Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 2006 - present | Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Dept. Brain and Cognitive Sciences | |
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Class list
9.011 - Systems Neuroscience (Miller, Wilson et al.)
9.720 - Neural Basis of Visual Object Recognition (Kanwisher, DiCarlo) 9.912 - Scene Understanding (Oliva) 9.012 - Cognitive Science (Gibson, Sinha, Tenenbaum) 9.660 - Computational Cognitive Science (Tenenbaum) 9.916 - Computational Models and Cognitive Development (Spelke, Tenenbaum) | |
| 2002 - 2006 | B.A. (cum laude), Yale University |
| Cognitive Science | |
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Class list
CPSC 323 - Systems Programming (Eisenstat) ITAL 115a - Elementary Italian (Vitagliano) MATH 120 - Calculus: Functions of Several Variables (Rogers) PSYC 110 - Intro to Psychology (Shahar) ART 135 - Introductory Photography (Hilliard) ITAL 115b - Elementary Italian (Ballarin-Denti) MATH 222 - Linear Algebra with Applications (Schultheiss) PHIL 119 - Death (Kagan)
ANTH 270 - Evolution and Human Behavior (Watts) ITAL 130a - Intermediate Italian (Vitagliano) PHIL 116 - Intro: Ancient Philosophy (Brennan) PSYC 130 - Intro to Cognitive Science (Hampton) PSYC 150 - Social Psychology (Eibach) CPSC 473 - Intelligent Robotics (Scassellati) ITAL 130b - Intermediate Italian (Vitagliano) PSYC 170 - Behavioral Neuroscience (Donegan) PSYC 171 - Sex, Evolution & Human Nature (Santos)
CGSC 201 - Introduction to the Human Brain (Arnsten) CPSC 470 - Artificial Intelligence (McDermott) CPSC 477 - Neural Networks for Computing (Miranker) MCDB 360 - Neurobiology (Forscher, Keshishian) PSYC 140 - Developmental Psychology (Keil) ANTH 242 - Physiology/Life History of Human Adaptabilty (Bribiescas) CPSC 475 - Computational Vision & Biological Perception (Zucker) PHIL 276 - Metaphysics (Cross) PSYC 324 - Cognitive Development (Wynn)
AMTH 244 - Discrete Mathematics (Frenkel)
CGSC 490a - Senior Colloquium and Project (Anderson) CPSC 180 - Computers and the Law (Dunne) PSYC 403 - Cognitive Science of Fiction and Imagination (Bloom) STAT 238 - Probability and Statistics (Chang) ANTH 267 - Human Evolution (Hill) CGSC 490b - Senior Colloquium and Project (Anderson) PHIL 272 - Philosophy of Mind (Woodbridge) PSYC 320 - Cognitive Neuroscience (Gray) | |
Research Experience
| 2006 - current | Doctoral Student, Computational Visual Cognition Lab |
| MIT, Dept. Brain and Cognitive Sciences Advisor: Dr. Aude Oliva | |
| 2004 - 2006 | Research Assistant, Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab |
| Yale University, Department of Psychology Advisor: Dr. Marvin Chun | |
| Summer 2005 | Research Assistant, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition |
| Carnegie Mellon University Advisor: Dr. James L. McClelland | |
Awards & Honors
| 2007 - 2011 | National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship |
| 2009 | Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching |
| 2008 | Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching |
| 2008 | European Conference on Visual Perception Travel Award |
| 2008 | Singleton Presidential Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2006 | Inducted into Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology |
| 2005 | Richter Fellowship, Yale University |
| 2003 | 2nd Place, Frosh Division, Northeast North America ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest |
| 2002 - 2006 | Olson Scholarship from the Educational and Cultural Fund of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ($28,000) |
Publications
Brady, T. F. and Chun, M. M. (2007). Spatial constraints on learning in visual search: Modeling contextual cueing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 33(4), 798-815. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F. and Oliva, A. (2008). Statistical learning using real-world scenes: extracting categorical regularities without conscious intent. Psychological Science, 19(7), 678-685. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2008). Efficient Coding in Visual Short-Term Memory: Evidence for an Information-Limited Capacity. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 887-892). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105 (38), 14325-14329. Abstract. Open Access on PNAS website. Project Website (includes stimuli and demos). PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Oliva, A. and Alvarez, G. A. (2009). Detecting changes in real-world objects: The relationship between visual long-term memory and change blindness. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2:1, 1-3. Abstract. Open Access on CIB website. PDF.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., Pepperberg, I. and Hauser, M. (2009). Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species. Current Biology, 19(10), 831-836. Abstract. Sample videos of birds dancing. PDF.
