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Allen Osman, PhD

John Whyte

Allen Osman is a cognitive psychologist who serves as a consultant for the NCRRN. Dr. Osman received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Michigan. He is currently a research assistant professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania and an adjunct scientist at the MRRI. His research has been supported by grants from the NIH.

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognitive applications of event-related potentials (ERPs)
  • Motor preparation and accompanying ERPs
  • RT- and ERP-based mental chronometry

Programs of Research

  • Cognitive neuroscience of attention, sensorimotor performance, and action
  • Motor imagery, embodied cognition, brain-computer interfaces
  • Executive control, set, inhibition, speed-accuracy tradeoff
  • Use of movement-related ERPs to study motor preparation, imagery, and inner speech
  • Source-localization of ERPs elicited by speech sounds in aphasics (with G. Stefanatos)

Publications

  • Osman, A., Albert, R., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Band, G.P.H., & van der Molen, M.W. (2006). The Beat Goes On: Rhythmic Modulation of Cortical Potentials by Imagined Tapping. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 986-1005. PMID 16846293
  • Osman, A., Markus-Mueller, K., Syre, P., & Russ, B. (2005). Paradoxical lateralization of brain potentials during imagined foot movements. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 727-731. PMID 15894471
  • Rinkenauer, G., Osman, A., Ulrich, R., Muller-Gethmann, H., & Mattes, S. (2004). On the locus of speed-accuracy tradeoff in reaction time: Inferences from the lateralized readiness potential. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 261-282. PMID 15149253
  • Osman, A., Moore, C. M., & Ulrich, R. (2003). Temporal organization of covert motor processes during response selection and preparation. Biological Psychology, 64, 51-82. PMID 14602355
  • Parra, L., Alvino, C., Tang, A., Pearlmutter, B., Young, N., Osman, A., & Sajda, P. (2002). Linear spatial integration for single trial detection in encephalograpy. NeuroImage, 17, 223-230. PMID 12482079