Frank Tong
Centennial Professor of Psychology
Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Frank Tong studies the neural bases of visual perception, attention, face and object recognition, and visual working memory, by using computational approaches to analyze behavioral performance and human neuroimaging data. His lab uses advanced multivariate approaches to decode detailed information from brain activity patterns, and modeling-based approaches to characterize human behavioral performance. Techniques in the lab include visual psychophysics, high resolution fMRI at 7T, computational modeling, and most recently, comparisons between human perception and convolutional neural networks.
Representative Publications
Top cited
Kamitani, Y., & Tong, F. (2005). Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain. Nature neuroscience, 8(5), 679-685.
Harrison, S. A., & Tong, F. (2009). Decoding reveals the contents of visual working memory in early visual areas. Nature, 458(7238), 632-635.
Tong, F., Nakayama, K., Vaughan, J. T., & Kanwisher, N. (1998). Binocular rivalry and visual awareness in human extrastriate cortex. Neuron, 21(4), 753-759.
Tong, F., Meng, M., & Blake, R. (2006). Neural bases of binocular rivalry. Trends in cognitive sciences, 10(11), 502-511.
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Honors
2006 - Young Investigator Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society
2008 - Chancellor's Award for Research, Vanderbilt University
2009 - Young Investigator Award, Vision Sciences Society
2010 - Troland Research Award, National Academy of Sciences
2012-2016 - Board of Directors, Vision Sciences Society
2014 - present Editorial Committee, Annual Review of Psychology