Junge, J. A., Brady, T. F. and Chun, M. M. (2009). The contents of perceptual hypotheses: evidence from rapid resumption of interrupted visual search. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71, 681-689. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2009). Compression in visual short-term memory: using statistical regularities to form more efficient memory representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(4), 487-502. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A. (in press). Ensemble statistics of a display influence the representation of items in visual working memory. Visual Cognition. Abstract. PDF.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (submitted). Conceptual distinctiveness supports detailed visual long-term memory for real-world objects.
Park, S.J., Brady, T. F., Greene, M.R., & Oliva, A. (submitted). Disentangling the neural representation of spatial layout and content in visual scenes.
Presentations
Brady, T. F. (2009).
Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., and, Hauser, M.D. (2009). Good vocal mimics are also good entrainers: Individual differences suggest a shared mechanism for entrainment and vocal mimicry. Presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Indianapolis, IN.
Oliva, A., Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2009).
Remembering Thousands of Images with High Fidelity.
Talks presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Boston, MA.
Brady, T. F., Vul, E., Frank, M.C., Alvarez, G.A., Tenenbaum, J.B. (2009).
Probabilistic models of change detection and multiple object tracking: How is working memory allocated in attentionally demanding tasks?
Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Boston, MA.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., and Oliva, A. (2009). Examining object representation via object memory: exemplar and state-level object properties are supported by the same underlying features. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Park, S., Greene, M. R., Brady, T. F., and Oliva, A. (2009). Natural scene categorization by global scene properties: Evidence from patterns of fMRI activity. Talk presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Alvarez, G. A., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Gill, J., and Oliva, A. (2009). Comparing the Fidelity of Perception, Short-term Memory, and Long-term Memory: Evidence for Highly Detailed Long-term Memory Representations. Talk presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Oliva, A., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., and Alvarez, G. A. (2009). The high fidelity of scene representation in visual long-term memory. Talk presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Invited talk at the University of Liège.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Poster presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2008). Efficient Coding in Visual Short-Term Memory: Evidence for an Information-Limited Capacity. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, DC.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., Pepperberg, I., & Hauser, M. (2008). Spontaneous entrainment to auditory rhythms in vocal-mimicking bird species. Talk presented at Music, Language and the Mind, Medford, MA. Abstract.
Brady, T. F. (2008). Tracking Statistical Regularities to Form More Efficient Memory Representations. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch, Spring 2008. Abstract.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., Pepperberg, I., & Hauser, M. (2008). Spontaneous entrainment to auditory rhythms in vocal-learning bird species. Poster presented at The Neurosciences and Music III (Neuromusic), Montreal, Canada. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A., and Oliva, A. (2008). Compression in Visual Short-term Memory: Using Statistical Regularities to Form More Efficient Memory Representations. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract published in the Journal of Vision, 8(6), pp. 199. Poster.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Talk presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract published in the Journal of Vision, 8(6), pp. 694.
Oliva, A. and Brady, T. F. (2008). Perceptual organization across spatial scales in natural images: Seeing more high spatial frequency than meet the eyes. Talk presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract published in the Journal of Vision, 8(6), pp. 71.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Poster presented at the Second Annual Tufts University Conference on Emerging Trends in Behavioral, Affective, Social, and Cognitive Neurosciences, Medford, MA. Abstract.
Oliva, A., Alvarez, G. A., Konkle, T., & Brady, T. F. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Natural Images With High Fidelity. Talk presented at the Scene Understanding Symposium, MIT. Abstract. Slides.
