Publications

• Cannon, J., O'Brien, A. M., Bungert, L., Sinha, P. (Under review).
  Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A systematic review of empirical evidence.

• Vogelsang, L., Sinha, P. (Under review).
  Modeling Vision.

• Ye, J., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Tiwari, K., Gandhi, T. K., Ganesh, S., Phillips, F., Levi, D., Thorn, F., Diamond, S., Bex, P., Sinha, P. (Under review).
  Resilience of temporal processing to early and extended visual deprivation.

• Unell, A., Eisenstat, Z. M., Braun, A., Gandhi, A., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Ben-Ami, S., Sinha, P. (Under review).
  Influence of visual feedback persistence on visuo-motor skill improvement.

• Vogelsang, L., Jamal, W., Cardinaux, A., Jin, D., Haskins, A. J., Hadjikhani, N., Christodoulou, J., Kjelgaard, M. M., Diamond, S., Sinha, P. (Under review).
  Weather Prediction Task reveals altered probabilistic learning in autism.

• Gandhi, T. K., Tsourides, K., Singhal, N., Cardinaux, A., Jamal, W., Pantazis, D., Kjelgaard, M. K., Sinha, P. (2020).
  Autonomic and Electrophysiological Evidence for Reduced Auditory Habituation in Autism.
  Journal of Autism and Dev. Disorders. https://doi-org.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04636-8

• Zaidi, S.S.A., Boix, X., Prasad, N., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Ben-Ami, S. and Sinha, P., (2020).
  Is Robustness To Transformations Driven by Invariant Neural Representations?
  arXiv preprint, arXiv:2007.00112.

• Jamal, W., Cardinaux, A., Haskins, A. J., Kjelgaard, M. K., Sinha, P. (2020).
  Reduced sensory habituation in autism and its correlation with behavioral measures.
  Journal of Autism and Dev. Disorders. https://doi-org.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04780-1

• Sinha, P., Crucilla, S., Gandhi, T. K., Rose, D., Singh, A. K., Ganesh, S., Mathur, U., Bex, P. (2020).
  Mechanisms underlying simultaneous brightness contrast: Early and innate.
  Vision Research. 173: 41-49.

• Vogelsang, L., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Ehrenberg, E., Yonas, A. L., Diamond, S. P., Held, R. M., Sinha, P. (2018).
  Potential downside of high initial visual acuity.
  Procs. of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(44): 11333-11338.

• Gilad-Gutnick, S., Tsourides, K., Harmatz, E. S., Yovel, G., Sinha, P. (2018).
  Recognizing facial slivers.
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 30(7):951-962.

• Singh, A. K., Phillips, F., Merabet, L. B., Sinha, P. (2018).
  Why does the cortex reorganize after sensory loss?
  Trends in Cognitive Science, 22(7):569-582.

• Gandhi, T., Singh, A.K., Swami, P., Ganesh, S., Sinha, P. (2017).
  The emergence of categorical face perception after extended early-onset blindness.
  Procs. of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114(23), 6139-6143.

• Gilad, S. and Sinha, P. (2017).
  The Presidential Illusion.
  Compendium of Visual Illusions. Eds. Shapiro, A. G., and Todorovic, D., Oxford University Press.

• Gilad, S., Varma, R. and Sinha, P. (2017).
  The Bogart Illusion.
  Compendium of Visual Illusions. Eds. Shapiro, A. G., and Todorovic, D., Oxford University Press.

• Kalia, A., Gandhi, T., Chatterjee, G., Swami, P., Dhillon, H., Bi, S., Chauhan, N., Gupta, S. D., Sharma, P., Sood, S., Ganesh, S., Mathur, U., Sinha, P. (2017).
  Assessing the Impact of a Program for Late Surgical Intervention in Early Blind Children.
  Public Health, 146, 15-23.

• Sinha, P. (2016).
  NeuroScience and Service.
  Neuron, 92(3), 647-652.

• Sinha, P., Bex, P., Kjelgaard, M., Phillips, F. (2016).
  Enhancing research with Plenary Labs.
  Science and Public Policy. https://doi-org.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/10.1093/scipol/scw051.

• Tsourides, K., Shariat, S., Nejati, H., Gandhi, T. K., Cardinaux, A., Simons, C., Cheung, N-M., Pavlovic, V. and Sinha, P. (2016).
  Neural correlates of the food/non-food visual distinction.
  Biological Psychology, 115, 35-42.

