Journal Articles and Manuscripts
IIT-Concerned...Cohen, M.A., et al. (2025) What makes a theory of conscious unscientific? Nature Neuroscience. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Dembski, C., Ortego, K., & Pitts, M. (2024) Neural signatures of visual awareness independent of postperceptual processing. Cerebral Cortex. 34, bhae415. pdf
Kosakowski, H.L., Cohen, M.A., Herrera, L., Nichoson, I., Kanwisher, N., & Saxe, R. (accepted and in press) Face-selective responses in FFA and MPFC emerge early in human infancy. eNeuro. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Sung, S., & Alaoui, Z. (2024) Familiarity alters the bandwidth of perceptual experience. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 22, 1-11. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Keefe, J., & Brady, T.F. (2023) Perceptual awareness occurs along a graded continuum: No evidence from all-or-none failures in continuous reproduction tasks. Psychological Science. pdf
Hatamimajoumerd, E., Ratan Murty, N.A., Pitts, M., & Cohen, M.A. (2022) Decoding perceptual awareness across the brain with a no-report fMRI masking paradigm. Current Biology, 32, 1-11. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Lydic, K.O., & Murty. N.A.R. (2022) Modeling the bandwidth of perceptual experience using deep convolutional neural networks. PsyArXiv. pdf
Kosakowski, H.L., Cohen, M.A., Takahashi, A., Keil, B., Kanwisher, N., & Saxe, R. (2022) Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants. Current Biology, 32, 1-10. pdf
Pramod, R.T., Cohen, M.A., Tenenbaum, J., & Kanwisher, N. (2022) Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain. eLife, 11:e71736. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Ostrand, C., Frontero, N., & Pham, P-N (2021) Characterizing a snapshot of perceptual experience. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 1695-1709 pdf
Cohen, M.A., Botch, T.L., & Robertson, C.E. (2020) The limits of color awareness during active, real-world vision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 117, 13821-13827. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Ortego, K., Kyroudis, A., & Pitts, M. (2020) Distinguishing the neural correlates of perceptual awareness and post-perceptual processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 40, 4925-4935. pdf
Lee, H., Margalit, E., Jozwik, K., Cohen, M.A., Kanwisher, N., Yamins, D., DiCarlo, J. (2020) Topographic deep artificial neural networks reproduce the hallmarks of the primate inferior temporal cortex face processing network. bioRxiv. pdf
Cohen, M.A. & Rubenstein, J. (2020) How much color do we see in the blink of an eye? Cognition, 104268. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Dilks, D.D., Koldewyn, K., Weigelt, S., Feather, J., Kell, A., Keil, B., Fischl, B., Zollei, L., Wald, L., Saxe, R. & Kanwisher, N. (2019) Representational similarity precedes category selectivity in the developing ventral visual pathway. NeuroImage. 197, 565-574. pdf
Störmer, V.S., Cohen, M.A., & Alvarez, G. (2019) Tuning attention to object categories: Spatially global effects of attention to faces in visual processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 16, 1-11. pdf
Cohen, M.A. (2019) What is the true capacity of visual cognition? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 23, 83-86. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Alvarez, G.A., Nakayama, K., & Konkle, T. (2017) Visual search for object categories can be predicted across all of high-level visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 117, 388-402. pdf
Jackson-Nielsen, M., Cohen, M.A., & Pitts, M. (2017) Perception of ensemble statistics requires attention. Consciousness and Cognition, 48, 149-160. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Dennett, D.C., & Kanwisher, N. (2016) What is the bandwidth of perceptual experience? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 324-335. pdf
-Comment by McClelland and Bayne: pdf
-Comment by Odegaard and Lau: pdf
-Our response: pdf
Cohen, M.A., Rhee, J., and Alvarez, G.A. (2016) Limits on perceptual encoding can be predicted from known receptive field properties of human visual cortex. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 67-77. pdf
Long, B.L., Konkle, T., Cohen, M.A., and Alvarez, G.A. (2016) Mid-level perceptual features distinguish objects of different real-world sizes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 95-109. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Nakayama, K., Konkle, T., Stantic, M., and Alvarez, G.A. (2015) Visual awareness is limited by the representational architecture of the visual system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27, 2240-2252. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Konkle, T., Rhee, J., Nakayama, K., and Alvarez, G.A. (2014) Processing multiple visual objects is limited by overlap in neural channels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 111, 24, 8955-8960. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Cavanagh, P., Chun, M.M., and Nakayama, K (2012) The attentional requirements of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 16, 411-417 pdf
-Comment by Tsuchiya, Block, and Koch: pdf
-Our response: pdf
Cohen, M.A., Alvarez, G.A., and Nakayama, K. (2011) Natural- scene perception requires attention. Psychological Science. 22 (9) 1165-1172. pdf, supplemental material
