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Carrasco, Marisa |
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New York University |
| Primary Field
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Psychological and Cognitive Sciences |
| Secondary Field
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Systems Neuroscience |
 Election Citation
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Carrasco's innovative deployment of psychophysical, chronometric, neuroimaging and neurostimulation methods has reveled how attention fundamentally shapes perception, and influences perceptual learning and visually-guided decisions and behavior.
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Research Interests
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Throughout her career, Carrasco has been interested in visual perception and how attention shapes perception. Together with her lab members and colleagues she has investigated with complementary techniques 'including psychophysics, neuroimaging, neurostimulation and neural modeling - how attention shapes perception, improves performance in a variety of visual tasks, and even alters the appearance of information across the visual field. In collaboration with others, Carrasco has expanded her research on visual perception and attention to include people diagnosed with neuropsychological conditions in which attention is compromised - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - to better characterize these deficits, and people with visual deficits - due to amblyopia or cortical blindness - for visual rehabilitation purposes.
Carrasco?s studies with converging methods and with intact and specialized populations have revealed how attention fundamentally shapes perception across the visual field, and how it improves perceptual learning and influences visually-guided decisions and behavior. As remarkable as the human visual system is, we are all inevitably limited by both bandwidth and processing power. Linking brain and behavior, Carrasco's research has advanced our understanding of how crucial visual attention is in optimizing the system?s limited capacity to shape our perception of the visual world. |
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