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Overview

Maximilian Riesenhuber is affiliated with Georgetown University Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans Neuroscience and Psychology, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. They also contribute to fields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Social Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics of their work include multisensory perception and integration, visual attention and saliency detection, action observation and synchronization, and face recognition and perception. Other areas of interest are neuroscience and music perception, tactile and sensory interactions, as well as visual perception and processing mechanisms.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maximilian Riesenhuber include:

  • Srikanth R. Damera
  • Lillian Chang
  • Suneel Banerjee
  • Laurie S. Glezer
  • Xiong Jiang

Their research has been published in various venues, with multiple papers appearing at bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other publication venues include the Journal of Vision, Neurobiology of Language, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, and the Journal of Neuroscience.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Maximilian Riesenhuber are:

  • Evidence for a Spoken Word Lexicon in the Auditory Ventral Stream (2023) - Neurobiology of Language
  • Leveraging Prior Concept Learning Improves Generalization From Few Examples in Computational Models of Human Object Recognition (2021) - Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Metamodal Coupling of Vibrotactile and Auditory Speech Processing Systems through Matched Stimulus Representations (2023) - Journal of Neuroscience
  • Evidence for face selectivity in early vision (2020) - bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neural basis of learning to perceive speech through touch using an acoustic-to-vibrotactile speech sensory substitution (2021) - bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Hierarchical models of object recognition in cortex

    Maximilian Riesenhuber;Tomaso Poggio

  • Robust Object Recognition with Cortex-Like Mechanisms

    T. Serre;L. Wolf;S. Bileschi;M. Riesenhuber

  • Categorical Representation of Visual Stimuli in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex

    David J. Freedman;Maximilian Riesenhuber;Maximilian Riesenhuber;Tomaso Poggio;Tomaso Poggio;Earl K. Miller

  • Models of object recognition.

    Maximilian Riesenhuber;Tomaso Poggio

  • A comparison of primate prefrontal and inferior temporal cortices during visual categorization.

    David J. Freedman;Maximilian Riesenhuber;Tomaso Poggio;Earl K. Miller

  • Neural mechanisms of object recognition

    Maximilian Riesenhuber;Tomaso Poggio

  • Evidence for Highly Selective Neuronal Tuning to Whole Words in the “Visual Word Form Area”

    Laurie S. Glezer;Xiong Jiang;Maximilian Riesenhuber

  • Attentional Selection for Object Recognition A Gentle Way

    Dirk Walther;Laurent Itti;Maximilian Riesenhuber;Tomaso Poggio

  • Categorization training results in shape- and category-selective human neural plasticity.

    Xiong Jiang;Evan Bradley;Regina A. Rini;Thomas Zeffiro

  • Visual categorization and the primate prefrontal cortex: neurophysiology and behavior.

    David J. Freedman;Maximilian Riesenhuber;Maximilian Riesenhuber;Tomaso Poggio;Tomaso Poggio;Earl K. Miller

  • A model of V4 shape selectivity and invariance.

    Charles Cadieu;Minjoon Kouh;Anitha Pasupathy;Charles E. Connor

  • Experience-Dependent Sharpening of Visual Shape Selectivity in Inferior Temporal Cortex

    David J. Freedman;Maximilian Riesenhuber;Tomaso Poggio;Tomaso Poggio;Earl K. Miller;Earl K. Miller

  • Are cortical models really bound by the "binding problem"?

    Maximilian Riesenhuber;Tomaso Poggio

  • Evaluation of a shape-based model of human face discrimination using FMRI and behavioral techniques.

    Xiong Jiang;Ezra Rosen;Thomas Zeffiro;John VanMeter

  • Intracellular measurements of spatial integration and the MAX operation in complex cells of the cat primary visual cortex

    Ilan Lampl;David Ferster;Tomaso Poggio;Maximilian Riesenhuber;Maximilian Riesenhuber

  • Prefrontal Cortex Activity during Flexible Categorization

    Jefferson E. Roy;Maximilian Riesenhuber;Tomaso Poggio;Earl K. Miller

  • Face Processing in Humans is Compatible with a Simple Shape-Based Model of Vision

    Maximilian Riesenhuber;Izzat Jarudi;Sharon Gilad;Pawan Sinha

  • Realistic Modeling of Simple and Complex Cell Tuning in the HMAX Model, and Implications for Invariant Object Recognition in Cortex

    Thomas Serre;Maximilian Riesenhuber

  • Adding Words to the Brain's Visual Dictionary: Novel Word Learning Selectively Sharpens Orthographic Representations in the VWFA

    Laurie S. Glezer;Judy Kim;Josh Rule;Xiong Jiang

  • Individual variability in location impacts orthographic selectivity in the "visual word form area".

    Laurie S. Glezer;Maximilian Riesenhuber

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Freedman
David J. Freedman University of Chicago
Josef P. Rauschecker
Josef P. Rauschecker Georgetown University Medical Center
John W. VanMeter
John W. VanMeter Georgetown University Medical Center
Thomas A. Zeffiro
Thomas A. Zeffiro Harvard University
William D. Gaillard
William D. Gaillard George Washington University
Guinevere F. Eden
Guinevere F. Eden Georgetown University Medical Center
Nouchine Hadjikhani
Nouchine Hadjikhani Harvard Medical School
Jeanette A. Mumford
Jeanette A. Mumford University of Wisconsin–Madison
F. Gregory Ashby
F. Gregory Ashby University of California, Santa Barbara

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