Frank Garcea
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Frank Garcea
@frankgarcea.bsky.social
| Cognitive neuroscience professor | studying semantic memory, skilled action, and the brain | https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/garcea
New work by MD/PhD student Emma Strawderman shows that as brain tumors grow, they introduce functional changes in the contralesional hemisphere captured with resting state functional connectivity. Great job Emma!
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Using machine learning, Strawderman et al. reveal that right-hemisphere functional connectivity patterns could reliably distinguish left-hemisphere glioma patients from controls, predict tumor presence in left parietal cortex, and detect isocitrate-dehydrogenase mutations. buff.ly/kiUiTwo
September 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Check out Will Burns’ latest manuscript using fMRI and lesion-symptom mapping to study motor networks involved in speech and melody!
Causal Lesion Evidence for Two Motor Speech Coordination Networks in the Brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.05.658124v1
June 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Super excited to share this paper! We show that lesions to parietal areas involved in skilled action disrupt processing of tools in the ventral stream. 1/8
Visual processing of manipulable objects in the ventral stream is modulated by inputs from parietal action systems https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657280v1
June 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Though it was a tough week with unfortunate news and events, it was also a great week supporting my students and their research!
April 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Interested in semantic memory, lesion-symptom mapping, and word production? Check out our lab’s posters this afternoon from 230-430 pm! #CNS2025
March 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM