Professor Gregory McCarthy

Lab News

Zarrar Shehzad and Gregory McCarthy have a poster at Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2016 entitled “Distributed or Localized Neural Representations For Visual Categories?”. The work addresses debates in the literature on the neural representation of visual category information. A localized model has argued that each category is selective to domain-specific brain areas, whereas a distributed model posits that multiple areas contribute information to each category.
Adam, in collaboration with Emily Ward and Monica Rosenberg from the Chun lab, published a research letter in PNAS. In the article, they use a machine learning approach to question recent assertions that “there is no such thing as a male and a female brain”.
Our second year graduate student Adam has had his research article published in the Lancet Psychiatry. In the article, they develop a brief questionnaire, in combination with a machine learning pipeline that uses information at baseline to predict whether an individual patient will respond to Citalopram, a first-line antidepressant treatment. The model outperformed practicing psychiatrists, and performed above chance when used to predict outcomes prospectively in an independent clinical trial.  
Na Yeon Kim and Dr. McCarthy’s paper entitled, “Task influences pattern discriminability for faces and bodies in ventral occipitotemporal cortex” has been published in Social Neuroscience as of January 27, 2016. The project started as a summer project of undergraduates, Irene Jiang and Nicole Minkina. Check out our publications page for more article information.
Congratulations to Su Mei Lee, Ph.D. She will be a Research Fellow with the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. We wish her the best of luck!
Our first year graduate student Adam has had a Letter published in the British Medical Journal. In collaboration with Dr. John Krystal in Psychiatry, Adam argues that algorithmic treatment selection may offer a solution to the problem of treatment selection in Major Depressive Disorder.  The article is available as a short letter online and in print, and a full-length version is available as an online-only Rapid Response. 
A new collaborative paper with the Johnson lab has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Electrophysiological correlates of refreshing: Event-related potentials associated with directing reflective attention to face, scene, or word representations. Johnson, Matthew; McCarthy, Gregory; Muller, Kathleen; Brudner, Samuel;  Johnson, Marcia Abstract:

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