Daniel Howard Weissman
Faculty Associate, RCGD
Professor, Psychology
- danweiss@umich.edu
- 734-764-8360
- 5260 ISR-426 Thompson St.
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BIO
Daniel Weissman's research uses a combination of behavioral methods and non-invasive brain imaging techniques to study how human beings pay attention to stimuli of interest while minimizing distraction from irrelevant stimuli. He is especially interested in the operation of mechanisms that detect and resolve conflict between competing mental representations, and how those influence the performance of cognitive tasks. Dr. Weissman's work also investigates the operation of conflict processing mechanisms in real-world situations and in clinical syndromes that are characterized by abnormally high levels of conflict processing.
- Russman Block, Stefanie R., Daniel Howard Weissman, Chandra Sripada, Mike Angstadt, Elizabeth R. Duval, Anthony P. King, and Israel Liberzon. Forthcoming. "Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Attention Deficits in Trauma." Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
- Grant, Lauren D., and Daniel Howard Weissman. 2019. "Turning distractors into targets increases the congruency sequence effect." Acta Psychologica 192: 31-41.
- Cassady, Kaitlin, Daniel Howard Weissman, Holly Gagnon, Poortata Lalwani, Molly Simmonite, Bradley Foerster, Denise Park, Scott J. Peltier, et al. 2019. "Sensorimotor network segregation declines with age and is linked to GABA and to sensorimotor performance." NeuroImage 186: 234-244.
- Weissman, Daniel Howard. Forthcoming. "Let your fingers do the walking: Finger force distinguishes competing accounts of the congruency sequence effect." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Braem, Senne, Julie M. Bugg, James R. Schmidt, Matthew J. C. Crump, Daniel Howard Weissman, Wim Notebaert, and Tobias Egner. 2019. "Measuring Adaptive Control in Conflict Tasks." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 23(9): 769-783.
- Simmonite, Molly, Joshua Carp, Bradley R. Foerster, Lynn Ossher, Myria Petrou, Daniel Howard Weissman, and Thad A. Polk. 2019. "Age-Related Declines in Occipital GABA are Associated with Reduced Fluid Processing Ability." Academic Radiology 26(8): 1053-1061.
- Weissman, Daniel Howard. Forthcoming. "Interacting congruency effects in the hybrid Stroop-Simon task prevent conclusions regarding the domain specificity or generality of the congruency sequence effect." Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Lalwani, Poortata, Daniel Howard Weissman, Holly Gagnon, Kaitlin Cassady, Molly Simmonite, Scott Peltier, Rachael D. Seidler, Stephan F. Taylor, an, et al. 2019. "Neural distinctiveness declines with age in auditory cortex and is associated with auditory GABA levels." NeuroImage 201: 116033.
- Gagnon, Holly, Daniel Howard Weissman, Molly Simmonite, Kaitlin Cassady, Jordan Chamberlain, Erin Freiburger, Poortata Lalwani, Shannon Kelley, et al. 2019. "Michigan Neural Distinctiveness (MiND) study protocol: investigating the scope, causes, and consequences of age-related neural dedifferentiation." BMC Neurology 19(1): 61.
- Weissman, Daniel Howard, B. Drake, K. Colella, and D. Samuel. 2018. "Perceptual load is not always a crucial determinant of early versus late selection." Acta psychologica 185: 125-135.
- Block, Stefanie Russman, Anthony P. King, Rebecca K. Sripada, Daniel Howard Weissman, Robert Welsh, and Israel Liberzon. 2017. "Behavioral and neural correlates of disrupted orienting attention in posttraumatic stress disorder." Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 17(2): 422-436.