Hsieh, Po-Jang Brown

Research Interests:

I am interested in understanding how the human brain is able to perceive and experience the world. In particular, our lab studies the human neural bases of perception, attention, and consciousness with functional brain imaging (fMRI), neural decoding methods, and psychophysical techniques.

Selected Publications:

Hsieh, P.-J., Colas, J.T., and Kanwisher, N. (in press). Pop-out without awareness: Unseen feature singletons capture attention only when top-town attention is available. Psychological Science.

de Graaf, T.A., Hsieh, P.-J., Sack, A.T. (in press). The 'correlates' in neural correlates of consciousness. Neuroscience and Behavioral Reviews.

Hsieh, P.-J., Vul, E., and Kanwisher, N. (2010). Recognition alters the spatial pattern of fMRI activation in early retinotopic cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 103, 1501-1507. (PDF)

Hsieh, P.-J., and Tse, P.U. (2010). 'Brain-reading' of perceived colors reveals a feature mixing mechanism underlying perceptual filling-in in cortical area V1. Human Brain Mapping. 31, 1395-1407. (PDF)

Hsieh, P.-J., and Tse, P.U. (2009). Feature mixing rather than feature replacement during perceptual filling-in. Vision Research. 49, 439-50. (PDF)

Hsieh, P.-J., and Tse, P.U. (2009). Motion fading and the motion aftereffect share a common process of neural adaptation. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. 71, 724-33. (PDF)

Hsieh, P.-J., and Tse, P.U. (2007). Grouping inhibits motion fading by giving rise to virtual trackable features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 33, 57-63. (PDF).

Hsieh, P.-J., Caplovitz, G.P., and Tse, P.U. (2006). Bistable Illusory Rebound Motion: Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging of perceptual states and switches. NeuroImage. 32, 728-739. (PDF).

Hsieh, P.-J., and Tse, P.U. (2006). Illusory color mixing upon perceptual fading and filling-in does not result in 'forbidden colors'. Vision Research. 46, 2251-58. (PDF).

Hsieh, P.-J., Caplovitz, G.P., and Tse, P.U. (2005). Illusory Rebound Motion and Motion Continuity Heuristic. Vision Research. 45, 2972-2985. (PDF).