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Mark E. McCourt, Ph.D.	Office: (701) 231-8625
Director, Center for Visual NeuroScience	FAX: (701) 231-8426
Department of Psychology	Mark.McCourt@ndsu.nodak.edu
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105-5075

Education:

1982 Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
1975 B.A. (Cum Laude), Psychology, University of California, Davis

Professional Positions:

2004- : Director, Center for Visual Neuroscience, Professor at Psychology, North Dakota State University
2001-2004: James A. Meier Distinguished Professor of Psychology, North Dakota State University
1998-2000: Professor of Psychology, North Dakota State University
1991-1998: Associate Professor of Psychology, North Dakota State University
1985-1991: Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
1983-1985: Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University
1982-1983: NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Kenneth Craik Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Cambridge University

Professional Affiliations:

· Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

· Optical Society of America

· Vision Sciences Society

· International Neuropsychological Society

· Cognitive Neuroscience Society

· International Brain Research Organization

· Midwestern Psychological Association

· American Psychological Society

· International Multisensory Research Forum

Professional Service:

Ad Hoc Reviewer for:

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

National Science Foundation

National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute VisB Study Section, 1997, 1999; Special Emphasis Panel, 2003; 2004)

International Science Foundation

The Wellcome Trust

· Applied Optics

· Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

· Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers

· Brain and Cognition

· Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive

· Contemporary Psychology

Cognitive Brain Research

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

· Cortex

· Experimental Brain Research

· Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

· Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

· Journal of General Psychology

· Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

· Journal of Neuroscience

· Journal of the Optical Society of America

· Journal of Vision

· Laterality

· Neuropsychologia

· NeuroReport

· Neuroscience Letters

· Perception

Perception and Psychophysics

Psychoneuroendocrinology

· Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

· Spatial Vision

· Vision Research

· Visual Neuroscience

Research Awards:

Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), Linda Langley (Co-I), Robert Gordon (Co-I), Chris Kelland Friesen (Co-l) and Mark Nawrot (Co-l), National Center for Research Resources,1P20 RR020151-01, "COBRE Center for Visual Neuroscience", 9/20/04-7/31/09, $8, 919, 844.

Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD) and Linda Langley (Co-I), National Institute on Aging, AG022638-01, “Aging Effects on Multisensory Integration”, 8/15/03-7/31/05, $70,500.

Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), National Science Foundation, NSF EPS 0132289, “Multisensory Integration Research Group”, 5/20/02-6/30/05, $450,000.

Barbara Blakeslee (PI/PD) and Mark E. McCourt (Co-PI), National Eye Institute, EY014015-01, “Spatial and Temporal Interactions in Brightness Perception”, 3/1/03-2/28/07, $698,850.

Barbara Blakeslee (PI/PD) and Mark E. McCourt (collaborator, consultant), National Science Foundation, IBN-0212798.“Studies of Brightness, Brightness Contrast and Lightness: Methods and Modeling”, 8/15/02-8/14/05, $150,501.

Honors and Awards

2001 North Dakota State University, College of Science and Mathematic, James A. Meier Distinguished Professor Award

1999 North Dakota State University, College of Science and Mathematics, Award for Excellence in Research.

Research Articles:

McCourt, M.E.& Foxe, J.J (2004) Brightening prospects for "early" cortical coding of perceived luminance: A high-density electrical mapping study. NeuroReport, 15, 49-56 (Cover Article). (pdf)

Foxe, J.J., McCourt, M.E. & Javitt, D.C. (2003) Parietal control of visuospatial attention: Line bisection judgments evaluated with high-density electrical mapping and source analysis. NeuroImage, 19, 710-726. (pdf) (animation)
Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (2003) A multiscale spatial filtering account of brightness phenomena. In: Harris, L. & Jenkin, M. (Eds.): Levels of Perception, Academic Press. (pdf)

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (2003) A multiscale spatial filtering account of brightness phenomena: Reply to Todorovic and Gilchrist. In: Harris, L. & Jenkin, M. (Eds.): Levels of Perception, Academic Press. (link)

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (2001) A multiscale spatial filtering account of the Benary and corrugated Mondrian illusions. Vision Research, 41, 2487-2502. (pdf)

McCourt, M.E. (2001) Performance consistency of normal observers in forced-choice tachistoscopic visual line bisection. Neuropsychologia, 39, 1065-1076. (pdf)

McCourt, M.E., Freeman, P., Tahmahkera-Stevens, C. & Chaussee, M. (2001) The influence of unimanual response on pseudoneglect magnitude. Brain and Cognition, 45, 52-63. (pdf)

