CCN Lab

Publications

2024

Leveraging Psychophysics to Infer the Mechanisms of Encoding Change in Vision
Leveraging Psychophysics to Infer the Mechanisms of Encoding Change in Vision
Jason S. Hays, Fabian A. Soto
Computational Brain & Behavior  ·  08 Nov 2024  ·  doi:10.1007/s42113-024-00227-3
Toward a mechanistic understanding of the role of error monitoring and memory in social anxiety.
Toward a mechanistic understanding of the role of error monitoring and memory in social anxiety.
Kianoosh Hosseini, Jeremy W Pettit, Fabian A Soto, Aaron T Mattfeld, George A Buzzell
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience  ·  05 Jun 2024  ·  pmid:38839717
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Multidimensional signal detection modeling reveals Gestalt-like perceptual integration of face emotion and identity.
Multidimensional signal detection modeling reveals Gestalt-like perceptual integration of face emotion and identity.
S Sanaz Hosseini, Fabian A Soto
Emotion  ·  01 Apr 2024  ·  pmid:38557028
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Face shape and motion are perceptually separable: Support for a revised model of face processing.
Face shape and motion are perceptually separable: Support for a revised model of face processing.
Emily Renae Martin, Jason S Hays, Fabian A Soto
Psychonomic bulletin & review  ·  21 Feb 2024  ·  pmid:38381300
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Perceptual Observer Modeling Reveals Likely Mechanisms of Face Expression Recognition Deficits in Depression.
Perceptual Observer Modeling Reveals Likely Mechanisms of Face Expression Recognition Deficits in Depression.
Fabian A Soto, Christopher G Beevers
Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging  ·  07 Feb 2024  ·  pmid:38336169
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Editorial Highlight

2023

Why is the Rescorla-Wagner model so influential
Why is the Rescorla-Wagner model so influential?
Fabian A Soto, Edgar H Vogel, Yerco E Uribe-Bahamonde, Omar D Perez
Neurobiology of learning and memory  ·  19 Jul 2023  ·  pmid:37473985
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Encoding Models in Neuroimaging
Encoding Models in Neuroimaging
Fabián A. Soto, F. Gregory Ashby
New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology  ·  30 Apr 2023  ·  doi:10.1017/9781108902724.011
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Improving the validity of neuroimaging decoding tests of invariant and configural neural representation
Improving the validity of neuroimaging decoding tests of invariant and configural neural representation
Fabian A Soto, Sanjay Narasiwodeyar
PLoS computational biology  ·  23 Jan 2023  ·  pmc:PMC9894561
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2022

Sensitivity vs. awareness curve: A novel model-based analysis to uncover the processes underlying nonconscious perception.
Sensitivity vs. awareness curve: A novel model-based analysis to uncover the processes underlying nonconscious perception.
Ali Pournaghdali, Bennett L Schwartz, Jason Hays, Fabian A Soto
Psychonomic bulletin & review  ·  26 Sep 2022  ·  pmid:36163609
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Subsampling of cues in associative learning.
Subsampling of cues in associative learning.
Omar D Perez, Edgar H Vogel, Sanjay Narasiwodeyar, Fabian A Soto
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)  ·  16 Jun 2022  ·  pmid:35710303
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2021

A computational account of the mechanisms underlying face perception biases in depression.
A computational account of the mechanisms underlying face perception biases in depression.
Fabian A Soto, Rochelle A Stewart, Sanaz Hosseini, Jason Hays, Christopher G Beevers
Journal of abnormal psychology  ·  01 Jul 2021  ·  pmid:34472882
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2020

FaReT: A free and open-source toolkit of three-dimensional models and software to study face perception.
FaReT: A free and open-source toolkit of three-dimensional models and software to study face perception.
Jason Hays, Claudia Wong, Fabian A Soto
Behavior research methods  ·  01 Dec 2020  ·  pmid:32519291
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Adaptation aftereffects reveal how categorization training changes the encoding of face identity.
Adaptation aftereffects reveal how categorization training changes the encoding of face identity.
Fabian A Soto, Karla Escobar, Jefferson Salan
Journal of vision  ·  01 Oct 2020  ·  pmid:33064122
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Evidence for a dissociation between causal beliefs and instrumental actions.
Evidence for a dissociation between causal beliefs and instrumental actions.
Omar D Pérez, Fabian A Soto
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)  ·  29 Jan 2020  ·  pmid:31931662
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2019

