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Publications

2020

Stehr, D., Hickok, G., Hargus Ferguson, S., Gorssman, E, (under review). Investigating vocal attractiveness through measures of working vowel space. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

2019

Garcia, J.O., Battelli, L., Plow, E., Cattaneo, Z., Vettel, J. & Grossman, E.D. (submitted) Rapid reconfigurations of brain networks following inhibitory rTMS using a graph theoretical approach.

Ferrari C., Ciricugno, A., Vecchi, T., Battelli, L., Grossman, E.D. & Cattaneo, Z. (submitted) Chronometric involvement of the vermis and lateral cerebellum in perceiving biological motion.

Edwards, G., Agosta, S., Herpich, F., Contò, F., Parrott, D., Tyler, S., Grossman, E. & Battelli, L. (in press) Time-dependent neuromodulation of cortical networks and its potential for clinical interventions. Frontiers in Psychology.

Delbruck, E., Yang, M.C., Yassine, A. & Grossman, E.D. (2019) Functional connectivity in ASD: Atypical pathways in brain networks supporting action recognition and joint attention. Brain Research, 1706, 157-165. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.10.029.

2018

Dasgupta, S., Srinivasan, R. & Grossman, E.D. (2018) Multivariate pattern analysis of the human pSTS: A comparison of three prototypical localizers. Neuropsychologia, 120, 50-58, doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.10.004.

2017

Hasan, R., Srinivasan, R. & Grossman, E.D. (2017). Feature-based attentional tuning during biological motion detection measured with SSVEP. Journal of Vision 2017;17(9):22. doi: 10.1167/17.9.22.[Link]

Battelli, L., Grossman, E.D. & Plow, E.B. (2017). Local immediate versus long-range delayed changes in
functional connectivity following rTMS on the visual attention network. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , 263 – 269.[Link]

Dasgupta, S., Tyler, S., Wicks, J., Srinivasan, S. & Grossman, E.D. (2017).Network Connectivity of the Right STS in Three Social Perception Localizers. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2017 29:2, 221-234 .[Link]

Agosta, S., Magnago, D., Tyler, S., Grossman, E., Galante, E., Ferraro, F., … Battelli, L. (2017). The pivotal role of the right parietal lobe in temporal attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(5), 805-815. [Link]

Craig, A. B., Grossman, E.D., & Krichmar, J. L. (2017). Investigation of autistic traits through strategic decision-making in games with adaptive agents. Scientific Reports, 7, 5533. [Link]

2016

Grossman, E.D., Dasgupta, S. & Srinivasan, R. (under review) Multivariate pattern analysis of the human pSTS: A comparison of three prototypical localizers.

2015

Tyler, S.C., Dasgupta, S., Agosta, S., Battelli, L. & Grossman, E.D. (2015). Functional Connectivity of parietal cortex during Temporal Selective Attention. Cortex 65 (2015),195-207. [Link]

2013

Kim, C-Y. Grossman, E.D. & Blake, R. (2013) Neural activity reflecting perceptual awareness of biologically relevant events. Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 25(2), 153-172.[Link]

2012

Garcia, J.O., Pyles, J.A. & Grossman, E.D. (2012) Stimulus complexity modulates contrast response functions in the human middle temporal area (hMT+). Brain Research, 1466(23), 56-69. [Link]

2011

Tyler, S.C. & Grossman, E.D. (2011) ” Feature-based attention promotes biological motion recognition” Journal of Vision, 11(10), p. 1-16. DOI:10.1167/11.10.11

Garcia, J.O., Grossman, E.D. & Srinivasan, R. (2011) “Evoked potentials in large-scale networks elicited by TMS of the visual cortex”. Journal of Neurophysiology, 106, 1734-1746.[Link]

2010

Thurman, S.M & Grossman, E.D. (2010) Diagnostic spatial frequencies and human efficiency for discriminating actions. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, DOI 10.3758/s13414-010-0028-z. [Link]

Thurman, S.M, Giese, M.A. & Grossman, E.D. (2010) Perceptual and computational analysis of critical features for biological motion. Journal of Vision, 10(12), 1-14. [PDF]

Grossman, E.D., Jardine, N.L. & Pyles, J.A. (2010) fMR-adaptation reveals invariant coding of biological motion on the human STS. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4(15), p. 1-18; DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.015.2010.

