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(615) 322-1779
530 Wilson Hall
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Education
Ph.D., Yale University, 1996.
Curriculum Vitae
Current Courses
- Nuro 330 Cognitive Neurosciences
- PSY 316 Brain Image Methods
- PSY 201 Introduction to Neuroscience
Advising
René Marois
Professor of Psychology
Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Director of Graduate Studies
Research in the Marois lab centers on the neural basis of attention in the human brain using fMRI and psychophysical tools. They are particularly interested in understanding the neural basis of attentional capacity limits (why can we attend only to very few objects at a time? Why can't we select or execute more than one task at a time?). They are also trying to understand the nature of the relationship between attention and awareness.
Representative Publications
- Asplund, C.L., Todd, J.J., Snyder, A.P., Gilbert, C.M., & Marois, R. (in press). Surprise-induced Blindness: A Stimulus-driven Attentional Limit to Conscious Perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
- Asplund, C.L., Todd, J.J., Snyder, A.P., & Marois, R. (2010). A central role for the lateral prefrontal cortex in goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention. Nature Neuroscience, 13: 507-512.
- Fougnie, D.L., & Marois, R. (2009). Dual-task interference in visual working memory: A limitation in storage capacity but not in encoding or retrieval. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 71:1831-1841.
- Dux, P.E., Tombu, M.N., Harrison, S., Rogers, B.P., Tong, F., & Marois, R. (2009). Training improves multitasking performance by increasing the speed of information processing in human prefrontal cortex. Neuron, 63: 127-138.
- Ivanoff, J.I., Branning, P., & Marois, R. (2009). Mapping the pathways of Information Processing from Sensation to Action in Four Distinct Sensorimotor tasks. Human Brain Mapping, 30:4167-4186.
- Dux, P.E., & Marois, R. (2009). How humans search for targets through time: A review of data and theory from the attentional blink. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71:1683-700.
- Fougnie, D., & Marois, R. (2009). Attentive tracking disrupts feature binding in visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 17, 48-66.
- Ivanoff J, Branning P, Marois R. (2008) fMRI evidence for a dual process account of the speed-accuracy tradeoff in decision-making. PLoS ONE. Jul 9; 3(7):e2635
- Fougnie DL, Marois R. (2007). Executive Load in Working Memory Induces Inattentional Blindness. Psychonomic Bulletin Review 14, 142-147.
- Dux P, Ivanoff, J., Asplund, C., & Marois R. (2006). Isolation of a central bottleneck of information processing with time-resolved fMRI. Neuron, 52: 1109-1120.