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

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.
Dux, P.E., & Marois, R. (in press). How humans search for targets through time: A review of data and theory from the attentional blink. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
Dux, P. E., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. (2009). Both exogenous and endogenous target salience manipulations support resource depletion accounts of the attentional blink: A reply to Olivers, Spalek, Kawahara & Di Lollo. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 219-224.
Fougnie, D., & Marois, R. (2009). Attentive tracking disrupts feature binding in visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 17, 48-66.
Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. (2008). Distractor inhibition predicts individual differences in the attentional blink. PLoS ONE, 3, e3330.
Buckholtz, J.W., Asplund, C.L., Dux, P., Zald, D.H., Gore, J.C., Jones, O.W., & Marois, R. (2008). The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment. Neuron, 30, 930-940.
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
Dux, P. E., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. (2008). An attentional blink for sequentially presented targets: Evidence in favor of resource depletion accounts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 809-813.
Dux P, Marois R. (2007). Repetition Blindness is Immune to the Central Bottleneck. Psychonomic Bulletin Review 14, 729-734.
Fougnie DL, Marois R. (2007). Executive Load in Working Memory Induces Inattentional Blindness. Psychonomic Bulletin Review 14, 142-147.