2009

Garcia, J.O. & Grossman, E.D. (2009) Motion opponency and transparency in the human middle temporal area (hMT). European Journal of Neuroscience, 30(6), 1172 – 1182. [Link]

Pyles, J.A. & Grossman, E.D. (2009) Neural adaptation for novel objects during dynamic articulation. Neuropsychologia, 47 (5), 1261-1268 . [PDF]

2008

Bedney, M., Caramazza, A., Grossman, E., Pascual-Leone, A. & Saxe, R. (2008) Concepts are not “webs of sensation”: Evidence from motion and non-motion words. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(44), 11347-1353. [PDF]

Chen, Y., Grossman, E., Yurgen-Todd, Bidwell, C., Gruper, S., Levy, D., Matthyse, S., Nakayama, K., & Holzman, P. (2008) Differential activation of occipital and prefrontal cortices during motion processing: Evidence from normal and schizophrenic brains. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(3), 293-303. [PDF]

Garcia, J. O. & Grossman E. D. (2008) Necessary but not sufficient: Motion perception is necessary for biological motion. Vision Research, 48(9), 1144-1149. [PDF]

Thurman, S. M. & Grossman E. D. (2008) Temporal “Bubbles” reveal key features in point-light biological motion perception. Journal of Vision, 8(3), 1-11. [PDF]

1999-2007

Pyles, J.A., Garcia, J.O., Hoffman, D.D. & Grossman E. D. (2007) Visual perception and neural correlates of novel “biological motion”. Vision Research, 47(21), 2786-2797. [PDF]

Grossman E. D., Battelli, L. & Pascual-Leone, A. (2005) Repetitive TMS over posterior STS disrupts perception of biological motion. Vision Research, 45(22), 2847-2853. [PDF]

Grossman E. D., Blake, R. & Kim, C-Y. (2004) Learning to see biological motion: Brain activity parallels behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(9), 1-11. [PDF]

Tadin, D., Lappin, J.S., Blake, R. & Grossman E.D. (2002) What constitutes an efficient reference frame for vision? Nature Neuroscience, 5(10), 1010:1015. [PDF]

Grossman, E. & Blake, R. (2002) Brain areas active during visual perception of biological motion. Neuron, 35(6), 1167-1175. [PDF]

Grossman, E.D. & Blake, R. (2001) Brain activity evoked by inverted and imagined biological motion. Vision Research, 41(10-11), 1475-1482. [PDF]

Grossman, E.D., Donnelly, M., Price, P., Morgan, V., Pickens, D., Neighbor, G., & Blake, R. (2000) Brain areas involved in perception of biological motion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(5), 711-720. [PDF]

Grossman, E.D. & Blake, R. (1999) Perception of coherent motion, biological motion and form-from-motion under dim-light conditions. Vision Research, 39(22), 3721-3727. [PDF]

Selected Abstracts

Pyles, J., Grossman, E., Marcus, A. & Tarr, M. (submitted) Combined functional and structural mapping of the superior temporal sulcus. Society for Human Brain Mapping.

Arcos, K., Jaeggi, S.M. & Grossman, E.D. (2018) Variations in memory ability in sighted and unsighted individuals. Psychonomics Society.

Garcia, J.O., Battelli, L., Plow, E., Cattaneo, Z., Vettel, J.M. & Grossman, E. (2017) Rapid reconfigurations of brain networks following rTMS to parietal cortex. Society for Neuroscience.

Chao, C., Kim, C.-Y. & Grossman, E.D. (2017) Blur as a guide for attention when viewing representational visual art. Vision Sciences Society.

Battelli, L., Plow, E. & Grossman, E.D. (2016) Local immediate versus long-range delayed impact of rTMS on the visual attention network. Vision Sciences Society.

