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Liberty S. Hamilton (2024) Neural Processing of Speech Using Intracranial Electroencephalography: Sound Representations in the Auditory Cortex. Oxford Research Encyclopedia.
Kurteff et al (2023). Speaker-induced Suppression in EEG during a Naturalistic Reading and Listening Task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. J Cogn Neurosci.
Maansi Desai, Alyssa M. Field, Liberty S. Hamilton (2022). Dataset size considerations for robust acoustic and phonetic speech encoding models in EEG. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Manuel R.Mercier, Anne-Sophie Dubarry, Francois Tadel, Pietro Avanzini, Nikolai Axmacher, Dillan Cellier, Maria Del Vecchio, Liberty S. Hamilton, Dora Hermes, Michael J. Kahana, Robert T. Knight, Anais Llorens, Pierre Megevand, Lucia Melloni, Kai J. Miller, Vitoria Piai, Aina Puce, Nick F. Ramsey, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik, Sydney E. Smith, Arjen Stolk, Nicole C. Swann, Mariska J Vansteensel, Bradley Voytek Liang Wang, Jean Philippe Lachaux, Robert Oostendveld (2022). Advances in human intracranial electroencephalography research, guidelines and good practices. NeuroImage.
Maryam Bijanzadeh, Ankit N. Khambhati, Maansi Desai, Deanna L. Wallace, Alia Shafi, Heather E. Dawes, Virginia E. Sturm, Edward F. Chang (2022). Decoding naturalistic affective behavior from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG. Nature Human Behaviour.
Omer Ashmaig, Liberty S. Hamilton, Pradeep Modur, Rovert J. Cuchanan, Alison R. Preston, Andrew J. Watrous (2021). A Platform for Cognitive Monitoring of Neurosurgical Patients During Hospitalization. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Maansi Desai, Jade Holder, Cassandra Villarreal, Nat Clark, Brittany Hoang and Liberty S. Hamilton (2021). Generalizable EEG Encoding Models with Naturalistic Audiovisual Stimuli.Journal of Neuroscience.
Hamilton Liberty S, Oganian Yulia, Hall Jeffery, Chang Edward F (2021). Parallel and distributed encoding of speech across the human auditory cortex. Cell Cell Press.
Sakthi M, Desai M, Hamilton L, Tewfik A (2021). Keyword-spotting and speech onset detection in EEG-based Brain Computer Interfaces. 10th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER). (accepted)
Kleen JK, Speidel BA, Baud MO, Rao VR, Ammanuel SG, Hamilton LS, Chang EF, Knowlton RC (2021). Accuracy of omni-planar and surface casting of epileptiform activity for intracranial seizure localization. Epilepsia.
Desai M, Holder J, Villarreal C, Clark N, Hamilton LS (2021). Generalizable EEG encoding models with naturalistic audiovisual stimuli. Biorxiv (preprint).
Hamilton LS, Oganian Y, Chang EF (2020). Topography of speech-related acoustic and phonological feature encoding throughout the human core and parabelt auditory cortex. Biorxiv (preprint, not yet peer reviewed).
Desai M, Sorrells R, Leonard MK, Chang EF, Hamilton LS (2020). Brain stimulation can help us understand music and language. Frontiers for Young Minds.
Holdgraf C, Appelhof S, Bickel S, Bouchard K, D'Ambrosio S, David O, Devinsky O, Dichter B, Flinker A, Foster BL, Gorgolewski KJ, Groen I, Groppe D, Gunduz A, Hamilton L, Honey CJ, Jas M, Knight R, Lachaux J-P, Lau JC, Lundstrom BN, Lee-Messer C, Miller KJ, Ojemann JG, Oostenveld R, Petridou N, Piantoni G, Pigorini A, Pouratian N, Ramsey NF, Stolk A, Swann NC, Tadel F, Voytek B, Wandell BA, Winawer J, Zehl L, Hermes D (2019). BIDS-iEEG: extending the Brain Imaging Data Structure specification for human intracranial electrophysiology. Scientific Data 102 (2019).
