Publications

Peer-reviewed publications:

Bang, J. W., Parra, C., Yu, K., Wollstein, G., Schuman, J. S., Chan, K. C. (2023). GABA decrease is associated with degraded neural specificity in the visual cortex of glaucoma patients. Communications Biology. Data & code available at: https://osf.io/85cds/ (link)

Bang, J. W., Chan, R. W., Parra, C., Murphy, M. C., Schuman, J. S., Nau, A. C., Chan, K. C. (2023). Diverging patterns of plasticity in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in early and late-onset blindness. Brain Communications. Data & code available at: https://osf.io/axy45/ (link)

Bang, J. W., Hamilton-Fletcher, G., Chan, K. C. (2023). Visual plasticity in adulthood: Perspectives from Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity. The Neuroscientist. (link)

Bang, J. W., Rahnev, D. (2021). Awake suppression after brief exposure to a familiar stimulus. Communications Biology, 4:348. Data & code available at: https://osf.io/kmrwf/ (link)

Bang, J. W., Chan, K. C. (2021). Editors Selection - Anatomical Structures: Brain Plasticity in Glaucoma. International Glaucoma Review, 21:2008. (link)

Sims, J. R., Chen, A. M., Sun, Z., Deng, W., Colwell, N. A., Colbert, M. K., Zhu, J., Sainulabdeen, A., Faiq, M. A., Bang, J. W., Chan, K. C. (2020). Role of structural, metabolic, and functional MRI in monitoring visual system impairment and recovery. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. (link)

Rahnev, D., Desender, K., Lee, A. L. F., ... Bang, J. W., ... Zylberberg, A. (2020). The confidence Database. Nature Human Behaviour, 4:317-325. Data & code available at: https://osf.io/s46pr (link)

Trivedi, V., Bang, J. W., Parra, C., Colbert, M. K., O’Connell, C., Arshad, A., Faiq, M. A., Conner, I. P., Redfern, M. S., Wollstein, G., Schuman, J. S., Cham, R., Chan, K. C. (2019). Widespread brain reorganization perturbs visuomotor coordination in early glaucoma. Scientific Reports, 9:14168. (link) 

Bang, J. W., Milton, D., Sasaki, Y., Watanabe, T., Rahnev, D. (2019). Post-training TMS abolishes performance improvement and releases future learning from interference. Communications Biology, 2:320. Data & code available at: https://zenodo.org/record/3332947#.Xo9gzi2ZOu4 (link)

Bang, J. W., Sasaki, Y., Watanabe, T., Rahnev, D. (2018). Feature-specific awake reactivation in human V1 after visual training. Journal of Neuroscience, 38:9648-9657. Data & code available at: https://osf.io/9du8v (link)

Bang, J. W., Shekhar, M., Rahnev, D. (2018). Sensory noise increases metacognitive efficiency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(3):437-452. Data & code available at: https://github.com/DobyRahnev/sensory_noise_metacognitive_efficiency (link)

Bang, J. W.*, Shibata, K.*, Sebastian, M. F., Walsh, E. G., Mark, W. G., Watanabe, T., Sasaki, Y. (2018). Consolidation and reconsolidation share behavioural and neurochemical mechanisms. Nature Human Behaviour, 2:507-513. *Equal contribution. [Featured in News & Views by Bernabo & Nader (2018)] (link)

Bang, J. W., Rahnev, D. (2017). Stimulus expectation alters decision criterion but not sensory signal in perceptual decision making. Scientific Reports, 7:17072. Data & code available at: https://github.com/DobyRahnev/pre_post_cues (link)

Shibata, K., Sasaki, Y., Bang, J. W., Walsh, E. G., Machizawa, M. G., Tamaki, M., Chang, L., Watanabe, T. (2017). Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by rapidly making neurochemical processing inhibitory-dominant. Nature Neuroscience, 20:470-475. (link)

Tamaki, M., Bang, J. W., Watanabe, T., Sasaki, Y. (2016). Night watch in one hemisphere during sleep associated with the first-night effect in humans. Current Biology, 26:1190-1194. [Ranked Top 4 in Altmetric score of all papers in biological science in 2016] (link)

Bang, J. W., Khalilzadeh, O., Hamalainen, M., Watanabe, T., Sasaki, Y. (2014). Location specific sleep spindle activity in the early visual areas and perceptual learning. Vision Research, 99:162-171. [Hot topic recognition at Society for Neuroscience in 2013] (link)

Tamaki, M., Bang, J. W., Watanabe, T., Sasaki, Y. (2014). The first-night effect suppresses the strength of slow-wave activity originating in the visual areas during sleep. Vision Research, 99:154-161. (link) 

Sung, Y. S., Lee, H. J., Park, H. Y., Bang, J. W. (2009). Neural consequences of delayed gratification of curiosity. The Korean Journal of Advertising, 20:43-58.