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Marisa Carrasco
New York UniversityORCID 0000-0002-1002-9056Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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2018-2026 · peak 9/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
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- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintDOI 10.64898/2026.11.05.764720
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Endogenous attention is invariant to sequential effects in performance around the visual field
Hsing-Hao Lee, Marisa Carrasco
The paper reanalyzes data from three studies to assess sequential effects on response and whether endogenous attention modulates performance across visual field locations and trial history, finding no sequential attention effects.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Featural representation and internal noise around the visual field
Shutian Xue, Michael S. Landy, Marisa Carrasco
The paper investigates visual field asymmetries by analyzing feature weighting and internal noise in orientation detection, finding that horizontal-vertical asymmetry is linked to feature processing and noise, while vertical asymmetry is less explained by tested components.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
A retinotopic wiring principle of the human brain
Gabriele Amorosino, Bradley A. Caron, Junbeom Kwon…·Franco Pestilli
The paper shows that structural connectivity in the human visual cortex preserves retinotopic organization, revealing a retinotopic wiring principle and systematic perceptual asymmetries in early visual cortex connectivity.
- NeuroscienceCerebral CortexPeer-reviewed
Visual Field Inhomogeneities and the Architectonics of Early Visual Cortex Shape Visual Working Memory
Julia Papiernik-Kłodzińska, Simon Hviid Del Pin, Kristian Sandberg…·Renate Rutiku
The paper examines how architectural properties of early visual cortex, particularly visual field inhomogeneities, predict individual differences in visual working memory performance.
- NeuroscienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Distinct System-Level Computations Underlie Perceptual Variation Across the Visual Field
Shutian Xue, Antoine Barbot, Jared Abrams…·Marisa Carrasco
The paper investigates how system-level computations like gain, noise, and nonlinearity vary with eccentricity and polar angle in human visual perception, revealing distinct mechanisms underlying perceptual differences.
1 citation - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Transcranial magnetic stimulation to frontal cortex, unlike occipital stimulation, does not disrupt exogenous attention
Qingyuan Chen, Hsing-Hao Lee, Nina M. Hanning, Marisa Carrasco
This study uses TMS to show that rFEF+ is not required for exogenous attention, contrasting with V1/V2's role, revealing distinct neural mechanisms for voluntary and involuntary attention.
DOI 10.64898/2026.04.10.717799 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Dynamic cortical routing mediates temporal attention
Jiating Zhu, Karen J. Tian, Marisa Carrasco, Rachel N. Denison
This study investigates how temporal attention affects neural communication by routing stimulus information through specific cortical pathways using MEG.
DOI 10.64898/2026.04.03.716160 - NeuroscienceJournal of VisionPeer-reviewed
Covert spatial attention is uniform across cardinal meridians despite differential adaptation
Hsing-Hao Lee, Marisa Carrasco
This study examines how endogenous and exogenous covert attention affect orientation discrimination at cardinal meridians with and without adaptation, finding uniform effects across meridians despite differential adaptation.
- NeurosciencePLoS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewed
Unpacking the V1 map: Differential covariation of preferred spatial frequency and cortical magnification across spatial dimensions
Marc M. Himmelberg, Yuna Kwak, Marisa Carrasco, Jonathan A. Winawer
The paper examines how cortical magnification and preferred spatial frequency in V1 covary with eccentricity and polar angle, finding proportionality in eccentricity but not polar angle.
- NeuroscienceiSciencePeer-reviewed
Visual field asymmetries vary between adolescents and adults
Marisa Carrasco, Caroline Myers, Mariel S Roberts
This study shows that horizontal vertical anisotropy (HVA) and vertical meridian asymmetry (VMA) develop gradually during adolescence, reaching adult levels in late adolescence.
7 citations - NeuroscienceJournal of VisionPeer-reviewed
Temporal attention and oculomotor effects dissociate distinct types of temporal expectation
The paper investigates how temporal precision and hazard rate expectations interact with temporal attention to affect fixational stability through oculomotor responses.
2 citations - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Asymmetries in foveal vision
Samantha K Jenks, Marisa Carrasco, Martina Poletti
This study investigates visual asymmetries in the foveola and finds that perceptual asymmetries persist, with reversed vertical meridian effects compared to more eccentric locations.
- NeuroscienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Visual adaptation stronger at horizontal than vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area
Hsing-Hao Lee, Marisa Carrasco
The paper investigates how visual adaptation affects contrast sensitivity across meridians and finds stronger adaptation along the horizontal meridian, correlating with V1 cortical surface area.
- NeuroscienceJournal of VisionPeer-reviewed
Eyes on the past: Gaze stability differs between temporal expectation and temporal attention
The paper investigates how temporal expectation and attention affect gaze stability and microsaccade timing, finding that attention consistently improves performance and stabilizes gaze, while preceding foreperiods modulate these effects differently.
