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Michael J. Tarr is an American cognitive neuroscientist who currently holds the Kavčić-Moura Professorship in Cognitive and Brain Science. He is a Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University[1] and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[2]

Education

He earned his B.A at Cornell University in 1984 and his Ph.D at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]

Research

He is an expert in mental perception and the brain registering the vision of 2D into perception.[2] His highest cited paper is Activation of the middle fusiform'face area'increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects[4] at 1265 times, according to Google Scholar.[5]

Publications

  • Tarr, M. J., & Aminoff, E. M. (2016). Can Big Data Help Us Understand Human Vision? In M. Jones (Ed.), Big Data in Cognitive Science. Taylor & Francis: Psychology Press.
  • Aminoff, E. M., Toneva, M., Shrivastava, A., Chen, X., Misra, I., Gupta, A., & Tarr, M. J. (2015). Applying artificial vision models to human scene understanding. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 9.
  • Leeds, D. D., Pyles, J. A., & Tarr, M. J. (2014). Exploration of complex visual feature spaces for object perception. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 8(106).
  • Yang, Y., Tarr, M. J., & Kass, R. E. (2014). Estimating learning effects: A short-time Fourier transform regression model for MEG source localization. In Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence: MLINI 2014: Machine learning and interpretation in neuroimaging.
  • Leeds, D. D., Seibert, D. A., Pyles, J. A., & Tarr, M. J. (2013). Comparing visual representations across human fMRI and computational vision. J. of Vision. 13(13).

References

  1. ^ "Michael Tarr". cmu.edu. Retrieved September 29, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b "Michael J. Tarr named 2017 AAAS Fellow". thetartan.org. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  3. ^ "Lab". cmu.edu. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  4. ^ Isabel Gauthier, Michael J Tarr, Adam W Anderson, Pawel Skudlarski, John C Gore. Activation of the middle fusiform'face area'increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects. 2:6. Nature neuroscience. 1996
  5. ^ "Michael J. Tarr". scholar.google.com. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
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