Cohen, M.A., and Dennett, D. C. (2011) Consciousness cannot be separated from function. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 15, 358-364. pdf
-Comment by Fahrenfort and Lamme: pdf
-Our response: pdf
Cohen, M.A., Pinto, Y., Howe, P.D.L., and Horowitz, T.S. (2011) The what/where trade-off in multiple object tracking. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. 73, 1422-1434. pdf
Pinto, Y., Otten, M.A., Cohen, M.A., Horowitz, T.S., & Wolfe, J.M. (2011) The boundary conditions for Bohr’s law: When is reacting faster than acting? Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. 73, 613-620. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Evans, K.K, Horowitz, T.S., and Wolfe. J.M. (2011) Auditory and visual memory in musicians and non-musicians. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 18, 586-591. pdf
Evans, K.K., Cohen, M.A., Tambouret, R., Horowtiz, T.S., and Wolfe, J.W. (2010) Does visual expertise improve visual recognition memory? Attention, Perception and Psychophysics.73, 30-35. pdf
Horowitz, T.S. and Cohen, M.A. (2010) Direction information in multiple object tracking is limited by a graded resource. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 27, 1765-1775. pdf
Pinto, Y., Howe, P.D.L., Cohen, M.A., Horowitz, T.S. (2010) The more often you see an object, the easier it becomes to track. Journal of Vision.10(10):4, 1-15. pdf
Howe, P.D.L, Cohen, M.A., Pinto, Y., and Horowitz, T.S. (2010) Distinguishing between parallel and serial accounts of multiple object tracking. Journal of Vision. 10(8): 11, 1-13. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Horowitz, T.S., and Wolfe, J.M. (2009) Auditory recognition memory is inferior to visual recognition memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 106, 14, 6008 – 6010. pdf
Horowitz, T.S., Wolfe, J.M., Alvarez, G.A., Cohen, M.A., and Kuzmova, Y.I. (2009) The speed of free will. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Kunar, M.A., Carter, R., Cohen, M.A., and Horowitz, T.S. (2008) Telephone conversation impairs sustained visual attention via a central bottleneck. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 15 (6), 1135-1140. pdf
BOOK CHAPTERS
Cohen, M.A. & Chun, M.M. (2017) Attention and consciousness: Change blindness, inattentional blindness, and consciousness. In Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, (eds.) Susan Schneider and Max Velmans, pp. 539-550. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. pdf.
Howe, P.D.L., Evans, K.K., Pedersini, R. Horowitz, T.S., Wolfe, J.M., and Cohen, M.A. (2009) Attention: Selective Attention and Consciousness. In Encyclopedia of Consciousness, (ed.) William P. Banks. Vol. 1, pp. 61-75. Oxford: Elsevier. pdf.
IIT-Concerned...Cohen, M.A., et al. (2025) What makes a theory of conscious unscientific? Nature Neuroscience. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Dembski, C., Ortego, K., & Pitts, M. (2024) Neural signatures of visual awareness independent of postperceptual processing. Cerebral Cortex. 34, bhae415. pdf
Kosakowski, H.L., Cohen, M.A., Herrera, L., Nichoson, I., Kanwisher, N., & Saxe, R. (accepted and in press) Face-selective responses in FFA and MPFC emerge early in human infancy. eNeuro. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Sung, S., & Alaoui, Z. (2024) Familiarity alters the bandwidth of perceptual experience. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 22, 1-11. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Keefe, J., & Brady, T.F. (2023) Perceptual awareness occurs along a graded continuum: No evidence from all-or-none failures in continuous reproduction tasks. Psychological Science. pdf
Hatamimajoumerd, E., Ratan Murty, N.A., Pitts, M., & Cohen, M.A. (2022) Decoding perceptual awareness across the brain with a no-report fMRI masking paradigm. Current Biology, 32, 1-11. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Lydic, K.O., & Murty. N.A.R. (2022) Modeling the bandwidth of perceptual experience using deep convolutional neural networks. PsyArXiv. pdf
Kosakowski, H.L., Cohen, M.A., Takahashi, A., Keil, B., Kanwisher, N., & Saxe, R. (2022) Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants. Current Biology, 32, 1-10. pdf
Pramod, R.T., Cohen, M.A., Tenenbaum, J., & Kanwisher, N. (2022) Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain. eLife, 11:e71736. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Ostrand, C., Frontero, N., & Pham, P-N (2021) Characterizing a snapshot of perceptual experience. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 1695-1709 pdf
Cohen, M.A., Botch, T.L., & Robertson, C.E. (2020) The limits of color awareness during active, real-world vision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 117, 13821-13827. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Ortego, K., Kyroudis, A., & Pitts, M. (2020) Distinguishing the neural correlates of perceptual awareness and post-perceptual processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 40, 4925-4935. pdf
Lee, H., Margalit, E., Jozwik, K., Cohen, M.A., Kanwisher, N., Yamins, D., DiCarlo, J. (2020) Topographic deep artificial neural networks reproduce the hallmarks of the primate inferior temporal cortex face processing network. bioRxiv. pdf
