Curriculum Vitae
Education and Employment
| 2011 - present | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University |
| Dept. of Psychology | |
| Sponsor: Prof. George Alvarez | |
| 2006 - 2011 | Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Dept. Brain and Cognitive Sciences | |
| Advisor: Prof. Aude Oliva | |
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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 of Cog. Devel. (Spelke, Tenenbaum) 6.867 - Machine Learning (Jaakkola) 9.675 - Development of Face and Object Recognition (Sinha) | |
| 2002 - 2006 | B.A. (cum laude), Yale University |
| Cognitive Science | |
| Advisor: Prof. Marvin Chun | |
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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) | |
Recent Awards & Honors
| 2007 - 2011 | National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship |
| 2010 | Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching (teaching assistant for fMRI of High-Level Vision) |
| 2010 | Vision Sciences Society Travel Award |
| 2009 | Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching (teaching assistant for Laboratory in Visual Cognition) |
| 2008 | Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (teaching assistant for Introduction to Psychology) |
| 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 for Undergraduate Research, Yale University |
Research
Publications
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T, and Alvarez, G.A. (2011). A review of visual memory capacity: Beyond individual items and towards structured representations. Journal of Vision, 11(5):4, 1-34. Abstract. PDF. Open Access on JoV website.
Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G.A. (2011). Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory: ensemble statistics bias memory for individual items. Psychological Science, 22(3), 384-392. Abstract. PDF.
Park, S., Brady, T. F., Greene, M.R., and Oliva, A. (2011). Disentangling scene content from spatial boundary: Complementary roles for the PPA and LOC in representing real-world scenes. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(4), 1333-1340. Abstract. PDF.
Konkle, T.*, Brady, T. F.*, Alvarez, G.A. and Oliva, A. (2010). Scene memory is more detailed than you think: the role of categories in visual long-term memory. Psychological Science, 21(11), 1551-1556. Abstract. PDF. * = authors contributed equally
Brady, T. F. and Tenenbaum, J.B. (2010). Encoding higher-order structure in visual working memory: A probabilistic model. In S. Ohlsson & R.Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 411-416). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science. Abstract. PDF.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2010). Conceptual distinctiveness supports detailed visual long-term memory for real-world objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139(3), 558-78. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G. A. (2010). Ensemble statistics of a display influence the representation of items in visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 18 (1), 114-118. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., and Alvarez, G. A. (2009). Compression in visual working memory: using statistical regularities to form more efficient memory representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(4), 487-502. Abstract. 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.
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.
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.
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. Stimuli and Demos. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., and 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. 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. 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.
Manuscripts
Brady, T. F., and Oliva, A. (submitted). Spatial frequency integration during active perception: Perceptual hysteresis when an object recedes.
Brady, T. F., and Tenenbaum, J.B. (in preparation). A probabilistic model of visual working memory: Incorporating higher-order regularities into working memory capacity estimates.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G.A., and Oliva, A. (in preparation). Are real-world objects represented as bound units? Independent decay of object details from short-term to long-term memory.
Brady, T. F. (in preparation). Modeling continuous color report: Trial-by-trial variance in encoding and retrieval factors influences working memory capacity estimates.
Presentations
2011
Brady, T. F. (2011).
Trial-by-trial variance in visual working memory capacity estimates as a window into the architecture of working memory. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Sciences Society, Boston, MA. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A., & Oliva, A. (2011).
Are real-world objects represented as bound units? Independent decay of object details from short-term to long-term memory. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Abstract.
Rhee, J., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A. (2011).
Learning statistical regularities speeds the encoding of information into working memory. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Abstract.
Brady, T. F. (2011). Trial-by-trial variance in visual working memory capacity estimates as a window into the architecture of working memory. Talk presented at Visual Attention Seminar Series, Spring 2011. Abstract.
2010
Brady, T. F. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2010).
Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory. Talk presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Abstract.
Alvarez, G. A. & Brady, T. F. (2010).
Ensemble statistics influence the representation of items in visual working memory. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Abstract.
Brady, T. F. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2010).
Encoding higher-order structure in visual working memory: A probabilistic model. Talk presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR. Abstract.
2009
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.
Brady, T. F. (2009).
Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch.
Oliva, A., Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2009).
Remembering Thousands of Images with High Fidelity.
Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Boston, MA. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., Vul, E., & 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.
2008
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. Abstract.