McCourt, M.E., Garlinghouse, M. & Butler, J. (2001) The influence of viewing eye on pseudoneglect magnitude. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 7, 391-395. (pdf)

McCourt, M.E. & Garlinghouse, M. (2000) Asymmetries of visuospatial attention are modulated by viewing distance and visual field elevation: Pseudoneglect in peripersonal and extrapersonal space. Cortex, 36, 715-732. (pdf)

McCourt, M.E., Garlinghouse, M. & Slater, J. (2000) Centripetal versus centrifugal bias in visual line bisection: Focusing attention on two hypotheses. Frontiers in Bioscience (Special Issue: Selective Attention Mechanisms in the Primate), 5, d58-71. (pdf)

McCourt, M.E. & Garlinghouse, M. (2000) Stimulus modulation of pseudoneglect: Effect of line geometry. Neuropsychologia, 38, 520-524. (pdf)

Jewell, G. & McCourt, M.E. (2000) Pseudoneglect: A review and meta-analysis of performance factors in line bisection tasks. Neuropsychologia, 38, 93-110. (pdf)

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (1999) A multiscale spatial filtering account of the White effect, simultaneous brightness contrast and grating induction. Vision Research, 39, 4361-4377 (Cover Article). (pdf)

McCourt, M.E. & Jewell, G. (1999) Visuospatial attention in line bisection: Stimulus modulation of pseudoneglect. Neuropsychologia, 37, 843-856. (pdf)

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (1997) Similar mechanisms underlie simultaneous brightness contrast and grating induction. Vision Research, 37, 2849-2869. (pdf)

McCourt, M.E., Blakeslee, B. & Kingdom, F.A.A. (1997) The effect of perceived transparency on brightness judgments. Optics and Imaging in the Information Age, 42-50. (pdf)

Sackmann, C. & McCourt, M.E. (1997) Suprathreshold measures of the mechanisms mediating Kanizsa-type illusory contours. Optics and Imaging in the Information Age, 249-259. (pdf)

Kingdom, F.A.A., Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (1997) Brightness with and without perceived transparency: When does it make a difference? Perception, 26, 493-506.

McCourt, M.E. & Olafson, C.L. (1997) Cognitive and perceptual influences on visual line bisection: Psychophysical and chronometric analyses of pseudoneglect. Neuropsychologia, 35, 369-380. (pdf)

McCourt, M.E., Mark, V.W., Radonovich, K.J., Willison, S. & Freeman, P. (1997) The effects of gender, practice and menstrual phase on the perceived location of the midsagittal plane. Neuropsychologia, 35, 717-724. (pdf)

Kingdom, F.A.A., McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (1997) In defense of lateral inhibition as the underlying cause of induced brightness phenomena. A reply to Spehar, Gilchrist and Arend. Vision Research, 37, 1039-1044. (pdf)

McCourt M.E. & Kingdom, F.A.A. (1996) Facilitation of luminance grating detection by induced gratings. Vision Research, 36, 2563-2574.

McCourt, M.E. & Paulson, K. (1994) The influence of illusory contours on the detection of luminance increments and decrements. Vision Research, 34, 2469-2476.

McCourt, M.E. (1994) Grating induction: A new explanation for stationary visual phantoms. Vision Research, 34, 1609-1618.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee B. (1994) A contrast matching analysis of grating induction and suprathreshold contrast perception. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 11, 14-24.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (1993) The effect of edge blur on grating induction magnitude. Vision Research, 33, 2499-2508.

McCourt, M.E., Thalluri, J. & Henry, G.H. (1990) Properties of area 17/18 border neurons contributing to the visual transcallosal pathway in the cat. Visual Neuroscience, 5, 83-98.

McCourt, M.E. (1990) Disappearance of grating induction at scotopic luminances. Vision Research, 30, 431-438.

Maddess, T., McCourt, M.E., Blakeslee, B. & Cunningham, T. (1988) Factors governing the adaptation of cells in area 17 of cat visual cortex. Biological Cybernetics, 59, 229-236.

Bullier, J., McCourt, M.E. & Henry, G.H. (1988) Physiological studies on the feedback connection to striate cortex from cortical areas 18 and 19 of the cat. Experimental Brain Research, 70, 90-98.

McCourt, M.E., Boyapati J. & Henry G.H. (1986) Layering in lamina 6 of cat striate cortex. Brain Research, 364, 181-185.

McCourt, M.E. & Foley J.M. (1985) Spatial frequency interference on grating-induction. Vision Research, 25, 1507-1518.

