Elissa Aminoff

Education

• 2001 ScB in Cognitive Neuroscience, Brown University
• 2005 MS in Psychology, Harvard University
• 2008 PhD in Psychology, Harvard University
• 2008 - 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2011 - 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University

Companies

• Assistant Professor Fordham University (2016)
• Research Scientist/Special Faculty Carnegie Mellon University (2013 — 2016)
• Postdoctoral Fellow Carnegie Mellon University (2011 — 2013)
• Postdoctoral Fellow UC Santa Barbara (2008 — 2011)
• Graduate Student Harvard University (2003 — 2008)
• Research Assistant Massachusetts General Hospital (2001 — 2003)

Publication

• Yang, Y., Tarr, M., Kass, R. & Aminoff, E. (In Press). Exploring spatio-temporal neural dynamics of the human visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping.
• Chang, N., Pyles, J., Marcus, A., Gupta, A., Tarr, M. & Aminoff, E. (2019). BOLD5000, a public fMRI dataset while viewing 5000 visual images. Scientific Data (6) 1, 49.
• Aminoff, E., Li, Y., Pyles, J., Ward, M., R. M. Richardson, & A. Ghuman. (2016). Associative hallucinations result from stimulating left ventromedial temporal cortex. Cortex, 83, 139-144.
  
• Tarr. M & Aminoff, E. (2016). Can big data help us understand human vision? In, Jones, M. (Ed.), Big Data in Cognitive Science. Psychology Press (Taylor & Francis). Kim, J., Aminoff, E., Kastner, S., & Behrmann, M. (2015). The neural basis of developmental topographic disorientation. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 12954-12969. * Equal contribution.
• Aminoff, E. & Tarr, M. (2015). Associative processing is inherent in scene perception. PLoS ONE, 10(6): e0128840.
• Aminoff, E., Toneva, M., Shrivastava, A., Chen, X., Misra, I., Gupta, A. & Tarr, M. (2015). Applying artificial vision models to human scene understanding. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 9:8. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00008. Special Research Topic: Integrating computational and neural findings in visual object perception.
• Aminoff, E., Freeman, S., Clewett, D., Tipper, C., Frithsen, A., Johnson, A., Grafton, S., & Miller, M. (2015). Maintaining a cautious state of mind during a recognition test: A large-scale fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 67, 132-147.
• Aminoff, E. (2014). Putting scenes in context. In, Kveraga, K. & Bar, M. (Eds), Scene Vision: Making sense of what we see (pp. 135-154). Cambridge: MIT Press.
• Hermunstad, A., Brown, K., Bassett, D., Aminoff, E., Frithsen, A., Johnson, A.,Tipper, C., Miller, M., Grafton, S., & Carlson, J. (2014). Structurally-constrained relationships between cognitive states in the human brain. PLOS Computational Biology 10: e1003591.
• Aminoff, E., Kveraga, K., & Bar, M. (2013). The role of the parahippocampal cortex in
• cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17, 379-390.