Hasan, R., Srinivasan, R. & Grossman, E.D. (2016) SSVEP captures predictive feature-based attentional tuning for point-light biological walker detection in unattended spatial locations. Vision Sciences Society.

Dasgupta, S., McIntire, Z., Nguyen, M., Li, J.X., James, K.H. & Grossman, E.D. (2015) STSp functional connectivity in adults and children during biological motion perception. Society for Neuroscience.

Nam, J., Grossman, E. & Kim, C-Y. (2015) Audiovisual integration directing attention to the temporal dynamics of biological motion. Vision Sciences Society.

Dasgupta, S., Tyler, S., Srinivasan, R. & Grossman E. (2014) Functional connectivity of co-localized brain regions during biological motion, face and social perception using partial correlations analysis. Vision Sciences Society.

Grossman, E.D., Tyler, S.C., Hecker, E.A. & Garcia, J.O. (2013) A data-driven approach to functional selectivity on the STS. Vision Sciences Society.

Agosta, S., Heroucgm F, Ferraro, F, Miceli, G., Grossman, E., Tyler, S. & Battelli, L. (2013) Stimulation of the left parietal lobe improves spatial and temporal attention in right parietal patients: tipping the inter-hemispheric balance with TMS. Vision Sciences Society.

Tyler, S.C., Dasgupta, S., Battelli, L., Grossman, E.D. (2011) Lateralized Temporal Parietal Junction (TPJ) activity during temporal order judgment tasks. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Dasgupta S, Tyler S.C., Grossman E.D. (2011)  Co-localization of human posterior STS during biological motion, face and social perception. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Tyler, S.C., Garcia, J.O, & Grossman, E.D. (2010) Attention-based motion analysis of biological motion perception. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Dasgupta S, Pyles J, Grossman E. (2010) Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) of the STS during biological motion perception. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Garcia, J., Srinivasan, R. & Grossman, E. (2008) Oscillations induced by single-pulse TMS over visual cortex measured with simultaneous EEG. Society for Neuroscience.

Bedny, M., Caramazza, A. Grossman, E., Pascual-Leone, A. & Saxe, R. (2008). Concepts are not “webs of sensation”: Evidence from motion words. Cognitive Science Society.

Garcia, J. Srinivasan, R. & Grossman, E.D. (2008) TMS-induced oscillations in orientation discriminations.  Vision Sciences Society.

Jardine, N. L., Pyles, J.A. & Grossman, E.D. (2008) Viewpoint invariance: An fMRI investigation of biological motion specificity in the STSp. Vision Sciences Society.

Pyles, J.A. & Grossman, E.D. (2008) Visual analysis of biological motion and understanding social events: Mapping the STSp. Vision Sciences Society.

Thurman, S., Pyles, J., Troje, N. & Grossman, E.D. (2008) Critical temporal window for natural point-light gender discrimination. Vision Sciences Society.

Bedny, M., Caramazza, A., Grossman, E., Pascual-Leone, A., & Saxe, R. (2008) Are word meanings “webs of sensations”?: Counterevidence from an fMRI study of motion and non-motion words. Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Garcia, J.O., Pouya, A. & Grossman, E. (2007) Investigation of local motion antagonism with transcranial magentic stimulation. European conference on visual perception.

Garcia, J.O., Pouya, A. & Grossman, E. (2007) Investigation of local motion antagonism with transcranial magentic stimulation. European conference on visual perception.

Garcia, J., Pyles, J. & Grossman, E. (2007) Neural mechanisms underlying motion opponency in hMT+. Vision Sciences Society.

Grossman, E. (2007) fMRI-adaptation for articulated moving objects in ventral temporal brain areas. Vision Sciences Society.

Thurman, S. & Grossman, E. (2007) Dynamic ‘Bubbles’: A novel technique for analyzing the perception of biological motion. Vision Sciences Society.

Pyles, J.A., Garcia, J.O., Hoffman, D.D. & Grossman, E. (2006) Brain activity evoked by novel ‘biological motion’.

