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Dr. Frank Tong
Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology
This year's winner of the VSS Young Investigator Award is Frank Tong, Associate Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. In the nine
years since receiving his PhD from Harvard, Frank has established himself as one of the most creative, productive young vision scientists in our field.
His research artfully blends psychophysics and brain imaging to address
important questions about the neural bases of awareness and object
recognition. He has published highly influential papers that have been
instrumental in shaping current thinking about the neural bases of
multistable perception, including binocular rivalry. Moreover, Frank has
played a central role in the development and refinement of powerful analytic technique for deriving reliable population signals from fMRI data, signals
that can predict perceptual states currently being experienced by an
individual. Using these pattern classification techniques, Frank and his
students have identified brain areas that contain patterns of neural
responses sufficient to support orientation perception, motion perception
and working memory.
The YIA award will be presented at the Keynote Address on
Saturday, May 9, at 7:30 pm.
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