publications

Journal Articles – In preparation & submitted

(** Senior author)

  • Park, W. J., & Fine, I. (in prep) Enhanced pitch processing in early blind individuals is due to enhanced cortical gain.
  • Chen, S., Croom, S., Yates, J., Schauder, K. B., Tadin, D., & Park**, W. J. (in prep) Social effects of crowd gaze on visual search.
  • Ichinose, M., Park, W. J., Woodman, G., Tadin, D., & Park, S. (in prep) Estimation of internal noise during visual perception and its impact on visual working memory accuracy in Schizophrenia.
  • Alleluia Shenge, V., Chen, S., Park, W. J., & Tadin, D. (submitted) Viewpoint-dependent face recognition during a naturalistic visual search.

Preprints

  • Melnick, M. D., Park, W. J., Croom, S., Chen, S., Battelli, L., Busza, A. Huxlin, K. R., & Tadin, D. Online transcranial random noise stimulation improves perception at high levels of visual white noise. bioRxiv

Journal Articles

(** Equally contributing first authors / ## Equally contributing senior authors)

  • Park, W. J., & Fine, I. (in press) A unified model for cross-modal plasticity and skill acquisition. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
  • Park, W. J., & Fine, I. (2023) The perception of auditory motion in sighted and early blind individuals. PNAS. LINK
  • Fine, I. & Park, W. J. (2023) Do you hear what I see? Perception of object motion in early blind individuals. Philosophical Transactions B. LINK
  • Isenstein, E. L., Park, W. J., & Tadin, D. (2021) Atypical and inflexible visual encoding in autism spectrum disorder. PLOS Biology. [preview] LINK
  • Park**, W. J., Schauder**, K. B., Kwon, O. S., Bennetto##, L. & Tadin##, D. (2021) Atypical visual motion-prediction in autism spectrum disorder. Clinical Psychological Science. 1-17. PDF
  • Barbot, A., Park, W. J., Ng, C. J., Zhang, R., Huxlin, K., Tadin, D., & Yoon, G. (2021) Functional reallocation of sensory processing resources caused by long-term neural adaptation to altered optics. eLife. 1-27. PDF
  • Park, W. J., & Fine, I. (2020) New insights into cortical development and plasticity: from molecules to behavior. Current Opinion in Physiology. 16, 50-60. PDF
  • Schauder, K. B., Park, W. J., Eckstein, M. P., Tsank, Y., Tadin, D., Bennetto, L. (2019) Initial eye gaze to faces and its functional consequences on face identification abilities in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 11, 1-20. PDF
  • Tadin, D., Park, W. J., Dieter, K. C., Melnick, M. D., Lappin, J., & Blake, R. (2019) Spatial suppression promotes rapid figure-ground segmentation of moving objects. Nature Communications. 10, 1-12. Press Release PDF
  • Park, W. J., Schauder, K. B., & Tadin, D. (2018) Pupillometry: Consciousness reflected in the eyes. eLife. 7:e35374 [preview] PDF
  • Park**, W. J., Schauder**, K. B., Zhang, R., Bennetto##, L. & Tadin##, D. (2017) High internal noise and poor external noise filtering characterize perception in autism spectrum disorder. Scientific Reports. 7, 1-12. PDF
  • Schauder**, K. B., Park**, W. J., Bennetto##, L. & Tadin##, D. (2017) Larger receptive field size as a mechanism underlying atypical motion perception in autism spectrum disorder. Clinical Psychological Science. 5, 827-842. PDF
  • Im, H. Y., Park, W. J., & Chong, S. C. (2015). Ensemble statistics as units of selection, Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27(1), 114-127. PDF
  • Park, W. J., & Chong, S. C. (2012). The influence of painting composition on human perception. Seeing and Perceiving, 25(6), 521-543. PDF
  • Park, W. J., Jung, I., Park, J., Bae, S., & Chong, S. C. (2011). The effect of spatial dimension shifts in rotated target position search. Korean Journal of Cognitive Science, 22(2), 103-121. PDF

Book Chapters

  • Fine, I., Savage, T., Lewis, L. B., & Park, W. J. (in press) The effects of visual deprivation after infancy. Levin: Adler’s Physiology of the Eye. [invited review]
  • Park, W. J. & Tadin, D. (2018) Motion perception. In J Serences (Ed), The Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensation, Perception & Attention. 4th Edition, Wiley, 415-488. [invited review] PDF

Conference Presentations

(Talks are marked with **)

