Publications

2025
Shifting Attention to You: Personalized Brain-Inspired AI Models

Stephen Chong Zhao, Yang Hu, Jason Lee, Andrew Bender, Trisha Mazumdar, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar

arXiv

2024
Identifying Behavioral Correlates to Visual Comfort

David A. Tovar, James Wilmott, Xiuyun Wu, Daniel Martin, Michael Proulx, Dave Lindberg, Yang Zhao, Olivier Mercier, Phillip Guan

SIGGRAPH Asia

Assessing Translational Applicability of Perineuronal Net Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease Across Species

Aarun S. Hendrickson, Kendra L. Francis, Asmit Kumar, Jaden P. Le, Jarrad M. Scarlett, C. Dirk Keene, David A. Tovar, Kimberly M. Alonge

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Investigating the Emergence of Complexity from the Dimensional Structure of Mental Representations

Trisha Mazumdar, Vivian Cai, Stephen Zhao, Jason Lee, Andrew Bender, Adaline Leong, Jad El Harake, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Brain-Inspired Embedding Model: Scaling and Perceptual Fine-tuning

Stephen Chong Zhao, Jason Lee, Andrew Bender, Trisha Mazumdar, Adaline Leong, Prince Owusu Nkrumah, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

The Role of Image Quality in Shaping Neural Network Representations and Performance

Jason Lee, Prince Owusu Nkrumah, Stephen Chong Zhao, William J. Quackenbush, Adaline Leong, Trisha Mazumdar, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Language Evolution in Large Language Models and Humans: A Comparative Analysis of Developmental Linguistics Across Ages and Sensory Modalities

Gina Yu, Jad El Harake, Stephen Chong Zhao, Jason Lee, Andrew Bender, Trisha Mazumdar, Adaline Leong, Prince Owusu Nkrumah, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Primary Visual Pathway Changes in Chronic Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Participants: A Case-Control Study

Marselle A. Rasdall, Chloe Cho, Amy N. Stahl, David A. Tovar, Patrick Lavin, Cailey I Kerley, Qingxia Chen, Xiangyu Ji, Marcus H. Coyler, Lucas Groves, Reid Longmuir, Amy Chomsky, Martin J. Gallagher, Adam Anderson, Bennet A. Landman, Tonia S. Rex

JAMA Ophthalmology

2023
Near-field potentials index local neural computations more accurately than population spiking

David A. Tovar, Jacob A. Westerberg, Michele A. Cox, Kacie Dougherty, Mark T. Wallace, Andre M. Bastos, Alexander Maier

bioRxiv

AI Literature Review Suite

David A. Tovar

arXiv

Exploring the interplay of age and pedagogy in the maturation of error-monitoring

Solange Denervaud, David A. Tovar, Jean-François Knebel, Emeline Mullier, Yasser Alemán-Gómez, Patric Hagmann, Micah Murray

Mind, Brain and Education

2021
Getting the gist faster: Blurry images enhance the early temporal similarity between neural signals and convolutional neural networks

David A. Tovar, Tijl Grootswagers, James Jun, Oakyoon Cha, Randolph Blake, Mark T. Wallace

bioRxiv

Visual Influences on Auditory Behavioral, Neural, and Perceptual Processes: A Review

Collins Opoku-Baah, Adriana M. Schoenhaut, Sarah G. Vassall, David A. Tovar, Ramnarayan Ramachandran, Mark T. Wallace

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

2020
The neural computations for stimulus presence and modal identity diverge along a shared circuit

David A. Tovar, Jean-Paul Noel, Yumiko Ishizawa, Shaun R. Patel, Emad N. Eskandar, Mark T. Wallace

bioRxiv

Selective enhancement of object representations through multisensory integration

David A. Tovar, Micah Murray, Mark Wallace

Journal of Neuroscience

Stimulus Feature-Specific Information Flow Along the Columnar Cortical Microcircuit Revealed by Multivariate Laminar Spiking Analysis

David A. Tovar, Jacob A. Westerberg, Michele A. Cox, Kacie Dougherty, Thomas A. Carlson, Mark T. Wallace, Alexander Maier

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

2019
Novel procedure for generating continuous flash suppression: Seurat meets Mondrian

Oakyoon Cha, Gaeun Son, Sang Chul Chong, David A. Tovar, Randolph Blake

Journal of Vision

2015
A rotational cylindrical fMRI phantom for image quality control

David A. Tovar, Wang Zhan, Sunder S. Rajan

PLoS ONE

Emerging Object Representations in the Visual System Predict Reaction Times for Categorization

J Brendan Ritchie, David A. Tovar, Thomas A Carlson

PLoS Computational Biology

2013
Representational dynamics of object vision: The first 1000 ms

Thomas Carlson, David A. Tovar, Arjen Alink, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Journal of Vision