About

Michael A. Paradiso is the Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Professor of Neuroscience, and Director of Brown's Center for Vision Research. After earning a PhD in physics at Brown, he was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and an associate scientist at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. He joined the Brown faculty in 1990. His research investigates brain mechanisms underlying vision, with a focus on neurophysiology, perception, and vision. Paradiso serves as the Chairman of the National Eye Institute's Central Visual Processing Study Section, reviews federal grant submissions for vision research, and is Principal Investigator of a training grant supporting graduate training in vision research. He is also involved in editorial roles for the Journal of Vision and Vision Research and has served on the executive committee of the Vision Sciences Society. Additionally, he is a coauthor of a leading introductory neuroscience textbook and is the course director of NEUR 0010 (Introduction to the Brain) at Brown University. Paradiso has received awards for teaching excellence, including the Elizabeth H. LeDuc Award and the Brown University Undergraduate Council of Students Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Neuroscience
• Medicine
• Biology
• Psychology
• Cognitive psychology

Selected publications

• Perceptual enhancement and suppression correlate with V1 neural activity during active sensing

  Current Biology · 2022 · 12 citations

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
  • Neuroscience
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• Transsacadic Information and Corollary Discharge in Local Field Potentials of Macaque V1

  Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience · 2019-01-14 · 4 citations

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  Approximately three times per second, human visual perception is interrupted by a saccadic eye movement. In addition to taking the eyes to a new location, several lines of evidence suggest that the saccades play multiple roles in visual perception. Indeed, it may be crucial that visual processing is informed about movements of the eyes in order to analyze visual input distinctly and efficiently on each fixation and preserve stable visual perception of the world across saccades. A variety of studies has demonstrated that activity in multiple brain areas is modulated by saccades. The hypothesis tested here is that these signals carry significant information that could be used in visual processing. To test this hypothesis, local field potentials (LFPs) were simultaneously recorded from multiple electrodes in macaque primary visual cortex (V1); support vector machines (SVMs) were used to classify the peri-saccadic LFPs. We find that LFPs in area V1 carry information that can be used to distinguish neural activity associated with fixations from saccades, precisely estimate the onset time of fixations, and reliably infer the directions of saccades. This information may be used by the brain in processes including visual stability, saccadic suppression, receptive field (RF) remapping, fixation amplification, and trans-saccadic visual perception.

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• Männliches und weibliches Gehirn

  2018-01-01 · 2 citations

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• Neuronen und Gliazellen

  2018-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Die Entstehung neuronaler Schaltkreise

  2018-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Bewegungskontrolle durch das Gehirn

  2018-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Die Struktur des Nervensystems

  2018-01-01 · 2 citations

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• Neurowissenschaften

  2018-01-01 · 35 citations

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• Das Aktionspotenzial

  2018-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Das auditorische und das vestibuläre System

  2018-01-01 · 2 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01EY009050

  NIH · $3.7M · 2012

• Interdisciplinary Vision Training Program

  NIH · $1.9M · 2007–2022

• NIH Grant R29EY009050

  NIH · $302k · 1996

• Neural investigation of the dual role of saccadic eye movements in visual perception

  NSF · $550k · 2013–2018

Frequent coauthors

• Barry W. Connors

  164 shared

• Mark F. Bear

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  122 shared

• James E. Niemeyer

  New York Hospital Queens

  25 shared

• Sean P. MacEvoy

  Boston College

  22 shared

• Andrew F. Rossi

  National Institutes of Health

  19 shared

• Xin Huang

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  18 shared

• Shinsuke Shimojo

  California Institute of Technology

  17 shared

• Ichiro Fujita

  Ritsumeikan University

  16 shared

Labs

• Biology and MedicinePI

Education

• Ph.D., Physics

  Brown

• Other, Miller Research Fellow

  University of California, Berkeley

• Other, Associate Scientist

  Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

Awards & honors

• Elizabeth H. LeDuc Award for Teaching Excellence in the Life…
• Brown University Undergraduate Council of Students Award for…