Brady, T. F. (2008). Tracking Statistical Regularities to Form More Efficient Memory Representations. Talk presented at Visual Attention Seminar Series, Spring 2008. Abstract.
Brady, T. F. and Oliva, A. (2007). Perceptual Organization Across Spatial Scales In Natural Images. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch, Fall 2007. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., and Oliva, A. (2007). Statistical learning of temporal predictability in scene gist. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract in the Journal of Vision, 7(9), pp. 1050. Poster.
Brady, T. F. and Oliva, A. (2007). Automatic and implicit encoding of scene gist. Talk presented at the Scene Understanding Symposium, MIT, Spring 2007. Abstract. Slides.
Brady, T. F. and Chun, M. M. (2006). The effects of local context in visual search. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch, Fall 2006. Abstract.
Recent Teaching Experience
| 2007 - 2009 | Teaching Assistant, fMRI Visiting Fellowship Program |
| Mass. Gen. Hospital Dr. Robert Savoy | |
| 2007 - 2009 | Teaching Assistant, Multi-Modality Short Course |
| Mass. Gen. Hospital Dr. Robert Savoy | |
| Fall 2009 | Teaching Assistant, fMRI of High Level Vision |
| MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher | |
| Fall 2009 | Guest Lecture, Computational Visual Perception (Title: Multi-voxel pattern analysis in fMRI) |
| MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Professor Sue Corkin | |
| Fall 2009 | Guest Lecture, fMRI of High Level Vision (Title: Visual Working Memory) |
| MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Professor Sue Corkin | |
| Fall 2008 | Guest Lecture, Cognitive Neuroscience (Title: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Scene Perception) |
| MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Professor Sue Corkin | |
| Fall 2008 | Teaching Assistant, Laboratory in Visual Cognition |
| MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Professor Aude Oliva | |
| Spring 2008 | Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Psychology |
| MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Professor John Gabrieli | |
Recent Science Outreach
| Fall 2009 | Designed and taught weekend class for high school students, How the mind works (150 students). |
| Fall 2009 | Taught/hosted family event Dance, Dance, Evolution for middle school students and their families. |
| Spring 2009 | Designed and taught weekend class for high school students, What do babies know? (50 students). Summary. |
| January 2009 | Co-designed and taught a week long class for MIT undergraduates, Philosophy of Cognitive Science: Choose your own adventure. Covered Computation, Perception, Consciousness, Induction/Learning and Free Will. |
| Fall 2008 | Designed and taught weekend class for high school students, Genetic and environmental influences on the mind and brain (50 students). Summary. |
| Spring 2008 | Designed and taught weekend class for high school students, How The Mind Works: A Tour of Awesome Findings in Psychology (50 students). Summary. |
| Fall 2007 | Designed and taught weekend class for high school students, Subliminal influences on your decisions (50 students). Summary. |
| Fall 2006 | Designed and taught weekend class for high school students, Uncovering Human Nature: Evolution of the Mind and Brain (70 students). Summary. |
Peer Review
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Brain Research
Cognitive Science Society
Consciousness and Cognition
Current Biology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Perception
Perception & Psychophysics
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Brain Research
Cognitive Science Society
Consciousness and Cognition
Current Biology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Perception
Perception & Psychophysics
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Membership in Professional Organizations
Association for Computing Machinery
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Association for Psychological Science
Cognitive Science Society
Vision Sciences Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Association for Psychological Science
Cognitive Science Society
Vision Sciences Society
Departmental Service
| 2007 - 2008 | Graduate Representative |
| 2006 - present | Creator/Manager of BCS-Subjects.com |
| Created and maintain bcs-subjects.com to allow online scheduling of experimental subjects. | |
Skills
| Programming: | Matlab/PsychToolbox, Python/VisionEgg, R/BUGS, C/C++/Win32/MFC, Java, Perl, VB, SQL |
| Web: | HTML, CSS, JScript, 'Ajax', 'dHTML', Perl, PHP, Miva |
| OS: | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (Ubuntu) |
