Curriculum Vitae

How to optimize neuroscience data utilization and experiment design for advancing brain models of visual and linguistic cognition?

Tuckute, G., Finzi, D., Margalit, E., Zylberberg, J., Chung, S., Fyshe, A., Chung, S., Fedorenko, E., Kriegeskorte, N., Grill-Spector, K. and Kar, K.

Neurons, Behavior, Data Analysis, and Theory, January

A unifying framework for functional organization in early and higher ventral visual cortex

Margalit, E., Lee, H., Finzi, D., DiCarlo, J.J., Grill-Spector, K. and Yamins, D.L.K.

Neuron

Rethinking the limiting dynamics of SGD: modified loss, phase space oscillations, and anomalous diffusion

Kunin, D.*, Sagastuy-Brena, J.*, Gillespie, L., Margalit, E., Tanaka, H., Ganguli, S. and Yamins, D.L.K.

Neural Computation

Increasing neural network robustness improves match to macaque V1 eigenspectrum, spatial frequency preference and predictivity

Kong, N.C.L., Margalit, E., Gardner, J.L. and Norcia, A.M.

PLoS Computational Biology

Ultra-high-resolution fMRI of human ventral temporal cortex reveals differential representation of categories and domains

Margalit, E., Jamison, K.W., Weiner, K.S., Vizioli, L., Zhang, R., Kay, K.N. and Grill-Spector, K.

Journal of Neuroscience, 40(15), 3008-3024

Visual noise consisting of X-junctions has only a minimal adverse effect on object recognition

Margalit, E., Herald, S.B., Meschke, E.X., Irawan, I., Maarek, R. and Biederman, I.

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

A critical assessment of data quality and venous effects in sub-millimeter fMRI

Kay, K.N., Jamison, K., Vizioli, L., Zhang, R., Margalit, E. and Ugurbil, K.

NeuroImage, 189, 847-869

The cognitive neuroscience of person identification

Biederman, I., Shilowich, B.E., Herald, S.B., Margalit, E., Maarek, R., Meschke, E.X. and Hacker, C.M.

Neuropsychologia, 116B, 205-214

What is actually affected by the scrambling of objects when localizing the lateral occipital complex?

Margalit, E., Biederman, I., Tjan, B.S. and Shah, M.P.

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(9), 1595-1604

An applet for the Gabor scaling of the differences between complex stimuli

Margalit, E., Herald, S.B., Yue, X., von der Malsburg, C. and Biederman, I.

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78(8), 2298-2306

The lateral occipital complex shows no net response to object familiarity

Margalit, E., Shah, M.P., Tjan, B.S., Biederman, I., Keller, B. and Brenner, R.

Journal of Vision, 16(3)

Neuromelanin marks the spot: Identifying a locus coeruleus biomarker of cognitive reserve in healthy aging

Clewett, D., Lee, T.H., Greening, S.G., Ponzio, A., Margalit, E. and Mather, M.

Neurobiology of Aging, 37, 117-126

Do Topographic Deep ANN Models of the Primate Ventral Stream Predict the Perceptual Effects of Direct IT Cortical Interventions?

Schrimpf, M., McGrath, P., Margalit, E. and DiCarlo, J.J.

bioRxiv

Extensive individual differences of category information in ventral temporal cortex in the congenitally blind

Rosenke, M., van den Hurk, J., Margalit, E., Op de Beeck, H.P., Grill-Spector, K. and Weiner, K.S.

bioRxiv

Validation and generalization of pixel-wise relevance in convolutional neural networks trained for face classification

Crawford, J., Margalit, E., Grill-Spector, K. and Poltoratski, S.

arXiv

Topographic deep artificial neural networks reproduce the hallmarks of the primate inferior temporal cortex face processing network

Lee, H., Margalit, E., Jozwik, K., Cohen, M.A., Kanwisher, N.G., Yamins, D.L.K. and DiCarlo, J.J.

bioRxiv

Multimodal World Models for Drug Discovery

Margalit, E.

Stanford CS25: Transformers United V5

Identifying Constraints on the Emergence of V1 Functional Architecture with CNNs

Margalit, E.

Simons Collaboration Global Brain Monthly Meeting

Differential representation of object category information across lateral and medial ventral temporal cortex revealed with ultra-high-resolution fMRI

Margalit, E., Jamison, K., Weiner, K.S., Vizioli, L., Zhang, R., Kay, K.N. and Grill-Spector, K.

Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference (SfN)

Ultra-high-resolution fMRI reveals differential representation of categories and domains across lateral and medial ventral temporal cortex

Margalit, E., Jamison, K., Weiner, K.S., Vizioli, L., Zhang, R., Kay, K.N. and Grill-Spector, K.

Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS)

Topographic deep neural networks predict the functional organization of the primate ventral visual pathway (virtual poster)

Margalit, E., Lee, H., DiCarlo, J.J., Grill-Spector, K. and Yamins, D.L.K.

SfN

Correlation-based spatial layout of deep neural network features generates ventral stream topography

Margalit, E., Lee, H., Marques, T., DiCarlo, J.J. and Yamins, D.L.K.

COSYNE

Pinwheel-like Iso-Orientation Domains in a Convolutional Neural Network Model

Margalit, E., Lee, H., DiCarlo, J.J. and Yamins, D.L.K.

Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS)

What is the nature of the perceptual deficit in congenital prosopagnosia?

Biederman, I., Margalit, E., Maarek, R., Meschke, E.X., Shilowich, B.E., Hacker, C.M., Juarez, J.J., Seamans, T.J. and Herald, S.B.

Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

What is actually affected by the scrambling of objects when localizing the lateral occipital complex?

Biederman, I., Margalit, E., Tjan, B.S. and Shah, M.P.

Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists

Vertices are effective in perceptual grouping (and ungrouping)

Irawan, I., Margalit, E., Herald, S.B. and Biederman, I.

Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

Impaired face and non-face discrimination in developmental prosopagnosics (DPs)

Margalit, E., Yue, X. and Biederman, I.

Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

Neuromelanin marks the spot: a locus coeruleus substrate of cognitive reserve in healthy aging

Clewett, D., Lee, T.H., Greening, S.G., Ponzio, A., Margalit, E. and Mather, M.

USC Neuroscience Graduate Student Symposium

Phonagnosia, a voice homologue to prosopagnosia

Biederman, I., Herald, S.B., Xu, X., Amir, O., Shilowich, B.E. and Margalit, E.

Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society