Publications

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1. Ventura, P., Pereira, A. & Liu, T.T. (under review). Category specificity in holistic processing: reciprocal face-word interference does not extend to body stimuli.

2. Liu, T.T., Cavanaugh, M.R., Bachmann, H.P., Li, B., Fahrenthold, B.K., Japee, S., Huxlin, K.R., & Merriam, E.P. (in preparation). Bypassing V1: Orientation selectivity in hMT+ of cortically-blinded patients.

3. Ock, E. Y., Joynes, C., Liu, T.T., Merriam, E.P. (in preparation). Distinct modulation of FEF during orienting and reorienting of exogenous and endogenous attention.

4. Rispoli, B., Zaghloul, K., Inati, S., & Liu, T.T. (in preparation). Homotopic reorganization of the visual word form area following surgical resection of connected cortex.

2025  

5. Kronemer, S.I., Gobo, V.E., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P., Osborne, B.J., Bandettini, P., & Liu, T.T. (accepted). Eye metrics are a marker of visual neural processing and conscious awareness in cerebral blindness. Communications Biology. Preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.06.631506

6. Ventura, P., Pereira, A. Cruz., F., & Liu, T.T. (in press). Relational processing of faces in paintings varying along a realism continuum. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
   
   

7. Liu, T.T.*, Granovetter, M.C.*, Maallo, A.M.S., Roberts, S., Fu, J.Z., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2025). Cross-sectional and longitudinal changes in category-selectivity in visual cortex following pediatric cortical resection. Communications Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08554-2 (*co-first authors with equal contribution) 

2024

8. Liu, T.T. (2024). Unravelling nature and nurture in cortical (re)organization. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 25, 451. 

9. Simmons, C., Granovetter, M.C., Robert, S., Liu, T.T., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2024). Holistic processing and expertise effects after pediatric resection of occipitotemporal cortex. Neuropsychologia. 194, 108789.

10. Bachmann, H.P., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P.*, Liu, T.T.* (2024). Emotion and anxiety interact to bias spatial attention. Emotion. 24(4), 1109–1124. (*co-senior authors with equal contribution). [American Psychological Association (APA) Showcase]

2023 and earlier

11. Ventura, P.#, Liu, T.T.#, Cruz, F., Banha, A., Domingues, M., Guerreiro, J. C., & Delgado, J. (2023). From Perugino to Picasso: holistic processing of faces in paintings. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication (#co-first authors with equal contribution)  [American Psychological Association (APA) Showcase]

12. Yang, F.N., Liu, T.T., Wang, Z. (2023). Corticostriatal connectivity mediates the relationship between sleep and impulsivity in early adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(11), 1545–1554.  

13. Liu, T.T., Fu, J.Z., Chai, Y., Japee, S., Gang, C., Ungerleider, L.G., & Merriam, E.P. (2022). Layer-specific, retinotopically-diffuse modulation in human visual cortex in response to viewing emotionally expressive faces. Nature Communications, 13(1), 6302. Check out this news story which showcases Jason Fu, my postbac and the study’s second author: SOM Student Jason Fu, SOM Class of 2025, Published His Study in Nature Communications

14. Ventura, P., Liu, T.T., Cruz., F., & Pereira, A. (2023). The mechanisms supporting holistic perception of words and faces are not independent. Memory & Cognition, 51, 966–981. [Psychonomic Society Featured Content]

15. Yang, F.N., Liu, T.T., Wang, Z. (2022). Functional connectome mediates the association between sleep disturbance and mental health in preadolescence: a longitudinal mediation study. Human Brain Mapping, 43(6), 2041-2050.

16. Chai, Y., Liu, T.T., Marrett, S., Li, L., Khojandi, A., Handwerker, D. A., Alink, A., Muckli, L., Bandettini, P. A. (2021). Topographical and laminar distribution of audiovisual processing within human planum temporale. Progress in Neurobiology, 205, 102121.

17. Maallo, A.M.S., Freud, E., Liu, T.T., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2020). Effects of unilateral cortical resection of the visual cortex on bilateral human white matter. NeuroImage, 207, 116345.

18. Liu, T.T.#, Freud, E.#, Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2019). Perceptual function and category-selective neural organization in children with resections of visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 3160-18. (#co-first authors with equal contribution) [12 news mentions, including Newsweek, Science Daily, American Academy of Ophthalmology, NIH News]

19. Liu, T.T., Nestor, A., Vida, M., Pyles, J., Patterson, C., Yang, Y., Yang, F.N., Freud, E., & Behrmann, M. (2018). Successful reorganization of category-selective visual cortex following occipito-temporal lobectomy in childhood. Cell Reports, 24(5), 1113-1122.  [>70 news mentions, including Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, Medium, USA Today, Science Daily, etc]

20. Liu, T.T., & Behrmann, M. (2017). Functional outcomes following lesions in visual cortex: Implications for plasticity of high-level vision. Neuropsychologia, 105, 197-214.

21. Liu, T.T., & Behrmann, M. (2014). Impaired holistic processing of left-right composite faces in congenital prosopagnosia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 750. [This article is part of the Research Topic Facing the other: Novel theories and methods in face perception research]

22. Liu, T.T., Oxner, M., Hayward, W. G., & Behrmann, M. (2014). Holistic processing for left-right composite faces in Chinese and Caucasian observers. Visual Cognition, 22(8), 1050-1071.

23. Hsiao, J. H., & Liu, T.T. (2012). The optimal viewing position in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 12(2):22, 1-9.