Publications

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Preprints

• • Gayet S, Battistoni E, Thorat S, Peelen MV (2023). Searching near and far: the attentional template incorporates viewing distance. PsyArXiv

  • Peelen MV, Berlot E, de Lange FP (2023). Predictive processing of scenes and objects. PsyArXiv

  • Aldegheri G, Gayet S, Peelen MV (2023). Scene context automatically drives predictions of object transformations. PsyArXiv

  • Hagen S, Zhao Y, Moonen L, Ulken N, Peelen MV (2023). What drives the automatic retrieval of real-world object size knowledge? PsyArXiv  

  • Brandman T, Peelen MV (2023). Objects sharpen scene representations: Evidence from MEG decoding. bioRxiv

  • Peelen MV, Downing PE (2022). Testing cognitive theories using multivariate pattern analysis of neuroimaging data. PsyArXiv

  • Han Q, Gandolfo M, Peelen MV (2022). Prior knowledge biases the perception of body postures. bioRxiv

  • Lerebourg M, de Lange FP, Peelen MV (2022). Expected distractor context biases the attentional template for target shapes. bioRxiv

Key publications (*equal contribution)

• • Gandolfo M, Nägele H, Peelen MV (2023). Predictive processing of scene layout depends on naturalistic depth of field. Psychol Sci 34:394-405

  • Yeh, LC, Peelen MV (2022). The time course of categorical and perceptual similarity effects in visual search. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 48:1069-1082

  • Thorat S, Peelen MV (2022). Body shape as a visual feature: evidence from spatially-global attentional modulation in human visual cortex. NeuroImage 255:119207

  • Gayet S, Peelen MV (2022). Preparatory attention incorporates contextual expectations. Curr Biol 32:687-692

  • Gao C, Shinkareva S, Peelen MV (2022). Affective valence of words differentially affects visual and auditory word recognition. J Exp Psychol Gen

  • Spaak E, Peelen MV*, de Lange FP* (2022). Scene context impairs perception of semantically congruent objects. Psychol Sci 33:299-313

  • Wischnewski M, Peelen MV (2021). Causal neural mechanisms of context-based object recognition. eLife 10:e69736

  • Willems RM*, Peelen MV* (2021). How context changes the neural basis of perception and language. iScience 24:102392

  • Wischnewski M, Peelen MV (2021). Causal evidence for a double dissociation between object- and scene-selective regions of visual cortex: A preregistered TMS replication study. J Neurosci 41:751-756

  • Stein T, Peelen MV (2021). Dissociating conscious and unconscious influences on visual detection effects. Nat Hum Behav 1-13

  • Quek GL, Peelen MV (2020). Contextual and spatial associations between objects interactively modulate visual processing. Cereb Cortex 30:6391-6404

  • Brandman T, Avancini C, Leticevscaia O, Peelen MV (2020). Auditory and semantic cues facilitate decoding of visual object category in MEG. Cereb Cortex 30:597-606 

  • Battistoni E, Kaiser D, Hickey C, Peelen MV (2020). The time course of spatial attention during naturalistic visual search. Cortex 122:225-234 

  • Thorat S, Proklova D, Peelen MV (2019). The nature of the animacy organization in human ventral temporal cortex. eLife 8:e47142

  • Kaiser D, Quek GL, Cichy RM, Peelen MV (2019). Object vision in a structured world. Trends Cogn Sci 23:672-685

  • Gayet S, Peelen MV (2019). Scenes modulate object processing before interacting with memory templates. Psychol Sci 30:1497-1509

  • Proklova D, Kaiser D, Peelen MV (2019). MEG sensor patterns reflect perceptual but not categorical similarity of animate and inanimate objects. NeuroImage 193:167-177 

  • Brandman T, Peelen MV (2019). Signposts in the fog: Objects facilitate scene representations in left scene-selective cortex. J Cogn Neurosci 31:390-400 

  • Stein T, Awad D, Gayet S, Peelen MV (2018). Unconscious processing of facial dominance: The role of low-level factors in access to awareness. J Exp Psychol Gen 147:e1-e13

  • Bracci S, Caramazza A, Peelen MV (2018). View-invariant representation of hand postures in the human lateral occipitotemporal cortex. NeuroImage 181:446-452 

  • Kaiser D, Peelen MV (2018). Transformation from independent to integrative coding of multi-object arrangements in human visual cortex. NeuroImage 169:334-341 

  • Peelen MV, Downing PE (2017). Category selectivity in human visual cortex: beyond visual object recognition. Neuropsychologia 105:177-183

  • Hickey C, Peelen MV (2017). Reward selectively modulates the lingering neural representation of recently attended objects in natural scenes. J Neurosci 37:7297-7304

