David Brang

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Grapheme-color synesthetes show enhanced crossmodal processing between auditory and visual modalities
    David Brang
    Department of Psychology, University of CA, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    Cortex 48:630-7. 2012
  2. ncbi Survival of the synesthesia gene: why do people hear colors and taste words?
    David Brang
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
    PLoS Biol 9:e1001205. 2011
  3. ncbi Handedness and calendar orientations in time-space synaesthesia
    David Brang
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, California 92093 0109, USA
    J Neuropsychol 5:323-32. 2011
  4. ncbi Similarly shaped letters evoke similar colors in grapheme-color synesthesia
    David Brang
    University of CA, San Diego, CA, USA
    Neuropsychologia 49:1355-8. 2011
  5. ncbi Magnetoencephalography reveals early activation of V4 in grapheme-color synesthesia
    D Brang
    University of California, San Diego, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Neuroimage 53:268-74. 2010
  6. ncbi Contextual priming in grapheme-color synesthetes and yoked controls: 400 msec in the life of a synesthete
    David Brang
    University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 23:1681-96. 2011
  7. ncbi Is the sky 2? Contextual priming in grapheme-color synaesthesia
    D Brang
    Cognitive Science Department, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive 0515, La Jolla, CA 92092, USA
    Psychol Sci 19:421-8. 2008
  8. ncbi Temporal sequences, synesthetic mappings, and cultural biases: the geography of time
    David Brang
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    Conscious Cogn 19:311-20. 2010
  9. ncbi Apotemnophilia: a neurological disorder
    David Brang
    Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
    Neuroreport 19:1305-6. 2008
  10. ncbi Spatial cueing in time-space synesthetes: An event-related brain potential study
    Ursina Teuscher
    Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, 92093 0515, United States
    Brain Cogn 74:35-46. 2010

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Publications19

  1. ncbi Grapheme-color synesthetes show enhanced crossmodal processing between auditory and visual modalities
    David Brang
    Department of Psychology, University of CA, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    Cortex 48:630-7. 2012
    ..This finding supports our conjecture that the atypical sensory experiences of synesthetes represent a selective expression of a more diffuse propensity toward 'typical' crossmodality interactions...
  2. ncbi Survival of the synesthesia gene: why do people hear colors and taste words?
    David Brang
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
    PLoS Biol 9:e1001205. 2011
    ..Progress in uncovering the genetic basis of synesthesia will help us understand why synesthesia has been conserved in the population...
  3. ncbi Handedness and calendar orientations in time-space synaesthesia
    David Brang
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, California 92093 0109, USA
    J Neuropsychol 5:323-32. 2011
    ..We suggest that the implicit biases seen in controls are mediated by similar mechanisms as in synaesthesia, highlighting the graded nature of synaesthetic associations...
  4. ncbi Similarly shaped letters evoke similar colors in grapheme-color synesthesia
    David Brang
    University of CA, San Diego, CA, USA
    Neuropsychologia 49:1355-8. 2011
    ....
  5. ncbi Magnetoencephalography reveals early activation of V4 in grapheme-color synesthesia
    D Brang
    University of California, San Diego, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Neuroimage 53:268-74. 2010
    ..Results are discussed in the context of an updated version of the cross-activation model, the cascaded cross-tuning model of grapheme-color synesthesia...
  6. ncbi Contextual priming in grapheme-color synesthetes and yoked controls: 400 msec in the life of a synesthete
    David Brang
    University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 23:1681-96. 2011
    ..The P2 modulation was unique to the synesthetes and may reflect neural activity that underlies the conscious experience of the synesthetic induction...
  7. ncbi Is the sky 2? Contextual priming in grapheme-color synaesthesia
    D Brang
    Cognitive Science Department, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive 0515, La Jolla, CA 92092, USA
    Psychol Sci 19:421-8. 2008
    ..The results suggest that grapheme-color synaesthesia is automatic and perceptual in nature and also suggest that the connections between colors and numbers are bidirectional...
  8. ncbi Temporal sequences, synesthetic mappings, and cultural biases: the geography of time
    David Brang
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    Conscious Cogn 19:311-20. 2010
    ....
  9. ncbi Apotemnophilia: a neurological disorder
    David Brang
    Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
    Neuroreport 19:1305-6. 2008
    ..We found heightened skin conductance response to pinprick below the desired line of amputation. We propose apotemnophilia arises from congenital dysfunction of the right superior parietal lobule and its connection with the insula...
  10. ncbi Spatial cueing in time-space synesthetes: An event-related brain potential study
    Ursina Teuscher
    Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, 92093 0515, United States
    Brain Cogn 74:35-46. 2010
    ..The findings suggest that in these time-space synesthetes cue validity influenced post-perceptual processes, such as stimulus evaluation and categorization, with no evidence for enhanced visual processing...
  11. ncbi Xenomelia: a new right parietal lobe syndrome
    Paul D McGeoch
    Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 82:1314-9. 2011
    ..The authors introduce the term 'xenomelia' as a more appropriate name than apotemnophilia or body integrity identity disorder, for what appears to be an unrecognised right parietal lobe syndrome...
  12. ncbi Visual field heterogeneity, laterality, and eidetic imagery in synesthesia
    David Brang
    Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
    Neurocase 16:169-74. 2010
    ..The implications of these findings for the level at which synesthesia occurs, the 'enhanced cross-activation' model, and the mechanisms of visual memory are discussed...
  13. ncbi Dynamic reorganization of referred sensations by movements of phantom limbs
    Vilayanur S Ramachandran
    Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 0109, USA
    Neuroreport 21:727-30. 2010
    ..This finding further highlights the dynamic nature of the brain on remarkably short-time scales...
  14. ncbi Size reduction using Mirror Visual Feedback (MVF) reduces phantom pain
    V S Ramachandran
    Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Neurocase 15:357-60. 2009
    ..Remarkably we find that optically 'resurrecting' the phantom with a mirror and using a lens to make the phantom appear to shrink caused the pain to 'shrink' as well...
  15. ncbi Sentence context affects the brain response to masked words
    Seana Coulson
    Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    Brain Lang 113:149-55. 2010
    ..Data are interpreted as suggesting a link between the neural generators of the N400 and conceptual short-term memory, a dynamic process for conceptual activation and structuring that is triggered by perceptual input...
  16. ncbi Sexual and food preference in apotemnophilia and anorexia: interactions between 'beliefs' and 'needs' regulated by two-way connections between body image and limbic structures
    Vilayanur S Ramachandran
    Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Perception 38:775-7. 2009
    ..We postulate that sexual 'aesthetic preference' for certain body morphology is dictated in all individuals in part by the cortical representation of one's body image...
  17. ncbi Tactile-emotion synesthesia
    V S Ramachandran
    Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Neurocase 14:390-9. 2008
    ..It may represent an enhancement of pre-existing evolutionarily primitive interactions between touch and emotions...
  18. ncbi Sensations evoked in patients with amputation from watching an individual whose corresponding intact limb is being touched
    Vilayanur S Ramachandran
    Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr 0109, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Arch Neurol 66:1281-4. 2009
    ..While these neurons cannot by themselves discriminate between the two, the mind is aware of the difference between feeling and watching; one does not confuse empathy with actual experience...
  19. ncbi Olfactory bulb dysgenesis, mirror neuron system dysfunction, and autonomic dysregulation as the neural basis for autism
    David Brang
    Center for Brain and Cognition, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Med Hypotheses 74:919-21. 2010
    ..This causes deranged autonomic feedback, resulting in additional deficiencies in MNS with loss of emotional empathy and introspection...