean;J. Randall Flanagan;Jody C. Culham;Jody C. Culham

  • FMRI Reveals a Dissociation between Grasping and Perceiving the Size of Real 3D Objects

    Cristiana Cavina-Pratesi;Melvyn A. Goodale;Jody C. Culham

Frequent Co-Authors

Melvyn A. Goodale
Melvyn A. Goodale University of Western Ontario
Jason P. Gallivan
Jason P. Gallivan Queen's University
Tutis Vilis
Tutis Vilis University of Western Ontario
Ravi S. Menon
Ravi S. Menon University of Western Ontario
Marlene Behrmann
Marlene Behrmann Carnegie Mellon University
David C. Plaut
David C. Plaut Carnegie Mellon University
A. David Milner
A. David Milner Durham University
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University
Jessica K. Witt
Jessica K. Witt Colorado State University
Heidi Johansen-Berg
Heidi Johansen-Berg University of Oxford

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