Rene Marois

Associate Professor of Psychology

Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Office: 530 Wilson Hall
Phone: (615) 322-1779
Fax: (615) 343-0449
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Degrees

Ph.D., Yale University, 1996.

Research Area

Research in my lab centers on the neural basis of attention in the human brain using fMRI and psychophysical tools. We 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?). We are also trying to understand the nature of the relationship between attention and awareness.

Representative Publications

Fougnie DL, Marois R. (2006). Distinct Capacity Limits for Attention and Working Memory. Evidence from Attentive Tracking and Visual Working Memory Paradigms. Psychological Science, in press.
Todd JJ, Fougnie, DL, Marois R. (2005) Visual Short-Term Memory Load Suppresses Right Temporo-Parietal Junction Activity and Induces Inattentional Blindness. Psychological Science, 16:965-972.
Marois R, Ivanoff J. (2005) Capacity limits of Information processing in the brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9:296-304.
Yi DJ, Woodman GF, Widders D, Marois R, Chun MM (2004) The neural representation of ignored visual events: Dissociable effects of perceptual attention and working memory attention. Nature Neuroscience 7:992-996.
Todd JJ, Marois R. (2004) The Capacity Limit of Visual Short-Term Memory in Human Posterior Parietal Cortex. Nature 428:751-753.
Marois R, Yi DJ, Chun, MM (2004) The neural fate of perceived and missed events in the attentional blink. Neuron. 41:465-472.
Marois, R. The Neural Basis of the Attentional Blink. In Neurobiology of Attention. (Itti L, Rees G, Tsotsos L, Eds.), in press, Academic Press.
Marois R. (2002) The cortical basis of motor planning: Does it take two to tango? Nature Neuroscience 5: 1254-1255.
Shafritz KM, Gore JC, Marois R (2002). The role of the parietal cortex in visual feature binding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 99(16):10917-10922.
Chun, M.M., Marois, R. (2002). The Dark Side of Attention. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 12:184-189.
Palmeri. T.J, Blake, R., Marois, R., Flanery, M.A., Whetsell, Jr., W. (2002). The perceptual reality of synesthetic colors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 99(6): 4127-4131.
Marois, R., Chun, M.M., Gore, J.C. (2000). Neural Correlates of the Attentional Blink. Neuron, 28: 299-308.
Marois, R., Leung, H.C., Gore, J.C. (2000). A stimulus-driven approach to object identity and location processing in the human brain. Neuron, 25:717-728.