• Gandhi, T., Kalia, A., Ganesh, S., and Sinha, P. (2015).
  Immediate susceptibility to visual illusions after sight onset.
  Current Biology, 25(9):R358-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.005.

• Sinha, P. and Vaina, L. (2015).
  Motion sequence analysis in the presence of figural cues.
  Neurocomputing, Vol. 147, 485-491.

• Sinha, P., Wulff, J., Held, R. (2014).
  Establishing cross-modal mappings: Empirical and computational investigations.
  Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness, edited by David Bennett, Christopher Hill, MIT Press: Cambridge.

• Sinha, P., Kjelgaard, M. M., Gandhi, T., Tsourides, K., Cardinaux, A., Pantazis, D., Diamond, S. P., Held, R. (2014).
  Autism as a disorder of prediction.
  Procs. of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(42), 15220-15225.

• Ganesh, S., Arora, P., Sethi, S., Gandhi, T. K., Kalia, A. A., Chatterjee, G., Sinha, P. (2014).
  Results of late surgical intervention in children with early-onset bilateral cataracts.
  British Journal of Ophthalmology, doi:10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304475.

• Kalia, A., Lesmes, L. A., Dorr, M., Gandhi, T., Chatterjee, G., Ganesh, S., Bex, P. and Sinha, P. (2014).
  Development of pattern vision following early and extended blindness.
  Procs. of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(5), 2035-2039.

• Gandhi, T., Ganesh, S., and Sinha, P. (2014).
  Improvement in spatial imagery following sight onset.
  Psychological Science. DOI: 10.1177/0956797613513906.

• Kalia, A., Hopkins, R., Jin, D., Yazzolino, L., Verma, S., Merabet, L., Phillips, F., Sinha, P. (2014).
  Perception of Tactile Graphics: Embossings Versus Cutouts.
  Multisensory Research, 27, 111�125.

• Blackburne, L. K., Eddy, M. D., Kalra, P., Yee, D., Sinha, P., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2014).
  Neural Correlates of Letter Reversal in Children and Adults.
  PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098386.

• Sinha, P. and Vaina, L. (2014).
  Motion sequence analysis in the presence of figural cues.
  Neurocomputing. 147, 485-491.

• Sinha, P. (2013).
  Once blind and now they see.
  Scientific American, 309, 48-55.

• Gilad, S., Yovel, G. and Sinha, P. (2012).
  Recognizing degraded faces: The contribution of configural and featural cues.
  Perception, 41(12), 1497-1511.

• Sinha, P. and Held, R. (2012).
  Sight-restoration.
  F1000 Journal, Med. Rep. 4:17.

• Redcay, E., O�Young, D., Slevc, L. R., Mavros, P. L., Gabrieli, J. D., and Sinha, P. (2012).
  Gaze cues in complex, real-world scenes direct the attention of high-functioning adults with autism.
  Procs. Of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 911-916.

• Sinha, P. and Meng, M. (2012).
  Superimposed hemifields in primary visual cortex of achiasmic individuals.
  Neuron, 75(3):353-355.

• Gandhi, T. K., Suresh, N. E., and Sinha, P. (2012).
  EEG responses to facial contrast-chimeras.
  Journal of Integrative Neuroscience. 11(2), 201-211.

• Meng, M., Cherian, T., Singal, G., and Sinha, P. (2012)
  Lateralization of face processing in the human brain.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, Vol. 279(1735), 2052-2061.

• Gorlin, S., Meng, M., Sharma, J., Sugihara, H., Sur, M. and Sinha, P. (2012).
  Imaging prior information in the brain.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 109(20), 7935-7940.

• Sinha, P. and Russell, R. (2011).
  A perceptually-based comparison of image-similarity metrics.
  Perception, 40(11), 1269-1281.

• Moulson, M., Balas, B., Nelson, C. A., and Sinha, P. (2011).
  EEG correlates of categorical and graded face perception.
  Neuropsychologia, 49(14):3847-3853.

• Kalia, A. A. and Sinha, P. (2011).
  Tactile Picture Recognition: Are the errors in shape acquisition or object matching?
  Seeing and Perceiving, 24(4).

• Held, R., Ostrovsky, Y., deGelder, B., Gandhi, T., Ganesh, S., Mathur, U. and Sinha, P. (2011).
  Newly sighted cannot match seen with felt.
  Nature Neuroscience, 14, 551-553.