Beyond the Conceptual Nervous System : Can computational cognitive neuroscience transform learning theory
Beyond the "Conceptual Nervous System": Can computational cognitive neuroscience transform learning theory?
Fabian A Soto
Behavioural processes  ·  03 Aug 2019  ·  pmid:31381986
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Categorization training changes the visual representation of face identity.
Categorization training changes the visual representation of face identity.
Fabian A Soto
Attention, perception & psychophysics  ·  01 Jul 2019  ·  pmid:31152373
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Novel representations that support rule-based categorization are acquired on-the-fly during category learning.
Novel representations that support rule-based categorization are acquired on-the-fly during category learning.
Fabian A Soto, F Gregory Ashby
Psychological research  ·  26 Feb 2019  ·  pmid:30806809
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2018

Linking signal detection theory and encoding models to reveal independent neural representations from neuroimaging data.
Linking signal detection theory and encoding models to reveal independent neural representations from neuroimaging data.
Fabian A Soto, Lauren E Vucovich, F Gregory Ashby
PLoS computational biology  ·  01 Oct 2018  ·  pmid:30273337
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Exploring the Effect of Stimulus Similarity on the Summation Effect in Causal Learning.
Exploring the Effect of Stimulus Similarity on the Summation Effect in Causal Learning.
Omar D Pérez, René San Martín, Fabián A Soto
Experimental psychology  ·  01 Jul 2018  ·  pmid:30165807
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Contemporary associative learning theory predicts failures to obtain blocking: Comment on Maes et al. 2016 .
Contemporary associative learning theory predicts failures to obtain blocking: Comment on Maes et al. (2016).
Fabian A Soto
Journal of experimental psychology. General  ·  01 Apr 2018  ·  pmid:29698030
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2017

Testing Separability and Independence of Perceptual Dimensions with General Recognition Theory: A Tutorial and New R Package i grtools i
Testing Separability and Independence of Perceptual Dimensions with General Recognition Theory: A Tutorial and New R Package (grtools)
Fabian A Soto, Emily Zheng, Johnny Fonseca, F Gregory Ashby
Frontiers in psychology  ·  23 May 2017  ·  pmc:PMC5440596
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2016

Dissociable changes in functional network topology underlie early category learning and development of automaticity.
Dissociable changes in functional network topology underlie early category learning and development of automaticity.
Fabian A Soto, Danielle S Bassett, F Gregory Ashby
NeuroImage  ·  21 Jul 2016  ·  pmid:27453156
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The neural basis of general recognition theory
The neural basis of general recognition theory
Fabian A. Soto, F. Gregory Ashby
Mathematical models of perception and cognition, Volume II: A festschrift for James T. Townsend  ·  30 Apr 2016  ·  [no id info]
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Promoting rotational-invariance in object recognition despite experience with only a single view.
Promoting rotational-invariance in object recognition despite experience with only a single view.
Fabian A Soto, Edward A Wasserman
Behavioural processes  ·  01 Feb 2016  ·  pmid:26608549
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2015

Multidimensional Signal Detection Theory
Multidimensional Signal Detection Theory
F. Gregory Ashby, Fabian A. Soto
Oxford University Press  ·  10 Dec 2015  ·  https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199957996.013.2
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Why are some dimensions integral Testing two hypotheses through causal learning experiments.
Why are some dimensions integral? Testing two hypotheses through causal learning experiments.
Fabián A Soto, Gonzalo R Quintana, Andrés M Pérez-Acosta, Fernando P Ponce, Edgar H Vogel
Cognition  ·  09 Jul 2015  ·  pmid:26163820
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Categorization training increases the perceptual separability of novel dimensions.
Categorization training increases the perceptual separability of novel dimensions.
Fabian A Soto, F Gregory Ashby
Cognition  ·  25 Mar 2015  ·  pmid:25817370
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General recognition theory with individual differences: a new method for examining perceptual and decisional interactions with an application to face perception.
General recognition theory with individual differences: a new method for examining perceptual and decisional interactions with an application to face perception.
Fabian A Soto, Lauren Vucovich, Robert Musgrave, F Gregory Ashby
Psychonomic bulletin & review  ·  01 Feb 2015  ·  pmid:24841236
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2014

Mechanisms of object recognition: what we have learned from pigeons.
Mechanisms of object recognition: what we have learned from pigeons.
Fabian A Soto, Edward A Wasserman
Frontiers in neural circuits  ·  13 Oct 2014  ·  pmid:25352784
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Explaining compound generalization in associative and causal learning through rational principles of dimensional generalization.
Explaining compound generalization in associative and causal learning through rational principles of dimensional generalization.
Fabian A Soto, Samuel J Gershman, Yael Niv
Psychological review  ·  01 Jul 2014  ·  pmid:25090430
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2013

