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Marvin M Chun, PhD

Dean of Yale College, Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology and Professor of Neuroscience

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Marvin M Chun, PhD

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  • 2 Hillhouse Ave

    Department of Psychology, Yale University

    New Haven, CT 06520

    United States

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Research Summary

I direct a cognitive neuroscience lab that employs neuroimaging (fMRI) and behavioral techniques to study human perception, attention, memory, and decision-making. Specifically, I’ve published extensively on attention (e.g., Chun et al., 2011, Ann Rev Psychol), its relation to working memory (e.g., Chun, 2011, Neuropsychologia), and its role in long-term memory encoding and retrieval (e.g., Chun & Johnson, 2011, Neuron). We use fMRI to understand neural representation, and how it can explain and predict behavior, employing advanced computational methods such as multivoxel pattern analysis (Kuhl et al., 2012, 2013, 2014; Vickery et al., 2011; Cowen et al., 2014), and connectome-based predictive modeling, the latter with co-I Todd Constable and his group (Finn et al., 2015; Rosenberg et al., 2016).

Specialized Terms: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); attention; memory; decision making; executive control; perception

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Research Interests

Attention; Decision Making; Memory; Neurobiology; Perception; Psychiatry and Psychology

Selected Publications

  • A neuromarker of sustained attention from whole-brain functional connectivity.Rosenberg MD, Finn ES, Scheinost D, Papademetris X, Shen X, Constable RT, Chun MM. A neuromarker of sustained attention from whole-brain functional connectivity. Nature Neuroscience 2016, 19: 165-71. PMID: 26595653, PMCID: PMC4696892, DOI: 10.1038/nn.4179.
  • Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity.Finn ES, Shen X, Scheinost D, Rosenberg MD, Huang J, Chun MM, Papademetris X, Constable RT. Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity. Nature Neuroscience 2015, 18: 1664-71. PMID: 26457551, PMCID: PMC5008686, DOI: 10.1038/nn.4135.
  • Neural portraits of perception: reconstructing face images from evoked brain activity.Cowen AS, Chun MM, Kuhl BA. Neural portraits of perception: reconstructing face images from evoked brain activity. NeuroImage 2014, 94: 12-22. PMID: 24650597, PMCID: PMC4028096, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.03.018.
  • Opponent Identity Influences Value Learning in Simple Games.Vickery TJ, Kleinman MR, Chun MM, Lee D. Opponent Identity Influences Value Learning in Simple Games. The Journal Of Neuroscience : The Official Journal Of The Society For Neuroscience 2015, 35: 11133-43. PMID: 26245974, PMCID: PMC6605273, DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3530-14.2015.
  • Memory: enduring traces of perceptual and reflective attention.Chun MM, Johnson MK. Memory: enduring traces of perceptual and reflective attention. Neuron 2011, 72: 520-35. PMID: 22099456, PMCID: PMC3248396, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.10.026.
  • A taxonomy of external and internal attention.Chun MM, Golomb JD, Turk-Browne NB. A taxonomy of external and internal attention. Annual Review Of Psychology 2011, 62: 73-101. PMID: 19575619, DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.100427.
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