  • Brandman T, Peelen MV (2017). Interaction between scene and object processing revealed by human fMRI and MEG decoding. J Neurosci 37:7700-7710

  • Battistoni E, Stein T, Peelen MV (2017). Preparatory attention in visual cortex. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1396:92-107

  • Stein T, Peelen MV (2017). Object detection in natural scenes: independent effects of spatial and category-based attention. Atten Percept Psychophys 79:738-752 

  • Kaiser D, Oosterhof NN, Peelen MV (2016). The neural dynamics of attentional selection in natural scenes. J Neurosci 36:10522-10528

  • Proklova D, Kaiser D, Peelen MV (2016). Disentangling representations of object shape and object category in human visual cortex: the animate-inanimate distinction. J Cogn Neurosci 28:680-692

  • Stein T, Peelen MV (2015). Content-specific expectations enhance stimulus detectability by increasing perceptual sensitivity. J Exp Psychol Gen 144:1089-1104

  • Hickey C, Peelen MV (2015). Neural mechanisms of incentive salience in naturalistic human vision. Neuron 85: 512-518

  • Bracci S, Caramazza A, Peelen MV (2015). Representational similarity of body parts in human occipitotemporal cortex. J Neurosci 35:12977-12985

  • Hickey C, Kaiser D, Peelen MV (2015). Reward guides attention to object categories in real-world scenes. J Exp Psychol Gen 144:264-273

  • Kaiser D, Stein T, Peelen MV (2014). Object grouping based on real-world regularities facilitates perception by reducing competitive interactions in visual cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111:11217-11222

  • Vangeneugden J*, Peelen MV*, Tadin D, Battelli L (2014). Distinct neural mechanisms for body form and body motion discriminations. J Neurosci 34:574-585

  • Peelen MV, Kastner S (2014). Attention in the real world: Toward understanding its neural basis. Trends Cogn Sci 18:242-250

  • Peelen MV, He C, Han Z, Caramazza A, Bi Y (2014). Nonvisual and visual object shape representations in occipitotemporal cortex: evidence from congenitally blind and sighted adults. J Neurosci 34:163-171

  • Bracci S, Peelen MV (2013). Body and object effectors: the organization of object representations in high-level visual cortex reflects body-object interactions. J Neurosci 33:18247-18258

  • Peelen MV, Bracci S, Lu X, He C, Caramazza A, Bi Y (2013). Tool selectivity in left occipitotemporal cortex develops without vision. J Cogn Neurosci 25:1225-1234

  • Peelen MV, Caramazza A (2012). Conceptual object representations in human anterior temporal cortex. J Neurosci 32:15728-15736

  • Seidl KN*, Peelen MV*, Kastner S (2012). Neural evidence for distractor suppression during visual search in real-world scenes. J Neurosci 32:11812-11819

  • Stein T, Sterzer P, Peelen MV (2012). Privileged detection of conspecifics: evidence from inversion effects during continuous flash suppression. Cognition 125:64-79

  • Bracci S, Cavina-Pratesi C, Ietswaart M, Caramazza A, Peelen MV (2012). Closely overlapping responses to tools and hands in left lateral occipitotemporal cortex. J Neurophysiol 107:1443-1456

  • Peelen MV, Kastner S (2011). A neural basis for real-world visual search in human occipitotemporal cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:12125-12130

  • Peelen MV, Atkinson AP, Vuilleumier P (2010). Supramodal representations of perceived emotions in the human brain. J Neurosci 30:10127-10134

  • Peelen MV, Glaser B, Vuilleumier P, Eliez S (2009). Differential development of selectivity for faces and bodies in the fusiform gyrus. Dev Sci 12:F16-25

  • Peelen MV, Fei-Fei L, Kastner S (2009). Neural mechanisms of rapid natural scene categorization in human visual cortex. Nature 460:94-97

  • Peelen MV, Downing PE (2007). The neural basis of visual body perception. Nat Rev Neurosci 8:636-648

  • Downing PE, Wiggett AJ, Peelen MV (2007). fMRI investigation of overlapping lateral occipitotemporal activations using multi-voxel pattern analysis. J Neurosci 27:226-233

  • Peelen MV, Downing PE (2007). Using multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data to interpret overlapping functional activations. Trends Cogn Sci 11:4-5

  • Peelen MV, Wiggett AJ, Downing PE (2006). Patterns of fMRI activity dissociate overlapping functional brain areas that respond to biological motion. Neuron 49:815-822

  • Peelen MV, Downing PE (2005). Selectivity for the human body in the fusiform gyrus. J Neurophysiol 93:603-608