Darcy Burgund

Darcy Burgund specializes in visual object recognition, hemisphere asymmetries, and memory, with a particular focus on face processing. Research in her lab employs a variety of methods, including divided-visual-field presentations, eye-tracking, and monocular viewing conditions. She teaches courses on cognitive neuroscience, hemisphere asymmetries, and research methods.

Education

BA: Skidmore College
PhD: University of Minnesota

Selected Publications

* Denotes student author

Burgund, E. D., Cushing, S. R.,* & Saad, M.* (2025). Effect of verbal interference and response hand on hemisphere asymmetries in sad facial expression processing. PLoS ONE, 20(5), e0322504. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322504

Burgund, E. D., Zhao, Y.,* Laubach, I. N.,* & Abebaw, E. F.* (2024). Different features for different races: Tracking the eyes of Asian, Black, and White participants viewing Asian, Black, and White Faces. PLoS ONE, 19(9), e0310638. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310638

Burgund, E. D. (2021). Left hemisphere dominance for negative facial expressions: The influence of task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 742018. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.742018

Burgund, E. D. (2021). Looking at the own-race bias: Eye-tracking investigations of memory for different race faces. Visual Cognition, 29(1), 51-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2020.1858216

Burgund, E. D. (2021). Task-domain and hemisphere-asymmetry effects in cisgender and transmale individuals. PLoS ONE, 16(12), e0260542. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260542

McMenamin, B. W., Marsolek, C. J., Morseth, B. K.,* Speer, M. F.,* Burton, P. C., & Burgund, E. D. (2016). Conflicting demands of abstract and specific visual object processing resolved by fronto-parietal networks. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 16(3), 502-515. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-016-0409-4

Prazak, E. R.,* & Burgund, E. D. (2014). Keeping it real: Recognizing expressions in real compared to schematic faces. Visual Cognition, 22(5), 737-750. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2014.914991

Harvey, D. Y.,* & Burgund, E. D. (2012). Neural adaptation across viewpoint and exemplar in fusiform cortex. Brain and Cognition, 80(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2012.04.009

Guo, Y.,* & Burgund, E. D. (2010). Task effects in the mid-fusiform gyrus: A comparison of orthographic, phonological, and semantic processing of Chinese characters. Brain and Language, 115(2), 113-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2010.08.001