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Marisa Carrasco, a professor of psychology and neural science at New York University, uses human psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to investigate the relation between the psychological and neural mechanisms involved in visual perception and attention.
Carrasco has published more than 100 papers in the most prestigious scientific journals, including Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Neuron, Current Biology, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychological Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, as well as the most prestigious specialized journals in her field, including Journal of Vision and Vision Research. In addition, she has written several authoritative reviews regarding the behavioral effects and neuronal bases of visual attention.
She has made numerous seminal contributions in visual perception and attention. These include documenting the central role of physiological factors in visual search, characterizing how attention affects early vision, and developing experiments to investigate the underlying mechanisms. One of her most influential findings shows that attention alters appearance. An old question believed to be outside the realm of scientific study, Carrasco developed an innovative behavioural paradigm that has now become a standard in assessing the effects of attention and awareness, a critical question in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy, Most recently, Carrasco has expanded her research to include special populations.
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