Publications

Papers:

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Ro, T., Farnè, A., Johnson, R., C., Chu, Z., Wedeen, V., Wang, Z., Hunter, J.V., & Beauchamp, M.S. (revised and resubmitted).  Feeling sounds after a thalamic lesion.  Annals of Neurology.

 Ro, T., Singhal, N., Breitmeyer, B., & Garcia, J.  (revised and resubmitted) Unconscious processing of color and form.  Perception & Psychophysics.

Beauchamp, M. S., Yasar, N. E., Kishan, N., & Ro, T.  (in press).  Human MST but not MT responds to vibrotactile stimulation.  Journal of Neuroscience.

Farnè, A., Brozzoli, C., Làdavas, E., & Ro, T. (in press).  Investigating multisensory spatial cognition through the phenomenon of extinction.  Attention & Performance.

Breitmeyer, B. G., Ro, T., Ogmen, H., & Todd, S. (in press).  Unconscious, stimulus-dependent and conscious, percept-dependent priming with chromatic stimuli.  Perception & Psychophysics.

Boyer, J., & Ro, T.  (2007).  Attention attenuates metacontrast masking.  Cognition, 104, 135-149.

Ro, T., Friggel, A., & Lavie, N.  (2007).  Attentional biases for faces and body parts.  Visual Cognition, 15, 322-348.

Chang, E., & Ro, T.  (2007).  Maintenance of visual stability in the human posterior parietal cortex.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 266-274.

Boake, C., Noser, E.A., Ro, T., Baraniuk, S., Gaber, M., Johnson, R., Salmeron, E.T., Tran, T.M., Lai, J.M., Taub, E., Moye, L.A., Grotta, J.C., Levin, H.S.  (2007).  Constraint-induced movement therapy in early stroke rehabilitation.  Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 21, 14-24.

Johnson, R. M., Burton, P., & Ro, T.  (2006).  Visually induced feelings of touch.  Brain Research, 1073-4, 398-406.

Olk, B., Chang, E., Kingstone, A., & Ro, T.  (2006).  Modulation of antisaccades by transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human frontal eye field.  Cerebral Cortex, 16, 76-82.

Ro, T., Noser, E., Boake, C., Wallace, R., Gaber, M., Bernstein, M., Speroni, A., De Joya, A., Burgin, S.W., Zhang, L., Grotta, J., & Levin, H.  (2006).  Functional reorganization and recovery after constraint induced movement therapy in acute stroke:  Case Reports.  Neurocase, 12, 50-60.

Boyer, J., Harrison, S., & Ro, T. (2005).  Unconscious processing of orientation and color without primary visual cortex.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 16875-16879.

Chang, E., & Ro, T.  (2005).  Inhibition of return in perception and action.  Visual Cognition, 12, 443-472.

Ro, T., Shelton, D., Lee, O., Chang, E.  (2004).  Extrageniculate mediation of unconscious vision in TMS-induced blindsight.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 9933-9935.

Breitmeyer, B., Ro, T., & Singhal, N.  (2004).  Unconscious color priming occurs at stimulus-dependent not percept-dependent levels of visual processing.  Psychological Science, 15, 198-202.

Cover Image Ro, T., Wallace, R., Hagedorn, J., Farnè, A., & Pienkos, E.  (2004).  Visual enhancing of tactile perception in posterior parietal cortex.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 24-30.

Lavie, N., Ro, T., & Russell, C.  (2003).  The role of perceptual load in processing distractor faces.  Psychological Science, 14, 510-515.

Ro, T., Breitmeyer, B., Burton, P., Singhal, N., & Lane, D.  (2003).  Feedback contributions to visual awareness in human occipital cortex.  Current Biology, 11, 1038-1041.

Ro, T., Farnè, A, & Chang, E.  (2003).  Inhibition of return and the human frontal eye fields.  Experimental Brain Research, 150, 290-296.

Ro, T., Farnè, A., Chang, C. E. (2002).  Locating the human frontal eye fields with transcranial magnetic stimulation.  Special issue on attention and reaction times in Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 24, 930-940.

Ro, T., Machado, L., Kanwisher, N., & Rafal, R. D.  (2002).  Covert orienting to the locations of targets and distractors:  Effects on response channel activation in a flanker task.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55, 917-936.

