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Jonathan Z. Simon

Publications

Submitted

• Elhilali, M., J. Xiang, S. A. Shamma and J. Z. Simon, Foreground and Background at the Cocktail Party—A Neural and Behavioral Study of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Auditory Attention. [PDF]
   

Published

• Chait, M., D. Poeppel and J. Z. Simon (2008), Auditory Temporal Edge Detection in Human Auditory Cortex, Brain Research 1213,78-90.  [PDF]
   
• de Cheveigné, A., and J. Z. Simon (2008b) Denoising based on spatial filtering, J Neurosci Methods 171(1), 331-339.  [PDF]
   
• Aytekin, M., C. F. Moss and J. Z. Simon (2008) A Sensorimotor Approach to Sound Localization, Neural Computation, 20, 603-635.  [PDF]  [Journal Cover]
   
• de Cheveigné, A., and J. Z. Simon (2008a) Sensor Noise Suppression, J Neurosci Methods 168(1), 195-202.  [PDF]
   
• Luo, H., Y. Wang, D. Poeppel and J. Z. Simon (2007) Concurrent Encoding of Frequency and Amplitude Modulation in Human Auditory Cortex: An Encoding Transition, J. Neurophysiology, 98, 3473-3485.  [PDF]
   
• Chait, M., D. Poeppel, and J. Z. Simon (2007) Human Auditory Cortical Processing Of Transitions Between ‘Order’ And ‘Disorder’, in Hearing – From Sensory Processing to Perception, Kollmeier, B., Klump, G., Hohmann, V., Langemann, U., Mauermann, M., Uppenkamp, S., and Verhey, J. (Eds.), (Springer Verlag: New York) 323-331.  [PDF]
   
• de Cheveigné, A., and J. Z. Simon (2007) Denoising Based on Time-Shift PCA, J Neurosci Methods 165(2), 297-305.  [PDF]
   
• Chait, M., D. Poeppel and J. Z. Simon (2007) Stimulus Context Affects Auditory Cortical Responses to Changes in Interaural Correlation, J. Neurophysiology, 98, 224-231.  [PDF]
   
• de Cheveigné, A., J. Le Roux and J.Z. Simon (2007) MEG Signal Denoising Based On Time-Shift PCA, In Proc. ICASSP 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. I, 317-320. [PDF]
   
• Chait, M., G. Eden, D. Poeppel, J. Z. Simon, D. F. Hill and D. L. Flowers (2007) Delayed Detection of Tonal Targets in Background Noise in Dyslexia, Brain and Language, 102, 80-90. [PDF]
   
• Chait, M., D. Poeppel, A. de Cheveigné and J. Z. Simon (2007), Processing Asymmetry of Transitions between Order and Disorder in Human Auditory Cortex, J Neurosci, 27, 5207-5214.  [PDF]
   
• Simon, J. Z., D.A. Depireux, D. J. Klein, J.B. Fritz and S.A. Shamma (2007), Temporal Symmetry in Primary Auditory Cortex: Implications for Cortical Connectivity, Neural Computation, 19, 583-638.  [PDF]
   
• Luo, H., Y. Wang, D. Poeppel and J. Z. Simon (2006), Concurrent Encoding of Frequency and Amplitude Modulation in Human Auditory Cortex: MEG Evidence, J. Neurophysiology, 96, 2712-2723.  [PDF]
   
• Klein, D.J., J.Z. Simon, D.A. Depireux, and S.A. Shamma (2006), Stimulus-Invariant Processing and Spectrotemporal Reverse Correlation in Primary Auditory Cortex, J. Comput. Neurosci, 20(2), 111-136.  [PDF]
   
• Chait, M., D. Poeppel and J. Z. Simon (2006), Neural Response Correlates of Detection of Monaurally and Binaurally-Created Pitches in Humans, Cerebral Cortex, 16(6), 835-848.  [PDF]  [Journal Cover]  [Journal Cover Description]
   
