Curriculum Vitae
Education and Employment
| Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Department of Psychology
Sponsor: Prof. George Alvarez | 2011 - present |
| Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Advisor: Prof. Aude Oliva | 2006 - 2011 |
| B.A. (cum laude), Yale University
Cognitive Science
Advisor: Prof. Marvin Chun | 2002 - 2006 |
Awards, Honors and Grants
| Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prizefor best dissertations in cognitive science; from the Cognitive Science Society | 2012 |
| National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship | 2007 - 2011 |
| Rovereto Attention Workshop Travel Award | 2011 |
| Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teachingfor duties as teaching assistant of fMRI of High-Level Vision | 2010 |
| Vision Sciences Society Travel Award | 2010 |
| Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teachingfor duties as teaching assistant of Laboratory in Visual Cognition | 2009 |
| Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teachingfor duties as teaching assistant of Introduction to Psychology | 2008 |
| European Conference on Visual Perception Travel Award | 2008 |
| Singleton Presidential Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2008 |
| Inducted into Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology | 2006 |
| Richter Fellowship for Undergraduate Research, Yale University | 2005 |
Research
Publications
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T.F., Gill, J., Oliva, A. and Alvarez, G.A. (in press). Visual long-term memory has the same limit on fidelity as visual working memory. Psychological Science. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G.A., and Oliva, A. (in press). Real-world objects are not represented as bound units: Independent forgetting of different object details from visual memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F., and Tenenbaum, J.B. (2013). A probabilistic model of visual working memory: Incorporating higher-order regularities into working memory capacity estimates. Psychological Review, 120(1), 85-109. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F., and Oliva, A. (2012). Spatial frequency integration during active perception: Perceptual hysteresis when an object recedes. Frontiers in Perception Science, 3 (462), doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00462. Abstract. PDF. Open Access on Frontiers website.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T, and Alvarez, G.A. (2011). A review of visual memory capacity: Beyond individual items and towards structured representations. Journal of Vision, 11(5):4, 1-34. Abstract. PDF. Open Access on JoV website. 
review
review
Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G.A. (2011). Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory: ensemble statistics bias memory for individual items. Psychological Science, 22(3), 384-392. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Fougnie, D., and Alvarez, G.A. (2011). Comparisons between different measures of working memory capacity must be made with estimates that are derived from independent data [Response to Anderson et al.] Journal of Neuroscience, Oct. 14th. Paper.
Park, S., Brady, T. F., Greene, M.R., and Oliva, A. (2011). Disentangling scene content from spatial boundary: Complementary roles for the PPA and LOC in representing real-world scenes. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(4), 1333-1340. Abstract. PDF.
Konkle, T.*, Brady, T. F.*, Alvarez, G.A. and Oliva, A. (2010). Scene memory is more detailed than you think: the role of categories in visual long-term memory. Psychological Science, 21(11), 1551-1556. Abstract. PDF. * = authors contributed equally
Brady, T. F. and Tenenbaum, J.B. (2010). Encoding higher-order structure in visual working memory: A probabilistic model. In S. Ohlsson & R.Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 411-416). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science. Abstract. PDF.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2010). Conceptual distinctiveness supports detailed visual long-term memory for real-world objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139(3), 558-78. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G. A. (2010). Ensemble statistics of a display influence the representation of items in visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 18 (1), 114-118. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., and Alvarez, G. A. (2009). Compression in visual working memory: using statistical regularities to form more efficient memory representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(4), 487-502. Abstract. PDF.
Junge, J. A., Brady, T. F. and Chun, M. M. (2009). The contents of perceptual hypotheses: evidence from rapid resumption of interrupted visual search. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71, 681-689. Abstract. PDF.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., Pepperberg, I. and Hauser, M. (2009). Spontaneous motor entrainment to music in multiple vocal mimicking species. Current Biology, 19(10), 831-836. Abstract. Sample videos of birds dancing. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Oliva, A. and Alvarez, G. A. (2009). Detecting changes in real-world objects: The relationship between visual long-term memory and change blindness. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2:1, 1-3. Abstract. Open Access on CIB website. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105 (38), 14325-14329. Abstract. Open Access on PNAS website. Stimuli and Demos. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., and Alvarez, G. A. (2008). Efficient coding in visual short-term memory: Evidence for an information-limited capacity. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 887-892). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F. and Oliva, A. (2008). Statistical learning using real-world scenes: extracting categorical regularities without conscious intent. Psychological Science, 19(7), 678-685. Abstract. PDF.