  • **Park, W. J., & Fine, I. (2022, May) How do early blind individuals experience auditory motion? Vision Sciences Society.
  • **Park, W. J., & Fine, I. (2021, October) The mechanisms underlying auditory motion perception in early blind individuals. Optical Fall Vision meeting.
  • Awad, J. F., Park, W. J., Fine, I. (2019, May) Auditory segregation of noise bands in early blind individuals. Vision Sciences Society.
  • Ichinose, M., Park, W. J., Peddu, D., Zahorik, J., Woodman, G., Tadin, D., & Park, S. (2019, April) Using transcranial direct current stimulation to reduce internal noise and improve visual perception in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia International Research Society.
  • **Park, W. J., Schauder, K. B., Kwon, O-S, Bennetto, L. & Tadin, D. (2018, May) Atypical visual motion prediction in autism spectrum disorder. Vision Sciences Society.
  • Melnick, M., Park, W. J., Croom, S., Chen, S., Busza, A., Batelli, L., Huxlin, K., & Tadin D. (2018, May). Transcranial random noise stimulation over early visual cortex improves processing of noisy visual stimuli. Vision Sciences Society.
  • Ichinose, M., Park, W. J., Tadin, D., & Park, S. (2018, April). Using computational estimates of internal “noise” to characterize visual perception and working memory deficits in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia International Research Society.
  • **Park, W. J., Ichinose, M., Park, S., & Tadin, D. (2017, May) Perceptual inefficiencies predict individual differences in working memory both in typical adults and in schizophrenia. Vision Sciences Society.
  • **Ichinose, M., Park, W. J., Tadin, D. & Park, S. (2017, March) Visual working memory deficits in schizophrenia: A case of noisy perceptual processing? International Congress on Schizophrenia Research.
  • Schauder, K. B., Park, W. J., Tadin, D., & Bennetto, L. (2016, November) Increased internal noise in autism spectrum disorder and associations with response variability and overall symptom severity. Society for Neuroscience.
  • **Park, W. J., Schauder, K. B., Bennetto, L., & Tadin, D. (2016, May) Evidence for elevated internal noise in autism spectrum disorder. Vision Sciences Society.
  • Park, W. J., Schauder, K. B., Bennetto, L., & Tadin, D. (2016, May) Atypical motion sensitivity characterized by larger receptive fields in autism spectrum disorder. International Meeting for Autism Research.
  • Schauder, K. B., Park, W. J., Kwon, O., Tadin, D., & Bennetto, L. (2016, May) Motion prediction abilities in autism spectrum disorder. International Meeting for Autism Research.
  • Adkinson, B. D., Foss-Feig, J. H., Park, W. J., Levy, E., Santamauro N., Schleifer, C., Schauder, K. B., Deckert, K., Srihari, V., Krystal, J. Tadin, D., McPartland, J. C., & Anticevic, A. (2016, May) Psychophysical correlates of excitatory/inhibitory imbalance during visual motion perception in adults with ASD and schizophrenia. International Meeting for Autism Research.
  • Foss-Feig, J. H., Adkinson, B. D., Park, W. J., Levy, E., Santamauro, N. Schleifer, C., Deckert, K., Srihari, V., Krystal, J., Tadin, D., McPartland, J. C., & Anticevic, A. (2016, May) Dissociating visual correlates of context modulation in ASD and schizophrenia. International Meeting for Autism Research.
  • Park, W. J., & Tadin, D. (2015, May) Background subtraction as a mechanism for efficient motion segregation. Vision Sciences Society.
  • Park, W. J., & Tadin, D. (2014, May) Mechanisms of motion-based object segregation. Vision Sciences Society.
  • Yoo, S. –A., Park, W. J., & Chong, S. C. (2012, July) Filling-in the blind spot with the average direction. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision.
  • **Park, W. J., Im, H. Y., & Chong, S. C. (2012, June). Bottom-up and top-down interactions between ensemble statistics and selective attention. Korean Society for Cognitive Science Annual Spring Conference.
  • Park, W. J., Im, H. Y., & Chong, S. C. (2012, May). Ensemble statistics and attentional selection. Vision Sciences Society.
  • **Park, W. J., & Chong, S. C. (2011, June). Processing of compositions influences perceptual similarity in paintings. Korean Society for Cognitive Science Annual Spring Conference.
  • Park, W. J., & Chong, S. C. (2011, May). Mental representation of compositions in paintings is based on their perceptual similarities. Vision Sciences Society.