Dr Vassilis Pelekanos University positionPost-doctoral Researcher InstitutesExperimental Psychology (Oxford) and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Home pagehttp://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/our-res... Research ThemeInterestsMy research interests lie in visual and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, I am interested in understanding the brain mechanisms that support our ability to perceive and categorise objects. The volume of solid 3D objects is delimited by surfaces, and in my PhD, with Andrew E. Welchman, I used fMRI-guided TMS and psychophysics to study the mid-level neuronal mechanisms that support the perception of 3D surfaces. Currently, I am a post-doc investigator scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and I explore the neural coding of visual object recognition. I work with Nikolaus Kriegeskorte and Andrew Bell in Oxford where I use functional neuroimaging to investigate the relationship between the categorical organisation observed in ventral visual cortex and the basic visual features being present in individual objects. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Diffusion tensor imaging Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) CollaboratorsNo collaborators listed Associated News ItemsPublications2020Pelekanos V, Mok R, Joly O, Ainsworth M, Kyriazis D, Kelly M, Bell A, Kriegeskorte N. (2020), “Rapid event-related, BOLD fMRI, non-human primates (NHP): choose two out of three.” Sci Rep 10, 7485 Pelekanos V, Premereur E, Mitchell D, Chakraborty S, Mason S, Lee A, Mitchell AS (2020), “Cortico-cortical and thalamocortical changes in functional connectivity and white matter structural integrity after reward-guided learning of visuospatial discriminations in rhesus monkeys.” J Neurosci 40(41):7887–7901 Persic D, Thomas M, Pelekanos V, Ryugo D, Takesian A, Krumbholz K, Pyott S. (2020), “Regulation of auditory plasticity during critical periods and following hearing loss” Hear Res 397, 107976 2019Mason S, Premereur E, Pelekanos V, Emberton A, Honess P, Mitchell AS (2019), “Effective chair training methods for neuroscience research involving Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)” J Neurosci Methods 317:82-93 2016Pelekanos V, Mur M, Storrs KR. (2016), “Extracting Object Identity: Ventral or Dorsal Visual Stream?” J Neurosci. 36(24):6368-70 2015Pelekanos V, Ban H, Welchman AE. (2015), “Brightness masking is modulated by disparity structure” Vis Res 110(Pt A): 87-92 2012Pelekanos V, Roumani D, Moutoussis K (2012), “The effects of categorical and linguistic adaptation on binocular rivalry initial dominance” Front Hum Neurosci 5:1-8. 2011Pelekanos V, Moutoussis K (2011), “The effect of language on visual contrast sensitivity.” Perception 40(12):1402-12 Details |