Brady, T. F. and Chun, M. M. (2007). Spatial constraints on learning in visual search: Modeling contextual cueing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 33(4), 798-815. Abstract. PDF.
Manuscripts
Suchow, J. W.*, Brady, T. F.*, Fougnie, D. and Alvarez, G. A. (submitted). Modeling visual working memory with the MemToolbox. * = authors contributed equally
Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G.A. (in preparation). Structured representations in visual working memory: Using results from individual displays to constrain cognitive theory.
Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G.A. (in preparation). Ensemble representations inflate estimates of working memory capacity.
Presentations
2013
Alvarez, G. A., Brady, T. F., Fougnie, D. & Suchow, J. (2013).
Beyond Slots vs. Resources. Talk to be presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
2012
Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A. (2012).
The problem with slot and resource models: Visual working memory is not limited only by the number of individual items. Poster presented at the Portland Working Memory Conference, Portland, OR.
Brady, T. F., Suchow, J., Fougnie, D. & Alvarez, G. A. (2012). MemToolbox: A MATLAB toolbox for analyzing visual working memory experiments. Poster presented at the Portland Working Memory Conference, Portland, OR.
Rhee, J., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A. (2012). Does memory enhancement training alter perceptual representations? Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A. (2012).
Structured representations in visual working memory: Using results from individual displays to constrain cognitive theory. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Brady, T. F. (2012).
The fidelity of visual memory. Talk presented at Cognition, Brain & Behavior Research Seminar, Harvard University.
2011
Brady, T. F. (2011).
Structured representations in visual working memory: Using individual displays to constrain cognitive theory. Talk presented at Rovereto Attention Workshop (RAW), Rovereto, Italy.
Brady, T. F. (2011).
Structured representations in visual working memory. Talk presented at Cognition, Brain & Behavior Research Seminar, Harvard University.
Brady, T. F. (2011).
Trial-by-trial variance in visual working memory capacity estimates as a window into the architecture of working memory. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Sciences Society, Boston, MA. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A., & Oliva, A. (2011).
Are real-world objects represented as bound units? Independent decay of object details from short-term to long-term memory. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Abstract.
Rhee, J., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A. (2011).
Learning statistical regularities speeds the encoding of information into working memory. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Abstract.
Brady, T. F. (2011). Trial-by-trial variance in visual working memory capacity estimates as a window into the architecture of working memory. Talk presented at Visual Attention Seminar Series, Spring 2011. Abstract.
2010
Brady, T. F. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2010).
Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory. Talk presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Abstract.
Alvarez, G. A. & Brady, T. F. (2010).
Ensemble statistics influence the representation of items in visual working memory. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Abstract.
Brady, T. F. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2010).
Encoding higher-order structure in visual working memory: A probabilistic model. Talk presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR. Abstract.
2009
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., and, Hauser, M.D. (2009). Good vocal mimics are also good entrainers: Individual differences suggest a shared mechanism for entrainment and vocal mimicry. Presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Indianapolis, IN.
Brady, T. F. (2009).
Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch.
Oliva, A., Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2009).
Remembering Thousands of Images with High Fidelity.
Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Boston, MA. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., Vul, E., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2009).
Probabilistic models of change detection and multiple object tracking: How is working memory allocated in attentionally demanding tasks?
Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Boston, MA.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., and Oliva, A. (2009). Examining object representation via object memory: exemplar and state-level object properties are supported by the same underlying features. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Park, S., Greene, M. R., Brady, T. F., and Oliva, A. (2009). Natural scene categorization by global scene properties: Evidence from patterns of fMRI activity. Talk presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Alvarez, G. A., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Gill, J., and Oliva, A. (2009). Comparing the Fidelity of Perception, Short-term Memory, and Long-term Memory: Evidence for Highly Detailed Long-term Memory Representations. Talk presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Oliva, A., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., and Alvarez, G. A. (2009). The high fidelity of scene representation in visual long-term memory. Talk presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
2008
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Invited talk at the University of Liège. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Poster presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2008). Efficient Coding in Visual Short-Term Memory: Evidence for an Information-Limited Capacity. Talk presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, DC.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., Pepperberg, I., & Hauser, M. (2008). Spontaneous entrainment to auditory rhythms in vocal-mimicking bird species. Talk presented at Music, Language and the Mind, Medford, MA. Abstract.
Brady, T. F. (2008). Tracking Statistical Regularities to Form More Efficient Memory Representations. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch, Spring 2008. Abstract.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., Pepperberg, I., & Hauser, M. (2008). Spontaneous entrainment to auditory rhythms in vocal-learning bird species. Poster presented at The Neurosciences and Music III (Neuromusic), Montreal, Canada. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A., and Oliva, A. (2008). Compression in Visual Short-term Memory: Using Statistical Regularities to Form More Efficient Memory Representations. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract published in the Journal of Vision, 8(6), pp. 199. Poster.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Talk presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract published in the Journal of Vision, 8(6), pp. 694.
Oliva, A. and Brady, T. F. (2008). Perceptual organization across spatial scales in natural images: Seeing more high spatial frequency than meet the eyes. Talk presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract published in the Journal of Vision, 8(6), pp. 71.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Poster presented at the Second Annual Tufts University Conference on Emerging Trends in Behavioral, Affective, Social, and Cognitive Neurosciences, Medford, MA. Abstract.
Oliva, A., Alvarez, G. A., Konkle, T., & Brady, T. F. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Natural Images With High Fidelity. Talk presented at the Scene Understanding Symposium, MIT. Abstract. Slides.
Brady, T. F. (2008). Tracking Statistical Regularities to Form More Efficient Memory Representations. Talk presented at Visual Attention Seminar Series, Spring 2008. Abstract.
before 2008
Brady, T. F. and Oliva, A. (2007). Perceptual Organization Across Spatial Scales In Natural Images. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch, Fall 2007. Abstract.
Brady, T. F., and Oliva, A. (2007). Statistical learning of temporal predictability in scene gist. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract in the Journal of Vision, 7(9), pp. 1050. Poster.
Brady, T. F. and Oliva, A. (2007). Automatic and implicit encoding of scene gist. Talk presented at the Scene Understanding Symposium, MIT, Spring 2007. Abstract. Slides.
Brady, T. F. and Chun, M. M. (2006). The effects of local context in visual search. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch, Fall 2006. Abstract.
