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Leila Montaser Kouhsari - graduate student

Hails From: Tehran, Iran

Educated At: Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services (IUMS), M.D.

Research Interests: Systems Neuroscience; Psychophysics of visual attention; Psychophysics of early visual processing (adaptation paradigm); Split brain psychophysics; Neural modeling of visual attention based on experimental data; Studying visual perception using fMRI, ERP and TMS techniques; Visual awareness.


Current Research: I am currently working on the effect of attention on illusory contour adatpation using fMRI.

Publications:

  • Montaser-Kouhsari L., Rajimehr R., Subliminal attentional modulation in crowding condition. Vision Research, 2005; 45(7):839-844

  • Montaser-Kouhsari L., Rajimehr R., Attentional modulation of adaptation to illusory lines. Journal of Vision, 2004; 4(6):434-444.

  • Montaser-Kouhsari L., Moradi F., Zandvakili A., Esteky H., Orientation selective adaptation during motion induced blindness. Perception, 2004; 33(2):249-254.

  • Rajimehr R., Montaser-Kouhsari L., Afraz S-R, Orientation selective adaptation to crowded illusory lines. Perception, 2003; 32(10): 1199-1210.

  • Afraz R., Montaser-Kouhsari L., Vaziri-Pashkam M., Moradi F., Interhemispheric visual interaction in a patient with posterior callosectomy. Neuropsychologia 2003; 41(5): 597-604.

  • Rajimehr R., Farsiu S., Montaser-Kouhsari L., Bidari A., Lucas C., Yousefian S., Bahrami F., Prediction of lupus nephritis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus using artificial neural networks. Lupus 2002; 11(8): 485-492.

Other Interests: Swimming, watching movies, writing poems, listenting to music.

Quote to Live By:
  Enjoy this moment, since this moment is your life (Omar Khayam).
  Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been
seen (Robert Bresson).

Email: lmk306@nyu.edu