Matthew K. Leonard

Parallel Encoding of Speech in Human Frontal and Temporal Lobes

The paper investigates whether speech processing in the frontal lobe involves direct parallel pathways from low-level auditory areas, finding evidence of short-latency speech responses and spectrotemporal encoding similar to lateral temporal cortex.

Dynamics of auditory word form encoding in human speech cortex

This study investigates how the brain encodes auditory word forms in speech processing, finding distinct neural resets at word boundaries and temporal scaffolding for variable word lengths.

Human precentral gyrus neurons link speech sequences from listening to speaking

The paper investigates neural activity in the human precentral gyrus during speech tasks, finding neurons that encode both listening and speaking phases, including mirror and bridge neurons.

Encoding of melody in the human auditory cortex

This study investigates how different dimensions of melody are encoded in the human auditory cortex, finding both music-specific and domain-general representations.

High density single-unit human cortical recordings using the Neuropixels probe

This paper presents a method for high-density single-unit recording in human cortex using Neuropixels probes, achieving 596 single units across 11 recordings in 8 participants.

Neural Encoding of Auditory Features during Music Perception and Imagery: Insight into the Brain of a Piano Player