My main interest is human visual cognition – that is, I want to know how the brain provesses visual objects and scenes.

I have the pleasure to collaborate with a great set of scientist towards this goal in my lab.

In particular, the lab wants to find out (1) how the brain transforms sensory into abstract representations, (2) how exactly feed-forward and feedback information mediate vision, and (3) how plastic the underlying neural architecture is by studying visual cortex in the blind.

We use a combination of methods (fMRI, M/EEG, deep neural networks, behavioral assessment), and analyse data in an integrated framework using machine learning techniques and representational similarity analysis.

Cichy RM, Kriegeskorte N, Jozwik K, van den Bosch JJF, Charest I (2017) Neural dynamics of real-world object vision that guide behavior. biorXiv, doi: 10.1101/147298. bioRxiv

Ambrus GG*, Kaiser D*, Cichy RM, Kovács G (2018) The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition. biorXiv, doi: 10.1101/393652. bioRxiv

Mohsenzadeh Y, Mullin C, Lahner B, Cichy RM, Oliva A (2018) Reliability and Generalizability of Similarity-Based Fusion of MEG and fMRI Data in Human Ventral and Dorsal Visual Streams. biorXiv, doi: 10.1101/451526. biorXiv

Kaiser D, Cichy RM (2018) Typical visual-field locations facilitate access to awareness for everyday objects. Cognition 180: 118-122; doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.07.009. article bioRxiv data

Khaligh-Razavi SM, Cichy RM, Pantazis D, Oliva A (2018) Tracking the spatiotemporal neural dynamics of real-world object size and animacy in the human brain. JCognNeurosci 30(11): 1559-1576; doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01290.

Grootswager T, Cichy RM, Carlson T (2018) Finding decodable information that is read out in behaviour. Neuroimage 179: 252-262, doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.022. article bioRxiv

Chen Y, Cichy RM, Stennat W, Haynes JD (2018) Scale-specific analysis of fMRI data on the irregular cortical surface. Neuroimage 181: 370-381; doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.07.002. article bioRxiv

Pantazis D, Fang M, Qin S, Mohsenzadeh Y, Li Q, Cichy RM (2018) Decoding the orientation of contrast edges from MEG evoked and induced responses. Neuroimage 180:267-279; doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.07.022. article bioRxiv

Hebart MN, Bankson BB, Harel A, Baker CI*, Cichy RM* (2018) The representational dynamics of task and object processing in humans. eLife 2018;7:e32816, doi: 10.7554/eLife.32816. article bioRxiv

Kaiser D, Cichy RM (2018) Typical visual-field locations enhance processing in object-selective channels of human occipital cortex. JNeurophys; doi: 10.1152/jn.00229.2018. article data

Kaiser D, Moeskops MM, Cichy RM (2018) Typical real-world locations impact the time course of object coding. Neuroimage 176: 372:379; doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.05.0066. article bioRxiv data

Guggenmos G, Sterzer P, Cichy RM (2018) Multivariate pattern analysis for MEG: a comprehensive comparison of dissimilarity measures. Neuroimage, 173: 434-447; doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.044. matlab&python_tutorial bioRxiv article

Mohsenzadeh Y, Qin S, Cichy RM, Pantazis D (2018) Ultra-Rapid serial visual presentation reveals dynamics of feedforward and feedback processes in the ventral visual pathway. eLife 2018;7:e36329; doi: 10.7554/eLife.36329. article bioRxiv

Cichy RM, Pantazis D (2017) Multivariate pattern analysis of MEG and EEG: a comparison of representational structure in time and space. Neuroimage, 158:441-454. article bioRxiv data

Cichy RM, Teng S (2017) Resolving the neural dynamics of visual and auditory scene processing in the human brain: a methodological approach PhilTransRSocB, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0108. pdf

Cichy RM, Khosla A, Pantazis D , Oliva A (2017) Dynamics of scene representations in the human brain revealed by magnetoencephalography and deep neural networks Neuroimage, 153:346-358, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.03.063. article project_page biorxiv

Cichy RM, Pantazis D, Oliva A (2016) Similarity-based fusion of MEG and fMRI reveals spatio-temporal dynamics in human cortex during visual object recognition Cereb Cortex, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhw135. pdf project_page biorxiv

Cichy RM, Khosla A, Pantazis D, Torralba A, Oliva A (2016) Comparison of deep neural networks to spatio-temporal cortical dynamics of human visual object recognition reveals hierarchical correspondence SciReports, 6:27755. doi: 10.1038/srep27755. article project_page arxiv

Cichy RM, Pantazis D (2015) Can visual information encoded in cortical columns be decoded from magnetoencephalography data in humans? Neuroimage 121:193-204, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.011. pdf tics-spotlight arXiv

Guggenmos M, Thoma V, Haynes JD, Richardson-Klavehn A, Cichy RM*, Sterzer P* (2015) Spatial attention enhances object coding in local and distributed representations of the lateral occipital complex. Neuroimage 116:149:157, doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.004. pdf

Guggenmos M, Thoma V, Cichy RM, Haynes, JD, Sterzer P, Richardson-Klavehn R (2015) Non-holistic coding of objects in lateral occipital complex with and without attention. Neuroimage 107: 356-363; doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.013. article

Christophel TB, Cichy RM, Hebart MN, Haynes JD (2015) Parietal and early visual cortices encodes working memory across mental transformations. Neuroimage 106: 198-206, doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.018. article

Cichy RM, Pantazis D, Oliva A (2014) Resolving human object recognition in space and time. Nat Neurosci 17(3):455-62, doi: 10.1038/NN.3635. pdf news&views news project_page

Ramirez F, Cichy RM, Allefeld C, Haynes JD (2014) The neural code for face orientation in the human fusiform face area. J Neurosci 34(36):12155-67, doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3156-13.2014. pdf

Cichy RM, Sterzer P, Heinzle J, Haynes JD (2013) Probing principles of large-scale object representation: category preference and location encoding. Hum Brain Mapp 34(7):1636-51. pdf

Cichy RM, Heinzle J, Haynes JD (2012) Imagery and perception share cortical representations of content and location. Cereb Cortex 22(2):372-80. pdf

Cichy RM, Chen Y, Haynes, JD (2011) Encoding the identity and location of objects in human LOC. Neuroimage 54(3):2297-307. pdf

Schmidt S, Cichy RM, Kraft A, Brocke J, Irlbacher K, Brandt SA. (2009) An initial transient-state and reliable measure of corticospinal excitability in TMS studies. Clin Neurophysiol 120(5):987-93. pdf

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