Dodds, C., Machado, L., Rafal, R., & Ro, T.  (2002).  A temporal /nasal asymmetry for blindsight in a localisation task:  Evidence for extrageniculate mediation.  NeuroReport, 13, 655-658.

Ricciardelli, P., Ro, T., & Driver, J.  (2002).  A left visual-field advantage in gaze perception.  Neuropsychologia, 40, 769-777.

Ro, T., Rorden, C., Driver, J., & Rafal, R. D. (2001).  Ipsilesional biases in saccades but not perception after lesions of the human inferior parietal lobule.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 920-929.

Ro, T., Russell, C., & Lavie, N. (2001).  Changing faces: A detection advantage in the flicker paradigm.  Psychological Science, 12, 95-100.

Rafal, R., Machado, L., Ro, T., & Ingle, H. (2000).  Looking forward to looking: Saccade preparation and the control of midbrain visuomotor reflexes.  Attention & Performance XVIII.

Ro, T., Pratt, J., & Rafal, R. D. (2000).  Inhibition of return in saccadic eye movements.  Experimental Brain Research, 130, 264-268.

Ro, T., & Rafal, R. D. (1999).  Components of reflexive visual orienting to moving objects.  Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 826-836.

Ro, T., Cheifet, S., Ingle, H., Shoup, R., & Rafal, R. D. (1999).  Localization of the human frontal eye fields and motor hand area with transcranial magnetic stimulation and magnetic resonance imaging.  Special issue on TMS in Neuropsychologia, 37, 225-231.

Henik, A., Ro, T., Merrill, D., Rafal, R. D., & Safadi, Z. (1999).  Interactions between color and word processing in a flanker task.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 198-209.

Ro, T., Cohen, A., Ivry, R. B., & Rafal, R. D. (1998).  Response channel activation and the temporo-parietal junction.  Special issue on neglect in Brain and Cognition, 37, 461-476.

Tipper, S. P., Rafal, R. D., Reuter-Lorenz, P., Starrveldt, Y., Ro, T., Egly, R., Danziger, S., & Weaver, B. (1998).  Object-based facilitation and inhibition from visual orienting in the human split-brain.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 1522-1532.

Ro, T., Henik, A., Machado, L., & Rafal, R. (1997).  Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the prefrontal cortex delays contralateral endogenous saccades.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 433-440.

Rafal, R. D., Gershberg, F., Egly, R., Ivry, R., Kingstone, A., & Ro, T. (1996).  Response channel activation and the lateral prefrontal cortex.  Neuropsychologia, 34, 1197-1202.

Ro, T., & Rafal, R. D. (1996).  Perception of geometric illusions in hemispatial neglect.  Neuropsychologia, 34, 973-978.

Seyal, M., Ro, T., & Rafal, R. D. (1995).  Increased sensitivity to ipsilateral cutaneous stimuli following transcranial magnetic stimulation of the parietal lobe.  Annals of Neurology, 38, 264-267.

Rock, I., Schreiber, C., & Ro, T. (1994).  The dependence of two-dimensional shape perception on orientation.  Perception, 23, 1409-1426.

Book Chapters and Review Articles:

Breitmeyer, Ro, T., & Ogmen, H.  (2004).  A comparison of masking by visual and transcranial magnetic stimulation: implications for the study of conscious and unconscious visual processing.  Consciousness & Cognition, 13, 829-843.

Grotta, J. C., Noser, E. A., Ro, T., Boake, C., Levin, H., Aronowski, J., & Schallert, T. (2004).  Constraint-induced movement therapy.  Stroke, 35, 2699-2701.

Farnè, A., & Ro, T.  (2005).  Neuroimmaginare le funzioni cognitive con la stimolazione magnetica transcranica.  In Castiello, U., & Bonfiglioli, C. (Eds.), Tecniche Sperimentali di Ricerca in Psicologia, 2nd Edition.  Padova: Piccin Nuova Libreria.

Ro, T.  (2005).  Neural mechanisms for conscious and unconscious vision.  In Breitmeyer, B., & Ogmen, H. (Eds.), The First Half Second.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ro, T., & Rafal, R. D.  (2006).  Visual restoration in cortical blindness: Insights from natural and TMS-induced blindsight.  Special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabiliation, 16, 377-396.

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