Duncan Cleveland
Position title: Graduate Student, Department of Psychology
Email: dcleveland2@wisc.edu
Research Interests
I investigate the neural basis of mind wandering and cognitive control. To do this, I use neuroimaging and intracranial electrophysiology in human subjects.
Publications
Kambi NA, Afrasiabi M*, Phillips JM*, Kenchappa SC, Cleveland D, Redinbaugh MJ, Mohanta S, Wang B, Fayyad M, Saalmann YB (preprint) Layer-specific reorganization of mnemonic representations in primate retrosplenial cortex during learning. bioRxiv (*denotes equal contributions).
Mohanta S, Cleveland DM, Afrasiabi M, Rhone AE, Górska U, Cooper Borkenhagen MJ, Sanders RD, Boly M, Nourski KV, Saalmann YB (preprint) Traveling waves shape neural population dynamics enabling predictions and internal model updating. bioRxiv.
Cleveland DM, Lupyan G, Saalmann YB (2026) Spontaneous mind-wandering thought content is less constrained than controlled stimulus independent thought. Consciousness and Cognition 144: 104103.