Nava Rubin: Publications

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Journal Articles and Book Chapters     (Peer-reviewed, unless marked with * as invited contribution)

Honey, C.J., Thesen, T., Donner, T.H., Silbert, L.J., Carlson, C.E., Devinsky, O., Doyle, W., Rubin, N., Heeger, D. and Hasson, U (2012), Slow Cortical Dynamics and the Accumulation of Information over Long Timescales. Neuron 76, 423-434. [PDF]

Vessel, E.A., Starr, G.G. and Rubin, N. (2012), The brain on art: intense aesthetic experience activates the default mode network. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6:66 [doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00066]

Lerner, Y., Singer, N., Gonen, T., Weintraub, Y., Cohen, O., Rubin, N., Ungerleider, L.G. and Hendler, T. (2012), Feeling without seeing? Engagement of ventral, but not dorsal, amygdala during unaware exposure to emotional faces. J of Cognitive Neuroscience 24, 531-542.

Ofan, R., Rubin, N. and Amodio, D. (2011), Seeing race: N170 responses to race and their relation to automatic racial attitudes and controlled processing. J of Cognitive Neuroscience 23, 3153-3161. [PDF]

Ludmer, R., Dudai, Y. and Rubin, N. (2011), Uncovering Camouflage: amygdala activation predicts long-term memory of induced perceptual insight. Neuron 69, 1002-1014. [PDF]

Moreno-Bote, R., Shpiro, A., Rinzel, J. and Rubin, N. (2010), Alternation rate in perceptual bistability is maximal at and symmetric around equi-dominance. Journal of Vision 10 (11), 1-18. [PDF]

Vessel, E.A. and Rubin, N. (2010), Beauty and the beholder: Highly individual taste for abstract, but not real-world images. Journal of Vision 10 (2), 1-14. [PDF]

Shpiro, A., Moreno-Bote, R., Rubin, N. and Rinzel, J. (2009), Balance between noise and adaptation in competition models of perceptual bistability. J Comput Neurosci 27, 37-54. [PDF]

Moreno-Bote, R., Shpiro, A., Rinzel, J. and Rubin, N. (2008), Bi-stable depth ordering of superimposed moving gratings. Journal of Vision 8 (Special Issue on Perceptual Organization), 1-13. [PDF]

Hasson, U., Landesman, O., Knappmeyer, B., Vallines, I., Rubin, N. and Heeger, D. (2008), Neurocinematics: The neuroscience of films. Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind 2, 1-26. [PDF]

Hasson, U., Yang, E., Vallines, I., Heeger, D. and Rubin, N. (2008), A hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in human cortex. J Neuroscience 28, 2539-50. [PDF]

Curtu, R., Shpiro, A., Rubin, N. and Rinzel, J. (2008), Mechanisms for frequency control in neuronal competition models. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 7, 609-649. [PDF]

Dinstein, I., Hasson, U., Rubin, N. and Heeger, D.J. (2007), Visual and motor adaptation in the human mirror system. J Neurophysiol 98, 1415-27. [PDF]

Moreno-Bote, R., Rinzel, J. and Rubin, N. (2007), Noise-induced alternations in an attractor network model of perceptual bi-stability. J Neurophysiol 98, 1125-39. [PDF]

Shpiro, A., Curtu, R., Rinzel, J. and Rubin, N. (2007), Dynamical characteristics common to neuronal competition models. J Neurophysiol 97, 462-473. [PDF]

Heller, R., Stanley, D.A., Yekutieli, D., Rubin, N. and Benjamini, Y. (2006) Cluster based analysis of fMRI data. NeuroImage 33, 599-608. [PDF]

Stanley, D.A. and Rubin, N. (2005), Rapid detection of salient regions: evidence from apparent motion. Journal of Vision 5, 690-701. [PDF] [Demo]

Imber M.L., Shapley, R.M. and Rubin, N. (2005), Differences in real and illusory shape perception revealed by backward masking. Vision Research 45, 91-102. [PDF]

*Rubin, N. and Hupe, J.M. (2004), Dynamics of perceptual bi-stability: plaids and binocular rivalry compared. In: Alais, D. and Blake, R. (Eds.), Binocular Rivalry , MIT Press. [PDF]

