Education, Professional Positions, Research Awards, Professional Affiliations, Professional Service, Research Articles, Abstracts/Presentations, Book Reviews

Education:

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

Professional Positions:

• 1998-Present:  Professor of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Co-Director, ND NIH IDeA Center for Health and Behavioral Sciences Research
• 1991-1998: Associate Professor of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Co-Director, ND NIH IDeA Center for Health and Behavioral Sciences Research
• 1985-91: Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
• 1983-85: Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University
• 1982-83: NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Kenneth Craik Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Cambridge University

Research Awards:

• Mark E. McCourt (Co-I), Kevin McCaul (Co-I), H. Katherine O’Neill (Co-I), Mark Nawrot (Co-I), Mary Ann Gillispie (Co-I), Kathleen Slobin (Co-I), Janis Hulla (Co-I), Sanku Mallik (Co-I), David Pierce (Co-I) and Phillip Boudjouk (PI/PD), National Institutes of Health, "NIH Research Infrastructure in North Dakota", 10/1/96-9/30/99, $600,000 Direct Costs.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, SGP-98-5, "Functional Neuroimaging in Line-Bisection Tasks", 1/1/98-12/31/98, $5,625 Direct Costs.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), North Dakota State University Research Council Grant-in-Aid, #1199, "Developing an Experimental Model of Visuospatial Neglect Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation", 1996, $1,750.

• Mark E. McCourt (Co-I), Victor W. Mark (PI/PD) and F. Richard Ferraro (Co-I), University of North Dakota, BRSG Research Fund, "Portable Computer Behavioral Assessment of Stroke", 3/1/96-2/28/97, $4,920 Direct Costs.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), Air Force Office of Scientific Research, F49620-94-1-0445, "Threshold and Suprathreshold Lateral Interactions in Brightness, Contrast and Stereoscopic Depth Perception", 9/1/94-2/29/96, $94,000 Direct and Indirect Costs.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), National Eye Institute, EY10133-01, "Analysis of Grating Induction", 5/1/93-5/14/97, $104,250 Direct and Indirect Costs.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), National Eye Institute, EY10133-01S, Supplemental Award to "Analysis of Grating Induction", 5/1/93-5/14/97, $11,053 Direct and Indirect Costs.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), North Dakota/NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND-EPSCoR) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Award, 5/15/96-7/31/96, $3,000 (stipend and research budget for undergraduate student [Rebecca Hagel] in my laboratory).

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), North Dakota/NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND-EPSCoR) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Award, 5/15/95-7/31/95, $3,000 (stipend and research budget for undergraduate student [Christopher Sackmann] in my laboratory)

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), North Dakota/NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND-EPSCoR) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Award, 5/15/93-7/31/93, $3,000 (stipend and research budget for undergraduate student [Kristen Paulson] in my laboratory).

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), North Dakota/NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND-EPSCoR) Research Grant, "Analysis of Grating Induction and Suprathreshold Contrast Perception", 9/1/92-8/31/94, $36,000 Direct Costs.

• Mark E. McCourt (consultant) for: Krestin Olsen (PI), Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid for Vision Science, 2/93-2/94, $2,500 Direct Costs.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), North Dakota State University Research Council Grant-in-Aid, #1154, "Pilot Investigation of a Novel Bistable Apparent Motion Phenomenon: The Lathe Illusion", 1992, $5,900.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), National Science Foundation, BNS-8616720, "Analysis of Grating Induction", 3/87-3/90, $114,391 Direct and Indirect Costs.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), University of Texas at Austin Research Institute Grant, RG-326, "Assessing the Potential of Grating Induction to Study Suprathreshold Visual Processing in Patients Afflicted with Age-Related Maculopathy", 1990. $5,419.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), University of Texas at Austin Research Institute Grant, SRG-227, "Linear Modelling of Mechanisms Mediating Human Brightness Sensation", 1989, $500.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), University of Texas at Austin Research Institute Grant, RG-462, "Assessment of Fundamental Visual Capacities of Mammals", 1986. $6,000.

• Mark E. McCourt (PI/PD), University of Texas at Austin Research Institute Award, Summer Research Award, "Analysis of Grating Induction", 1985. $5,444.

Professional Affiliations:

• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
• Optical Society of America
• International Neuropsychological Society
• International Brain Research Organization
• Midwestern Psychological Association
• Red River Valley Society for Neuroscience

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)
• International Science Foundation
• The Wellcome Trust
• Journal of the Optical Society of America
• Perception
• Perception & Psychophysics
• Spatial Vision
• Vision Research
• Visual Neuroscience
• Neuropsychologia
• Contemporary Psychology
• Psychological Reports: Perceptual and Motor Skills
• Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive

Research Articles:

McCourt, M.E., Radonovich, K. J. and Willison, S. Effects of hand of response, eye of regard and head scan direction on space and line bisection (in preparation).

McCourt, M.E. and Blakeslee, B. Subtractive and multiplicative adaptation processes in grating induction (in preparation).

McCourt, M.E., Blakeslee, B. and Uriegas-Martinez, E. Temporal determinants of grating induction and simultaneous brightness contrast: Modulation transfer function and impulse response measures in stabilized and unstabilized viewing (in preparation).

Jewell, G. & McCourt, M.E.  Pseudoneglect:  A review and meta-analysis of performance factors in line bisection tasks (in preparation).

McCourt, M.E. & Sackmann, C. (1998) Threshold studies of the mechanisms mediating the perception of illusory contours. Perception (submitted).

Sackmann, C. and McCourt, M.E. (1998) Suprathreshold studies of the mechanisms mediating the perception of illusory contours.  Perception (submitted).

Blakeslee, B., McCourt, M.E., Kingdom, F.A.A. & Hagel, R. (1998) Brightness with and without perceived transparency: The effect of background complexity and additive transparency. Perception (submitted).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kingdom, F.A.A., McCourt, M.E. and 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Blakeslee, B., Jacobs G.H. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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., Kingdom, F.A.A. and Hagel, R. (1997) Brightness with and without perceived transparency. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 38, S897.

Blakeslee, B and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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 and 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. and 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. and Blakeslee, B. (1995) Temporal properties of grating induction. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 36, S469.

McCourt, M.E. and 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. and McCourt, M.E. (1993) Do illusory gratings behave like real ones? Perception, 22, A5.

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

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

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

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

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

McCourt, M.E. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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:

Hagel, R., McCourt, M.E. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. (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.

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