David Brang
@DavidJBrang
Associate Professor of Psychology @UMich. Cognitive neuroscience of multisensory perception, neural oscillations, and brain tumor physiology. 🏳️🌈
my first preprint with @DavidJBrang is now live. we tested whether mouth movement improves auditory speech onset encoding and ongoing speech envelope tracking with distinct or overlapping mechanisms (1/7)
Visual speech enhances auditory onset timing and envelope tracking through distinct mechanisms biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci
#SfN @SfNtweets Thanks everyone for stopping by! Check out our work on speech and multisensory integration with @DavidJBrang at @UMich See you all at San Diego next year 🧠
Our department is recruiting! New tenure-track, open rank faculty position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan (emphasis on human cognition and artificial intelligence). apply.interfolio.com/169170
Excited to share work I conducted with @HerveyJumper and @DavidJBrang at @NeurosurgUCSF! Using one of the largest ECoG glioma datasets, we identified distinct electrophysiologic signatures of language-critical sites in glioma-infiltrated cortex. #neurosurgery #glioma #ECoG
New paper with @HerveyJumper and @VardhaanAmbati showing that causal (DCS+) language cortex in glioma patients has greater ECoG information encoding (higher entropy and linguistic decoding). DCS+ sites showed stronger oscillations and high gamma, enabling prediction of DCS sites.
New paper with @HerveyJumper and @VardhaanAmbati showing that causal (DCS+) language cortex in glioma patients has greater ECoG information encoding (higher entropy and linguistic decoding). DCS+ sites showed stronger oscillations and high gamma, enabling prediction of DCS sites.
Electrocorticographic Detection of Speech Networks in Glioma-infiltrated Cortex biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci
Electrocorticographic Detection of Speech Networks in Glioma-infiltrated Cortex biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci
New study from the lab! We used ECoG with stimulation of the STG to test for direct (potentially monosynaptic) A-to-V connections in humans. 112 out of 231 visual electrodes (across 19/23 patients) exhibited early responses to STG stimulation (as early as 18ms after stimulation).
Electrical stimulation of the superior temporal gyrus evokes rapid responses in human visual cortex biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci
We're looking to hire a new lecturer in Psychology at the University of Michigan! The initial appointment is for 3 years and this person would teach our large Intro to Cognitive Psychology course along with smaller courses on topics within their expertise. apply.interfolio.com/160580
Now out in Multisensory Research! brill.com/view/journals/… Here's the final version of the paper since it's paywalled: sites.lsa.umich.edu/brang-lab/wp-c… A big thanks to EunSeon Ahn, Areti Majumdar, and @TarazLee!
New TMS study from the lab replicating Beauchamp's (2010) finding that TMS to the left pSTS reduces the McGurk effect. Crucially, however, TMS did not affect congruent audiovisual benefits (higher accuracy and faster RTs), indicating partially distinct mechanisms.