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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 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
In preparation
Object size and depth representations in human visual cortex
Ran, M., Lu, Z., & Golomb, J. D.
Manuscript in preparation
VSS 2024 Poster Abstract

Research Projects

USC · Feilong Lab · 2025–Present
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.
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.
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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