Joel Isaac Berger

The paper investigates how sound texture and loudness discrimination are affected by stimulus duration using behavioral and fMRI data, finding distinct neural correlates in auditory cortex and medial temporal lobe.

The paper shows that macaque frontal cortex encodes ordinal position in auditory sequences through population dynamics, while auditory cortex encodes stimulus identity.

This study compares the effects of different non-invasive brain stimulation protocols on speech production in older and younger adults, finding that personalized stimulation methods improve reaction times and modulate neural networks more effectively.

This study records single neuron activity in humans during emergence from propofol anesthesia, showing increased firing rates and shifts in brain activity patterns in medial temporal regions before motor response to verbal command.

This study investigates how the brain represents natural sound statistics using fMRI and synthetic sounds with controlled statistical variations, finding graded responses in auditory cortex and modulatory interactions with the hippocampus.

This study shows that TMS to the dlPFC modulates single-neuron activity in humans, with facilitation of inhibitory firing and suppression of excitatory drive in specific brain networks.

The paper investigates the neural basis of navigating an auditory dimension in humans, finding overlapping brain systems with physical navigation.

The paper examines STN neural activity during speech and orofacial movement tasks, finding that 22% of clusters are speech-specific, 12% movement-specific, and 27% respond to both.

The paper uses human intracranial recordings to study neural activity during an auditory working memory task, finding attractor-like states in brain regions associated with memory maintenance and adjustment.

This paper develops a transformer model to decode specific memories from human neuronal activity before and after sleep, finding differential contributions from brain regions.

The paper reports single neuron responses in the human insula to simple sounds during passive listening, showing frequency tuning and shorter response durations compared to auditory cortex.

This study shows that dynamic auditory figure-ground analysis better predicts speech-in-noise ability than static analysis, with combined measures outperforming age and hearing sensitivity.

The paper develops a UK version of the Iowa Test of Consonant Perception (B-ITCP) and validates its reliability and validity for speech-in-noise testing.

This study records multi-unit pitch responses from human auditory cortex and finds they are distributed across Heschl's gyrus, not localized to a specific region.

The paper identifies neural correlates of speech-in-noise performance in cochlear implant users using EEG and clinical speech tests, finding ERP amplitudes predict word recognition tasks better than traditional measures.

This study examines the neural impact of disconnecting a semantic hub in the human brain and finds specific network changes and partial compensation.

This study investigates oscillatory activity in human brain regions during auditory working memory using electrocorticography, finding sustained low-frequency increases in medial temporal lobe regions.