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March 02, 2023

PostDoc News - Volume 3

By Sophia Robert

I hope you are able to spend some time outside today and feel the early hints that Spring is almost here! Before we get surprised by another random cold day, please read the January and Febriary updates from the postdocs in Psychology.

New Publications

  • Ayzenberg, V., Simmons, C., & Behrmann, M. (2023). Temporal asymmetries and interactions between dorsal to ventral visual pathways during object recognition. Cerebral Cortex Communications.
  • Ayzenberg, V., & Behrmann, M. (2023). Reply to Goodale and Milner: The where, what, and how of object recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
  • Ayzenberg, V., & Behrmann, M. (2023). Reply to Xu: An expanded neural framework for shape perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
  • Luthra, S., Magnuson, J. S., & Myers, E. B. (2023). Right posterior temporal cortex supports integration of phonetic and talker information. Neurobiology of Language. Advance online publication

Paper Submissions 

  • Luthra, S., Why are listeners hindered by talker variability? Under review.
  • Luthra, S., Mechtenberg, H., Giorio, C., Theodore, R. M., Magnuson, J. S., & Myers, E. B. Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing. Under review.

Conference Presentations & Talks 

  • Luthra, S. , Obasih, C. O., Tierney, A. T., Dick, F., & Holt, L. L. Using frequency selectivity to examine category-informative dimension-selective attention. Oral presentation at Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Orlando, FL, February 2022.
  • Luor, A.*, Luthra, S.* , Shinn-Cunningham, B. G., Tierney, A. T., Dick, F., & Holt, L. L. Statistical regularities across task-irrelevant dimensions impact auditory decisions. Oral presentation at Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Orlando, FL, February 2022.

Congratulations, PostDocs!