Assistant Professor
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Neuroscience
Goergen Institute for Data Science
University of Rochester


Research Interests
Visual and Semantic Cognition
Learning and Neural Plasticity
Computational Neuroscience

   mci (at) rochester (dot) edu

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Travel and Presentations

2024


Aug 6-9 CCN                  
Boston, MA


2023


Jul 31 BCS Summer Seminar
Rochester, NY
Aug 28 BCS Retreat
Canandaigua, NY
Nov 16-19 Psychonomics
San Francisco, CA

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preprints
Inducing Representational Change in the Hippocampus through Real-Time Neurofeedback.
Kailong Peng, Jeffrey D. Wammes, Alex Nguyen, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Kenneth A. Norman, & Nicholas B. Turk-Browne.
bioRXiv, 2023.
Emotional Content and Attention to Emotional Features Differentially Contribute to Similarity Judgments.
Anna Fu*, Temitope Longe*, Gorana Pobric, Marius Cătălin Iordan, & Deborah Talmi.
OSF, 2022.
Sculpting New Visual Concepts into the Human Brain.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
bioRXiv, 2020.


publications
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Context Matters: Recovering Human Semantic Structure From Machine Learning Analysis of Text Corpora.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Tyler Giallanza, Cameron T. Ellis, Nicole M. Beckage, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Cognitive Science, 2022.
Feature Ratings and Dimension-Specific Similarity Explain Distinct Aspects of Semantic Similarity Judgments.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Cameron T. Ellis, Michael Lesnick, Daniel N. Osherson, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018.
Mothers Consistently Alter Their Unique Vocal Fingerprints to Communicate With Infants.
Elise A. Piazza, Marius Cătălin Iordan, & Casey Lew-Williams.
Current Biology, 2017.
Typicality Sharpens Category Representations in Object-Selective Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Neuroimage, 2016.
Locally-Optimized Inter-Subject Alignment of Functional Cortical Regions.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Armand Joulin, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging (MLINI) Workshop, NIPS, 2015.
Basic Level Category Structure Emerges Gradually Across Human Ventral Visual Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2015.
Discovering Voxel-Level Connectivity Between Cortical Regions.
Christopher Baldassano, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Proceedings of the 1st Annual Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging (MLINI) Workshop, NIPS, 2012.
Voxel-Level Functional Connectivity Using Spatial Regularization.
Christopher Baldassano, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Neuroimage, 2012.
On μ-compatible Metrics and Measurable Sensitivity.
Ilya Grigoriev, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Amos Lubin, Nathaniel Ince, & Cesar E. Silva.
Colloquium Mathematicum, 2012.
Searching in Dynamic Partial Orders.
Brent Heeringa, Marius Cătălin Iordan, & Louis Theran.
Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS), 2011.
Kudzu: A Self-Balancing P2P File Transfer System.
Sean Barker, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Jeannie Albrecht, & Barath Raghavan.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning (SysML), 2008.


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Uncovering the Neural Representation of Multiple Dimensions of Object Categorization in Visual Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan.
Stanford University, Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Science, 2016.
Leaf-Line Tree: A Data Structure for Searching in Dynamic Tree-Like Partial Orders.
Marius Cătălin Iordan.
Williams College, Honors Thesis in Computer Science, 2009.


manuscripts in preparation






Predicting Semantic Similarity Judgments from Frontal, Parietal, & Occipito-Temporal Neural Responses.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Cameron T. Ellis, Michael Lesnick, Daniel N. Osherson, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
in preparation.
Pushing the Boundaries of Fine-Grained Classification Using fMRI Decoding in Human Visual Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, William Slatton, Clara Fannjiang, Li Fei-Fei, & Diane M. Beck.
in preparation.
The Impact of Preprocessing Parameters on Inter-Subject Reliability in Naturalistic fMRI Paradigms.
Elise A. Piazza*, Marius Cătălin Iordan*, Jamal Williams*, & Uri Hasson.
in preparation.
The Neural Mechanisms of Music Production and Learning.
Elise A. Piazza, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Jamal Williams, & Uri Hasson.
in preparation.
Hierarchical Processing of Naturalistic Music During Production and Perception.
Riesa Cassano-Coleman, Jamal Williams, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Uri Hasson, & Elise A. Piazza.
in preparation.
Sequential Warping of Cortical Representational Geometries According to Cognitive Principles.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Li Fei-Fei, & Diane M. Beck.
in revision.


