Publications

Manuscript under review or in preparation:

1. Liu, T.T.#, Granovetter, M.C.#, Maallo, A.M.S., Roberts, S., Fu, J.Z., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (under revision). Cross-sectional and longitudinal changes in category-selectivity in visual cortex following pediatric cortical resection. Preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.08.627367 (#co-first authors with equal contribution) 

2. Kronemer, S.I., Gobo, V.E., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P., Osborne, B.J., Bandettini, P., & Liu, T.T. (under review). Eye metrics are a marker of visual neural processing and conscious awareness in cerebral blindness. Preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.06.631506

3. Ventura, P., Pereira, A. Cruz., F., & Liu, T.T. (submitted). Relational processing of faces in paintings varying along a realism continuum.

4. Liu, T.T., Cavanaugh, M.R., Bachmann, H.P., Li, B., Fahrenthold, B.K., Japee, S., Huxlin, K.R., & Merriam, E.P. (in preparation). Bypassing V1: Orientation selectivity in hMT+ of cortically-blinded patients.

5. Ock, E. Y., Joynes, C., Liu, T.T., Merriam, E.P. (in preparation). Distinct modulation of FEF during orienting and reorienting of exogenous and endogenous attention.

2024

• Liu, T.T. (2024). Unravelling nature and nurture in cortical (re)organization. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 25, 451. 

• Simmons, C., Granovetter, M.C., Robert, S., Liu, T.T., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2024). Holistic processing and expertise effects after pediatric resection of occipitotemporal cortex. Neuropsychologia. 194, 108789.

• Bachmann, H.P., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P.*, Liu, T.T.* (2024). Emotion and anxiety interact to bias spatial attention. Emotion. 24(4), 1109–1124. (*co-senior authors with equal contribution). [American Psychological Association (APA) Showcase]

2023

• Ventura, P.#, Liu, T.T.#, Cruz, F., Banha, A., Domingues, M., Guerreiro, J. C., & Delgado, J. (2023). From Perugino to Picasso: holistic processing of faces in paintings. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication (#co-first authors with equal contribution)  [American Psychological Association (APA) Showcase]

• Yang, F.N., Liu, T.T., Wang, Z. (2023). Corticostriatal connectivity mediates the relationship between sleep and impulsivity in early adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(11), 1545–1554.  

2022

• Ventura, P., Liu, T.T., Cruz., F., & Pereira, A. (2023). The mechanisms supporting holistic perception of words and faces are not independent. Memory & Cognition, 51, 966–981. [Psychonomic Society Featured Content]

• Liu, T.T., Fu, J.Z., Chai, Y., Japee, S., Gang, C., Ungerleider, L.G., & Merriam, E.P. (2022). Layer-specific, retinotopically-diffuse modulation in human visual cortex in response to viewing emotionally expressive faces. Nature Communications, 13(1), 6302. Check out this news story which showcases Jason Fu, my postbac and the study’s second author: SOM Student Jason Fu, SOM Class of 2025, Published His Study in Nature Communications

• Yang, F.N., Liu, T.T., Wang, Z. (2022). Functional connectome mediates the association between sleep disturbance and mental health in preadolescence: a longitudinal mediation study. Human Brain Mapping, 43(6), 2041-2050。

2021 and earlier

• Chai, Y., Liu, T.T., Marrett, S., Li, L., Khojandi, A., Handwerker, D. A., Alink, A., Muckli, L., Bandettini, P. A. (2021). Topographical and laminar distribution of audiovisual processing within human planum temporale. Progress in Neurobiology, 205, 102121.

• Maallo, A.M.S., Freud, E., Liu, T.T., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2020). Effects of unilateral cortical resection of the visual cortex on bilateral human white matter. NeuroImage, 207, 116345.

• Liu, T.T.#, Freud, E.#, Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2019). Perceptual function and category-selective neural organization in children with resections of visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 3160-18. (#co-first authors with equal contribution) [12 news mentions, including Newsweek, Science Daily, American Academy of Ophthalmology, NIH News]

• Liu, T.T., & Behrmann, M. (2017). Functional outcomes following lesions in visual cortex: Implications for plasticity of high-level vision. Neuropsychologia, 105, 197-214.

• Liu, T.T., & Behrmann, M. (2014). Impaired holistic processing of left-right composite faces in congenital prosopagnosia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 750. [This article is part of the Research Topic Facing the other: Novel theories and methods in face perception research]

• Liu, T.T., Oxner, M., Hayward, W. G., & Behrmann, M. (2014). Holistic processing for left-right composite faces in Chinese and Caucasian observers. Visual Cognition, 22(8), 1050-1071.

• Hsiao, J. H., & Liu, T.T. (2012). The optimal viewing position in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 12(2):22, 1-9.