I am a cognitive neuroscientist studying visual perception. Broadly, I'm interested in how our brains generate perceptual experience, and the neural dynamics that support dynamic perception. I study these topics using psychophysical, neuroimaging (M/EEG, fMRI), and computational modeling methods. I'm doing my PhD training with Rachel Denison at BU, after a foray into the field with Marisa Carrasco at NYU. Before then, I did my undergraduate studies at Yale. In the intervening years, I worked in visual design. I like to draw many things, but am often asked to draw brains.
Selected publications and preprints
Tian, K.J.*, Maniscalco, B.*, Epstein, M.L., Shen, A., Graham Castaneda, O., Kurosawa, T., Motzer, J.A., Olsson, E., Russell, E.E., Walsh, M.E., Wang, J., Bek Awrang Zeb, T., Brown, R., Lamme, V.A.F., Lau, H., He, B.J., Brascamp, J.W., Block, N., Chalmers, D., Peters, M.A.K.†, & Denison, R.N.†. (2025). Attention robustly dissociates objective performance and subjective visibility reports. bioRxiv.
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