Deborah Barany, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences in Neuroscience
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Georgia, 2018 – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University, 2016 – 2018
PhD, Dynamical Neuroscience, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016
MA, Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013
BA, Neuroscience; Mathematics, Hamilton College, 2011
Awards & Honors
Interdisciplinary Grant Proposal Incentive Program Award, University of Georgia, 2022
Training in Grantsmanship for Rehabilitation Research Award, American Society of Neurorehabilitation, 2021
Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015
Capital One Academic All-American Second Team, 2011
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Scholarship & Excellence in Education Foundation, 2010
Areas of Expertise
Neural mechanisms of goal-directed movement
Motor control
Functional neuroimaging
Non-invasive brain stimulation
Neurorehabilitation
Publications
Barany, D. A., Lacey, S., Matthews, K. L., Nygaard, L. C., & Sathian, K. (2023). Neural basis of sound-symbolic pseudoword-shape correspondences. Neuropsychologia, 108657.
Gómez-Granados, A.M, Kurtzer, I., Gordon, S., *Barany, D.A., & *Singh, T. (2023). Object motion influences feedforward motor responses during mechanical stopping of virtual projectiles: A preliminary study. Experimental Brain Research. Advance online publication, doi:10.1007/s00221-023-06576-y
*joint senior authorship
*Gómez-Granados, A.M, *Barany, D. A., Schrayer, M., Kurtzer, I., Bonnet, C., & Singh, T. (2021). Age-related deficits in rapid visuomotor decision-making. Journal of Neurophysiology. 126(5):1592-1603. doi: 10.1152/jn.00073.2021
*equal contribution
Barany, D. A., Revill, K. P., Caliban, A., Vernon, I., Shukla, A., Sathian, K., & Buetefisch, C. M. (2020). Primary motor cortical activity during unimanual movements with increasing demand on precision. Journal of Neurophysiology. doi: 10.1152/jn.00546.2019
Latchoumane, C.V.,* Barany, D.A.,* Karumbaiah, L., & Singh, T. (2020). Neurostimulation and reach-to-grasp function recovery following acquired brain injury: insight from pre-clinical rodent models and human applications. Frontiers in Neurology, 11, 835. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00835.
*equal contribution
Barany, D. A., Gómez-Granados, A., Schrayer, M., Cutts, S. A., & Singh, T. (2020). Perceptual decisions about object shape bias visuomotor coordination during rapid interception movements. Journal of Neurophysiology, 123(6):2235-2248. doi: 10.1152/jn.00098.2020
Barany, D.A., Della-Maggiore, V., Viswanathan, S., Cieslak, M., & Grafton, S. T. (2014). Feature interactions enable decoding of sensorimotor transformations for goal-directed movement. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(20), 6860-6873.