The Carrasco Lab

Our lab investigates the relation between the psychological and physiological mechanisms involved in the basic processes of visual perception and attention.

[Hsing-Hao Lee @hsinghaolee]

Check out our new paper showing that both endogenous and exogenous attention enhance contrast sensitivity uniformly across meridians despite differential adaptation effects!

[Shutian Xue @ShutianXue73367]

Thrilled to share our work now on bioRxiv:
👉 https://t.co/kjzzVb6QJ7

With Antoine, Jared, Qingyuan and Marisa, we reveal distinct computations underlying performance variation across eccentricity and around polar angle.

[Marc Himmelberg @marchimmelberg]

Our new paper 'Unpacking the V1 map: Differential covariation of preferred spatial frequency and cortical magnification across spatial dimensions' is now available in @PLOSCompBiol https://t.co/hihCZUbAqS

[Hsing-Hao Lee @hsinghaolee]

Check out our new preprint on bioRxiv! "Polar angle asymmetries persist despite covert spatial attention and differential adaptation"
@carrasco_lab

https://t.co/EuFgyIya8X

[Shutian Xue @ShutianXue73367]

Excited to share my work on Sunday at 9am in Talk room 1!
Come nerd out with me about both patterns and chaos of the brain! #VSS2025

[Hsing-Hao Lee @hsinghaolee]

Tomorrow morning (May 18, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm) I will be presenting my poster with @carrasco_lab at @VSSMtg at Pavilion
Endogenous attention enhances contrast sensitivity similarly around cardinal meridians despite differential adaptation effects!
#VSS2025

[Rachel Qingyuan Chen @Rachel_QC77]

Looking forward to presenting my work with @hsinghaolee, Klara Hoxha, Antonio Fernández, Nina Hanning and Marisa
Carrasco, titled “Does human right frontal eye field (rFEF+) play a critical role in exogenous attention?” at @VSSMtg this year! @carrasco_lab

[Journal of Vision @ARVOJOV]

New in the Temporal Evolution of Visual Perception Issue https://t.co/uio91aF0Ej, Aysun Duyar & Marisa Carrasco put their Eyes on the Past: Gaze Stability Differs Between Temporal Expectation and Temporal Attention, https://t.co/QJVp0MewCu.
@aysunduyar @carrasco_lab

[Hsing-Hao Lee @hsinghaolee]

Our new preprint is now on bioRxiv!
'Visual adaptation stronger at horizontal than vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area' @carrasco_lab

https://t.co/S0LnB9ynVN

[Hsing-Hao Lee @hsinghaolee]

Our paper is out in iScience!

In the study, we used TMS to reveal the interaction between visual adaptation and exogenous attention in the early visual cortex.

@carrasco_lab

https://t.co/LFKsg8poKu

[Karen Tian @kan_tian]

New paper on the neural dynamics of temporal attention—a long time in the making! w @rndenison @carrasco_lab @djheeger. How does the brain prepare to see well precisely when we need to?

https://t.co/nTbPPzv1E8

[Simran Purokayastha (she/her) @simpurokayastha]

Happy to share that our paper (@carrasco_lab) examining spatial and temporal patterns of microsaccades and whether or not they are modulated as a function of discriminability differences around the visual field has just been published in Journal of Vision!

[Hsing-Hao Lee @hsinghaolee]

I will be presenting my poster: Visual adaptation is more pronounced at the horizontal than vertical meridian in @VSSMtg
You are welcome to stop by and say hi!

@carrasco_lab #VSS2024

[Laura Dugué @lauradugue]

Carrasco Lab, postdoc office 955 reunion!
@AmitYashar @rndenison @hsinhungli Petra and Stephanie former @carrasco_lab postdocs 🎉

[Aysun @aysunduyar]

More findings on temporal attention from @carrasco_lab @VSSMtg !

Come visit our poster on Monday Morning at Pavillion to hear more on the interaction between temporal attention and expectation!

[Aysun @aysunduyar]

Come visit my poster @VSSMtg on Sunday Morning at Pavillion!
I will present our work @carrasco_lab on how temporal attention and expectation jointly modulate microsaccades!

[Hsing-Hao Lee @hsinghaolee]

Check out our posters in @VSSMtg this year!
I will be presenting "Visual adaptation is more pronounced at the horizontal than vertical meridian" on Tuesday morning. You are welcome to stop by and share your thoughts!

@carrasco_lab

[Marc Himmelberg @marchimmelberg]

Hello everyone I have a VSS poster on Saturday morning that is about how cortical magnification and spatial frequency tuning >covary< throughout the V1 visual field representation -and among individual observers- if you are interested. The tldr is that they indeed covary!

[Shutian Xue @ShutianXue73367]

Excited to present my work with Antoine Barbot, Rachel Chen and Marisa Carrasco on “Internal noise and efficiency underlie performance asymmetries throughout the visual field” at @VSSMtg! @carrasco_Lab

Mark our poster session next Wednesday (5/22) at 8:30am in Banyan Breezeway!

[Rachel Denison @rndenison]

My review of temporal attention is out in @NatRevPsych! It covers key conceptual issues, data, and models in the field of visual temporal attention, and I hope it will be useful to both experts and those new to the topic
Web: https://t.co/xaIgFnI3ub
PDF: https://t.co/B9woztY6Ft