Haydee Garcia-Lazaro

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Ph.D. in Life Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
M.Sc. Neurobiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
B.A. Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

I am a postdoctoral researcher fellow at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. My work at TengLab investigates the neural and perceptual mechanisms underlying echolocation in blind individuals, utilizing a combination of psychophysics, electrophysiological techniques (MEG & EEG), and computational modeling. My position is funded by The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc., and the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute.

My experience comprehends work on the neural correlates of feature-based attention and reward-based selection in the visual system, using psychophysics and electrophysiological techniques (MEG & EEG). Additionally, I have contributed to research on spatial cognition, memory, and aging processes.

Contact Information:

Email: haydee@ski.org


2318 Fillmore St.

San Francisco, California 94115

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Publications

García-Lázaro, H. G., & Teng, S. . (2025). Novel Stimuli to Benchmark and Train Echolocation Skills. The Journal on Technology & Persons With Disabilities, 13. 20.500.12680/b2774511d (Original work published 2025)

Thumbnail graphic of brain responses during echolocation, from scholarly publication García-Lázaro and Teng, 2025

Garcia Lazaro, G. H. & Teng, S. (2025). Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based echolocation. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.30.673202

García-Lázaro, H. G., & Teng, S. . (2024). Sensory and perceptual decisional processes underlying the perception of reverberant auditory environments. ENeuro. 10.1523/ENEURO.0122-24.2024 (Original work published 2024)

García-Lázaro, H. G., & Teng, S. . (2024). Sensory and perceptual decisional processes underlying the perception of reverberant auditory environments. ENeuro. 10.1523/ENEURO.0122-24.2024 (Original work published 2024)

Becerra-Laparra, I. ., Cortez-Conradis, D. ., García-Lázaro, H. G., Martinez-Lopez, M. ., & Roldan-Valadez, E. . (2020). Radial Diffusivity is the Best Global Biomarker Able to Discriminate Healthy Elders, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Diagnostic Study of DTI-Derived Data. Neurology India, 68(2), 427. (Original work published 2020)

García-Lázaro, H. G., Bartsch, M. . , V, Boehler, C. N., Krebs, R. M., Donohue, S. E., Harris, J. A., … Hopf, J.-M. . (2019). Dissociating reward-and attention-driven biasing of global feature-based selection in human visual cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(4), 469-481. (Original work published 2019)

García-Lázaro, H. G., Becerra-Laparra, I. ., Cortez-Conradis, D. ., & Roldan-Valadez, E. . (2016). Global fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity together with segmented brain volumes assemble a predictive discriminant model for young and elderly healthy brains: A pilot study at 3T. Functional Neurology, 31(1), 39.

Cansino, S. ., Hernández-Ramos, E. ., Estrada-Manilla, C. ., Torres-Trejo, F. ., Martínez-Galindo, J. ., Ayala-Hernández, M. ., … Rodriguez-Ortiz, D. . (2013). The decline of verbal and visuospatial working memory across the adult life span. Age, 35(6), 2283-2302. (Original work published 2013)

García-Lázaro, H. G., Ramirez-Carmona, R. ., Lara-Romero, R. ., & Roldan-Valadez, E. . (2012). Neuroanatomy of episodic and semantic memory in humans: A brief review of neuroimaging studies. Neurology India, 60(6), 613. (Original work published 2012)

García-Lázaro, H. G., & Teng, S. . (2025). The role of motor control in echolocation performance: self-initiated vs. passive listening for object spatial localization. Durham, UK. Retrieved from https://imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/30

García-Lázaro, H. G., & Teng, S. . (2025). Auditory masking release indexes human click-based echolocation performance. Boston, MA.

García-Lázaro, H. G., Bhattacharyya, P. ., Chao, B. ., & Teng, S. . (2024). Perceptual mechanisms underlying human click-based echolocation. St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.

García-Lázaro, H. G., & Teng, S. . (2023). Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based echolocation.

Wong-Kee-You, A. M. B., García-Lázaro, H. G., & Teng, S. . (2022). Decoding spatial and temporal order representations during explicit visual sequence learning in development. Presented at the. San Francisco, California.: Cognitive Society for Neuroscience. (Original work published 2022)

García-Lázaro, H. G., Alwis, Y. ., & Teng, S. . (2022). Speech encoding modulated by task-relevance and reverberant acoustic statistics. San Francisco, California.: Cognitive Society for Neuroscience. (Original work published 2022)

García-Lázaro, H. G., Wong-Kee-You, A. M. B., Alwis, Y. ., & Teng, S. . (2021). Visual experience modulates sensitivity to statistics of reverberation. Virtual: Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting. (Original work published 2021)

García-Lázaro, H. G., Alwis, Y. ., & Teng, S. . (2021). Neural encoding of temporal and spectral statistical regularities of reverberant environments. Virtual: Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting. (Original work published 2021)

García-Lázaro, H. G., & Teng, S. . (2021). Neural representation of physical and perceived environmental acoustics. Virtual: Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). (Original work published 2021)

García-Lázaro, H. G., Alwis, Y. ., & Teng, S. . (2021). Neural representations of temporal and spectral regularities of reverberant environments. Chicago/ Virtual: 50th Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting. (Original work published 2021)

García-Lázaro, H. G., Bartsch, M. . , V, Strumpf, H. ., Schoenfeld, M. A., & Hopf, J.-M. . (2016). The modulatory impact of global feature-based attention on feedforward and feedback processing in the human visual cortex. San Diego,CA, USA, 2016: 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. (Original work published 2016)

García-Lázaro, H. G., Harmony, T. ., Marroquín, J. L., Mendoza, O. ., & Fernández, T. . (2010). Decoding the temporal increase and decrease of induced power in EEG during reading words process. Istanbul, Turkey: 7th Annual ECNS/ ISNIP Conference. (Original work published 2010)

Projects

  • Human Echolocation
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    Human Echolocation

    What is echolocation? Sometimes, the surrounding world is too dark and silent for typical vision and hearing. This is true in deep caves, for example, or in murky water where little light penetrates. Animals living in these environments often have the ability to echolocate: They make sounds and listen for their reflections. Like turning on a flashlight in a dark room, echolocation is a way to illuminate objects and spaces actively using sound.

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