James M. Brown, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Behavior and Brain Sciences Program
- Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo, 1985
- Office: Room 502
- Ph: (706) 542-8045
- Fax: (706) 542-3275
- Email: jmbrown {at} uga dt edu
Research Interests
Visual perception, information processing, attention
Recent Publications
Bedwell, J. S., Brown, J. M., & Orem, D. M. (2008). The effect of a red background on location backward masking by structure. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 503-507.
Brown, J. M., & Denney, H. I. (2007). Shifting attention into and out of objects: Evaluating the processes underlying the object advantage. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 606-618.
Bedwell, J.S., Miller, L.S., Brown, J.M., and Yanasak, N.E. (2006). Schizophrenia and red light: fMRI evidence for a novel biobehavioral marker. International Journal of Neuroscience, 116, 1-14.
Srinivasan, N., & Brown, J. M. (2006). Effects of endogenous spatial attention on the detection and discrimination of spatial frequencies. Perception, 35, 193-200.
Brown, J. M., Breitmeyer, B. G., Leighty, K. A., Denney, H. I. (2006). The path of visual attention. Acta Psychologica, 121, 199-209.
Bedwell, J. S., Miller, L. S., Brown, J. M., McDowell, J. E. & Yanasak, N. E. (2004). Functional magnetic resonance imaging examination of the magnocellular visual pathway in nonpsychotic relatives of persons with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 71(2-3), 509-510.
Bedwell, J. S., Brown, J. M., & Miller, L. S. (2003). The magnocelllular visual system and schizophrenia: What can the color red tell us? Schizophrenia Research, 63, 273-284.
Solberg, J. L., & Brown, J. M. (2002). No sex differences in contrast sensitivity and reaction time to spatial frequency. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 94, 1053-1055.
Brown, J. M., Gyoba, J., & May, J. G. (2001). Stationary phantoms and grating induction with oblique inducing gratings: Implications for different mechanisms underlying the two phenomena. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 278-283.
Brown, J. M. (2000). Fundus pigmentation and equiluminant moving phantoms. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 90, 963-973.
Brown, J. M., & Koch, C. (2000). Influences of occlusion, color, and luminance on the perception of fragmented pictures. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 90, 1033-1044.
Greene, H. H., & Brown, J. M. (2000). Amodal completion and localization. Vision Research, 40, 383-390.
May, J. G., Brown, J. M., & Roberts, S. (1999). Afterimages, grating induction and illusory phantoms. Vision Research, 39, 3025-3031.
Greene, H. H., & Brown, J. M. (1997). Spatial interactions with real and gap-induced illusory lines in a vernier acuity task. Vision Research, 37, 597-604.
Greene, H. H., & Brown, J. M. (1995). The effect of nearby luminance contrast polarity on color boundary localization. Vision Research, 35, 2767-2771.
Koch, C., & Brown, J. M. (1994). Examining the time course of prime effects on Stroop processing. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79, 675-687.
Brown, J. M., & Koch, C. (1993). Influences of closure, occlusion, and size on the perception of fragmented pictures. Perception & Psychophysics, 53, 436-442.
Brown, J. M. (1993). Moving phantom visibility as a function of fundus pigmentation. Perception & Psychophysics, 53, 367-371.
Brown, J. M., Weisstein, N., & May, J. G. (1992). Visual search for simple volumetric shapes. Perception & Psychophysics, 51, 40-48.
Brown, J. M., & Weisstein, N. (1990). Conflicting figure ground and depth information reduces moving phantom visibility. Perception, 20, 155 165.
May, J. G., Brown, J. M., Scott, S., & Donlon, M. (1990). Visual persistence for spatially filtered images. Perception & Psychophysics, 47, 563 567.
May, J. G., Brown, J. M., Gutierrez, C., & Donlon, M. (1990). The effects of spatial phase on reaction time to spatially filtered images. Psychological Research, 52, 22 27.
Brown, J. M., & Weisstein, N. (1988a). A phantom context effect: visual phantomsenhance target visibility. Perception & Psychophysics, 43, 53 56.
Brown, J. M., & Weisstein, N. (1988b). A spatial frequency effect on perceived depth. Perception and Psychophysics, 44, 157 166.
