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Publications

2025 · Published
The influence of a moving object's location on object identity judgments
Ran, M., Lu, Z., & Golomb, J. D.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Advance online publication.
DOI PDF VSS 2023 Poster
In preparation
To cooperate or to compete? How social environment and emotion shape prosocial behavior
Ran, M., Heffner, J., & FeldmanHall, O.
Manuscript in preparation
In preparation
Evaluating functional alignment algorithms: disentangling filtering and alignment effects
Ran, M., & Feilong, M.
Manuscript in preparation
2024 · Poster
Object size and depth representations in human visual cortex
Ran, M., Lu, Z., & Golomb, J. D.
Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.
VSS 2024 Poster Abstract

Research Projects

Brown University · FeldmanHall Lab · 2024–2025
To cooperate or to compete? How social environment shapes prosocial behavior
Online behavioral task (N=120). Mixed-effects regression and machine learning to model how emotion and social context modulate cooperative decisions.
USC · Feilong Lab · 2025–2026
Evaluating functional alignment algorithms: disentangling filtering and alignment effects
Searchlight hyperalignment on naturalistic fMRI datasets. Separating genuine alignment signal from smoothing artifacts introduced by the algorithm.
OSU · Golomb Lab · 2022–2024
Object size and depth representations in human visual cortex
RSA for ROI and whole-brain searchlight using THINGs and THINGs+ open datasets.
OSU · Golomb Lab · 2022–2024
The influence of a moving object's location on object identity judgments
Two preregistered behavioral experiments with EyeLink eye-tracking (N=32) examining how the trajectories of moving objects affect identity judgments. Measured the spatial congruency bias (SCB) across object movement and saccades, finding that object-location binding is primarily retinotopic but incorporates predictable and spatiotopic trajectory information when objects move continuously.

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