Publications
Recent conference presentations:
Gobo, V.E., Liu, T.T., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P., Osborne, B., Bandettini, P.A., Kronemer, S.I. (submitted). Visual evoked pupil, blink, and eye movements in cortical blindness. Abstract submitted to the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Li, B., Liu, T.T., Cavanaugh, M.R., Bachmann, H.P., Fahrenthold, B.K., Japee, S., Huxlin, K.R., & Merriam, E.P. (2024, May). Patients with V1 damage exhibit increased orientation decoding in hMT+, but only if pulvinar is intact. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Bing Li received VSS 2024 Early Career Scientist Travel Grant]
Manuscript under review or in preparation:
Liu, T.T.#, Granovetter, M.C.#, Maallo, A.M.S., Roberts, S., Fu, J.Z., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (in preparation). Microgenesis of plasticity in human visual cortex following large cortical resection. (#co-first authors with equal contribution)
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.
Cavanaugh, M.R., Liu, T.T., Merriam, E.P., Duje, T., & Huxlin, K.R. (in preparation). Direction discrimination training recovers fine orientation perception in V1-damage fields.
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.
Kronemer, S.I., Gobo, V.E., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P., Osborne, B.J., Bandettini, P., & Liu, T.T. (in preparation). Visually evoked pupil, blink, and eye movements in cortical blindness.
2024
Liu, T.T. (2024). Unravelling nature and nurture in cortical (re)organization. Nature Review Neuroscience. 25, 451.
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.
2023
Bachmann, H.P., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P.*, Liu, T.T.* (2023). Emotion and anxiety interact to bias spatial attention. Emotion. (*co-senior authors with equal contribution). [American Psychological Association (APA) Showcase]
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]
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.
2022
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]
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
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。
2021
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.
2020
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.
2019
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]
2018
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.e6. [>70 news mentions, including Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, Medium, USA Today, CBS News, PBS News Hour]
2017 and before
Liu, T.T., & Behrmann, M. (2017). Functional outcomes following lesions in visual cortex: Implications for plasticity of high-level vision. Neuropsychologia, 105, 197-214.
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]
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.
Hsiao, J. H., & Liu, T.T. (2012). The optimal viewing position in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 12(2):22, 1-9.