Ken Nakayama

Ken Nakayama or Kenneth Nakayama is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Harvard University.He received his BA from Haverford College and PhD from UCLA. From 1971 to 1990, he was at the Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. Since then, he has been faculty at Harvard University. He helped in the formation of Vision Sciences Society and was its president till recently.he is on the present VSS board as an Emeritus member. His students include Frank Tong, Brad Duchaine, Alison Harris, Jeremy Wilmer, Brian Scholl, Arni Kristjansson , Nava Rubin , Yue Chen, Marvin Chun, Shinsuki Shimojo, Mary Bravo, Michael Paradiso, Richard Balliet, Manfred Mackeben among others.

His publications include:

1. Whalen, R.E. and K. Nakayama. Induction of oestrous behavior: Facilitation by repeated hormone treatments. J. Endocrinol. 33: 525-526. 1965.

2. Weinberger, N.M., K. Nakayama and D.B. Lindsley. Electrocortical responses during classical conditioning. Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 24:16-24, 1968.

3. Nakayama, K. An analysis of backward and forward masking in terms of single unit responses in the cat visual system. Proc. Ann. Conv. Am. Psych. Assn., 317-318, 1968.

4. Nakayama, K. Local adaptation in LGN cells: Evidence for a surround antagonism. Vision Res. 11: 501-509, 1971.

5. Nakayama, K. and D.J. Roberts. Line length detectors in the human visual system: Evidence from selective adaptation. Vision Res. 12: 1709-1713, 1972.

6. Loomis, J.M. and K. Nakayama. A velocity analogue of brightness contrast. Perception 2: 425-428, 1973.

7. Nakayama, K. and J.M. Loomis. Optical velocity patterns, velocity sensitive neurons and space perception: A hypothesis. Perception 3: 63-80, 1974.

8. Nakayama, K. Photographic determination of the rotational state of the eye using matrices. Am. J. Optom. and Physiol. Optics 51: 736-742, 1974.

9. Nakayama, K. Coordination of extraocular muscles. In, Basic Mechanisms in Ocular Motility and Their Clinical Implications. G. Lennerstrand and P. Bach-y-Rita (Eds.), Pergamon Press pp. 193-207, 1975.

10. Nakayama, K. and R. Balliet. Listing's Law, eye position sense, and perception of the vertical. Vision Res. 17: 453-457, 1977.

11. Nakayama, K. Geometrical and physiological aspects of depth perception. In, 3-D Image Processing. Stephen Benton (Ed.), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers Proceedings 120: 1-8, 1977.

12. Balliet, R. and K. Nakayama. Trained human voluntary torsion. In, Neurophysiologie und Klinik der Augenbewegungsstoerungen, G. Kommerell (Ed.), Muenchen: J.F. Bergmann pp. 221-227, 1977.

13. Balliet, R. and K. Nakayama. Training of voluntary torsion. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 17: 303-314, 1978.

14. Nakayama, K. A new technique to determine the primary position of the eye using Listing's Law. Am. J. Optom. and Physiol. Optics 55: 331-336, 1978.

15. Balliet, R. and K. Nakayama. Egocentric orientation is influenced by trained voluntary cyclorotary eye movements. Nature 275: 214-216, 1978.

16. Tyler, C.W., P. Apkarian and K. Nakayama. Multiple spatial frequency tuning of electrical responses from the human visual cortex. Exp. Brain Res. 33: 535-550, 1978.

17. Nakayama, K. and C.W. Tyler. Relative motion induced in stationary lines. Vision Res. 18: 1663-1668, 1978.

18. Tyler, C.W., P. Apkarian, D. Levi and K. Nakayama. Rapid assessment of visual function: An electronic sweep technique for the pattern evoked potential. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 18: 703-713, 1979.

19. Tyler, C.W., P. Apkarian and K. Nakayama. High temporal frequency evoked potentials to luminance and pattern stimulation in peripheral retina. In, Evoked Potentials. C. Barber (Ed.), Lancaster, England: MTP Press, Ltd. pp. 199-204, 1979.

20. Nakayama, K., M. Mackeben and E. Sutter. Narrow spatial and temporal frequency tuning in the alert monkey VEP. Brain Res. 193: 263-267, 1980.

21. Tyler, C.W. and K. Nakayama. Grating induction: A new type of after-effect. Vision Res. 20:437-441, 1980.

22. Nakayama, K. Differential motion hyperacuity under conditions of common image motion. Vision Res. 21:1475-1482, 1981.

23. Nakayama, K. and A. Jampolsky. Introduction to infant psychophysics. In, Application of Psychophysics to Clinical Problems. Proenza (Ed.), Cambridge: University Press pp. 108-110, 1981.

24. Nakayama, K. and C.W. Tyler. Psychophysical isolation of motion sensitivity by removal of familiar position cues. Vision Res. 21: 427-433, 1981.

25. Apkarian, P., K. Nakayama and C.W. Tyler. Binocularity in the human visual evoked potential: Facilitation, summation, and suppression. EEG and Clin. Neurophysiol. 51: 32-48, 1981.

26. Tyler, C.W., K. Nakayama, P. Apkarian, and D. Levi. VEP assessment of visual function. Vision Res. 21: 607-610, 1981.

27. Nakayama, K. and M. Mackeben. Steady state visual evoked potentials in the alert primate. Vision Res. 22: 1261-1271, 1982.

28. Nakayama, K. The relationship of visual evoked potentials to cortical physiology. In, Evoked Potentials, Ivan Bodis-Wollner (Ed.), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 388 pp. 21-36, 1982.

29. Nakayama, K. Spatial frequency limitations in binocular neurons: Visual evoked potential evidence. In, Evoked Potentials, Ivan Bodis-Wollner (Ed.), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 388 pp. 610-614, 1982.

30. Nakayama, K. Motion parallax sensitivity and space perception. In, Spatially Coordinated Behavior. A. Hein and M. Jeannerod (Eds.), Academic Press pp. 223-242, 1982.

31. Nakayama, K. Kinematics of normal and strabismic eyes. In, Basic and Clinical Aspects of Binocular Vergence Movements. K. Ciuffreda and C. Schor (Eds.), Butterworths pp. 544-564, 1983.

32. Frost, B. and K. Nakayama. Single visual neurons code opposing motion independent of direction. Science 220: 744-745, 1983.

33. Tyler, C.W. and K. Nakayama. Size interactions in the perception of orientation. In, Sensory Experience, Adaptation, and Perception: Festschrift for Ivo Kohler. B. Wooten and L. Spillman (Eds.), pp. 529-546, 1983.

34. McKee, S.P. and K. Nakayama. The detection of motion in the peripheral visual field. Vision Res. 24: 25-32, 1984.

35. Nakayama, K. and G.H. Silverman. Temporal and spatial characteristics of the upper displacement limit for motion in random dots. Vision Res. 24: 293-299, 1984.

36. Nakayama, K. Animal magnetism. Review of biomagnetism: An inter-disciplinary approach. Contemp. Psych.. 29: 811, 1984.

37. Nakayama, K. Extraction of higher order derivatives of the optical velocity vector field: Limitation imposed by biological hardware. In, Brain Mechanisms and Spatial Vision. D. Ingle, M. Jennerod and D. Lee (Eds.), Martinus Nijoff, Holland pp. 59-71, 1985.

38. Nakayama, K. Biological image motion processing: A review. Vision Res. 25: 625-660, 1985.

39. Nakayama, K. and G.H. Silverman. Detection and discrimination of sinusoidal grating displacements. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 2: 267-274, 1985.

40. Golumb, B., R.A. Andersen, K. Nakayama, D.I.A. MacLeod and A. Wong. Visual thresholds for shearing motion in monkey and man. Vision Res. 25: 813-820, 1985.

41. Nakayama, K., G. Silverman, D.I.A. MacLeod and J. Mulligan. Sensitivity to shearing and compressive motion in random dots. Perception 14: 225-236, 1985.

42. McKee, S.M., G.H. Silverman and K. Nakayama. Precise velocity discrimination despite random variations in temporal frequency and contrast. Vision Res. 26: 609-619, 1986.

43. Nakayama, K. and G.H. Silverman. Serial and parallel processing of visual feature conjunctions. Nature 320: 264-265, 1986.

44. Nakayama, K. and G.H. Silverman. The aperture problem--I. Perception of non-rigidity and motion detection in translating sinusoidal lines. Vision Res. 28: 739-746, 1988.

45. Nakayama, K. and G.H. Silverman. The aperture problem--II. Spatial integration of velocity information along contours. Vision Res. 28: 747-753, 1988.

46. Shimojo, S., G.H. Silverman and K. Nakayama. An occlusion-related mechanism of depth perception based on motion and interocular sequence. Nature 333: 265-268, 1988.

47. Nakayama, K., P. Apkarian, M. Mackeben and C.W. Tyler. Visual evoked potentials: Isolation of cortical subpopulations narrowly tuned to spatial frequency. In, Neurophysiology and Psychophysiology , G.C. Galbraith, M.L. Kietzman and E. Donchin (Eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. pp. 91-101, 1988.

48. Nakayama, K., S. Shimojo and G.H. Silverman. Stereoscopic Depth: Its relation to image segmentation, grouping and the recognition of occluded objects. Perception 18: 55-68, 1989.

49. Shimojo, S., G.H. Silverman and K. Nakayama. Occlusion and the solution to the aperture problem for motion. Vision Res. 29: 619-626, 1989.

50. Nakayama, K. and M. Mackeben. Sustained and transient components of focal visual attention. Vision Res. 29: 1631-1647, 1989.

51. Paradiso, M.A., S. Shimojo and K. Nakayama. Subjective contours, tilt aftereffects, and visual cortical organization. Vision Res. 29: 1205-1213, 1989.

52. Nakayama, K. and Shimojo, S. Intermediate and higher order aspects of motion processing: Temporal and spatial pooling of velocity signals and the role of hidden lines and surfaces. In, Proceedings of the Retina Research Foundation Symposium, Volume 2, Neural Mechanisms of Visual Perception, D. M-K Lam and C.B. Gilbert (Eds.), Portfolio Publishing Company, The Woodlands, TX pp. 281-296 1989.

53. Nakayama, K. The iconic bottleneck and the tenuous link between early visual processing and perception. In, Vision: Coding and efficiency, C. Blakemore (Ed.), Cambridge University Press pp. 411-422, 1990

54. Nakayama, K. and S. Shimojo. DaVinci stereopsis: Depth and subjective contours from unpaired monocular points. Vision Res. 30:1811-1825, 1990.

55. Nakayama, K. Properties of early motion processing: Implications for the sensing of ego motion. In, The Perception and Control of Self Motion, R. Warren and A.H.Wertheim (Eds.) Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ pp. 69-80 1990.

56. Nakayama, K., Shimojo, S. and Ramachandran, V.S. Transparency: Relation to depth, subjective contours and color spreading. Perception 19: 497-513, 1990.

57. Shimojo, S. and Nakayama, K. Amodal presence of partially occluded surfaces: role of invisible stimuli in apparent motion correspondence. Perception 19: 285-299, 1990.

58. Shimojo, S. and Nakayama, K. Real world occlusion constraints and binocular rivalry interaction. Vision Res. 30: 69-80, 1990.

59. Vaina, L.M., LeMay, M. Bienfang, D.C., Choi, A.Y. and Nakayama, K. Intact "biological motion" and "structure from motion" perception in a patient with impaired motion mechanisms: A case study. Vis. Neurosci. 5: 353-369, 1990.

60. Nakayama, K. and Shimojo, S. Towards a neural understanding of visual surface representation. In, The Brain, Volume 55, p. 911-924, Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, T. Sejnowski, E.R. Kandel, C.F. Stevens and J.D. Watson (Eds.), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, 1990.

61. Paradiso, M.A. and Nakayama, K. Brightness perception and filling-in Vision Res. 31: 1221-1236, 1991.

62. Bravo, M. and Nakayama, K. The role of attention in different visual search tasks. Percept. and Psychophys. 51: 465-472, 1992.

63. Nakayama, K. and Shimojo. S. Experiencing and perceiving visual surfaces. Science 257: 1357-1363, 1992. download pdf file with color figures 2 and 6 appended .

64. He, Z. J. and Nakayama, K. Surfaces vs. features in visual search. Nature 359: 231-233, 1992.

65. Mackeben, M. and Nakayama, K. Express attentional shifts. Vision Res. 33: 85-90, 1993.

66. Plant, G.T., Laxer, K.D., Barbaro, N.M., Schiffman, J.S. and Nakayama, K. Impaired visual motion perception in the contralateral hemifield following unilateral posterior cerebral lesions in humans. Brain 116: 1303- 1335, 1993.

67. Plant, G.T. and Nakayama, K. The characteristics of residual motion perception in the hemifield contralateral to lateral occipital lesions in humans. Brain 116: 1337-1353, 1993.

68. He, Z.J. and Nakayama, K. Apparent motion determined by surfacelayout not by disparity or 3 - dimensional distance. Nature 367: 173-175, 1994.

69. He, Z.J. and Nakayama, K. Perceiving textures: beyond filtering. Vision Research 34: 151-162, 1994.

70. Nakayama, K. James J. Gibson - An Appreciation. Psychological Review, 101, 329-335, 1994.

71. Shimojo. S. and Nakayama, K. Interocularly unpaired zones escape local matching. Vision Research , 34, 1875-1881, 1994

72. He, Z.J. and Nakayama, K. Surface shape not features determines apparent motion correspondence. Vision Research 34, 2125-2136, 1994

73. Verghese, P. and Nakayama, K. Stimulus discriminability and visual search. Vision Research, 34, 2453-2468, 1994

74. Anderson, B.L. and Nakayama, K. Towards a general theory of stereoscopic processing: Matching, occlusion and fusion Psychological Review 101, 414-445, 1994.

75. Maljkovic, V. and Nakayama, K. Priming of popout: I. Role of features, Memory and Cognition 22, 657-672, 1994

76. Nakayama, K. and He, Z.J. Attention to surfaces: beyond a Cartesian understanding of visual attention. In Early Vision and Beyond, T. V. Papathomas, ed, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 1995.

77. Nakayama, K. , He, Z.J. and Shimojo, S. Visual surface representation: a critical link between lower-level and higher level vision. In Kosslyn, S.M. and Osherson, D.N. Vision. In Invitation to Cognitive Science. M.I.T. Press, p. 1-70, 1995

78. He, Z.J. and Nakayama, K. Visual attention to surfaces in 3-D space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92, 11155-11159, 1995.

79. Rubin, N., Nakayama, K., and Shapley, R.M. Enhanced perception of illusory contours in the lower versus the upper visual hemifields. Science. 651-653, 1996.

80. Nakayama, K. Binocular visual surface perception. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93, 634-639, 1996.

81. Maljkovic, V. and Nakayama, K. Priming of popout: II. Role of position. Perception and Psychophysics 58, 977-991, 1996.

82. Joseph, J.S., Chun, M.M. and Nakayama, K. Attentional requirements in a "preattentive" feature search task. Nature, 387, 805-807, 1997

83. Rubin, N., Nakayama, K., and Shapley, R.M. Abrupt learning and retinal size specificity in illusory-contour perception. Current Biology 7, 461-467, 1997

84. Nakayama, K., & Joseph, J. S. (1998). Attention, pattern recognition and popout in visual search. In R. Parasuraman (Eds.), The Attentive Brain (pp. 279-298). Cambridge: MIT Press.

85. Joseph, J.S., Chun, M.M. and Nakayama, K. Reply to Braun Nature, 387, 805-807, 1998

86. Holzman, P. S., Chen, Y., Nakayama, K., Levy, D. L., & Matthysse, S. (1998). How are deficits in motion perception related to eye-tracking dysfunction in schizophrenia? In M. F. Lenzenweger & R. H. Dworkin (Eds.), Origins and development of schizphrenia: advances in experimental psychopathology Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

87. Kanwisher, N., Tong, F., & Nakayama, K. (1998). The effect of face inversion on the human fusiform face area. Cognition, 68, B1-B11.

88. Tse, P., Cavanagh, P., & Nakayama, K. (1998). The role of parsing in high level motion processing. In T. Watanabe (Eds.), High-level motion processing: computational, neurobiological, and psychophysical perspectives (pp. 249-267). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

89. Nakayama, K. (1998). Vision fin-de-siËcle - A reductionistic explanation of perception for the 21st Century? In J. Hochberg (Eds.), Perception and Cognition at Century's End: History, Philosophy, Theory (pp. 307-331). Academic Press.

90. Tong, F., Nakayama, K., Vaughan, T. J., & Kanwisher, N. (1998). Binocular Rivalry and Visual Awareness in Human Extrastriate Cortex. Neuron, 21, 753-759.

91. Gillam, B., & Nakayama, K. (1999). Quantitative depth for a phantom surface can be based on cyclopean occlusion cues alone. Vision Res., 39, 109-112.

92. Joseph, J. S., & Nakayama, K. (1999). Amodal representation depends on the object seen before partial occlusion. Vision Res, 39, 283-292.

93. McPeek, R.M., Maljkovic, V., and Nakayama, K. (1999) Saccades require focal attention and are facilitated by a short-term memory system. Vision Res, 39, 1555-1566.

94. Chen Y., McPeek R., Intriligator J., Holzman P., Nakayama K. (1999), Smooth pursuit to a movement flow and associated perceptual judgments. Current Oculomotor research, 125-128.

95. Chen Y, Levy D., Nakayama K., Matthysse S., Palafox G., Holzman P. (1999), Dependence of impaired eye tracking on deficient velocity discrimination in Schizophrenia. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry (56) 155-161.

96. Chen Y, Palafox G., Nakayama K., Levy D., Matthysse S., Holzman P. (1999), Motion perception in Schizophrenia . Arch. Gen. Psychiatry (56) 149-154.

97. Gillam B., Blackburn and Nakayama K., (1999) Stereopsis based on monocular gaps: metrical encoding of depth and slant without matching contours. Vision Research (39) 493-502.

98. Chen, Y., Nakayama, K., Levy, D., Matthysse, S., & Holzman, P. S. (1999c). Psychophysical isolation of motion processing deficits in schizophrenics and their relatives and its relation to eye tracking deficits. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci 96, 4724-4729.

99. Tong, Frank; Nakayama, Ken. (1999) Robust representations for faces: Evidence from visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance., 25 ,1016-1035.

100. Nakayama, K. (1999). Mid-level vision. In R. A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT encylopedia of the cognitive sciences Cambridge: MIT Press.

101. Chun, M. M., & Nakayama, K. (2000). On the functional role of implicit visual memory for the adaptive deployment of attention across scenes. Visual Cognition, 7, 65-81.

102. Tong, F., Nakayama, K., Moscovitch, M., Weinrib, O., & Kanwisher, N. (2000). Response properties of the human fusiform face area. Cogn. Neuropsychol., 17, 257-279.

103. Maljkovic, V., & Nakayama, K. (2000). Priming of Popout: III. A short term Implicit memory system beneficial for rapid target selection. Visual Cognition, 7, 571-595.

104. McPeek, R.M., Skavenski, A., Nakayama, K. (2000) Concurrent processing of saccades in visual search. Vision Research, 40, 2499-2516.

105. Bakin, J. S., Nakayama, K., & Gilbert, C. D. (2000). Visual responses in monkey areas V1 and V2 to three dimensional surface configurations. J. Neuroscience, 20, 8188-8198.

106. Nakayama, Ken. Modularity in perception, its relation to cognition and knowledge. [Chapter] Goldstein, E. Bruce (Ed). (2001). Blackwell handbook of perception. Handbook of experimental psychology series. (pp. 737-759). Malden, MA, US: Blackwell Publishers Inc.. xii, 788pp.

107. McKone, E., P. Martini, et al. (2001). "Categorical perception of face identity in noise isolates configural processing." J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 27(3): 573-99.

108. Kristjansson, Mackeben, M. and Nakayama, K. (2001) Rapid, object-based learning in the deployment of transient attention. Perception 30, 1375-1387.

109. Kristjansson, A., Y. Chen, et al. (2001). "Less attention is more in the preparation of antisaccades, but not prosaccades." Nat Neurosci 4(10): 1037-42.

110. Gillam, B. and K. Nakayama (2002). "Subjective contours at line terminations depend on scene layout analysis, not image processing." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance 28:43-53.

111. Kourtzi, Zoe; Nakayama, Ken (2002). Distinct mechanisms for the representation of moving and static objects. Visual Cognition. 9, 248-264.

112. Kristjansson, A., Wang, D.L. and Nakayama, K. The role of priming in conjunctive visual search. Cognition (2002) 37-52.

113. Mednick, S.C., Nakayama, K., Cantero, J.L., Aitenza, M., Levin, A.A., Pathak, N. and Stickgold, R. The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration. Nature Neuroscience 5, 677-681.

114. Kristjansson, A. and K. Nakayama (2002). "The attentional blink in space and time." Vision Res 42(17): 2039.

115. Rubin, N., Nakayama, K. and Shapley, R. (2002), The role of insight in perceptual learning: evidence from illusory contour perception. Perceptual Learning, Fahle, M. and Poggio, T. (Eds.), MIT Press.

116. Scholl, B. J. and K. Nakayama (2002). "Causal capture: contextual effects on the perception of collision events." Psychol Sci 13(6): 493-8.

117. Chen, Y, Holzman P, Nakayama: "Visual and cognitive contol of attention in smooth pursuit:. Progress in brain research chap 17, vol 140, Elsevier Science 2002.

118. Mednick, S., K. Nakayama, et al. (2003). "Sleep-dependent learning: a nap is as good as a night." Nat Neurosci 6(7): 697-8.

119. Kristjansson, Arni; Nakayama, Ken. A primitive memory system for the deployment of transient attention. Perception & Psychophysics. Vol 65(5) Jul 2003, 711-724.

120. McKone, Elinor; Martini, Paolo; Nakayama, Ken. Isolating holistic processing in faces (and perhaps objects). [Chapter] Peterson, Mary A. (Ed); Rhodes, Gillian (Ed). (2003). Perception of faces, objects, and scenes: Analytic and holistic processes. Advances in visual cognition. (pp. 92-117). London: Oxford University Press. viii, 393pp.

121. Chen, Yue; Levy, Deborah L; Sheremata, Summer; Nakayama, Ken; Matthysse, Steven; Holzman, Philip S. Effects of Typical, Atypical, and No Antipsychotic Drugs on Visual Contrast Detection in Schizophrenia.. American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol 160(10) Oct 2003, 1795-1801.

122. Chen, Y; Nakayama, K; Levy, D; Matthysse, S; Holzman, P. Processing of global, but not local, motion direction is deficient in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. Vol 61(2-3) Jun 2003, 215-227.

123. Lenzenweger, Mark F; Nakayama, Ken; Chang, Bernard P. Methodological excursions in pursuit of a somatosensory dysfunction in schizotypy and schizophrenia. [Chapter] Lenzenweger, Mark F. (Ed); Hooley, Jill M. (Ed). (2003). Principles of experimental psychopathology: Essays in honor of Brendan A. Maher. (pp. 135-155). Washington, DC,

124. Rhodes G.; Jeffery L.; Watson T.L.; Clifford C.W.G.; Nakayama K. Fitting the mind to the world: face adaptation and attractiveness aftereffects. Psychological Science, November 2003, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 558-566(9)

125. Duchaine, B. C., H. Parker, K. Nakayama (2003). "Normal recognition of emotion in a prosopagnosic." Perception 32(7): 827-38

126. Parker H. McNally R. Nakayama K. Wilhelm S. No disgust recognition deficit in obsessive-compulsive disorder. J. of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry. 2004, vol 35, pp 183-192.

127. Scholl B. Nakayama K. Illusory Causal Crescents: Misperceived spatial relations due to perceived causality Perception 2004, volume 33, (4), pp 455 - 469.

128. Duchaine B Dingle K Butterworth E Nakayama K. Normal Greeble Learning in a severe case of developmental prosopagnosia. Neuron August 2004 Vol 43 pp469-473

129. Nakayama K, Maljkovic V, Kristjansson A. Short-term memory for the rapid deployment of visual attention, chap 29 in the Cognitive Neurosciences III, edited by Gazzaniga 2004 pp397-408.

130. Duchaine B, Nakayama K. Developmental prosopagnosia and the Benton Facial Recognition Test. Neurology 2004 (62) pp1219-1220.

131. Wang D, Kristjansson A, Nakayama K. Efficient visual search without top-down or bottom-up guidance. Perception and Psychophysics, 2005, 67 (2) pp239-253.

132. Duchaine B, Nakayama K. Dissociations of Face and Object Recognition in Developmental Prosopagnosia. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2005 172 pp 249-261.

133. Nakayama, K. Resolving border disputes in midlevel vision. Neuron 47, 5-8, 2005.

134. Harris A, Duchaine B, Nakayama, K. Normal and abnormal face selectivity of the M170 response in developmental prosopagnosics. Neuropsychologia 2005.

135. Harris A, Nakayama, K. Rapid Face-selective Adaptation of an early Extrastriate component in MEG. Cerebral Cortex 2006.

Manuscripts (in press) Chiao, J.Y., Heck, H.E., Nakayama, K. and Ambady, N. Priming race in biracial observers affects visual search for different race faces. Psych Science, (in press)

Duchaine, B. and Nakayama, K. The Cambridge Face Memory Test: Normal performance and an investigation of its validity using inverted performance and prosopagnosic subjects, Neuropsychologia (in press)

He has been active in the Harvard-MIT divestment petition and has come under flak from status-quoist press.