• Chait, M. and J. Z. Simon (2006) The Dynamics of the Construction of Auditory Perceptual Representations: MEG Brain Imaging in Humans, In Reasoning and Cognition Interdisciplinary Series on Reasoning Studies Vol. 2, ed. D. Andler, Y. Ogawa, M. Okada, and S. Watanabe, 265-280. [PDF]
   
• Simon, J. Z. and Y. Wang (2005), Fully Complex Magnetoencephalography, J Neurosci Methods 149(1), 64-73.  [PDF]
   
• Chait, M., D. Poeppel, A. de Cheveigné and J. Z. Simon (2005), Human Auditory Cortical Processing of Changes in Interaural Correlation, J. Neurosci 35(37), 8518-8527.  [PDF]
   
• Ahmar, N., Y. Wang and J.Z. Simon (2005) Significance Tests for MEG Response Detection, Neural Engineering, 2005. Conference Proceedings. 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on, 21-24.  [PDF]
   
• Ahmar, N. and J.Z. Simon (2005), MEG Adaptive Noise Suppression using Fast LMS, Neural Engineering, 2005. Conference Proceedings. 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on, 29-32.  [PDF]
   
• Wang Y., N. Ahmar, J. Xiang, L. Ma, D. Poeppel and J.Z. Simon (2005), Complex Valued Equivalent-Current Dipole Fits for MEG Responses, Neural Engineering, 2005. Conference Proceedings. 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on, 273-276.  [PDF]
   
• Xiang, J., Y. Wang and J.Z. Simon (2005), MEG Responses to Speech and Stimuli with Speechlike Modulations, Neural Engineering, 2005. Conference Proceedings. 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on, 33-36.  [PDF]
   
• Elhilali M., Klein D., Fritz J., Simon J. and Shamma S. (2005), The Enigma of Cortical Responses: Slow Yet Precise, in Auditory signal processing: physiology, psychoacoustics, and models, Pressnitzer D., de Cheveigné A., McAdams S. and Collet L., (Springer Verlag: New York), 485-494.  [PDF]
   
• Carr, C. E., S. Iyer, D. Soares, S. Kalluri and J. Z. Simon (2005), Are Neurons Adapted for Specific Computations? Examples from Temporal Coding in the Auditory System, In 23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience, ed. L. v. Hemmen and T. Sejnowski. Oxford, 245-265. [PDF]
   
• Chait, M., J. Z. Simon and D. Poeppel (2004), Auditory M50 and M100 Responses to Broadband Noise: Functional Implications, NeuroReport 15, 2455-2458.  [PDF]
   
• Elhilali, M., J. B. Fritz, D. J. Klein, J. Z. Simon and S. A. Shamma (2004), Dynamics of Precise Spike Timing in Primary Auditory Cortex, J. Neurosci. 24, 1159-72.  [PDF]
   
• Grau-Serrat, V., C. E. Carr and J. Z. Simon (2003), Modeling Coincidence Detection in Nucleus Laminaris, Biol Cybern. 89, 388-96.  [PDF]
   
• Simon, J. Z., S. Parameshwaran, T. Penney and C.E. Carr (2001), Temporal Coding in the Auditory Brainstem of the Barn Owl, in Physiological and Psychophysical Bases of Auditory Function, Ed.: D. J. Breebaart, A. J. M. Houtsma, A. Kohlrausch, V. F. Prijs, and R. Schoonhoven, Shaker: Maastricht. [PDF]
   
• Depireux D. A. , J. Z. Simon, D. J. Klein and S. A. Shamma (2001), Spectro-Temporal Response Field Characterization With Dynamic Ripples in Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex, J. Neurophysiol. 85,1220-1234.  [PDF]
   
• Klein, D. J., D. A. Depireux, J. Z. Simon and S. A. Shamma (2000), Robust Spectro-Temporal Reverse Correlation for the Auditory System: Optimizing Stimulus Design, J. Comput. Neurosci. 9, 85-111.  [PDF]
   