• Sinha, P. (2011).
  The analysis of dynamic faces: Key computational challenges.
  In Dynamic Faces: Insights from Experiments and Computation. MIT Press, Cambridge.

• Shariat, S., Pavlovic, V., Papathomas, T., Braun, A., and Sinha, P. (2010).
  Sparse dictionary methods for identification of electrophysiological correlates of perceptual face/non-face classification.
  IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning and Signal Processing.

• Chellappa, R., Sinha, P. and Phillips, P. J. (2010).
  Face recognition by computers and humans.
  Computer. 43(2), 46-55.

• Sinha, P., Ostrovsky, Y. and Russell, R. (2009).
  Face Perception.
  In Encyclopedia of Perception, Goldstein, E. B. (Ed.), Sage Publications.

• Sinha, P. (2009).
  Blindness.
  In Encyclopedia of Perception, Goldstein, E. B. (Ed.), Sage Publications.

• Sinha, P., Balas, B. J. and Ostrovsky, Y. (2009).
  Visual Object Discovery.
  In Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives, Dickinson, S. and Tarr, M. (Eds.), Cambridge University Press.

• Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (2009).
  The role of sequence order in determining view-canonicality for novel wire-frame objects.
  Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 71(4), 712-723.

• Ostrovsky, Y., Meyers, E., Ganesh, S., Mathur, U., and Sinha, P. (2009).
  Visual parsing after recovery from blindness.
  Psychological Science. 20(12), 1484-1491.

• Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (2009).
  Learned prediction affects body perception.
  Visual Cognition. 17(5), 679-699.

• Gilad, S., Meng, M. and Sinha, P. (2009).
  Role of ordinal contrast relationships in face encoding.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(13), 5353-5358.

• Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (2009).
  A speed-dependent inversion effect in dynamic object matching.
  Journal of Vision. 9(2):16, 1-13.

• Sinha, P. and Balas, B. J. (2008).
  Models of visual information processing.
  In Handbook on Computational Cognitive Modeling, Cambridge University Press.

• Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (2008).
  Observing object motion induces increased generalization and sensitivity.
  Perception, 37(8) 1160 � 1174.

• Balas, B. J. and Sinha, P. (2007).
  'Filling-in' colour in natural scenes.
  Visual Cognition, vol. 15, pp 765-778.

• Balas, B. J. and Sinha, P. (2007).
  Portraits and perception: configural information in creating and recognizing face images.
  Spatial Vision, 21(1-2), 119-135.

• Bouvrie, J. V. and Sinha, P. (2007).
  Object concept learning: Observations in congenitally blind children and a computational model.
  Neurocomputing. Vol. 70, 2218-2233.

• Russell, R., Biederman, I., Nederhauser, M., & Sinha, P. (2007).
  The utility of surface reflectance for the recognition of upright an inverted faces.
  Vision Research. Vol. 47, 157-165.

• Sinha, P., Balas, B.J., Ostrovsky, Y., & Russell, R. (2006).
  Face recognition by humans: 19 results all computer vision researchers should know about.
  Proceedings of the IEEE. Vol. 94, No. 11, 1948-1962.

• Ostrovsky, Y., Andalman, A. and Sinha, P. (2006).
  Vision following extended congenital blindnes.s
  Psychological Science. Vol. 17, No. 12, 1009-1014. (Supplementary Material)

• Balas, B. J. and Sinha, P. (2006).
  Region based representations for face recognition.
  ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Vol. 3, 354-375.

• Balas, B. J. and Sinha, P. (2006).
  Receptive field structures for recognition.
  Neural Computation. Vol. 18, No. 3, 497-520.

• Sinha, P., Balas, B. J., Ostrovsky, Y. and Russell, R. (2006).
  Face recognition by humans.
  In Face Recognition: Advanced Modeling and Methods, Academic Press.

• Russell, R., Sinha, P., Biederman, I., & Nederhouser, M. (2006).
  Is pigmentation important for face recognition? Evidence from contrast negation.
  Perception. 35(6), 749-759.

• Ostrovsky, Y., Cavanagh, P. and Sinha, P. (2005).
  Perceiving illumination inconsistencies in scenes.
  Perception, vol. 34, pp 1301-1314.

• Cox, D., Meyers, E. and Sinha, P. (2004).
  Contextually evoked object-specific responses in human visual cortex.
  Science, Vol. 303, No. 5667, pp 115-117.

