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  • 1999 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Marisa Carrasco is affiliated with New York University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of neuroscience. Their work focuses largely on cognitive neuroscience, with additional contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology, epidemiology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and social psychology.

The scientist's research spans several main topics, including visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural and behavioral psychology studies, neural dynamics and brain function, ophthalmology and visual impairment studies, multisensory perception and integration, functional brain connectivity studies, and visual attention and saliency detection.

Recent publications include:

  • Asymmetries in visual acuity around the visual field, 2021, Journal of Vision
  • Cortical magnification in human visual cortex parallels task performance around the visual field, 2021, eLife
  • Linking individual differences in human primary visual cortex to contrast sensitivity around the visual field, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Polar angle asymmetries in visual perception and neural architecture, 2023, Trends in Neurosciences
  • Differential impact of endogenous and exogenous attention on activity in human visual cortex, 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors in their publications are:

  • Jonathan Winawer
  • Marc M. Himmelberg
  • Nina M. Hanning
  • Antonio Fernández
  • Rachel N. Denison

Marisa Carrasco has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include Journal of Vision, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In recognition of their scholarly work, Marisa Carrasco was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Visual attention: The past 25 years

    Marisa Carrasco

  • Attention alters appearance

    Marisa Carrasco;Sam Ling;Sarah Read

  • Emotion Facilitates Perception and Potentiates the Perceptual Benefits of Attention

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Sam Ling;Marisa Carrasco

  • Attention improves or impairs visual performance by enhancing spatial resolution

    Yaffa Yeshurun;Marisa Carrasco

  • Spatial covert attention increases contrast sensitivity across the CSF: support for signal enhancement☆

    Marisa Carrasco;Cigdem Penpeci-Talgar;Miguel Eckstein

  • The eccentricity effect: Target eccentricity affects performance on conjunction searches

    Marisa Carrasco;Denise L. Evert;Irene Chang;Svetlana M. Katz

  • Covert attention affects the psychometric function of contrast sensitivity.

    E.Leslie Cameron;E.Leslie Cameron;Joanna C Tai;Marisa Carrasco;Marisa Carrasco

  • Spatial attention improves performance in spatial resolution tasks

    Yaffa Yeshurun;Marisa Carrasco

  • Covert attention accelerates the rate of visual information processing

    Marisa Carrasco;Brian McElree

  • Characterizing visual performance fields: effects of transient covert attention, spatial frequency, eccentricity, task and set size

    Marisa Carrasco;Cigdem P. Talgar;E. Leslie Cameron

  • When size matters: attention affects performance by contrast or response gain

    Katrin Herrmann;Leila Montaser-Kouhsari;Marisa Carrasco;Marisa Carrasco;David J Heeger;David J Heeger

  • Attentional enhancement of spatial resolution: linking behavioural and neurophysiological evidence

    Katharina Anton-Erxleben;Marisa Carrasco

  • Attention enhances contrast sensitivity at cued and impairs it at uncued locations

    Franco Pestilli;Marisa Carrasco

  • Cortical Magnification Neutralizes the Eccentricity Effect in Visual Search

    Marisa Carrasco;Karen S. Frieder

  • Sustained and transient covert attention enhance the signal via different contrast response functions

    Sam Ling;Marisa Carrasco

  • The Contribution of Covert Attention to the Set-Size and Eccentricity Effects in Visual Search

    Marisa Carrasco;Yaffa Yeshurun

  • Covert attention increases spatial resolution with or without masks: Support for signal enhancement

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  • Attention Alters the Appearance of Spatial Frequency and Gap Size

    Joetta Gobell;Marisa Carrasco

  • Voluntary Attention Enhances Contrast Appearance

    Taosheng Liu;Jared Abrams;Marisa Carrasco;Marisa Carrasco

  • Transient Attention Enhances Perceptual Performance and fMRI Response in Human Visual Cortex

    Taosheng Liu;Taosheng Liu;Franco Pestilli;Marisa Carrasco;Marisa Carrasco

  • When sustained attention impairs perception

    Sam Ling;Marisa Carrasco;Marisa Carrasco

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Heeger
David J. Heeger New York University
Franco Pestilli
Franco Pestilli The University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
Jonathan Winawer
Jonathan Winawer New York University
Martin Rolfs
Martin Rolfs Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Brian McElree
Brian McElree New York University
Wei Ji Ma
Wei Ji Ma New York University
Duje Tadin
Duje Tadin University of Rochester
Lynne Kiorpes
Lynne Kiorpes New York University
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University

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