Hsing-Hao Lee

In this mini-review, I listed what the caveats about those studies discussing how ipRGCs affect cognitive functions and how ipRGCs serve as image-forming functions under well-controlled condition.

People have been considered ipRGCs to be primarily in charge of non-image-forming and cognitive functions. However, an increasing body of evidence has pointed out that ipRGCs also play a role in visual processing, such as contrast, brightness and color perception.

Frontiers | Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and visual processing: ipRGCs beyond non-image-forming functions Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are relatively newly discovered photoreceptors other than rods and cones. For the last decade, p...

Check out the mini-review I wrote about ipRGCs on visual processing!

doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

Excited to share that our work, "Changes in auditory evoked responses at different levels of linguistic processing in adults and school-age children: An MEG study," is now out in Neuropsychologia!
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In this paper, we revealed that the visual adaptation is not uniform across meridians. Instead, it’s stronger that the horizontal than veryidian meridian, and the stronger the adaptation effect is, the larger the corresponding V1 surface area is.

Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area | PNAS Visual adaptation reduces bioenergetic expenditure by decreasing sensitivity to repetitive and similar stimuli. In human adults, visual performance...

Check out our new paper “Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area” in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tomorrow morning (May 18, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm) I will be presenting my poster with Marisa Carrasco @vssmtg.bsky.social at Pavilion
Endogenous attention enhances contrast sensitivity similarly around cardinal meridians despite differential adaptation effects!
#VSS2025

And I argue that future studies should be cautious about the experimental designs in controlling the light condition

A new preprint by myself!

I drafted a journal club article arguing that intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are responsible for more than just non-image-forming functions

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And I argue that future studies should be cautious about the experimental designs in controlling the light condition

This work was funded by the National Eye Institute, one of the NIH’s 27 institutes. It’s history: “Congress established the National Eye Institute (NEI) in 1968 to protect and prolong the vision of the American people.”

Our new preprint ‘Preferred spatial frequency covaries with cortical magnification in human primary visual cortex' is now online. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Multimodal Machine Learning Can Predict Videoconference Fluidity and Enjoyment Videoconferencing is now a frequent mode of communication in both professional and informal settings, yet it often lacks the fluidity and enjoyment of in-person conversation. This study leverages mult...

Excited to share that our paper, "Multimodal Machine Learning Can Predict Videoconference Fluidity and Enjoyment," has been accepted for an **oral presentation** at #ICASSP! ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/108...
@dustinfreeman.bsky.social @davidpoeppel.bsky.social
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This is the first study revealing that a fundamental visual process can reduce this prominent polar angle asymmetry.

In this study, we showed that contrast adaptation is more pronounced at the horizontal than vertical meridians, and the overall adaptation effect is positively correlated with the V1 cortical surface area.

Visual adaptation stronger at horizontal than vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area Visual adaptation, a mechanism that conserves bioenergetic resources by reducing energy expenditure on repetitive stimuli, leads to decreased sensitivity for similar features (e.g., orientation and sp...

Our new preprint is now on bioRxiv!
'Visual adaptation stronger at horizontal than vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area'
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A scatter plot matrix depicting respiratory and cardiac threshold, slope, and metacognitive confidence. Only confidence correlates between tasks.

A question that comes up in almost all of my talks is: are respiratory and cardiac interoception correlated? Aside from subjective confidence, the answer is no (see figure). Working on a new little paper with this now.

woah. Doby went solo on this!

it was a correct decision for me to 'retire' from this field, sort of

I thought it’s just NYU. Turned out it’s everywhere lol

i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) -

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my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. my job has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it.

#neuroscience

Is there domain generality in metacognition? We review the current evidence with @audreymazancieux.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social, @nfaivre.bsky.social, Chris Moulin, and Céline Souchay.
PDF free to read here: rdcu.be/drmJv

Audiovisual integration in the McGurk effect is impervious to music training - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Audiovisual integration in the McGurk effect is impervious to music training

Does music training make us less susceptible to audiovisual audiovisual speech illusions? Together with Karleigh Groves, Pablo Ripollés, and Marisa Carrasco, we showed that McGurk effect is actually impervious to music training

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We do realize it is possible that the construct is mixed with other cognitive processes, and we humbly take any critiques, but we are happy that we take the first step to investigate this topic.

My last study in Taiwan (but was interfered by Covid) was published today😀
For the first time, we combined Law of Comparative Judgment and signal detection theory, tried to provide an objective and quantitative index in metacognition of emotion.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...