Michael J. Tarr

Michael J. Tarr is an American cognitive neuroscientist who currently holds the Kavčić-Moura Professorship in Cognitive and Brain Science. He is a Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University[1] and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[2]

Education

He earned his B.A at Cornell University in 1984 and his Ph.D at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]

Research

He is an expert in mental perception and the brain registering the vision of 2D into perception.[2] His highest cited paper is Activation of the middle fusiform'face area'increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects[4] at 1265 times, according to Google Scholar.[5]

Publications
  • Tarr, M. J., & Aminoff, E. M. (2016). Can Big Data Help Us Understand Human Vision? In M. Jones (Ed.), Big Data in Cognitive Science. Taylor & Francis: Psychology Press.
  • Aminoff, E. M., Toneva, M., Shrivastava, A., Chen, X., Misra, I., Gupta, A., & Tarr, M. J. (2015). Applying artificial vision models to human scene understanding. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 9.
  • Leeds, D. D., Pyles, J. A., & Tarr, M. J. (2014). Exploration of complex visual feature spaces for object perception. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 8(106).
  • Yang, Y., Tarr, M. J., & Kass, R. E. (2014). Estimating learning effects: A short-time Fourier transform regression model for MEG source localization. In Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence: MLINI 2014: Machine learning and interpretation in neuroimaging.
  • Leeds, D. D., Seibert, D. A., Pyles, J. A., & Tarr, M. J. (2013). Comparing visual representations across human fMRI and computational vision. J. of Vision. 13(13).

References
  1. "Michael Tarr". cmu.edu. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  2. "Michael J. Tarr named 2017 AAAS Fellow". thetartan.org. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  3. "Lab". cmu.edu. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  4. Isabel Gauthier, Michael J Tarr, Adam W Anderson, Pawel Skudlarski, John C Gore. Activation of the middle fusiform'face area'increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects. 2:6. Nature neuroscience. 1996
  5. "Michael J. Tarr". scholar.google.com. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
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