• Kanlis N. A., J. Z. Simon, and S. A. Shamma (2000), Complete training analysis of feedback architecture networks that perform blind source separation and deconvolution, In Proc. Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation Workshop, ICA 2000, 139-144.  [PDF]
   
• Simon, J. Z., C. E. Carr and S. A. Shamma (1999), A Dendritic Model of Coincidence Detection in the Avian Brainstem, Neurocomputing 26-27, 263-269.  [PDF]
   
• Depireux, D. A., P. Ru, S. A. Shamma and J. Z. Simon (1998), Response-Field Dynamics in the Auditory Pathway, In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, Ed: James M. Bower (Elsevier: Amsterdam) 263-270.  [PDF]
   
• Depireux, D. A., J. Z. Simon and S. A. Shamma (1998), Measuring the Dynamics of Neural Responses in Primary Auditory Cortex, Comments Theor. Biol. 5, 89-118. [PDF]
   
• Simon, J. Z., D. A. Depireux and S. A. Shamma, (1997), Representation of Complex Dynamic Spectra in Auditory Cortex. In Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing. Ed.: A. R. Palmer, A. Rees, A.Q. Summerfield, and R. Meddis (Whurr: London) 513-520. [PDF]
   

• Jorma Louko, Jonathan Z. Simon, Stephen N. Winters-Hilt, Hamiltonian Thermodynamics of a Lovelock Black Hole, Phys. Rev. D 55 3525 (1997). [PDF]
   
• Leonard Parker and Jonathan Z. Simon, Einstein Equations with Quantum Corrections Reduced to Second Order , Phys. Rev. D 47, 1339 (1993). [PDF]
   
• John L. Friedman, N. J. Papastamatiou, and Jonathan Z. Simon, Failure of Unitarity for Interacting Fields on Spacetimes with Closed Timelike Curves, Phys. Rev. D 46, 4456 (1992). [PDF]
   
• John L. Friedman, N. J. Papastamatiou, and Jonathan Z. Simon, Unitarity of Interacting Fields in Curved Spacetime, Phys. Rev. D 46, 4442 (1992). [PDF]
   
• Jonathan Z. Simon, No Starobinsky Inflation From Self-Consistent Semiclassical Gravity, Phys. Rev. D 45, 1953 (1992). [PDF]
   
• Jonathan Z. Simon, Stability of Flat Space, Semiclassical Gravity, and Higher Derivatives, Phys. Rev. D 43, 3308 (1991). [PDF]
   
• Jonathan Z. Simon, Higher-derivative Lagrangians, Nonlocality, Problems, and Solutions, Phys. Rev. D 41, 3720 (1990). [PDF]
   
• Robert C. Myers and Jonathan Z. Simon, Black Hole Evaporation and Higher-Derivative Gravity, Gen. Rel. Grav. 21, 761 (1989). [PDF]
   
• Robert C. Myers and Jonathan Z. Simon, Black-hole Thermodynamics in Lovelock Gravity, Phys. Rev. D 35, 2434 (1988). [PDF]
   
• J. Richard Gott III, Jonathan Z. Simon, and Mark Alpert, General Relativity in a (2+1)-Dimensional Space-Time: An Electrically Charged Solution, Gen. Rel. Grav. 18, 1019 (1986). [PDF]
   

• Jonathan Simon, Learning Physics From Science Fiction, Physics World 11:1, 52 (1998). [PDF]
   
• Jonathan Z. Simon, The Physics of Time Travel, Physics World 7:12, 27 (1994). [PDF]  [Journal Cover]
   
• Bruce Allen and Jonathan Simon, Time Travel on a String, Nature 357, 19 (1992). [PDF]
   

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Theses

Advised Students

• Juanjuan Xiang (ECE PhD, 2008): Hearing vs. Listening: Attention Changes the Neural Representations of Auditory Percepts
   