Recent Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant Positions
| fMRI Visiting Fellowship Program, Dr. Robert Savoy
Martinos Imaging Center, Mass. Gen. Hospital
| 2007 - 2010 |
| Multi-Modality Short Course, Dr. Robert Savoy
Martinos Imaging Center, Mass. Gen. Hospital
| 2007 - 2010 |
| fMRI of High Level Vision, Prof. Nancy Kanwisher
MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Awarded Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching | Fall 2009 |
| Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Prof. Aude Oliva
MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Awarded Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching | Fall 2008 |
| Introduction to Psychology, Prof. John Gabrieli
MIT, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Awarded Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | Spring 2008 |
Guest Lectures
Working Memory| Cognitive Processes, Prof. Molly Potter, MIT | Spring 2012 |
| Cognitive Processes, Prof. Molly Potter, MIT | Spring 2011 |
| Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Prof. Aude Oliva, MIT | Fall 2011 |
| Cognitive Science Grad Seminar, Prof. Edward Gibson, MIT | Spring 2011 |
| Cognitive Science Grad Seminar, Prof. Edward Gibson, MIT | Spring 2010 |
| Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Prof. Aude. Oliva, MIT | Fall 2010 |
| Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Prof. Aude. Oliva, MIT | Fall 2008 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience, Prof. Sue Corkin, MIT | Fall 2010 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience, Prof. Sue Corkin, MIT | Fall 2008 |
| fMRI of High Level Vision, Prof. Nancy Kanwisher, MIT | Fall 2009 |
| Laboratory in Visual Cognition, Prof. Aude. Oliva, MIT | Fall 2009 |
| Computational Visual Perception, Prof. Aude. Oliva, MIT | Fall 2009 |
Recent Science Outreach and Media Coverage
Science Outreach
| What can visual illusions tell scientists about how the mind works? Host of booth at the Cambridge Science Festival | 2009, 2010 |
| Dance, Dance, Evolution: Origins of Music and Dance in Man and Birds Family program instructor, Harvard Museum of Natural History For middle school students and their families. | Fall 2009 |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science: Choose your own adventure Co-designer and teacher, week long class for MIT undergraduates and alumni | Jan. 2009 |
| Blurring the boundaries between perception and memory Article for Scientific American: Mind Matters | Dec. 2008 |
MIT Splash! - weekend classes for 50-150 high school and middle school students
| Awesome findings in psychology. | Fall 2011 |
| The development of the human mind. | Fall 2010 |
| How the mind works. Summary. | Fall 2009 |
| What do babies know? Summary. | Spring 2009 |
| Genetic and environmental influences on the mind and brain. Summary. | Fall 2008 |
| How the mind works: A tour of awesome findings in psychology. Summary. | Spring 2008 |
| Subliminal influences on your decisions. Summary. | Fall 2007 |
| Uncovering human nature: Evolution of the mind and brain. Summary. | Fall 2006 |
Media Coverage
| Paper: Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details
Discover Magazine - Top 100 Science Stories of 2008.
Articles in Scientific American, LiveScience, among others. Video interview on sciencentral.com (aired on ABC) | |
| Paper: Spontaneous motor entrainment to music in multiple vocal-learning species
Radio interviews on NPR, CBS, BBC.
Print articles in the Economist, NewScientist, BBC News (most emailed story of the week), among others. Video coverage on CNN, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Inside Edition, Good Morning America. |
Peer Review
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Brain Research
Cognitive Science Society
Cognitive Science
Cognitive Psychology
Cognition
Consciousness and Cognition
Current Biology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Journal of Vision
Judgment and Decision Making
Memory
Memory and Cognition
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Neuropsychologia
Perception
Perception & Psychophysics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Psychological Science
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Visual Cognition
Brain Research
Cognitive Science Society
Cognitive Science
Cognitive Psychology
Cognition
Consciousness and Cognition
Current Biology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Journal of Vision
Judgment and Decision Making
Memory
Memory and Cognition
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Neuropsychologia
Perception
Perception & Psychophysics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Psychological Science
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Visual Cognition
Undergraduate Research Experience
| Research Assistant, Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Yale University, Department of Psychology
Advisor: Prof. Marvin Chun | 2004 - 2006 |
| Research Assistant, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Carnegie Mellon University
Advisor: Prof. James L. McClelland | Summer 2005 |
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
American Psychological Association (APA)
Cognitive Science Society
Vision Sciences Society
Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
American Psychological Association (APA)
Cognitive Science Society
Vision Sciences Society
Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology
Departmental Service
| Graduate Student Representative | 2007 - 2008 |
| Creator/Manager of BCS-Subjects.com
Created and maintain bcs-subjects.com to allow online scheduling of experimental subjects.
| 2006 - present |
Computational Skills
| Programming: | Matlab/PsychToolbox, Python/NumPy/SciPy/VisionEgg, WinBUGS, R, C/C++/Win32/MFC |
| Web: | Client-side: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Flash/Actionscript 2/3 Server-side: Perl, Python/Django, PHP, Miva, SQL |
| OS: | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux |
