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I work in Gary's Unbelievable Research Unit (GURU). I'm also part of the AI and machine learning research groups.

Research Interests

I'm primarily interested in models of visual attention, saliency, and eye movements. Humans are visual creatures, and eye movements and attention provide key insights into how we think. Furthermore, understanding these mechanisms will better enable us to solve the problems of computer vision.

I've also been interested in natural language processing and computational linguistics.

Publications

• Matthew H. Tong, Carrie A. Joyce, and Garrison W. Cottrell, (2007). Why is the fusiform face area recruited for novel categories of expertise? A neurocomputational investigation. Brain Research. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.079
• Zhang Lingyun, Matthew H. Tong, and Garrison W. Cottrell (2007) Information attracts attention: A probabilistic account of the cross-race advantage in visual search. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Matthew H. Tong, Adam D. Bickett, Eric M. Christiansen, Garrison W. Cottrell (2007). Learning Grammatical Structure with Echo State Networks. Neural Networks. 20(3):424-432.
• Matthew H. Tong, Carrie A. Joyce, and Garrison W. Cottrell (2005). Are Greebles special? Or, why the Fusiform Fish Area would be recruited for sword expertise (if we had one). In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Cognitive Science Conference, La Stresa, Italy. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum. Winner of the 2005 Marr Prize for best student paper.
• Lenhart K. Schubert and Matthew H. Tong (2003). Extracting and evaluating general world knowledge from the Brown corpus. In Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop on Text Meaning, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.