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). apply.interfolio.com/169170

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.

Electrocorticographic Detection of Speech Networks in Glioma-infiltrated Cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.04.663249v1

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.

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...

Here is a link to 60 Minutes NIH segment... www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

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...

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)

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).

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/

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 [email protected]. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n

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...

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. apply.interfolio.com/160580

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!

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...

I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start. go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE

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

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....

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...

Now published at @SciReports https://rdcu.be/cCfCG Multisensory redundancy gain effects are best modeled through phase-resetting mechanisms (vs noise-based models or the classic race-model). Raw data (1400 trials x 78 subjects) are available online: https://osf.io/grckd/

New preprint from the lab with John Plass! We compared models of the redundant target effect (RTE), which is the finding that combined stimuli (e.g., aud + vis) are responded to faster than either stimulus alone. (1/3) https://psyarxiv.com/s9rdq

Finally have made the foray into academic twitter! New paper from John Plass in the lab showing that lip-shape recovers spectral information during auditory speech perception (independent of other audiovisual benefits) https://www.pnas.org/content/117/29/16920