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Portrait photo of J. Anthony Movshon

Awardee

J. Anthony Movshon, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • New York University
Website
cns.nyu.edu/corefaculty/Movshon.php

Publications

​From stuff to things: Responses of neurons in macaque V4 to textures and objects

bioRxiv:2024.02.20.581273, July 9, 2026

Justin D. Lieber, T. Oleskiw , Laura Palmieri, E. Simoncelli, and J. Movshon

Variations in neuronal selectivity create efficient representational codes

bioRxiv: 2025.06.26.661754, June 28, 2025

S. Saraf, J. Movshon, and S. Chung

Variations in neuronal selectivity create efficient representational geometries for perception

biorxiv:2025.06.26.661754v1, June 28, 2025

S. Saraf, J. Movshon, and S. Chung

Foundations of visual form selectivity in macaque areas V1 and V2

bioRxiv:2024.03.04.583307, January 18, 2025

T. Oleskiw , Justin D. Lieber, E. Simoncelli, and J. Movshon

Projects

Fluorescence microscopy image showing a network of bright green nerve fibers connecting to a cluster of yellow and red cellular structures.

Global Brain

Simons Collaboration
Purple-tinted neurons

Neural computations for visual form processing and form-based cognition

Funded Work

Cortical mechanisms of multistable perception

Funded Work

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