Hamilton LS (2019). The asymmetric auditory cortex. Nature Human Behaviour, 3 327–328. Invited News & Views article to acommpany Flinker et al. (2019) Spectrotemporal modulation provides a unifying framework for auditory cortical asymmetries. Nature Human Behaviour 3, 393–405.
Holdgraf C, Appelhof S, Bickel S, Bouchard K, D'Ambrosio S, David O, Devinsky O, Dichter B, Flinker A, Foster BL, Gorgolewski KJ, Groen I, Groppe D, Gunduz A, Hamilton L, Honey CJ, Jas M, Knight R, Lachaux J-P, Lau JC, Lundstrom BN, Lee-Messer C, Miller KJ, Ojemann JG, Oostenveld R, Petridou N, Piantoni G, Pigorini A, Pouratian N, Ramsey NF, Stolk A, Swann NC, Tadel F, Voytek B, Wandell BA, Winawer J, Zehl L, Hermes D (2018). BIDS-iEEG: an extension to the brain imaging data structure (BIDS) specification for human intracranial electrophysiology. PsyArXiv Preprints.14 Dec. 2018.
Breshears J, Hamilton LS, Chang EF (2018). Spontaneous neural activity in the posterior superior temporal gyrus recapitulates tuning for speech features. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 18 September 2018
Hamilton LS and Huth AG (2018). The revolution will not be controlled: natural stimuli in speech neuroscience. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
Hamilton LS*, Edwards E*, Chang EF (2018). A spatial map of onset and sustained responses to speech in the human superior temporal gyrus. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.033 *co-first authors.
Hamilton LS, Chang DL, Lee MB, Chang EF (2017). Semi-automated anatomical labeling and inter-subject warping of high-density intracranial recording electrodes in electrocorticography. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 11(62). doi: 10.3389/fninf.2017.00062. See also accompanying code and sample dataset.
Tang C, Hamilton LS, Chang EF (2017). Intonational speech prosody encoding in human auditory cortex. Science. 357(6353): 797-801.
Baud MO, Kleen JK, Anumanchipalli GK, Hamilton LS, Tan Y-L, Knowlton R, Chang EF (2017). Unsupervised Learning of Spatiotemporal Interictal Discharges in Focal Epilepsy. Neurosurgery nyx480.
Muller LN, Hamilton LS, Edwards E, Bouchard K, Chang EF (2016). Spatial resolution dependence on spectral frequency in human speech cortex electrocorticography. Journal of Neural Engineering 13: 056013.
Cheung C*, Hamilton LS*, Johnson K, Chang EF (2016). Auditory Representation of Speech Sounds in Human Motor Cortex. eLife 2016; 5:e12577. *Co-first authors.
Hullett PW, Hamilton LS, Mesgarani N, Schreiner CE, Chang EF (2016). Human Superior Temporal Gyrus Organization of Spectrotemporal Modulation Tuning Derived from Speech Stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience 36(6):2014-2026.
Hamilton LS, Sohl-Dickstein J, Huth AG, Carels VM, Deisseroth K, Bao S (2013). Optogenetic activation of an inhibitory network enhances feedforward functional connectivity in auditory cortex. Neuron 80:4 1066-1076.
Elliott TM, Hamilton LS, Theunissen FE (2013). Acoustic structure of the five perceptual dimensions of timbre in orchestral instrument tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133:1 (389-404).
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Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Moody College of Communication
Our research aims to determine how natural sounds including speech are represented by the human brain, and how these representations change during development. We study how the human brain processes speech sounds using intracranial electrocorticography (ECoG) recordings from patients with intractable epilepsy who are undergoing surgery to treat their epilepsy. We use a combination of electrophysiology, behavior, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to address these questions.
We would not be able to do this work without the generous help of clinicians and our patient volunteers, who participate in listening tasks during their hospital stay.