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2023
Inducing Representational Change in the Hippocampus through Real-Time Neurofeedback.
Kailong Peng, Jeffrey D. Wammes, Alex Nguyen, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Kenneth A. Norman, & Nicholas B. Turk-Browne.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), 2023.
2022
Using a Language Transformer Model to Capture Creativity in Improvised Narratives.
Qingzi Ruby Zeng, Derek Lilienthal, Marius Cătălin Iordan, & Elise A. Piazza.
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2022.
Sculpting New Visual Concepts into the Human Brain.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), 2022. (Talk)
Using a Language Transformer Model to Capture Creativity in Improvised Narratives.
Qingzi Ruby Zeng, Derek Lilienthal, Marius Cătălin Iordan, & Elise A. Piazza.
7th Meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC), 2022.
2021
A Naturalistic Approach to Studying Temporal Processing During Musical Performance.
Riesa Casano, Jamal Williams, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Uri Hasson, & Elise A. Piazza.
Annual NeuroMusic Conference (NeuroMusic), 2021.
Sculpting New Visual Concepts into the Human Brain.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2021.
Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Predict Human Judgments and Neural Representations.
Joshua Slaughter, Joshua Peterson, Marius Cătălin Iordan* & Jonathan D. Cohen*.
Leadership Alliance National Symposium (LANS), 2021.
Context Matters: Recovering Human Semantic Structure from Machine-Learning Analysis of Text Corpora.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Tyler Giallanza, Cameron T. Ellis, Nicole M. Beckage, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), 2021.
A Naturalistic Approach to Studying Temporal Processing During Musical Performance.
Elise A. Piazza, Riesa Cassano, Jamal Williams, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Sarah Izen, & Uri Hasson.
181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2021.
2020
Sculpting New Visual Concepts into the Human Brain.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
The Third Neuromatch Conference (Neuromatch 3.0), 2020. (Talk)
Context Matters: Recovering Human Semantic Structure from Machine-Learning Analysis of Text Corpora.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Tyler Giallanza, Cameron T. Ellis, Nicole M. Beckage, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Neural Network Models of Cognition Workshop, 2020. (Talk)
Towards Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Predict Human Behavior and Neural Representations.
Joshua Slaughter, Joshua Peterson, Marius Cătălin Iordan* & Jonathan D. Cohen*.
Leadership Alliance National Symposium (LANS), 2020.
Creating Visual Categories Using Closed-Loop Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), 2020. (Talk)
2019
Creating Visual Categories Using Closed-Loop Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Real-Time Functional Imaging and Neurofeedback Conference (rtFIN), 2019.
Uncovering the Neural Underpinnings of Semantic Similarity Judgments.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Tyler Giallanza, Cameron T. Ellis, Daniel N. Osherson, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2019. (Talk)
Context-Aware Word Embedding Models Improve Prediction of Human Conceptual Relationships.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Tyler Giallanza, Cameron T. Ellis, Nicole M. Beckage, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2019. (Talk)
Using Closed-Loop Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback to Induce Neural Plasticity and Influence Perception.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2019.
Using Representational Similarity Analysis to Investigate Emotional Effects on Neural Representation.
Martina Riberto, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Rony Paz, Gorana Pobric, & Deborah Talmi.
Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISfN), 2019.
2018
Using Closed-Loop Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback to Induce Neural Plasticity and Influence Perception.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2018. (Professional Development Award)
Why We Struggle to Multitask: Converging Evidence from Modeling, Behavior, and Neuroimaging.
Abigail Novick Hoskin, Sebastian Musslick, Marius Cătălin Iordan, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2018.
Feature Ratings and Dimension-Specific Similarity Explain Distinct Aspects of Semantic Similarity Judgments.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Cameron T. Ellis, Michael Lesnick, Daniel N. Osherson, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2018. (Talk)
Inducing Neural Plasticity and Perceptual Similarity Using Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2018.
Inducing Neural Plasticity and Perceptual Similarity Using Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2018. (Talk)
2017
KL-Evidence: A Novel Multivariate Method for Differentiating Representations.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Real-Time Functional Imaging and Neurofeedback Conference (rtFIN), 2017. (Travel Award) (Best Poster Award)