Cohen, M.A. & Rubenstein, J. (2020) How much color do we see in the blink of an eye? Cognition, 104268. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Dilks, D.D., Koldewyn, K., Weigelt, S., Feather, J., Kell, A., Keil, B., Fischl, B., Zollei, L., Wald, L., Saxe, R. & Kanwisher, N. (2019) Representational similarity precedes category selectivity in the developing ventral visual pathway. NeuroImage. 197, 565-574. pdf
Störmer, V.S., Cohen, M.A., & Alvarez, G. (2019) Tuning attention to object categories: Spatially global effects of attention to faces in visual processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 16, 1-11. pdf
Cohen, M.A. (2019) What is the true capacity of visual cognition? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 23, 83-86. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Alvarez, G.A., Nakayama, K., & Konkle, T. (2017) Visual search for object categories can be predicted across all of high-level visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 117, 388-402. pdf
Jackson-Nielsen, M., Cohen, M.A., & Pitts, M. (2017) Perception of ensemble statistics requires attention. Consciousness and Cognition, 48, 149-160. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Dennett, D.C., & Kanwisher, N. (2016) What is the bandwidth of perceptual experience? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 324-335. pdf
-Comment by McClelland and Bayne: pdf
-Comment by Odegaard and Lau: pdf
-Our response: pdf
Cohen, M.A., Rhee, J., and Alvarez, G.A. (2016) Limits on perceptual encoding can be predicted from known receptive field properties of human visual cortex. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 67-77. pdf
Long, B.L., Konkle, T., Cohen, M.A., and Alvarez, G.A. (2016) Mid-level perceptual features distinguish objects of different real-world sizes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 95-109. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Nakayama, K., Konkle, T., Stantic, M., and Alvarez, G.A. (2015) Visual awareness is limited by the representational architecture of the visual system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27, 2240-2252. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Konkle, T., Rhee, J., Nakayama, K., and Alvarez, G.A. (2014) Processing multiple visual objects is limited by overlap in neural channels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 111, 24, 8955-8960. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Cavanagh, P., Chun, M.M., and Nakayama, K (2012) The attentional requirements of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 16, 411-417 pdf
-Comment by Tsuchiya, Block, and Koch: pdf
-Our response: pdf
Cohen, M.A., Alvarez, G.A., and Nakayama, K. (2011) Natural- scene perception requires attention. Psychological Science. 22 (9) 1165-1172. pdf, supplemental material
Cohen, M.A., and Dennett, D. C. (2011) Consciousness cannot be separated from function. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 15, 358-364. pdf
-Comment by Fahrenfort and Lamme: pdf
-Our response: pdf
Cohen, M.A., Pinto, Y., Howe, P.D.L., and Horowitz, T.S. (2011) The what/where trade-off in multiple object tracking. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. 73, 1422-1434. pdf
Pinto, Y., Otten, M.A., Cohen, M.A., Horowitz, T.S., & Wolfe, J.M. (2011) The boundary conditions for Bohr’s law: When is reacting faster than acting? Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. 73, 613-620. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Evans, K.K, Horowitz, T.S., and Wolfe. J.M. (2011) Auditory and visual memory in musicians and non-musicians. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 18, 586-591. pdf
Evans, K.K., Cohen, M.A., Tambouret, R., Horowtiz, T.S., and Wolfe, J.W. (2010) Does visual expertise improve visual recognition memory? Attention, Perception and Psychophysics.73, 30-35. pdf
Horowitz, T.S. and Cohen, M.A. (2010) Direction information in multiple object tracking is limited by a graded resource. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 27, 1765-1775. pdf
Pinto, Y., Howe, P.D.L., Cohen, M.A., Horowitz, T.S. (2010) The more often you see an object, the easier it becomes to track. Journal of Vision.10(10):4, 1-15. pdf
Howe, P.D.L, Cohen, M.A., Pinto, Y., and Horowitz, T.S. (2010) Distinguishing between parallel and serial accounts of multiple object tracking. Journal of Vision. 10(8): 11, 1-13. pdf
Cohen, M.A., Horowitz, T.S., and Wolfe, J.M. (2009) Auditory recognition memory is inferior to visual recognition memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 106, 14, 6008 – 6010. pdf
Horowitz, T.S., Wolfe, J.M., Alvarez, G.A., Cohen, M.A., and Kuzmova, Y.I. (2009) The speed of free will. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Kunar, M.A., Carter, R., Cohen, M.A., and Horowitz, T.S. (2008) Telephone conversation impairs sustained visual attention via a central bottleneck. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 15 (6), 1135-1140. pdf
BOOK CHAPTERS
Cohen, M.A. & Chun, M.M. (2017) Attention and consciousness: Change blindness, inattentional blindness, and consciousness. In Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, (eds.) Susan Schneider and Max Velmans, pp. 539-550. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. pdf.
Howe, P.D.L., Evans, K.K., Pedersini, R. Horowitz, T.S., Wolfe, J.M., and Cohen, M.A. (2009) Attention: Selective Attention and Consciousness. In Encyclopedia of Consciousness, (ed.) William P. Banks. Vol. 1, pp. 61-75. Oxford: Elsevier. pdf.