Foley, J.M. & McCourt M.E. (1985) Visual grating induction. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A2, 1220-1230.

Blakeslee, B., Jacobs G.H. & McCourt M.E. (1985) Anisotropy in the preferred directions and visual field location of directionally selective optic nerve fibers in the gray squirrel. Vision Research, 25, 615-618.

McCourt, M.E. & Jacobs G.H. (1984) Spatial filter characteristics of single-units in the optic nerve of California ground squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi). Journal of Neurophysiology, 52, 1181-1199.

McCourt, M.E. & Jacobs G.H. (1984) Directional filter characteristics of single-units in the optic nerve of California ground squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi). Journal of Neurophysiology, 52, 1200-1212.

McCourt, M.E. & Jacobs G.H. (1984) Refractive state, depth of focus and accommodation of the eye of the California ground squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi). Vision Research, 24, 1261-1266.

McCourt, M.E. & Jacobs G.H. (1983) Effects of photic environment on the development of spectral response properties of optic nerve fibers in the ground squirrel. Experimental Brain Research, 49, 443-452.

Jacobs, G.H., McCourt M.E. & Neitz J. (1983) Development of color vision mechanisms in the ground squirrel. In Colour Vision: Physiology and Psychophysics (Edited by Mollon J.D. and Sharpe L.T.), pp. 253-260, Academic Press, London.

McCourt, M.E. (1983) Brightness induction and the Cafe Wall illusion. Perception, 12, 131-142.

McCourt, M.E. (1982) A spatial frequency dependent grating-induction effect. Vision Research, 22, 119-134.

Jacobs, G.H., Blakeslee B., McCourt M.E. & Tootell R.B.H. (1980) Sensitivity of ground squirrels to spatial and temporal luminance modulations. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 136, 291-299.

Abstracts/Presentations:

National and International Meetings:

McCourt, M.E., Blakeslee, B & Pasieka, W. (2004) Temporal properties of brightness induction. Perception,33,15.

Blakeslee, B., Pasieka, B.& McCourt, M.E. (2004) Oriented multiscale spatial filtering and contrast normalization account for Howe's variation of White's effect. Journal of Vision, 4(8),350a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/350, do;: 10.1167/4.8.350

Strugstad, E.C., Pasieka, B., Shpaner, M., Zemon, V., Javitt, D.C., McCourt, M.E. & Foxe, J.J. (2004) Parvocellular inputs and visuospatial attention: Line bisection judgments evaluated with high-density electrical mapping. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neurosciences Society, San Francisco, CA, 4/04.

McCourt, M.E. & Pasieka, W. (2004) The effect of acute alcohol intoxication on visuospatial attention: Exaggeration of leftward bias in line bisection. Annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Baltimore, MD, 2/04.

McCourt, M.E. ,Kingdom,F.A.A. and Kasrai,R.(2003) Seeing beneath the veil: Using transparency to disclose the accuracy and precision of brightness and lightness judgements.Workshop on the preception of object color and materail properties in complex scenes.New york University,NY(10/03).

McCourt, M.E. & Pasieka, W. (2003) Auditory capture of visual motion. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 8, 27.

McCourt, M.E. & Pasieka, B. (2003) Auditory capture of visual motion. Perception, 32, 95. (http://www.perceptionweb.com/ecvp03/1054.html)

McCourt, M.E. & Pasieka, W. (2003) Auditory capture of visual motion. Annual meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 6/03.

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (2003) The effect of spatial frequency on the White, shifted White and checkerboard illusions: Data and modeling. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 422a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/422/, doi:10.1167/3.9.422.

McCourt, M.E. & Foxe, J. J. (2003) Brightening prospects for "early" cortical coding of perceived luminance. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 424a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/424/, doi:10.1167/3.9.424.

Kim, H., Pasieka, B., & McCourt, M.E. (2003). Auditory "capture" of visual motion. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 777a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/777/, doi:10.1167/3.9.777.

McCourt, M.E. & Foxe, J.J. (2003) Brightening prospects for "early" cortical coding of perceived luminance. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, 4/03.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (2002) Spatial frequency influences on brightness in White's effect and the checkerboard illusion. Journal of Vision, 2(10), 105a, http://journalofvision.org/2/10/105/, doi: 10.1167/2.10.105.

McCourt, M.E., Foxe, J.J. & Javitt, D.C. (2002) Parietal control of spatial attention in line bisection: A high-density ERP study. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, 4/02.

