Shihab Shamma

This study investigates how auditory-motor learning adapts to changing mappings, finding rapid short-term adjustments and slower long-term learning through targeted training.

This study uses EEG and ECoG to decode musical tension dynamics and their relationship with neural engagement during naturalistic music listening.

The paper shows that frontal cortex responses to auditory stimuli cueing opposite actions and rewards are dynamically similar across tasks, with distinct neuronal clusters and decoding patterns.

The paper demonstrates that temporal-coherence in sound sequences enhances neural binding and segregation in ferret auditory cortex through attention and rapid plasticity.

This study shows that premotor cortex activity in ferrets reflects internal auditory category, not reported category, during decision-making tasks with varying difficulty.

The paper investigates how contextual influences on auditory perception are encoded in primary auditory cortex using tritone pairs and single-unit recordings in ferrets.

This study shows that attention to a target voice enhances its representation in ferret auditory cortex and that a computational model replicates this effect, supporting the temporal coherence theory of speech segregation.

This study examines how primary auditory cortex encodes categorical responses during a perceptual task, finding that categorical representations emerge during sound presentation and are maintained during the delay period.

The paper shows that non-uniform musical scales enhance melodic learning, as evidenced by better performance and neural encoding in listeners exposed to these scales.

This study compares neural representations of natural sounds in human and ferret auditory cortex, finding divergent processing at higher cortical stages for speech and music.

The paper demonstrates that temporal coherence of acoustic features enables rapid binding of attended sound sources in auditory scenes through EEG measurements.

This study investigates how normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners detect spectrotemporal modulations using a psychophysical reverse-correlation framework and finds comparable non-linear processing strategies with differences in temporal modulation tuning.

The paper examines how second-language proficiency affects neural encoding of linguistic features in non-native listeners using EEG, finding that proficiency leads to convergence in phonemic encoding with native speakers.

This study shows that cortical responses to music encode melodic expectations, with neural signals better predicted by combining acoustic and melodic features than either alone.

The paper investigates how the auditory system adapts to encode correlated acoustic properties more efficiently by analyzing neural responses in ferrets exposed to sounds with co-varying temporal and spectral attributes.

The paper investigates task-related plasticity in ferret primary auditory cortex, finding greater enhancement of auditory target representation in layers 2/3 compared to layers 4-6.

This paper demonstrates the use of functional UltraSound (fUS) to create high-resolution, multi-scale functional maps of the auditory pathway in awake ferrets.

The paper investigates neural responses in ferret dorsolateral frontal cortex during an auditory reversal task, finding that weak representation of behavioral meaning correlates with proactive interference.

The paper shows that primary auditory cortex encodes stimulus meaning more during task engagement than passive listening, with population-level changes in encoding.