Integrative Training in Health-Assistive Smart Environments

Lawrence Behmer

Department: 
Experimetal Psychology
IGERT Fellow Since: 
Fall 2011
Advisor: 
Dr. Lisa Fournier
Publications: 
  • Behmer Jr., L. P., & Jantzen, K. J. (2011). Reading sheet music activates the mirror neuron system of musicians: An EEG study. Clinical Neurophysiology, 122(7), 1342-1347.
  • Jantzen, K. J., Seifert, M., Richardson, B., Behmer Jr., L. P., Odell, C., Tripp, A., & Symons, L. A. (2012, in review).  Dorsal stream activity and connectivity associated with action priming of ambiguous apparent motion. NeuroImage.
  • Mattson, P. S., Fournier, L. R., & Behmer Jr., L. P. (2012, in review).  Frequency of a feature occurring early in the action sequence influences binding among action feature codes.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
  • Behmer Jr., L. P., & Fournier, L. R. (2012, in preparation).  Neural efficiency during an action planning task involving novel sensorimotor transformations in the mirror neuron system: an EEG study.

Conference Presentations:

  • Behmer Jr., L. P., Fournier L. R., Gonzales S., & Roach J. R. (2012, April). The neural efficiency of action planning: Differences in ERD between high and low working memory groups.  Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL.
  • Behmer Jr., L. P., & Fournier L. R. (2011, November) Stronger mu- and beta-desynchronization in low- vs. high-span individuals during action planning. Poster presented at Psychonomics, Seattle, WA.
  • Behmer Jr., L. P., Hyman, I. E., & Jantzen, K. J. (2011, April) Large scale beta and gamma coupling during directed and automatic visual search. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
  • Behmer Jr., L. P., Hyman, I. E., Jantzen, K. J., & Graham, J. M. (2010, May) Now you see it now you don’t: The effect of additional distracters on change detection. Talk presented at NOWCAM, Bellingham, WA. 
  • Odell C. K., Richardson B., Seifert M., Behmer Jr., L. P., Tripp A., Symons L. A., & Jantzen, K. J. (2010, April) Alpha band synchrony contributes to action-induced modulation of ambiguous motion.  Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, QB, Canada.
  • Behmer Jr., L. P., & Jantzen, K. J. (2009, October). I can play that! Iconic images activate the human mirror neuron system. Talk presented at the Pacific Northwest chapter meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Bellingham, WA.
  • Behmer Jr., L. P., & Jantzen, K. J. (2009, June). I can play that! Iconic images activate the human mirror neuron system. Poster session presented at Western Washington University’s PsychFest conference, Bellingham, WA.
  • Behmer Jr., L. P., & Smith, J. (2008, April). Am I my brother’s keeper?: Altruism and egoism in disaster response volunteers. Undergraduate thesis presented at University of Portland’s annual Founder’s Day event, Portland, OR.

 

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