• Riesenhuber, M., Jarudi, I., Gilad, S. and Sinha, P. (2004).
  Face processing in humans is compatible with a simple shape-based model of vision.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. (Suppl.), 04BL0061.S1-S3.

• Sadr, J. & Sinha, P. (2004).
  Object Recognition and Random Image Structure Evolution.
  Cognitive Science, Vol. 28, pp 259-287.

• Sinha, P. (2004).
  Project Prakash: Face classification following extended visual deprivation.
  Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Development and Learning, San Diego.

• Sadr, J., Jarudi, I. & Sinha, P. (2003).
  The Role of Eyebrows in Face Recognition.
  Perception, 32, 285-293.

• Sinha, P. (2003).
  The use of 2-D similarity metrics for 3-D object recognition.
  IETE Journal of Research, Vol. 49, Nos. 2 and 3, pp 113-125.

• Russell, R. (2003).
  Sex, beauty and the relative luminance of facial features.
  Perception, Vol. 32, pp 1093-1107, Pion Limited, London.

• Sinha, P. (2002).
  Recognizing complex patterns.
  Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 5 (suppl.), 1093-1097.

• Sadr, J., Mukherjee, S., Thoresz, K. & Sinha, P. (2002).
  The Fidelity of Local Ordinal Encoding.
  In T. Dietterich, S. Becker & Z. Ghahramani (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

• Sinha, P. (2002).
  Qualitative representations for recognition.
  In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 2525, pp 249-262.

• Yip, A. and Sinha, P. (2002).
  Role of color in face recognition.
  Perception, 31, 995-1003.

• Pollak, S. and Sinha, P. (2002).
  Enhanced perceptual sensitivity for anger among physically abused children.
  Developmental Psychology, 38, No. 5, 784-791.

• Sinha, P. and Poggio, T. (2002).
  United we stand: The role of head-structure in face recognition.
  Perception, 31/1, 133.

• Sinha, P. and Poggio, T. (2002).
  High-level learning of early perceptual tasks.
  In Perceptual Learning, Ed. Manfred Fahle, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

• Sinha, P. (2002).
  Identifying perceptually significant features for recognizing faces.
  In Proceedings of the SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Jose, California.

• Sinha, P. (2001).
  Role of motion integration in contour perception.
  Vision Research, Vol. 41(6), 705-710.

• Vaina, L. M., Solomon, J., Chowdry, S., Sinha, P., Belliveau, J., W., Gross, C. G. (2001).
  Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, 11656-11661.

• Sinha, P. (2000).
  The perception of gaze direction.
  Perception, 29, 1005-1008. See also Comment in TICS.

• Bülthoff, I., Bülthoff, H. H. & Sinha, P. (1998).
  Top-down influences on stereoscopic depth-perception.
  Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp 254-257.

• Sinha, P. and Poggio, T. (1997).
  Response to 'Comment' article by Lamouret, Cornilleau-Pérès and Droulez.
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 2, 43-44.

• Anderson, B. L. & Sinha, P. (1997).
  Reciprocal interactions between occlusion and motion computations.
  Procs. of the Natl. Acad. of Sciences, Vol. 94, pp. 3477-3480.

• Jones, M. J., Sinha, P., Vetter, T., & Poggio, T. (1997).
  Top-down learning of low-level vision tasks.
  Current Biology,7: 991-994.

• Oren. M., Papageorgiou, C., Sinha, P., Osuna, E. and Poggio, T. (1997).
  Pedestrian detection using wavelet templates.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

• Lipson, P., Grimson, E. and Sinha, P. (1997).
  Configuration based scene classification and image-indexing.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

• Sinha, P. & Poggio, T. (1996).
  The role of learning in 3-D form perception.
  Nature, Vol. 384, No. 6608, pp.460-463.

• Sinha, P. (1996).
  The coherence of subjective gratings.
  Vision Research, 36(22), pp. 3661-3665.

• Sinha, P. & Poggio, T. (1996).
  I think I know that face...,
  Nature, Vol. 384, No. 6608, pp. 404.

• Sinha, P. & Adelson, E. H. (1993).
  Recovering reflectance and illumination in a world of painted polyhedra.
  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, Berlin, Germany.

• Sinha, P. & Adelson, E. H. (1993).
  Verifying the 'consistency' of shading patterns and 3D structures.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Qualitative Vision. New York City.