- NeurosciencePNAS NexusPeer-reviewed
Temporal attention amplifies stimulus information in fronto-cingulate cortex at an intermediate processing stage
Jiating Zhu, Karen J. Tian, Marisa Carrasco, Rachel N. Denison
The paper investigates how voluntary temporal attention enhances visual stimulus representation in fronto-cingulate cortex at an intermediate processing stage, rather than in visual cortex.
6 citations - NeuroscienceJournal of VisionPeer-reviewed
How the window of visibility varies around polar angle
Yuna Kwak, Zhong‐Lin Lu, Marisa Carrasco
This paper investigates how contrast sensitivity function (CSF) attributes vary with polar angle in the visual field using hierarchical Bayesian modeling, finding differences in sensitivity and consistency across meridians.
8 citations - NeuroscienceNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Anticipatory and evoked visual cortical dynamics of voluntary temporal attention
Rachel N. Denison, Karen J. Tian, David J. Heeger, Marisa Carrasco
This study investigates how voluntary temporal attention modulates visual cortical responses using SSVER and MEG, finding both pre-target and post-target mechanisms.
16 citations - NeuroscienceiSciencePeer-reviewed
Adaptation and exogenous attention interact in the early visual cortex: A TMS study
5 citations - NeuroscienceeNeuroPeer-reviewed
Presaccadic attention enhances and reshapes the Contrast Sensitivity Function differentially around the visual field
Yuna Kwak, Yukai Zhao, Zhong‐Lin Lu…·Marisa Carrasco
This study shows presaccadic attention enhances and reshapes the contrast sensitivity function (CSF) across spatial frequencies, with greater effects at horizontal meridians.
14 citations - NeuroscienceJournal of VisionPeer-reviewed
Do microsaccades vary with discriminability around the visual field?
Simran Purokayastha, Mariel S Roberts, Marisa Carrasco
This study examines whether microsaccades vary with stimulus discriminability across the visual field and finds they do not adapt flexibly to changes in discriminability.
1 citation - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
How spatial attention alters visual cortical representation during target anticipation
Ekin Tünçok, Marisa Carrasco, Jonathan A. Winawer
This study shows spatial attention alters visual cortex responses before target onset, improving performance at cued locations and changing neural response properties across visual field maps.
15 citations - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Presaccadic attention depends on eye movement direction and is related to V1 cortical magnification
Nina M. Hanning, Marc M. Himmelberg, Marisa Carrasco
The paper shows presaccadic attention enhances contrast sensitivity for horizontal and downward saccades but not upward, and links this to V1 cortical magnification.
29 citationstop 4% - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Featural representation and internal noise underlie the eccentricity effect in contrast sensitivity
Shutian Xue, Antonio Fernández, Marisa Carrasco
The paper investigates how featural representation and internal noise contribute to the eccentricity effect in contrast sensitivity, finding that the fovea has better feature representation and lower noise than perifoveal regions.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Pre-saccadic Preview Shapes Post-Saccadic Processing More Where Perception is Poor
Xiaoyi Liu, David Melcher, Marisa Carrasco, Nina M. Hanning
The paper shows that pre-saccadic previews influence post-saccadic processing more in areas of poor peripheral vision, revealing compensation for visual field asymmetries.
- NeuroscienceeLifePeer-reviewed
Cortical magnification eliminates differences in contrast sensitivity across but not around the visual field
Michael Jigo, Daniel Tavdy, Marc M. Himmelberg, Marisa Carrasco
The paper investigates whether cortical magnification affects contrast sensitivity across and around the visual field, finding it eliminates differences across eccentricity but not around polar angle.
- NeuroscienceNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Comparing retinotopic maps of children and adults reveals a late-stage change in how V1 samples the visual field
Marc M. Himmelberg, Ekin Tünçok, Jesse Gomez…·Jonathan A. Winawer
The paper compares retinotopic maps in children and adults, finding that children have similar V1 surface area for upper and lower vertical meridians, while adults show asymmetry, indicating a late-stage developmental change.
- NeuroscienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Transcranial magnetic stimulation to frontal but not occipital cortex disrupts endogenous attention
Antonio Fernández, Nina M. Hanning, Marisa Carrasco
This study uses TMS to disrupt activity in rFEF+ and V1/V2 to determine their causal role in endogenous attention, finding that rFEF+ disruption weakens attentional benefits and costs, while V1/V2 disruption does not affect endogenous attention.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Dissociable roles of human frontal eye fields and early visual cortex in presaccadic attention -- evidence from TMS
Nina M. Hanning, Antonio Fernández, Marisa Carrasco
This paper investigates the causal roles of human frontal eye fields (FEF) and early visual cortex in presaccadic attention using TMS, showing differential effects on perceptual benefits and costs.