Jonathan  Winawer, phd

Jonathan Winawer
Postdoctoral Fellow


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Educational Background:

2007-present Stanford University Postdoctoral fellow, Psychology.
Advisor: Brian Wandell.
2001-2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Thesis: “Common mechanisms for the representation of
real, imagined, and implied visual motion”.
Advisors: Lera Boroditsky, Barton L Anderson.
1999-2001 City College,
City Univ. of New York
MS, Neurobiology. Thesis: “Temporal integration of defocus in the control of eye growth”.
(Degree awarded May, 2005)
Thesis Advisor: Josh Wallman.
1990-1995
Columbia Univ.,
Columbia College

BA, Classics, cum laude. Dean’s list 1990, 1993, 1994.

Selected Publications:

[PDF] [Cover Art]. Nune G*, Winawer J*, Rauschecker A, Foster B, Dastjerdi M, Wandell BA, Parvizi J. (2011) Problem of signal contamination in inter-hemispheric dual-sided electrodes. Epilepsia. 52(11):e176-e180. doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03284.x  *Equal contributions; co-first authors.

[PDF] Wandell BA and Winawer J. (2011) Imaging retinotopic maps in the human brain. Vision Research. 51(7):718-37. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2010.08.004

[PDF] [Icon] Winawer J, Horiguchi H*, Sayres R*, Amano K, Wandell BA. (2010) Mapping hV4 and ventral occipital cortex: The venous eclipse. Journal of Vision. 10(5). doi:10.1167/10.5.1 (*These authors contributed equally to this work. 

[PDF] Levin N, Dumoulin SO, Winawer J, Dougherty RF, Wandell BA. (2010) Cortical maps and white matter tracts following long period of visual deprivation and retinal image restoration. Neuron. 65(1):21-31. 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.12.006

[PDF] Winawer J, Huk A, Boroditsky L. (2010) A motion aftereffect from visual imagery of motion. Cognition 114(2): 276-284. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.09.010 

[PDF] [Icon/Illusion!] Anderson BL, Winawer J. (2008) Layered image representations and the computation of surface lightness. Journal of Vision, 8(7):1-22. doi:10.1167/8.7.18 

[PDF] Winawer J, Huk A, Boroditsky L. (2008) A motion aftereffect from viewing still photographs depicting motion. Psychological Science. 19(3):276-283. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02080.x

[PDF] Winawer J, Witthoft N, Frank M ,Wu L, Wade A, Boroditsky L. (2007) The Russian Blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 104(19):7780-7785. doi:10.1073/pnas.0701644104 

PDF] Witthoft N, Winawer J. (2006) Synesthetic colors determined by having colored refrigerator magnets in childhood. Cortex 42(2):175-183. 

[PDF][Cover Art] Anderson BL, Winawer J. (2005) Image segmentation and lightness perception. Nature, 434(7029):79-83. doi:10.1038/nature03271

[PDF] Zhu X, Park T, Winawer J, Wallman J. (2005) In a matter of minutes, the eye can know which way to grow. Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science, 46:2238-2241. doi:10.1167/iovs.04-0956 

[PDF] Wallman J, Winawer J. (2004) Homeostasis of eye growth and the question of myopia. Neuron, 43(4):447-468. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2004.08.008 

[PDF] Winawer J, Wallman J. (2002) Temporal constraints on lens compensation in chicks. Vision Research, 42:2651–2668. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00300-0