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Overview

Thomas W. James is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular contributions in the subfields of Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Media Technology.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics, including Cryospheric studies and observations, Landslides and related hazards, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Remote-Sensing Image Classification, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Climate change and permafrost, and Energy Load and Power Forecasting.

Thomas W. James has published research in a range of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • International Journal of Remote Sensing
  • GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
  • Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment

Some notable recent papers by James and collaborators include:

  • Convolutional neural networks for water segmentation using sentinel-2 red, green, blue (RGB) composites and derived spectral indices, 2021, International Journal of Remote Sensing
  • Snow detection in alpine regions with Convolutional Neural Networks: discriminating snow from cold clouds and water body, 2022, GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Climate and environmental data contribute to the prediction of grain commodity prices using deep learning, 2023, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
  • MAPunet: High-resolution snow depth mapping through U-Net pixel-wise regression, 2025, Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment

The scientist often collaborates with a select group of co-authors. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Calogero Schillaci
  • Aldo Lipani
  • Niamh French
  • Yichen Lu
  • Zilin Wang

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Haptic study of three-dimensional objects activates extrastriate visual areas

    Thomas W. James;G.Keith Humphrey;Joseph S. Gati;Philip Servos

  • Differential effects of viewpoint on object-driven activation in dorsal and ventral streams

    Thomas W James;G.Keith Humphrey;Joseph S Gati;Ravi S Menon

  • Audiovisual integration in human superior temporal sulcus: Inverse effectiveness and the neural processing of speech and object recognition

    Ryan A. Stevenson;Thomas W. James

  • An fMRI study of the selective activation of human extrastriate form vision areas by radial and concentric gratings.

    Frances Wilkinson;Thomas W James;Hugh R Wilson;Joseph S Gati

  • Characterization of the Affective Norms for English Words by discrete emotional categories

    Ryan A. Stevenson;Joseph A. Mikels;Thomas W. James

  • Identifying and Quantifying Multisensory Integration: A Tutorial Review

    Ryan A. Stevenson;Dipanwita Ghose;Juliane Krueger Fister;Juliane Krueger Fister;Diana K. Sarko;Diana K. Sarko

  • Neural Synergy Between Kinetic Vision and Touch

    Randolph Blake;Kenith V. Sobel;Thomas W. James

  • Sex differences in remembering the locations of objects in an array: Location-shifts versus location-exchanges

    Thomas W James;Doreen Kimura

  • Letter processing in the visual system: Different activation patterns for single letters and strings

    Karin H. James;Thomas W. James;Gael Jobard;Alan C. N. Wong

  • The effects of visual object priming on brain activation before and after recognition.

    Thomas W. James;G.Keith Humphrey;Joseph S. Gati;Ravi S. Menon

  • Affective auditory stimuli: characterization of the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS) by discrete emotional categories.

    Ryan A. Stevenson;Thomas W. James

  • Repetition-induced changes in BOLD response reflect accumulation of neural activity

    Thomas W. James;Thomas W. James;Isabel Gauthier

  • Neural processing of asynchronous audiovisual speech perception.

    Ryan A. Stevenson;Nicholas A. Altieri;Sunah Kim;David B. Pisoni

  • The influence of conceptual knowledge on visual discrimination.

    Isabel Gauthier;Thomas W. James;Kim M. Curby;Michael J. Tarr

  • Auditory and action semantic features activate sensory-specific perceptual brain regions.

    Thomas W. James;Isabel Gauthier

  • The neural basis of haptic object processing.

    Thomas W. James;Sunah Kim;Jerry S. Fisher

  • Superadditive BOLD activation in superior temporal sulcus with threshold non-speech objects

    Ryan A. Stevenson;Marisa L. Geoghegan;Thomas W. James

  • Discrete neural substrates underlie complementary audiovisual speech integration processes

    Ryan A. Stevenson;Ross M. VanDerKlok;David B. Pisoni;Thomas W. James

  • Activation in the neural network responsible for categorization and recognition reflects parameter changes

    Robert M. Nosofsky;Daniel R. Little;Thomas W. James

Frequent Co-Authors

Ryan A. Stevenson
Ryan A. Stevenson University of Western Ontario
Melvyn A. Goodale
Melvyn A. Goodale University of Western Ontario
Isabel Gauthier
Isabel Gauthier Vanderbilt University
Ravi S. Menon
Ravi S. Menon University of Western Ontario
Joseph S. Gati
Joseph S. Gati University of Western Ontario
Peter R. Finn
Peter R. Finn Indiana University
Dale R. Sengelaub
Dale R. Sengelaub Indiana University
Erick Janssen
Erick Janssen KU Leuven
Julia R. Heiman
Julia R. Heiman Indiana University
Susan J. Lederman
Susan J. Lederman Queen's University

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