David Brang

Human iEEG recordings during audiovisual speech violations support and extend predictive routing models

This study uses human iEEG recordings to test predictive routing models during audiovisual speech violations, finding support for gamma and alpha-beta oscillation interactions in predictive processing.

Visual speech enhances phoneme separability in human superior temporal gyrus

This study shows that visual speech improves phoneme classification in the superior temporal gyrus, enhancing word recognition through categorical phoneme representation sharpening.

The Intrinsic Manifold of Spontaneous Activity Constrains Cortical Responses to Naturalistic Stimuli

This paper shows that the low-dimensional manifold of spontaneous brain activity can represent responses to naturalistic stimuli, using a deep variational autoencoder trained on resting-state fMRI data.

Electrocorticographic Detection of Speech Networks in Glioma-infiltrated Cortex

The paper identifies speech-related neural activity in IDH-mutant gliomas using electrocorticography, showing task-based and resting-state distinctions that could improve surgical outcomes.

Aperiodic neural dynamics define a novel signature of glioma-induced excitation-inhibition dysregulation

The paper investigates how glioma infiltration affects the aperiodic slope of neural dynamics, finding it correlates with excitation dominance and semantic naming impairments.

Electrical stimulation of the superior temporal gyrus evokes rapid responses in human visual cortex

The paper shows that electrical stimulation of the superior temporal gyrus in humans rapidly activates visual cortex regions, supporting corticocortical connections between auditory and visual areas.

Visual speech enhances auditory onset timing and envelope tracking through distinct mechanisms

This study investigates how visual speech enhances auditory speech processing by altering theta band power and phase in different brain regions through distinct mechanisms.

Auditory cortex encodes lipreading information through spatially distributed activity

The paper investigates how the auditory system encodes lipreading information using fMRI and intracranial recordings, finding that lipread words are decoded earlier and through spatially distributed activity in auditory cortex.

Evidence for a Causal Dissociation of the McGurk Effect and Congruent Audiovisual Speech Perception via TMS

The paper uses TMS to show that the left pSTS is causally involved in the McGurk effect but not in the benefits of congruent audiovisual speech.

Electrophysiological Markers of Memory Consolidation in the Human Brain when Memories are Reactivated during Sleep

The paper investigates memory consolidation during sleep by reactivating memories with sounds and measuring electrophysiological responses, finding gamma band activity correlates with memory improvement.

Functional alterations in cortical processing of speech in glioma-infiltrated cortex

This study investigates how glioma-infiltrated cortex participates in speech processing by comparing neural activity with normal-appearing cortex using electrocorticography.

Visual speech differentially modulates beta, theta, and high gamma bands in auditory cortex

The paper investigates how visual speech modulates different frequency bands in auditory cortex, revealing distinct temporal and spatial patterns across theta, beta, and high-gamma bands.

Convergence of Heteromodal Lexical Retrieval in the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex

This study uses lesion-symptom mapping in patients with aphasia to show that visual and auditory lexical retrieval tasks share overlapping neural systems in the left lateral prefrontal cortex.

Auditory-Visual Speech Behaviors are Resilient to Left pSTS Damage

This study examines the role of left pSTS in audiovisual speech integration by assessing McGurk effect and other AV effects in patients with left pSTS or frontal lobe lesions over two years.