Inducing Neural Plasticity and Perceptual Similarity Using Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Victoria J.H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2017.
The Importance of "Motherese": Early Drivers of Successful Communication.
Elise A. Piazza, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Casey Lew-Williams, & Uri Hasson.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2017.
Mothers Consistently Alter Their Unique Vocal Fingerprint to Communicate With Their Infants.
Elise A. Piazza, Marius Cătălin Iordan, & Casey Lew-Williams.
Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference (IASL), 2017. (Talk)
The Relative Contribution of Features and Dimensions to Semantic Similarity.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Cameron T. Ellis, Daniel N. Osherson, & Jonathan D. Cohen.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2017.
Timbre Code-Switching: How Mothers Alter Their Vocal Statistics to Communicate With Their Children.
Elise A. Piazza, Marius Cătălin Iordan, & Casey Lew-Williams.
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), 2017. (Talk)
2016
Sequential Warping of Neural Representations According to Cognitive Principles Across the Ventral Stream.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2016.
Category Boundaries and Typicality Warp the Neural Representation Space of Object Categories.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), 2016.
Typicality Sharpens Category Representations in Object-Selective Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Stanford University Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program (IIP) Symposium, 2016.
2015
Locally-Optimized Inter-Subject Alignment of Functional Cortical Regions.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Armand Joulin, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging (MLINI) Workshop, NIPS, 2015.
Typicality Sharpens Category Representations in Object-Selective Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2015. (Talk) (Professional Development Award)
Fine-Grained Object Category Decoding Using fMRI in Human Visual Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Clara Fannjiang, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2015.
Category Boundaries and Typicality Warp the Neural Representation Space of Object Categories.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2015. (Tlak) (Travel Award)
Pushing the Boundaries of Fine-Grained Classification Using fMRI Decoding in Human Visual Cortex.
Clara Fannjiang, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2015.
Typicality Sharpens Category Representations in Object-Selective Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), 2015. (Talk) (Travel Award)
Basic Level Category Structure Emerges Gradually Across Human Ventral Visual Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Bay Area Vision Research Day (BAVRD), 2015.
2014
Cohesion and Distinctiveness in Favor Different Basic Level Representations Across Human Visual Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2014. (Talk) (Travel Award)
Locally-Optimized Inter-Subject Alignment of Functional Cortical Regions.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Armand Joulin, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2014. (Talk)
Category Cohesion and Distinctiveness in Human Visual Cortex Favor Basic Level Representations.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Stanford Center for Biomedical Imaging Annual Symposium (CBIS), 2014. (Talk)
Real-World Objects Acquire Basic-Level Advantage in Occipito-Temporal Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Biomedical Computation at Stanford University Annual Symposium (BCATS), 2014. (Best Poster Award Runner-Up)
2013
Real-World Objects Acquire Basic-Level Advantage in Occipito-Temporal Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Bay Area Vision Research Day (BAVRD), 2013.
Object Typicality Sharpens Neural Representations in Object-Selective Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2013. (Talk)
Real-World Objects Acquire Basic-Level Advantage in Occipito-Temporal Cortex.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), 2013.
2012
Discovering Voxel-Level Functional Connectivity Between Cortical Regions.
Christopher Baldassano, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging (MLINI) Workshop, NIPS, 2012. (Talk)
Neural Representations of Object Categories at Multiple Taxonomic Levels.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Michelle R. Greene, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2012. (Talk)
2011
Fine-Grained Functional Connectivity Using Spatial Regularization.
Christopher Baldassano, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging (MLINI) Workshop, NIPS, 2011.
Translation Invariance of Natural Scene Categories.
Marius Cătălin Iordan, Christopher Baldassano, Dirk B. Walther, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2012. (Talk)
Decoding Objects Undergoing Contextual Violations.
Christopher Baldassano, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei.
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2012.
2008
Kudzu: A Self-Balancing P2P File Transfer System.
Sean Barker, Marius Cătălin Iordan, Jeannie Albrecht, & Barath Raghavan.
Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning (SysML), 2008.