Epstein, R.A. & Morgan, L.K. (2011). Neural responses to visual scenes reveals inconsistencies between fMRI adaptation and multivoxel pattern analysis. Neuropsychologia, in press. PDF
Epstein, R.A. (2011). Cognitive Neuroscience: Scene Layout from Vision and Touch. Current Biology, 21(11): R437-R438. PDF
Morgan, L.K., MacEvoy, S.P., Aguirre, G.K., & Epstein, R.A. (2011). Distances between real-world locations are represented in the human hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(4): 1238-1245. PDF
Ward, E.J., MacEvoy, S.P. & Epstein, R.A. (2010). Eye-centered encoding of visual space in scene-selective regions. Journal of Vision, 10(14):6: 1-12. PDF
Schinazi, V.R. & Epstein, R.A. (2010). Neural correlates of real-world route learning. NeuroImage, 53(2): 725-735. PDF
Epstein, R.A. & Ward, E. J. (2010). How reliable are visual context effects in the parahippocampal place area? Cerebral Cortex, 20(2): 294-303. PDF
MacEvoy, S.P. & Epstein, R.A. (2009). Decoding the representation of multiple simultaneous objects in human occipitotemporal cortex. Current Biology, 19: 943-947.PDF | Supplementary Material
Epstein, R.A. (2008). Parahippocampal and retrosplenial contributions to human spatial navigation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12: 388-396. PDF
Epstein, R.A., Parker, W. E. & Feiler, A.M. (2008). Two kinds of fMRI repetition suppression? Evidence for dissociable neural mechanisms. Journal of Neurophysiology, 99: 2877-2886. PDF
MacEvoy, S.P., & Epstein, R.A. (2007). Position selectivity in scene- and object-responsive occipitotemporal regions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98: 2089-2098. PDF
Epstein, R.A., Parker, W.E., & Feiler, A.M. (2007). Where am I now? Distinct roles for parahippocampal and retrosplenial cortices in place recognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 27: 6141-6149. PDF
Epstein, R.A., Higgins, J.S., Jablonski, K., & Feiler, A.M. (2007). Visual scene processing in familiar and unfamiliar environments. Journal of Neurophysiology, 97: 3670-3683. PDF
Dove, A., Manly, T., Epstein, R., & Owen, A.M. (2007). The engagement of mid-ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and posterior brain regions in intentional cognitive activity. Human Brain Mapping.PDF
Epstein, R.A. & Higgins, J.S. (2007). Differential parahippocampal and retrosplenial involvement in three types of visual scene recognition. Cerebral Cortex, 17: 1680-1693. PDF
Hon, N., Epstein, R.A., Owen, A.M. & Duncan, J. (2006). Frontoparietal activity with minimal decision and control. Journal of Neuroscience, 26: 9805-9809. PDF
Epstein, R.A., Higgins, J.S., Parker, W., Aguirre, G.K., & Cooperman, S. (2006). Cortical correlates of face and scene inversion: A comparison. Neuropsychologia, 44: 1145-1158. PDF
Epstein, R.A. (2005). The cortical basis of visual scene processing. Visual Cognition, 12: 954-978. PDF
Epstein, R.A., Higgins, J.S. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). Learning places from views: Variation in scene processing as a function of experience and navigational ability. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17: 73-83. PDF
Gauthier, I., Curby, K.M., Skludlarski, P. & Epstein, R.A. (2005). Individual differences in FFA activity suggest independent processing at different spatial scales. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5: 222-234. PDF
Epstein, R., Graham, K.S., & Downing, P.E. (2003). Viewpoint-specific scene representations in human parahippocampal cortex. Neuron, 37: 865-876. PDF
Epstein, R., DeYoe, E.A., Press, D.Z., Rosen, A.C. & Kanwisher, N. (2001). Neuropsychological evidence for a topographical learning mechanism in parahippocampal cortex. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 18: 481-508. PDF
Epstein, R. & Kanwisher, N. (1999). Repetition blindness for locations: Evidence for automatic spatial coding in an RSVP task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25: 1855-1866. PDF
Epstein, R., Harris, A., Stanley, D. & Kanwisher, N. (1999). The parahippocampal place area: Recognition, navigation, or encoding? Neuron, 23:115-125. PDF
Epstein, R. & Kanwisher, N. (1998). A cortical representation of the local visual environment. Nature, 392: 598-601. PDF
Consciousness/Phenomenology Papers
Epstein, R. (2004). Consciousness, art and the brain: Lessons from Marcel Proust. Consciousness & Cognition, 13, 213-240. PDF
COMMENTARY BY DAVID GALIN: Galin, D. (2004). Aesthetic experience: Marcel Proust and the neo-Jamesian structure of awareness. Consciousness & Cognition, 13, 241-253. PDF
COMMENTARY BY DONALD DRYDEN: Dryden, D. (2004). Memory, imagination, and the cognitive value of the arts. Consciousness & Cognition, 13, 254-267. PDF
Epstein, R. (2000). The neural-cognitive basis of the Jamesian stream of thought. Consciousness & Cognition, 9: 550-575. PDF
COMMENTARY BY DAVID GALIN: Galin, D. (2000). Comments on Epstein's neurocognitive interpretation of William James' model of consciousness. Consciousness & Cognition, 9, 576-583. PDF
RESPONSE BY Epstein: Epstein, R. (2000). Substantive thoughts about substantive thoughts: A reply to Galin. Consciousness & Cognition, 9, 584-590. PDF
Computer Vision Papers
Yuille, A.L., Snow, D., Epstein, R. & Belhumeur, P.N. (1999). Determining generative models of objects under varying illumination: Shape and albedo from multiple images using SVD and integrability. International Journal of Computer Vision, 35: 203-222. PDF
Epstein, R. , Yuille, A.L. & Belhumeur, P.N. (1996). Learning object representations from lighting
variations. In Object Representation in Computer Vision II, J. Ponce, A. Zisserman & M. Hebert, eds. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 108-116. PDF
Epstein, R., Hallinan, P.W. & Yuille, A.L. (1995). 5±2 eigenimages suffice: An empirical investigation of low-dimensional lighting models. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Physics-Based Modeling in Computer Vision.
Epstein, R. & Yuille, A.L. (1994). Training a general purpose deformable template. In Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on Image Processing, Vol. 1. Austin, TX: IEEE Society Press, 203-207.
Book Chapters
Kanwisher, N., Downing, P., Epstein, R., & Kourtzi, Z. (2001). Functional Neuroimaging of Human Visual Recognition. In R. Cabeza and A. Kingstone (Eds.), The Handbook on Functional Neuroimaging, pp. 109-152. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Owen, A.M., Epstein, R. & Johnsrude, I.S. (2001). fMRI: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience. In P. Jezzard, P.M. Matthews and S.M. Smith (Eds.), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain: Methods for Neuroscience, pp. 311-327.