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. Talk 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.
before 2008
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
Teaching Assistant Positions | |
| 2007 - 2010 | fMRI Visiting Fellowship Program, Dr. Robert Savoy |
| Martinos Imaging Center, Mass. Gen. Hospital | |
| 2007 - 2010 | Multi-Modality Short Course, Dr. Robert Savoy |
| Martinos Imaging Center, Mass. Gen. Hospital | |
| Fall 2009 | fMRI of High Level Vision, Prof. Nancy Kanwisher |
| MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences | |
| Awarded Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching | |
| Fall 2008 | Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Prof. Aude Oliva |
| MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences | |
| Awarded Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching | |
| Spring 2008 | Introduction to Psychology, Prof. John Gabrieli |
| MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences | |
| Awarded Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | |
Guest Lectures | |
| Working Memory | |
| Spring 2011 | Cognitive Processes, Prof. Molly Potter, MIT |
| Memory | |
| Spring 2011 | Cognitive Science Grad Seminar, Prof. Edward Gibson, MIT |
| Spring 2010 | Cognitive Science Grad Seminar, Prof. Edward Gibson, MIT |
| Neuroimaging methods | |
| Fall 2010 | Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Prof. Aude. Oliva, MIT |
| Fall 2008 | Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Prof. Aude. Oliva, MIT |
| The Cognitive Neuroscience of Scene Perception | |
| Fall 2010 | Cognitive Neuroscience, Prof. Sue Corkin, MIT |
| Fall 2008 | Cognitive Neuroscience, Prof. Sue Corkin, MIT |
| The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Working Memory | |
| Fall 2009 | fMRI of High Level Vision, Prof. Nancy Kanwisher, MIT |
| Writing a popular science article | |
| Fall 2009 | Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Prof. Aude. Oliva, MIT |
| Multi-voxel pattern analysis in fMRI | |
| Fall 2009 | Computational Visual Perception, Prof. Aude. Oliva, MIT |
Recent Science Outreach and Media Coverage
Science Outreach | |
| Fall 2009 | Dance, Dance, Evolution: The Origins of Music and Dance in Man and Birds Family program instructor, Harvard Museum of Natural History For middle school students and their families. |
| Spring 2009 Spring 2010 | What can visual illusions tell scientists about how the mind works? Host of booth at the Cambridge Science Festival |
| Jan. 2009 | Philosophy of Cognitive Science: Choose your own adventure Co-designer and teacher, week long class for MIT undergraduates and alumni |
| Dec. 2008 | Blurring the boundaries between perception and memory Article for Scientific American: Mind Matters |
| MIT Splash! and Spark! Weekend classes for 50-150 high school and middle school students: | |
| Fall 2010 | The development of the human mind. |
| Fall 2009 | How the mind works. Summary. |
| Spring 2009 | What do babies know? Summary. |
| Fall 2008 | Genetic and environmental influences on the mind and brain. Summary. |
| Spring 2008 | How the mind works: A tour of awesome findings in psychology. Summary. |
| Fall 2007 | Subliminal influences on your decisions. Summary. |
| Fall 2006 | Uncovering human nature: Evolution of the mind and brain. Summary. |
Media Coverage | |
| Paper: Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details | |
| Discover Magazine - Top 100 Science Stories of 2008. Articles in Scientific American, LiveScience, among others. Video interview on sciencentral.com (aired on ABC) | |
| Paper: Spontaneous motor entrainment to music in multiple vocal-learning species | |
| Radio interviews on NPR, CBS, BBC. Print articles in the Economist, NewScientist, BBC News (most emailed story of the week), among others. Video coverage on CNN, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Inside Edition, Good Morning America. | |
Peer Review
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Brain Research
Cognitive Science Society
Cognition
Consciousness and Cognition
Current Biology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Journal of Vision
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Neuropsychologia
Perception
Perception & Psychophysics
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Brain Research
Cognitive Science Society
Cognition
Consciousness and Cognition
Current Biology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Journal of Vision
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Neuropsychologia
Perception
Perception & Psychophysics
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Undergraduate Research Experience
| 2004 - 2006 | Research Assistant, Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab |
| Yale University, Department of Psychology Advisor: Prof. Marvin Chun | |
| Summer 2005 | Research Assistant, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition |
| Carnegie Mellon University Advisor: Prof. James L. McClelland | |
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
American Psychological Association (APA)
Cognitive Science Society
Vision Sciences Society
Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
American Psychological Association (APA)
Cognitive Science Society
Vision Sciences Society
Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology
Departmental Service
| 2007 - 2008 | Graduate Student 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, WinBUGS, C/C++/Win32/MFC |
| Web: | HTML, CSS, JScript, jQuery, Perl, PHP, Miva, SQL |
| OS: | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (Ubuntu) |
