Psychology Faculty

Sean MacEvoy

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

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Sean MacEvoy

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 503

Telephone: 617-552-4365

Email: sean.macevoy@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Brown University

Courses

PSYC1120 Introduction to Behavioral Statistics and Research I

PSYC1121 Introduction to Behavioral Statistics and Research II

PSYC2274 Sensation and Perception

PSYC3378 Vision

PSYC4474 Research Practicum in Sensory Psychology

PSYC5574 Neuroscience of Sensation and Perception

Research Interests

Human visual neuroscience, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and psychophysics: neural mechanisms of form perception and object recognition; perceptual learning; functional organization of the human visual cortex. History of neuroscience.

Curriculum Vitae

Department

Psychology

Representative Publications

MacEvoy, S.P. (2013) "What?" and "Where?" versus "What is Where?": The impact of task on coding of object form and position in the lateral occipital complex.聽Journal of Vision. 13(8):21, 1鈥�15.

MacEvoy, S.P., & Yang, Z. (2012). Joint neuronal tuning for object form and position in the human lateral occipital complex.聽NeuroImage. 63:1901-1908.

MacEvoy, S.P., & Epstein, R.A. (2011). Constructing scenes from objects in human occipitotemporal cortex.聽Nature Neuroscience,14,1323鈥�1329.

Morgan, L.K., MacEvoy, S.P., Aguirre, G.K., & Epstein, R.A. (2011) Distances between real-world locations are represented in the human hippocampus.聽Journal of Neuroscience. 31:1238-1245.

MacEvoy, S.P. & Epstein, R.A. (2009). Decoding the representation of multiple simultaneous objects in human occipitotemporal cortex.聽Current Biology, 19: 943-947.

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