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Professor of Psychology, Neural Science
Ph.D. 1989 (psychology), M.A. 1986 (psychology), Princeton; Licentiate in Psychology 1984 (human experimental psychology), National University (Mexico).
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Research Interests: the relation between psychological and physiological mechanisms of visual perception and attention, visual search, psychophysics.
Affiliations: American Association of University Women, American Psychological Society, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Psychonomic Society, Sigma Xi, Vision Sciences.
Fellowships/Honors: Guggenheim Fellow, 1999-2000; Cattell Sabbatical Fund Fellow, 1999-2000; NSF Young Investigator Award, 1993-1998.
Selected Works:
Selected works:
Liu, T., Larsson, J. & Carrasco, M. (2007). Feature-based attention
modulates orientation-selective responses in human visual cortex.
Neuron, 55, 313-323.
Pestilli, F. & Carrasco, M. (2007). How do attention and adaptation
affect contrast sensitivity? Journal of Vision, 7 (7), 1-12.
Ling, S., & Carrasco, M. (2006). When sustained attention impairs
perception. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 1243-1245.
Liu, T., Pestilli, F., & Carrasco, M. (2005). Transient attention
enhances performance and fMRI response in human visual cortex. Neuron,
45, 469-477.
Carrasco, M., Ling, S., & Read, S. (2004). Attention alters
appearance. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 308-313.
Carrasco, M., McElree, B., Denisova, K., & Giordano, A.M. (2003).
Speed of visual processing increases with eccentricity. Nature
Neuroscience, 6, 669-670.
Carrasco, M. & McElree, B. (2001). Covert attention speeds the
accrual of visual information. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science, 98, 5363-5367.
Yeshurun, Y., & Carrasco, M. (2000). The locus of attentional
effects in texture segmentation. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 622-627.
Carrasco, M., Penpeci-Talgar, C., & Eckstein, M. (2000). Spatial
attention increases contrast sensitivity across the CSF: Support for
signal enhancement. Vision Research, 40,1203-1215.
Yeshurun, Y., & Carrasco, M. (1998). Attention improves or impairs
visual performance by enhancing spatial resolution. Nature, 396, 72-75.
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