McCourt, M.E., Foxe, J.J. & Javitt, D.C. (2002) Parietal control of spatial attention: A high-density ERP study of line bisection. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 319.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (2001) The perception of brightness, lightness and illumination: Lessons from art and science. The Art of Seeing and the Seeing of Art, The Australian National University, 12/01 (Invited presentation).

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (2001) A multiscale account of human brightness perception. The 2001 York Conference on Levels of Perception, 6/01.

McCourt, M.E., Garlinghouse, M. & Reuter-Lorenz, P.A. (2001) Attentional modulation of pseudoneglect: The effects of line geometry and visual cueing. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

McCourt, M.E. (2001) Cueing effects on spatial attention in visual line bisection. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 7, 255.

McCourt, M.E., Tahmahkera-Stevens, C., Nodes, J. & Hammes, J. (2001) Performance consistency in forced-choice tachistoscopic visual line bisection. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 7, 255-256.

McCourt, M.E., Garlinghouse, M. & Slater, J. (2000) Centripetal versus centrifugal bias in visual line bisection: Focusing attention on two hypotheses. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 41, S40.

Tahmahkera-Stevens, C., McCourt, M.E., Garlinghouse, M., Chaussee, M., Smith, C. & Nodes, J. (2000) Cueing effects on spatial attention in visual line bisection. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 41, S40.

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (2000) A multiscale spatial filtering account of the Wertheimer-Benery effect and the corrugated Mondrian. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 41, S237.

McCourt, M.E., Garlinghouse, M. & Butler, J. (2000) The influence of viewing eye on pseudoneglect magnitude. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 115.

McCourt, M.E. & Garlinghouse, M. (2000) Pseudoneglect in peripersonal and extrapersonal space. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 114.

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (1999) Render unto Hering: A nonlinear multiscale filtering account of brightness phenomena. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America (9/27/99), Santa Clara, CA (Invited).

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (1999) A multiscale spatial filtering account of the White effect, SBC and GI. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 40, S748.

McCourt, M.E. & Jewell, G. (1999) Stimulus modulation of pseudoneglect in visual line bisection. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 5, 107.

Maddess, T., Ibbotson, M.R., Dubious, R.A., Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (1998) Adaptive processing of image motion by various brains. Workshop on Brain Function, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia.

McCourt, M.E., Jewell, G., Hoistad, H. & Gunderson, P. (1998) Visuospatial attention is modulated by line geometry and visual hemifield. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 39, S633.

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (1998) A multiscale spatial filtering account of the White effect. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 39, S159.

McCourt, M.E., Blakeslee, B., Kingdom, F.A.A. & Hagel, R. (1997) Brightness with and without perceived transparency. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 38, S897.

Blakeslee, B & McCourt, M.E. (1997) A multiscale filtering account of grating induction and simultaneous brightness contrast. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 38, S896.

McCourt, M.E., Blakeslee, B. & Kingdom, F.A.A. (1996) The effect of perceived transparency on brightness judgments. OSA Annual Meeting Technical Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 1996).

McCourt, M.E. & Sackmann, C. (1996) Suprathreshold measures of the mechanisms mediating Kanizsa-type illusory contours. OSA Annual Meeting Technical Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 1996).

McCourt, M.E., Olafson, C. & Sackmann, C. (1996) Cognitive and perceptual influences on visual line bisection in normal observers: Psychophysical and chronometric analyses of pseudoneglect. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 37, S174.

Blakeslee, B & McCourt, M.E. (1996) Does a single mechanism underlie simultaneous brightness contrast and grating induction? Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 37, S1066.

Sackmann, C. & McCourt, M.E. (1996) The differential effects of type 1 and type 2 illusory contours on spatial pattern detection and discrimination. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 37, S520.

McCourt, M.E., Martinez-Uriegas, E. & Blakeslee, B. (1995) Temporal properties of grating induction. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 36, S469.

McCourt, M.E. & Kingdom, F.A.A. (1994) Facilitation of luminance grating detection by induced gratings. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 35, S1901.

McCourt, M.E. (1993) Spatial frequency tuning, contrast tuning, and spatial summation of suprathreshold lateral spatial interactions: Grating induction and contrast-contrast. OSA Annual Meeting Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 1993), 16, 155.

Kingdom, F.A.A. & McCourt, M.E. (1993) Do illusory gratings behave like real ones? Perception, 22, A5.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (1993) A contrast matching analysis of grating induction and suprathreshold contrast perception. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 34, S586.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (1992) The effect of edge blur on grating induction magnitude. OSA Annual Meeting Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC), 23, 119.

McCourt, M.E. (1991) Comparison of brightness and contrast induction. OSA Annual Meeting Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC), 17, 165.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee B. (1991) Growth of contrast in grating induction. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 32.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee B. (1989) Grating induction and photoreceptor function. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 29.

McCourt, M.E., Boyapati J. & Henry G.H. (1987) Properties of area 17/18 border neurons contributing to the visual transcallosal pathway in the cat. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 13, 633.

McCourt, M.E., Boyapati J. & Henry G.H. (1985) The transcallosal pathway of areas 17 and 18 of the cat. Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society, 16, 1, 29P.

Boyapati, J., McCourt, M.E. & Henry G.H. (1985) The cortical connections of the claustrum and ectosylvian visual area of the cat. Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society, 16, 1, 30P.

McCourt, M.E., Bullier J. & Henry G.H. (1984) Extrastriate inputs to primary visual cortex in the cat. Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society, 15, 1, 34P.

Foley, J.M. & McCourt, M.E. (1984) Two theories of grating-induction. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 24, S237.

McCourt, M.E. & Foley J.M. (1982) Evidence for spatial frequency inhibition in spatial pattern-induction with complex gratings. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 22, S206.

Jacobs, G.H., McCourt, M.E. & Neitz J. (1982) Effects of photic environment on the development of color vision mechanisms in the ground squirrel. NATO Color Vision Conference, Cambridge, U.K.

Jacobs, G.H. & McCourt, M.E. (1981) Spatial contrast sensitivity of units in the optic nerve of the ground squirrel. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 21, S184.

McCourt, M.E. (1980) A spatial frequency dependent brightness induction effect. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 70, 1599.

McCourt, M.E. & Jacobs G.H. (1980) Rearing ground squirrels under spectrally-restricted conditions reduces the proportion of spectrally-opponent units in the optic nerve. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 20, S7.

State and Regional Meetings:

Tahmahkera-Stevens, C. & McCourt, M.E. (2000) Upper-lower visual field asymmetry in line bisection: A magnocellular/parvocellular pathway distinction? 2000 Red River Undergraduate Psychology Conference, North Dakota State University.

McCourt, M.E., Blakeslee, B., Kingdom, F.A.A. & Hagel, R. (1997) Brightness with and without perceived transparency. Joint North Dakota/South Dakota State EPSCoR Conference, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD.

Hagel, R., McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (1996) The effect of stereoscopic depth on brightness judgments: Simultaneous brightness contrast, grating induction and White’s effect. 1996 North Dakota Science, Engineering and Mathematics Undergraduate Poster Session (ND EPSCoR) North Dakota State University.

McCourt, M.E., Mark, V.W., Willison, S., Radonovich, K.J. & Freeman, P. (1996) The influence of gender and menstrual phase on the perceived location of the midsagittal plane. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

McCourt, M.E., Mark, V.W., Willison, S., Radonovich, K.J. & Freeman, P. (1996) The influence of gender and menstrual phase on the perceived location of the midsagittal plane. 1996 Red River Undergraduate Psychology Conference, North Dakota State University.

McCourt, M.E. Cognitive and perceptual influences on line bisection: Psychophysical and chronometric analyses. Presented at Third Annual Symposium on Alzheimer Disease (September 1995). Invited.

Sackmann, C. & McCourt, M.E. Type 1 and type 2 illusory contours differentially affect contrast discrimination thresholds for Gabor targets. 1995 North Dakota Science, Engineering and Mathematics Undergraduate Poster Session (ND EPSCoR) North Dakota State University.

Paulson, K. & McCourt, M.E. The effect of illusory contours on luminance increment and decrement detection. 1993 North Dakota Science, Engineering and Mathematics Undergraduate Poster Session (ND EPSCoR) North Dakota State University.

Paulson, K., Spangler, D. & McCourt, M.E. The effect of illusory contours on luminance increment and decrement detection. 1992 Red River Undergraduate Psychology Conference, North Dakota State University.

Book Reviews:

McCourt, M.E. (2003) Review of: (Andrewes, D.) Neuropsychology: From Theory to Practice. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 9, 965. (pdf)

McCourt, M.E. (2001) Review of: (Robertson, I.H. and Halligan, P.W.) Spatial Neglect: A Clinical Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 7, 532. (pdf)

McCourt, M.E. (1996) Review of: (Papathomas, T.V., Chubb, C., Gorea, A. and Kowler, E.) Early Vision and Beyond. Contemporary Psychology, 41, 617.

McCourt, M.E. (1993) Review of: (Wade, N.J and Swanston, M.) Visual perception: An Introduction. Contemporary Psychology, 38, 498.