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Neuroscience

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40
Citations
8402
World Ranking
8007
National Ranking
3440

Psychology

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40
Citations
8393
World Ranking
8145
National Ranking
4368

Overview

Daniel H. Weissman is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with specific expertise in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. A significant portion of their work is dedicated to neural and behavioral psychology studies, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, and neural dynamics and brain function.

The scientist has published extensively in notable academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • NeuroImage
  • Neurobiology of Aging

Some of their recent papers demonstrate a broad research scope. These include:

  • "GABA levels in ventral visual cortex decline with age and are associated with neural distinctiveness" (2021, Neurobiology of Aging)
  • "Network segregation varies with neural distinctiveness in sensorimotor cortex" (2020, NeuroImage)
  • "Task sets serve as boundaries for the congruency sequence effect." (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance)
  • "Normal congruency sequence effects in psychopathology: A behavioral and electrophysiological examination using a confound-minimized design" (2023, Psychophysiology)
  • "Convergence of heteromodal lexical retrieval in the lateral prefrontal cortex" (2021, Scientific Reports)

Their co-authors frequently include the following researchers:

  • Lauren D. Grant
  • Alexander A. Aabedi
  • Sofia Kakaizada
  • David Brang
  • Shawn L. Hervey-Jumper

The main fields of study represented in their work are:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Subfields within these primary fields that the scientist engages in include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Epidemiology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Best Publications

  • The neural bases of momentary lapses in attention.

    D H Weissman;K C Roberts;K M Visscher;M G Woldorff

  • Measuring Adaptive Control in Conflict Tasks

    Senne Braem;Julie M. Bugg;James R. Schmidt;Matthew J.C. Crump

  • The spread of attention across modalities and space in a multisensory object

    Laura Busse;Kenneth C. Roberts;Roy E. Crist;Daniel H. Weissman

  • Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex Resolves Conflict from Distracting Stimuli by Boosting Attention toward Relevant Events

    D.H. Weissman;A. Gopalakrishnan;C.J. Hazlett;M.G. Woldorff

  • Lapsing during sleep deprivation is associated with distributed changes in brain activation

    Michael W. L. Chee;Jiat Chow Tan;Hui Zheng;Sarayu Parimal

  • General and task-specific frontal lobe recruitment in older adults during executive processes: a fMRI investigation of task-switching.

    Gregory J. DiGirolamo;Arthur F. Kramer;Vikram Barad;Nicholas J. Cepeda

  • Attention-related activity during episodic memory retrieval: a cross-function fMRI study.

    Roberto Cabeza;Florin Dolcos;Steven E Prince;Heather J Rice

  • The cerebral hemispheres cooperate to perform complex but not simple tasks.

    Daniel H. Weissman;Marie T. Banich

  • Functional Parcellation of Attentional Control Regions of the Brain

    Marty G. Woldorff;Chad J. Hazlett;Harlan M. Fichtenholtz;Daniel H. Weissman

  • Conflict monitoring in the human anterior cingulate cortex during selective attention to global and local object features.

    Daniel H. Weissman;Barry Giesbrecht;Allen W. Song;George R. Mangun

  • The Neural Mechanisms for Minimizing Cross-Modal Distraction

    D. H. Weissman;L. M. Warner;M. G. Woldorff

  • The neural circuitry underlying the executive control of auditory spatial attention.

    C.-T. Wu;D.H. Weissman;K.C. Roberts;M.G. Woldorff

  • Congruency sequence effects without feature integration or contingency learning confounds

    James R. Schmidt;Daniel H. Weissman

  • Hemispheric Asymmetries for Different Components of Global/Local Attention Occur in Distinct Temporo-parietal Loci

    D.H. Weissman;M.G. Woldorff

  • Determinants of congruency sequence effects without learning and memory confounds.

    Daniel H. Weissman;Jiefeng Jiang;Tobias Egner

  • Sensorimotor network segregation declines with age and is linked to GABA and to sensorimotor performance.

    Kaitlin Cassady;Holly C. Gagnon;Poortata Lalwani;Molly Simmonite

  • Pre-target activity in visual cortex predicts behavioral performance on spatial and feature attention tasks.

    Barry Giesbrecht;Daniel H. Weissman;Marty G. Woldorff;George R. Mangun

  • Practice makes a hemisphere perfect: The advantage of interhemispheric recruitment is eliminated with practice.

    Daniel Weissman;Rebecca Compton

  • Cognitive control in social situations: a role for the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

    Daniel H. Weissman;A. S. Perkins;Marty G. Woldorff

  • A role for top-down attentional orienting during interference between global and local aspects of hierarchical stimuli.

    Daniel H. Weissman;George R. Mangun;Marty G. Woldorff

Frequent Co-Authors

Marty G. Woldorff
Marty G. Woldorff Duke University
Thad A. Polk
Thad A. Polk University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marie T. Banich
Marie T. Banich University of Colorado Boulder
Stephan F. Taylor
Stephan F. Taylor University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rachael D. Seidler
Rachael D. Seidler University of Florida
George R. Mangun
George R. Mangun University of California, Davis
Scott Peltier
Scott Peltier University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Denise C. Park
Denise C. Park The University of Texas at Dallas
Kate D. Fitzgerald
Kate D. Fitzgerald Columbia University
Tobias Egner
Tobias Egner Duke University

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