Tommy Botch

About

Hi, I'm Tommy! I am a PhD Candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College (Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences), primarily working with Emily Finn.

My research aims to understand how humans process and make predictions about language. I am particularly interested in how and when language representation diverges both between individuals and between humans and artificial neural networks (e.g., large language models). To tackle these questions, I use a combination of human behavior, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), and machine learning.

Before starting my PhD, I completed a B.S. in Psychobiology at UCLA and worked as a lab manager for Caroline Robertson at Dartmouth College.

Publications & Preprints

Botch, T.L. & Finn, E.S. (2023). Neural representations of concrete concepts enable identification of individuals during naturalistic story listening. bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.07.556725.  pdf

Prasad, D., Haskins, A.J., Botch, T.L., Mentch, J., Robertson, C.E. (2023). vrGazeCore: a toolbox for virtual reality eye-tracking analysis. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Tutorial, doi.org/10.32470/CCN.2023.1555-0.   pdf.   Github Repository

Mynick, A., Steel, A., Jayaraman, A., Botch, T.L., Burrows, A., Robertson., C.E. (2023). Memory-based predictions prime perceptual judgments across head turns in immersive, real-world scenes. PsyArXiv. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nkdjv.  pdf

Botch, T.L., Garcia, B.D., Choi, Y.B., Feffer, N., Robertson, C.E. (2023). Active visual search in naturalistic environments reflects individual differences in classic visual search performance. Scientific Reports, 13, 631.  pdf

Haskins, A.J., Mentch, J., Botch, T.L., Garcia, B.D., Burrows, A.L., Robertson, C.E. (2022). Reduced social attention in autism is magnified by perceptual load in naturalistic environments. Autism Research, 15 (12), 2310–2323.  pdf

Botch, T.L., Robertson, C.E., Finn, E.S. (2022). A deeper look at vision and memory. Nature Neuroscience, 25, 8–10. (News & Views)  pdf

Cohen, M.A., Botch, T.L., Robertson, C.E. (2020). The limits of color awareness during active, real-world vision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 117, 13821-13827.  pdf

Haskins, A.J., Mentch, J.S., Botch, T.L., Robertson, C.E. (2020). Active vision in immersive, 360° environments. Scientific Reports, 10, 14304.  pdf

Select Posters

Botch, T.L. & Finn, E.S. (2023). Neural responses to concrete concepts enable finngerprinting of individuals during story listening. Organization of Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting.

Botch, T.L., Prasad, D., Haskins, A.J., Mentch, J., Robertson, C.E. (2023). vrGazeCore: an open-source package for virtual reality eye-tracking analysis. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.

Botch, T.L., Choi, Y.B., Garcia, B.D., Robertson, C.E. (2022). Performance on classic and real-world visual search tasks in individuals with and without autism. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.

Botch, T.L., Busch, E.L., Robertson, C.E. (2020) Application of Deep Neural Networks to Model Omnidirectional Gaze Behavior in Immersive VR, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.

Botch, T.L., Mentch, J., Robertson, C.E. (2019) Gaze behavior during 360º naturalistic scene viewing. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.

Contact

Send me an email at tlasmanbotch (at) gmail (dot) com!

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