Ed Connor PhD

Professor of Neuroscience




Sasikumar, D., Emeric, E., Stuphorn, V., & Connor, C.E. (2018). First-pass processing of value cues in the ventral visual pathway. Current Biology 28: 538–548.

Connor, C.E., & Knierim, J.J. (2017). Integration of objects and space in perception and memory. Nature Neuroscience 20: 1493–1503.

Vaziri, S., & Connor, C. E. (2016). Representation of Gravity-Aligned Scene Structure in Ventral Pathway Visual Cortex. Current Biology 26: 766-774.

Vaziri, S., Carlson, E.T., Wang, Z., & Connor, C.E. (2014). A channel for 3D environmental shape in anterior inferotemporal cortex. Neuron 84: 55–62. PMCID: PMC4247160.

Yau, J.M., Connor, C.E., & Hsiao, S.S. (2013). Representation of tactile curvature in macaque somatosensory area 2. Journal of Neurophysiology 109: 2999¬–3012.

Hung, C.-C., Carlson, E.T., Connor, C.E. (2012) Medial axis shape coding in macaque inferotemporal cortex. Neuron 74: 1099–1113.

Yau, J.M., Pasupathy, A., Brincat, S.L., Connor C.E. (2012) Curvature processing dynamics in macaque area V4. Cerebral Cortex 23: 198-209.

Roe, A.W., Chelazzi, L., Connor, C.E., Conway, B.R., Fujita, I., Gallant, J.L., Lu, H., Vanduffel, W. (2012) Toward a unified theory of visual area V4. Neuron 74: 12–29.

Carlson, E.T., Rasquinha, R.J., Zhang, K., Connor, C.E. (2011) A sparse object coding scheme in area V4. Current Biology 21: 288–293.

Kourtzi, Z. & Connor, C.E. (2011) Neural representations for object perception: structure, category, and adaptive coding. In: Annual Review of Neuroscience 34: 45–67.

Yau, J.M., Pasupathy, A., Fitzgerald, P.J., Hsiao, S.S. & Connor, C.E. (2009) Analogous intermediate shape coding in vision and touch. PNAS 106: 16457–16462.

Yamane, Y., Carlson, E.T., Bowman, K.C., Wang, Z. & Connor, C.E. (2008) A neural code for three-dimensional object shape in macaque inferotemporal cortex. Nature Neuroscience 11: 1352–1360.

Cadieu, C., Kouh, M., Pasupathy, A., Connor, C.E., Riesenhuber, M. & Poggio, T. (2007) A model of V4 shape selectivity and invariance. Journal of Neurophysiology 98: 1733–1750.

Connor, C.E. (2007) Transformation of shape information in the ventral pathway. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 17: 140–147.

Brincat, S.L. & Connor, C.E. (2006) Dynamic shape synthesis in posterior inferotemporal cortex. Neuron 49: 17–24.

Hinkle, D.A. & Connor, C.E. (2005) Quantitative characterization of disparity tuning in ventral pathway area V4. Journal of Neurophysiology 94: 2726–2737.

Brincat, S.L. & Connor, C.E. (2004) Underlying principles of visual shape selectivity in posterior inferotemporal cortex. Nature Neuroscience 7: 880–886.

Pasupathy, A. & Connor, C.E. (2002) Population coding of shape in area V4. Nature Neuroscience 5: 1332–1338.

Hinkle, D.A. & Connor, C.E. (2002) Three-dimensional orientation tuning in macaque area V4. Nature Neuroscience 5: 665–670.

Pasupathy, A. & Connor, C.E. (2001) Shape representation in area V4: Position-specific tuning for boundary conformation. Journal of Neurophysiology 86: 2505–2519.

Pasupathy, A. & Connor, C.E. (1999) Responses to contour features in macaque area V4. Journal of Neurophysiology 82: 2490–2502.