Cody Cao

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Had a blast writing this piece with @dupre.science and @alfiewearn.bsky.social. Many thanks to the other past @ohbm-com.com chairs for their feedback and support!

Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread!
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Super cool paper by Emily! Give the paper a read!

And because so many of these kids come to UM, we can develop research projects that move the care of kids with hearing loss forward, which brings in more indirect costs, which enables more care, and then more research, and so on.

This is the lifecycle of the academic research center now at risk.

jerry from tom and jerry is wearing a tuxedo and standing on a stage ALT: jerry from tom and jerry is wearing a tuxedo and standing on a stage

thanks to everybody who provided feedback, and helped push this over the finish-line: Iain Dewitt, Karthik Ganesan, Bill Stacey, Aaron Nidiffer, and as always, the indefatigable David Brang.

In conclusion, our data show that phase and power encoding are independent and are processed by largely non-overlapping neural populations within the STG (7/7).

Lastly, when comparing cong vs incong conditions, we found the different mouth movement produced only a small difference in theta phase in the anterior STG, indicating a limited role of visual speech in ongoing auditory entrainment (6/7)

to test if ITPC and power effects are present at the same electrodes within a participant,we ran a correlation between the cond diffs in each measure at the elec lvl. Phase & power effects are generally unrelated, only 1 of 21 sub showed a sig. corr. btn the two measures (5/7)

If these pre- and post-auditory-onset effects are independent, we would expect to see a significant interaction between condition (congruent-audiovisual vs auditory-alone) and measure (ITPC vs Power). We did find significant interactions across the STG. (4/7)

Comparing cong-av and auditory-alone conditions, we replicated prior findings and showed that pre-speech onset, preparatory mouth movement led to theta phase reset across the STG, meanwhile post-speech onset, mouth movements modulates only in posterior STG. (3/7)

we recorded iEEG when auditory-alone, cong-audiovisual and incong-audiovisual word stimuli were presented to subjects. The incong videos had different mouth evolutions but were designed to give same auditory onset predictions. (2/7)

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)

You got undergrads? We have summer programs! Please post, repost, and share. Applications opened early, now on the NSF ETAP portal. Neuroscience in Ann Arbor! YES, PLEASE!

I’m so sorry this is my humor now

Depiction of a picture naming trial (patient sees Frankenstein and says "Frankenstein"), a sentence production trial (patient sees Dracula hitting Frankenstein and says "Dracula hit Frankenstein"), and mean neural activity for each of the six words in one electrode during picture naming.

New preprint! We know a lot about how the brain produces single words. But how does word production work in sentences? We tracked 6 words in the brain while ECoG patients used them to produce sentences like "Dracula hit Frankenstein". 🧵 1/9
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