Marlene Behrmann

Morphometrics of the preserved post-surgical hemisphere in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy and implications for post-operative cognition

This study compares morphometric differences in pediatric epilepsy patients with preserved hemispheres to healthy controls, finding reduced gray matter and cortical measures in those with preserved right hemispheres.

Space- and object-based attention in patientswith a single hemisphere following childhood resection

This study compares attentional processing in individuals with childhood hemispherectomy to typically developing controls, finding greater RT costs for patients in object-based attention tasks.

Cross-sectional and longitudinal changes in category-selectivity in visual cortex following pediatric cortical resection

This study examines changes in category-selectivity in visual cortex after pediatric cortical resection, showing both adherence to and deviations from standard topography over time.

Individual variation in the functional lateralization of human ventral temporal cortex: Local competition and long-range coupling

The paper investigates functional lateralization in the human ventral temporal cortex (VTC) using individual differences, finding no local competition between words and faces but evidence of generic local interactions and long-range coupling with social processing.

Functional resilience of the neural visual recognition system post-pediatric occipitotemporal resection

This study investigates whether a single occipitotemporal cortex (OTC) is sufficient for visual recognition after pediatric resection, finding preserved neural representations but impaired behavioral performance in face and object recognition.

Idiosyncratic pupil regulation in autistic children

This study uses pupillometry to show that autistic children have more variable and idiosyncratic pupil responses compared to typically developing children, with significant classification accuracy.

Differential functional reorganization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways following childhood hemispherectomy

This study investigates functional reorganization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways after childhood hemispherectomy, finding greater reorganization in the ventral pathway.

Beyond the Visual Word Form Area: Characterizing a hierarchical, distributed and bilateral network for visual word processing

The paper examines a distributed and bilateral neural network for visual word processing, showing bihemispheric response flexibility and stable connectivity patterns involving the VWFA.

Temporal asymmetries and interactions between dorsal and ventral visual pathways during object recognition

The paper uses EEG to show that dorsal pathway activity precedes and predicts ventral pathway responses during object recognition, suggesting dorsal input to ventral pathways.

With Childhood Hemispherectomy, One Hemisphere Can Support--But is Suboptimal for--Word and Face Recognition

This study examines face and word recognition in children with hemispherectomy, finding that a single hemisphere can support both tasks but with reduced accuracy compared to typical development.

The dorsal visual pathway represents object-centered spatial relations for object recognition

The paper identifies dorsal cortex regions involved in computing object-centered spatial relations and shows their role in supporting object categorization through connectivity with ventral cortex.

Subtly altered topological asymmetry of brain structural covariance networks in autism spectrum disorder across 43 datasets from the ENIGMA consortium

The paper examines hemispheric asymmetry in structural covariance networks in ASD across 43 datasets, finding altered topological features in specific brain regions.

A connectivity-constrained computational account of topographic organization in primate high-level visual cortex

The paper introduces a computational model of primate visual cortex organization that explains domain-selectivity as an emergent property of wiring cost minimization and excitatory connectivity constraints.

Unilateral Resection of Both Cortical Visual Pathways Alters Action but not Perception

This study examines the effects of cortical resection on visuoperceptual and visuomotor abilities in a pediatric patient, finding preserved perception but altered action.

Neural silences can be localized rapidly using noninvasive scalp EEG

SilenceMap detects and localizes neural silences using scalp EEG, outperforming existing methods in accuracy and speed.

All hands on deck: Large-scale (re)sculpting of cortical circuits in post-resection children

The paper examines functional connectivity changes in children after unilateral cortical resection, finding increased negative correlations in the contralesional hemisphere.

Uncharacteristic task-evoked pupillary responses implicate atypical locus coeruleus activity in autism

This study finds that individuals with ASD show atypical pupillary responses to distractor stimuli, suggesting altered locus coeruleus activity during attentional tasks.

Effects of unilateral cortical resection of the visual cortex on bilateral human white matter

The paper examines white matter changes after unilateral visual cortex resection in children, finding preserved contralesional connectivity in most cases.

Altered structural brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder: large-scale analysis via the ENIGMA Consortium

This study identifies altered structural brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder using a large-scale meta-analysis of MRI data from 1,774 ASD cases and 1,809 controls.

Subcortical brain volume, regional cortical thickness and cortical surface area across attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): findings from the ENIGMA-ADHD, -ASD, and -OCD working groups

This study compares structural brain differences across ADHD, ASD, and OCD using MRI data from multiple cohorts, finding disorder-specific alterations in brain volume and cortical thickness.

Age-Related Changes in Neural Networks Supporting Complex Visual and Social Processing in Adolescence

This study investigates age-related changes in neural networks during adolescence using fMRI, finding that some brain regions show increased within-age correlation compared to adults.

Multimodal evidence on shape and surface information in individual face processing

This study uses image reconstruction to assess shape and surface information in face processing across behavioral, EEG, and fMRI data, finding surface information is better recovered and more cross-modal consistent.

Very high density EEG elucidates spatiotemporal aspects of early visual processing

This study compares high-density EEG (SND) with standard density (ND) in capturing spatiotemporal aspects of early visual processing, finding SND provides more accurate and detailed neural information.

Altered topology of neural circuits in congenital prosopagnosia

This study uses fMRI to compare neural circuit topology for face processing in congenital prosopagnosia and controls, finding altered connectivity patterns and severity-dependent differences.

The visual white matter: The application of diffusion MRI and fiber tractography to vision science

This review discusses diffusion MRI and fiber tractography methods for studying human visual white matter connections and their properties.