Hupe, J.M. and Rubin, N. (2004), The oblique plaid effect. Vision Research 44, 489-500. [PDF]

*Rubin, N. (2003), Binocular rivalry and perceptual multi-stability. Trends in Neuroscience 26, 289-291. [PDF]

Hupe, J.M. and Rubin, N. (2003), The dynamics of bi-stable alternation in ambiguous motion displays: a fresh look at plaids. Vision Research 43, 531-548. [PDF] [Demo]

*Shapley, R.M., Rubin, N. and Ringach, D. (2003), Visual segmentation and illusory contours. In: Chalupa, L.M. and Werner, J.S. (Eds.), The Visual Neurosciences , MIT Press. [PDF]

Stanley, D.A. and Rubin, N. (2003), fMRI activation in response to illusory contours and salient regions in the human Lateral Occipital Complex. Neuron 37, 323-331. [PDF]

*Shapley, R. and Rubin, N. (2002), Vision: Brain Mechanisms. In: Ramachandran, V.S. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Human Brain , Academic Press. [PDF]

Pillow, J. and Rubin, N. (2002), Perceptual completion across the vertical meridian and the role of early visual cortex. Neuron 33, 805-813. [PDF]

*Rubin, N., Nakayama, K. and Shapley, R. (2002), The role of insight in perceptual learning: evidence from illusory contour perception. In: Fahle, M. and Poggio, T. (Eds.), Perceptual Learning , MIT Press. [PDF]

Caudek, C. and Rubin, N. (2001), Segmentation in structure from motion: modeling and psychophysics. Vision Research 41, 2715-2732. [PDF]

*Rubin, N. (2001), Figure and ground in the brain. Nature Neuroscience 4, 857-858. [PDF]

Rubin, N. (2001), The role of junctions in surface completion and contour matching. Perception 30, 339-366. [PDF]

Pao, H., Geiger, D. and Rubin, N. (1999), Measuring convexity for Figure/Ground separation. IEEE Proc Intl Conf Computer Vision , 948-955. [PDF]

*Geiger, D., Kumaran, K., Pao, H., and Rubin, N. (1999), The shape of illusory figures. IEEE Proc Intl Conf Image Processing 2, 6-10. [PDF]

Geiger, D., Pao, H. and Rubin, N. (1998), Salient and multiple illusory surfaces. IEEE Proc Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , 118-124. [PDF]

Rubin, N., Nakayama, K. and Shapley, R. (1997), Abrupt Learning and Retinal Size Specificity in Illusory Contour Perception. Current Biology 7, 461-467. [PDF]

Rubin, N., Nakayama, K. and Shapley, R. (1996), Enhanced perception of illusory contours in the lower vs. upper visual hemifield. Science 271, 651-653. [PDF]

Wuerger, S. Shapley, R. and Rubin, N. (1996), "On the visually perceived direction of motion" by Hans Wallach: 60 years later. Perception 25, 1317-1368. [PDF]

Hirsch, J., DeLaPaz, R.L., Relkin, N.R., Victor, J., Kim, K., Borden, P., Rubin, N. and Shapley, R. (1995), Illusory contours activate specific regions in human visual cortex: evidence from functional magnetic resonance. Proc Natl Acad Sci 92, 6469-6473. [PDF]

Rubin, N., Solomon, S. and Hochstein, S. (1995), Restricted ability to recover 3D global motion from 1D motion signals: Theoretical observations. Vision Research 35, 569-578. [PDF]

Rubin, N., Hochstein, S. and Solomon, S. (1995), Restricted ability to recover 3D global motion from 1D motion signals: Psychophysical observations. Vision Research 35, 463-476. [PDF]

Rubin, N. and Hochstein, S. (1993), Isolating the effect of 1D motion signals on the perceived direction of moving 2D objects. Vision Research 33, 1385-1396. [PDF] [Demo]

Golomb, D., Rubin N. and Sompolinsky, H. (1990), The Willshaw Model: associative memory with sparse coding and low firing rates. Physics Review A 41, 1843-1854. [PDF]

Rubin, N. and Sompolinsky, H. (1989), Neural networks with low local firing rates. Europhysics Letters 10, 465-470. [PDF]



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