David Brang
@dbrang.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology UMich. Cognitive neuroscience of multisensory perception, neural oscillations, and brain tumor physiology. 🏳️🌈
sites.lsa.umich.edu/brang-lab/
sites.lsa.umich.edu/brang-lab/
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We (I and @willenjoy.bsky.social) created a toolbox for simulations of EEG/MEG because we needed to simulate data. Our initial aim was to simulate connectivity. For this short clip, I simulated two sources with phase connectivity using our toolbox.
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We (I and @willenjoy.bsky.social) created a toolbox for simulations of EEG/MEG because we needed to simulate data. Our initial aim was to simulate connectivity. For this short clip, I simulated two sources with phase connectivity using our toolbox.
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
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I gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno". sunyoungp.bsky.social has a much more thoughtful answer journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Near-random connections support top-down feature-based attentional modulations in early sensory cortex
Author summary In everyday life, we focus on what matters—like finding our car keys on a messy desk—by sending signals from higher control brain areas to earlier sensory brain areas. These “top-down” ...
journals.plos.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno". sunyoungp.bsky.social has a much more thoughtful answer journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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).
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July 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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
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New paper with @herveyjumper.bsky.social and Vardhaan Ambati! It shows 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.
July 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
New paper with @herveyjumper.bsky.social and Vardhaan Ambati! It shows 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.
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Electrocorticographic Detection of Speech Networks in Glioma-infiltrated Cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.04.663249v1
July 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Electrocorticographic Detection of Speech Networks in Glioma-infiltrated Cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.04.663249v1
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
New paper with Shawn Hervey-Jumper's lab! As only PART of this project, it validates the relationship between aperiodic slope and cortical excitability using ECoG and single-nuc RNA sequencing in humans. Tissue samples with more excitatory neurons showed flatter aperiodic slope.
May 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
New paper with Shawn Hervey-Jumper's lab! As only PART of this project, it validates the relationship between aperiodic slope and cortical excitability using ECoG and single-nuc RNA sequencing in humans. Tissue samples with more excitatory neurons showed flatter aperiodic slope.
New preprint + toolbox! BrainTRACE is a MATLAB tool for localizing intraOp ECoG electrodes. It was designed for brain tumor patients, but appropriate for all ECoG implants.
github.com/dbrang/Brain...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
github.com/dbrang/Brain...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
GitHub - dbrang/BrainTRACE: An IntraOp ECoG electrode registration tool. Developed by Abbey Roelofs, Michael Egan, Tyler Slouf, Sena Oten, Shawn Hervey-Jumper, and David Brang
An IntraOp ECoG electrode registration tool. Developed by Abbey Roelofs, Michael Egan, Tyler Slouf, Sena Oten, Shawn Hervey-Jumper, and David Brang - dbrang/BrainTRACE
github.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
New preprint + toolbox! BrainTRACE is a MATLAB tool for localizing intraOp ECoG electrodes. It was designed for brain tumor patients, but appropriate for all ECoG implants.
github.com/dbrang/Brain...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
github.com/dbrang/Brain...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I'm teaching an undergrad EEG/MEG/iEEG methods course and created a pair of interactive webpages to help build intuition about the Fourier Transform.
dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...
dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...
dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...
dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...
March 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I'm teaching an undergrad EEG/MEG/iEEG methods course and created a pair of interactive webpages to help build intuition about the Fourier Transform.
dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...
dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...
dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...
dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...
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At #CNS2025? Come by our posters from the Cognition, Control, and Action Lab!
SAT 3-5pm
A126 Modeling the temporal dynamics of cognitive control
A149 Cognition-Action links in Parkinson disease (TMS-fMRI)
SUN 8-10am
B30 Causal role of the cerebellum in spatial working memory (TMS-fMRI)
SAT 3-5pm
A126 Modeling the temporal dynamics of cognitive control
A149 Cognition-Action links in Parkinson disease (TMS-fMRI)
SUN 8-10am
B30 Causal role of the cerebellum in spatial working memory (TMS-fMRI)
March 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
At #CNS2025? Come by our posters from the Cognition, Control, and Action Lab!
SAT 3-5pm
A126 Modeling the temporal dynamics of cognitive control
A149 Cognition-Action links in Parkinson disease (TMS-fMRI)
SUN 8-10am
B30 Causal role of the cerebellum in spatial working memory (TMS-fMRI)
SAT 3-5pm
A126 Modeling the temporal dynamics of cognitive control
A149 Cognition-Action links in Parkinson disease (TMS-fMRI)
SUN 8-10am
B30 Causal role of the cerebellum in spatial working memory (TMS-fMRI)
New study from my PostDoc Emily Cunningham! 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).
A new preprint (brief report) with @dbrang.bsky.social is now live, examining CCEP evidence for direct projections between auditory and visual cortices in humans. (1/3)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New study from my PostDoc Emily Cunningham! 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).
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Helpful table to determine how much your University or health system is set to lose if the NIH indirect cap is suddenly lowered to 15%. For SJSU it is $374k which is on the smaller end but devastating considering our other budget issues. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/
Estimated Single Year Loss of NIH Funding if 15% Indirect Cost Rate is Imposed
Based on analysis of 2024 NIH funding data. Sums are totals of losses in funding to programs if indirect costs had been capped at 15%
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February 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Helpful table to determine how much your University or health system is set to lose if the NIH indirect cap is suddenly lowered to 15%. For SJSU it is $374k which is on the smaller end but devastating considering our other budget issues. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/
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ATTENTION
If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
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If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
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February 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
ATTENTION
If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
2/n
If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
2/n
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And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
January 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Another shoe drop. Early termination of FOA.
And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
January 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Another shoe drop. Early termination of FOA.
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.
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January 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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
apply.interfolio.com/160580
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Excited this one is finally out!
The forced response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing
with @hanzhang.bsky.social
link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Can we better study how the conflict between goal-directed and habitual/automatic actions is resolved? Read on!
The forced response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing
with @hanzhang.bsky.social
link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Can we better study how the conflict between goal-directed and habitual/automatic actions is resolved? Read on!
The forced-response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing - Behavior Research Methods
Despite long-standing concerns about the use of free reaction times (RTs) in cognitive psychology, they remain a prevalent measure of conflict resolution. This report presents the forced-response meth...
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December 17, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Excited this one is finally out!
The forced response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing
with @hanzhang.bsky.social
link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Can we better study how the conflict between goal-directed and habitual/automatic actions is resolved? Read on!
The forced response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing
with @hanzhang.bsky.social
link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Can we better study how the conflict between goal-directed and habitual/automatic actions is resolved? Read on!
Posted some of the lab's Open-Source Image Registration scripts onto github, useful for identifying where ECoG electrodes are located based on intraoperative photography alone, by registering/warping pictures of the brain with and without the ECoG grid. github.com/dbrang/Intra...
GitHub - dbrang/IntraOp_Image_Registration_Tools: Open-source tools for aligning intraoperative photos based on automatic and manual control point selection
Open-source tools for aligning intraoperative photos based on automatic and manual control point selection - dbrang/IntraOp_Image_Registration_Tools
github.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Posted some of the lab's Open-Source Image Registration scripts onto github, useful for identifying where ECoG electrodes are located based on intraoperative photography alone, by registering/warping pictures of the brain with and without the ECoG grid. github.com/dbrang/Intra...
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I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start.
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November 26, 2024 at 5:52 PM
I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start.
go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE
go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE
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my first preprint with @dbrang.bsky.social 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 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624953v1
Visual speech enhances auditory onset timing and envelope tracking through distinct mechanisms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624953v1
Seeing the face of a speaker facilitates speech recognition in challenging listening environments. P
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November 26, 2024 at 4:10 AM
my first preprint with @dbrang.bsky.social 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)
Now out in Current Biology! Here's the free access link:
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1jcF93QW8S6Fk9
@neurocow @tnagarKaRaja @DemidenkoMI
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1jcF93QW8S6Fk9
@neurocow @tnagarKaRaja @DemidenkoMI
November 23, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Now out in Current Biology! Here's the free access link:
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1jcF93QW8S6Fk9
@neurocow @tnagarKaRaja @DemidenkoMI
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1jcF93QW8S6Fk9
@neurocow @tnagarKaRaja @DemidenkoMI
First R01 for the lab! Grateful to have such amazing lab members and collaborators. We’re recruiting postdocs for this work and for an NSF grant (salary 65-70k; the postdoc could potentially live out of state and work remotely). More info at...
November 23, 2024 at 5:06 AM
First R01 for the lab! Grateful to have such amazing lab members and collaborators. We’re recruiting postdocs for this work and for an NSF grant (salary 65-70k; the postdoc could potentially live out of state and work remotely). More info at...
New preprint from the lab! "Auditory cortex encodes lipreading information through spatially distributed activity." We used fMRI (n=64) and intracranial recordings (n=6) to study how the auditory system represents lipreading information....
November 23, 2024 at 5:06 AM
New preprint from the lab! "Auditory cortex encodes lipreading information through spatially distributed activity." We used fMRI (n=64) and intracranial recordings (n=6) to study how the auditory system represents lipreading information....
New iEEG paper from the lab testing what auditory features visual cortex is sensitive to (we've previously found that the auditory system sends sound onset timing and some coarse spatial information, but anything else?). https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00164.2021...
November 23, 2024 at 5:06 AM
New iEEG paper from the lab testing what auditory features visual cortex is sensitive to (we've previously found that the auditory system sends sound onset timing and some coarse spatial information, but anything else?). https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00164.2021...