Garcia, J. O., Pyles, J. & Grossman, E. D. (2006) Neural correlates of pathway contributions to motion perception in high-level visual brain areas.

Pyles, J., Grossman, E. & Hoffman, D. (2005) Visual characteristics of biological motion: investigations with a new stimulus set. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Garcia, J. O. & Grossman, E. D. (2005) Perception of point-light biological motion at isoluminance. Vision Sciences Society.

Grossman, E., Battelli, L. & Pascual-Leone (2004) TMS over STSp disrupts perception of biological motion. Vision Sciences Society, 4(8) abstr. 239.

Grossman, E. D., Harris, A.M. & Nakayama, K. (2003) Simultaneous EEG/MEG recording during perception of point-light biological motion. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Grossman, E., Kim, C-K. & Blake, R. (2003) Perceptual learning of biological motion. Vision Sciences Society.

Kim, C-K., Grossman, E. & Blake, R. (2002) Biologically relevant events are undetectable during suppression phases of binocular rivalry. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 28, abstr. 161.12.

Grossman, E. & Blake, R. (2002) A parametric fMRI study of neural activity in human posterior superior temporal sulcus during visual perception of biological motion. Federation of European Neurosciences.

Grossman, E. & Blake, R. (2002) An investigation of neural activity associated with viewing point-light animal, face and hand movements. Journal of Vision.

Grossman, E. & Blake, R. (2001) A dissociation between brain areas involved in seeing objects and seeing human movement. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27, abstr. 165.33.

Tadin, D., Lappin, J.S., Blake, R. & Grossman, E.D. (2001) Structured dynamic reference frames for visual perception. Journal of Vision, 1(3), 359a, http://journalofvision.org/1/3/359, DOI 10.1167/1.3.359.

Lab updates


December 2020
Congratulations Dr. Christina Chao on successfully defending her dissertation! Best wishes to at Cypress College.

November 2020
Congratulations Dr. Karen Arcos on successfully defending her dissertation! Best wishes to you at your postdoc at UC Santa Cruz.


November 2020
Congratulations to Xiaojue Zhou on successfully completing her 2nd year exam!

October 2020
Congratulations Dr. Daniel Stehr on successfully defending his dissertation! Best wishes to you at your postdoc at Dartmouth.


September 2020
Congratulations Daniel, Xiaojue and team on submitting their paper on how expectations shape action representations in the AON!

August 2020
Congratulations Emily and team on their paper on how rTMS alters the dynamics of cortical networks, now published in Scientific Reports!

February 2020
Congratulations Karen on pitching her research and being a semi-finalist at the the 2020 UCI Grad Slam finals!

February 2020
Congratulations to Karen on being awarded the UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship! We will miss you when you go!

Lab News

November 2016:
Congratulations to Karen Arcos for completing her second year exam!

November 2015:
Congratulations to Samhita Dasgupta for her successful defense!
Congratulations to Christina Chao for completing her second year exam!

September 2015:
Welcome to the lab, Karen!

September 2014:
Welcome to the lab, Christina Chao! ,
and Congratulations to Rakibul Hasan on
advancing!

March 2014:
Congratulations to Sarah Tyler on defending, and Rakibul and Nicole on completing their concentration exams!

August 2013:
Congratulations to Sarah Tyler on advancing!

September 2012:
Welcome to the lab, Rakibul and Nicole!

Winter 2012:
Congratulations to Sarah Tyler on receiving the Associate Dean's Fellowship!

Dec 2011:
Congratulations to Samhita Dasgupta on advancing!

Sept 2011:
Welcome to VPNL, Elizabeth!

24 Aug 2011:

Congratulations to Sarah Tyler on her paper being accepted to Journal of Vision. Great job!

29 June 2011:

Congratulations to Javier Garcia on his paper being accepted at Journal of Neurophysiology!

01 June 2011:

Congratulations Sarah Tyler on winning the 2011 Yellot Award. Nice work!

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