Brain activity across the development of automatic categorization: a comparison of categorization tasks using multi-voxel pattern analysis.
Brain activity across the development of automatic categorization: a comparison of categorization tasks using multi-voxel pattern analysis.
Fabian A Soto, Jennifer G Waldschmidt, Sebastien Helie, F Gregory Ashby
NeuroImage  ·  17 Jan 2013  ·  pmid:23333700
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2012

A category-overshadowing effect in pigeons: support for the Common Elements Model of object categorization learning.
A category-overshadowing effect in pigeons: support for the Common Elements Model of object categorization learning.
Fabian A Soto, Edward A Wasserman
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes  ·  01 Jul 2012  ·  pmid:22823423
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View-invariance learning in object recognition by pigeons depends on error-driven associative learning processes.
View-invariance learning in object recognition by pigeons depends on error-driven associative learning processes.
Fabian A Soto, Jeffrey Y M Siow, Edward A Wasserman
Vision research  ·  17 Apr 2012  ·  pmid:22531015
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Visual object categorization in birds and primates: integrating behavioral, neurobiological, and computational evidence within a general process framework.
Visual object categorization in birds and primates: integrating behavioral, neurobiological, and computational evidence within a "general process" framework.
Fabian A Soto, Edward A Wasserman
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience  ·  01 Mar 2012  ·  pmid:22086545
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Categorical Learning in Pigeons
Categorical Learning in Pigeons
Fabian A. Soto, Edward A. Wasserman
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning  ·  01 Jan 2012  ·  doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_426

2011

Asymmetrical interactions in the perception of face identity and emotional expression are not unique to the primate visual system.
Asymmetrical interactions in the perception of face identity and emotional expression are not unique to the primate visual system.
Fabian A Soto, Edward A Wasserman
Journal of vision  ·  31 Mar 2011  ·  pmid:21454855
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2010

Missing the forest for the trees: object-discrimination learning blocks categorization learning.
Missing the forest for the trees: object-discrimination learning blocks categorization learning.
Fabian A Soto, Edward A Wasserman
Psychological science  ·  03 Sep 2010  ·  pmid:20817911
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Effect of between-category similarity on basic level superiority in pigeons.
Effect of between-category similarity on basic level superiority in pigeons.
Olga F Lazareva, Fabián A Soto, Edward A Wasserman
Behavioural processes  ·  30 Jun 2010  ·  pmid:20600696
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Integrality separability of stimulus dimensions and multidimensional generalization in pigeons.
Integrality/separability of stimulus dimensions and multidimensional generalization in pigeons.
Fabian A Soto, Edward A Wasserman
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes  ·  01 Apr 2010  ·  pmid:20384400
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Error-driven learning in visual categorization and object recognition: a common-elements model.
Error-driven learning in visual categorization and object recognition: a common-elements model.
Fabian A Soto, Edward A Wasserman
Psychological review  ·  01 Apr 2010  ·  pmid:20438230
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Comparative Vision Science: Seeing Eye to Eye
Comparative Vision Science: Seeing Eye to Eye?
Fabian A Soto, Edward A Wasserman
Comparative cognition & behavior reviews  ·  01 Jan 2010  ·  pmid:20824149
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2008

Generality of the summation effect in human causal learning.
Generality of the summation effect in human causal learning.
Fabian A Soto, Edgar H Vogel, Ramón D Castillo, Allan R Wagner
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)  ·  01 Dec 2008  ·  pmid:19048450
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2007

Stimulus specificity in the acquisition and extinction of conditioned taste aversion.
Stimulus specificity in the acquisition and extinction of conditioned taste aversion.
Edgar H Vogel, Fabián A Soto, María E Castro, Paola A Solar
Biological research  ·  21 Nov 2007  ·  pmid:18064349
Enhancement of Pavlovian conditioned immunosuppression in rats.
Enhancement of Pavlovian conditioned immunosuppression in rats.
Edgar H Vogel, María E Castro, Paola A Solar, Fabián A Soto
Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis  ·  01 Jan 2007  ·  pmid:17474323

Human instrumental performance in ratio and interval contingencies: A challenge for associative theory.
Human instrumental performance in ratio and interval contingencies: A challenge for associative theory.
Omar D Pérez, Michael Rf Aitken, Peter Zhukovsky, Fabián A Soto, Gonzalo P Urcelay, Anthony Dickinson
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology  ·  [no date info]  ·  pmid:27894212
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