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Overview

David C. Somers is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and medicine, with a substantial emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and imaging techniques.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

Somers' work spans various subfields of study such as cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, physiology, biomedical engineering, and neurology. This diverse scope reflects a multidisciplinary approach to brain research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Somers include:

  • Vaibhav Tripathi
  • Sean Tobyne
  • Swathi Kiran
  • Alice Cronin-Golomb
  • David A. Boas

The scientist regularly publishes in several noted venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Vision
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • NeuroImage

Some recently published papers by David C. Somers include:

  • "Toward Neuroscience of the Everyday World (NEW) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy", 2021, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering
  • "Stimulus-Specific Visual Working Memory Representations in Human Cerebellar Lobule VIIb/VIIIa", 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Extended Frontal Networks for Visual and Auditory Working Memory", 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Neural correlates associated with impaired global motion perception in cerebral visual impairment (CVI)", 2021, NeuroImage Clinical
  • "Attention and Default Mode Network Assessments of Meditation Experience during Active Cognition and Rest", 2021, Brain Sciences

Best Publications

  • An emergent model of orientation selectivity in cat visual cortical simple cells

    D. C. Somers;S. B. Nelson;Mriganka Sur

  • Functional Mri Reveals Spatially Specific Attentional Modulation in Human Primary Visual Cortex

    David C. Somers;Anders M. Dale;Adriane E. Seiffert;Roger B. H. Tootell

  • Visual Topography of Human Intraparietal Sulcus

    Jascha D. Swisher;Mark A. Halko;Lotfi B. Merabet;Stephanie A. McMains

  • Rapid synchronization through fast threshold modulation

    David Somers;Nancy Kopell

  • Multiple spotlights of attentional selection in human visual cortex.

    Stephanie A McMains;David C Somers;David C Somers

  • Synchronized oscillations during cooperative feature linking in a cortical model of visual perception

    Stephen Grossberg;David Somers

  • What blindness can tell us about seeing again: merging neuroplasticity and neuroprostheses

    Lotfi B. Merabet;Joseph F. Rizzo;Amir Amedi;David C. Somers

  • Subthreshold facilitation and suppression in primary visual cortex revealed by intrinsic signal imaging.

    LJ Toth;SC Rao;Dae-Shik Kim;D Somers

  • A local circuit approach to understanding integration of long-range inputs in primary visual cortex.

    David C. Somers;Emanuel V. Todorov;Athanassios G. Siapas;Louis J. Toth

  • Combined activation and deactivation of visual cortex during tactile sensory processing

    Lotfi B. Merabet;Jascha D. Swisher;Stephanie A. McMains;Mark A. Halko

  • Short-Term Memory for Space and Time Flexibly Recruit Complementary Sensory-Biased Frontal Lobe Attention Networks

    Samantha W. Michalka;Lingqiang Kong;Maya L. Rosen;Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

  • Functional Evidence for a Cerebellar Node of the Dorsal Attention Network.

    James A. Brissenden;Emily J. Levin;David E. Osher;Mark A. Halko

  • Functional MRI Studies of Human Visual Motion Perception: Texture, Luminance, Attention and After-effects

    Adriane E. Seiffert;David C. Somers;Anders M. Dale;Roger B.H. Tootell

  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Visuotopic Posterior Parietal Cortex Emerges with Visual Short-Term Memory Load

    Summer L. Sheremata;Katherine C. Bettencourt;David C. Somers

  • Effects of target enhancement and distractor suppression on multiple object tracking capacity

    Katherine C. Bettencourt;David C. Somers

  • Anti-phase solutions in relaxation oscillators coupled through excitatory interactions.

    Nancy Kopell;David Somers;David Somers

  • Processing Efficiency of Divided Spatial Attention Mechanisms in Human Visual Cortex

    Stephanie A McMains;David C Somers

  • Waves and synchrony in networks of oscillators of relaxation and non-relaxation type

    David Somers;Nancy Kopell

  • Auditory Spatial Attention Representations in the Human Cerebral Cortex

    Lingqiang Kong;Samantha W. Michalka;Maya L. Rosen;Summer L. Sheremata

  • Topographic Cortico-cerebellar Networks Revealed by Visual Attention and Working Memory.

    James A. Brissenden;Sean M. Tobyne;David E. Osher;Emily J. Levin

  • Cognitive Control Network Contributions to Memory-Guided Visual Attention

    Maya L. Rosen;Chantal E. Stern;Samantha W. Michalka;Kathryn J. Devaney

  • Cortico-cerebellar networks for visual attention and working memory.

    James A Brissenden;David C Somers

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham
Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham Carnegie Mellon University
Chantal E. Stern
Chantal E. Stern Boston University
Lotfi B. Merabet
Lotfi B. Merabet Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Nancy Kopell
Nancy Kopell Boston University
Sacha B. Nelson
Sacha B. Nelson Brandeis University
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Harvard University
Roger B. H. Tootell
Roger B. H. Tootell Harvard University
Alice Cronin-Golomb
Alice Cronin-Golomb Boston University

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