• Maria Chait (NACS PhD, 2006): Auditory Edge Detection: The Dynamics of the Construction of Auditory Perceptual Representations
   
• Nayef Ahmar (ECE MS, 2005): da Vinci's Encephalogram: In search of significant brain signals
   
• Victor Grau Serrat (ECE MS, 2003): Methods in Realistic Computational Modeling of the Avian Cochlear Nucleus
   
• Raul Rodriguez Esteban (ECE MS, 2002): A Model of the Avian Superior Olivary Nucleus
   

Student Collaborators

• Murat Aytekin (NACS PhD, 2007): Sound Localization by Echolocating Bats
   
• Huan Luo (NACS PhD, 2007): Tracking Sound Dynamics in Human Auditory Cortex: New Macroscopic Perspectives from MEG
   
• Mounya Elhilali (ECE PhD, 2004): Neural Basis and Computational Strategies for Auditory Processing
   

Technical Reports

• Klein, D.J., J.Z. Simon, D.A. Depireux, and S.A. Shamma (2003), Linear stimulus-invariant processing and spectrotemporal reverse correlation in primary auditory cortex, ISR TR 2003-42.
   
• Depireux D. A. , J. Z. Simon, D. J. Klein and S. A. Shamma (1999), Dynamics of Neural Responses in Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex: I. Spectro-Temporal Response Field Characterization by Dynamic Ripple Spectra, ISR TR 1999-62.
   
• Klein, D. J., D. A. Depireux, J. Z. Simon and S. A. Shamma (1999), Robust Spectro-Temporal Reverse Correlation for the Auditory System: Optimizing Stimulus Design, ISR TR 1999-60.
   

Presentations and Posters

• 3 New Methods for Signal Analysis and Denoising (Biomag '08)
• Neural Computations at the Femtotesla Scale: Visualizing Computations Inside the Human Brain (Indiana University '08)
• Foreground and background at the cocktail party: A neural and behavioral study of top-down and bottom-up auditory attention (Indiana University '08)
• Foreground and background at the cocktail party: A neural and behavioral study of top-down and bottom-up auditory attention (COSYNE '08)
• Cortical Representations of Compound Temporal Modulations: Implications for Modulation Filterbanks (ARO '08)
• Foreground and background at the cocktail party: Interaction between attention and auditory pop-out (BioScience '07)
• Sound localization by echolocating bats: Are auditory signals enough? (ASA '07) (Lay Language Paper)
• Foreground and background at the cocktail party: Interaction between attention and auditory pop-out (SFN '07)
• The Role of Auditory Attention in Neural Processing and Behavior (NACS/Biology Seminar, UMCP '07)
• Auditory neural responses modulated by attention and correlated with perceptual detectability (CRCNS '07)
• Neural Coding of Multiple Stimulus Features in Auditory Cortex (NYU '07)
• Neural Computations at the Femtotesla Scale: Visualizing Computations Inside the Human Brain (ECE Department Colloquium, UMCP '07)
• An Encoding Transition in the Concurrent Encoding of Frequency and Amplitude Modulation in Human Auditory Cortex (COSYNE '07)
• The Interaction Between Attention and Auditory Pop-out (ARO '07)
• Selectively ignoring a moment in time - an auditory MEG investigation (Grantham '06)
• Human Auditory Cortical Processing Of Transitions Between 'Order' And 'Disorder' (ISH '06)
• Neural Coding of Multiple Stimulus Features in Auditory Cortex (Paris '06)
• Fully Complex Magnetoencephalography (APS March '06)
• Modulation-encoding and co-representation of the acoustic envelope and carrier in human auditory cortex (ARO '06)
• Human Auditory Cortical and Behavioral Sensitivity for Transitions Between Order and Disorder (ARO '06)
• Human Auditory Cortical Processing of Changes in Interaural Correlation (SFN '05)
• Simultaneous Encoding of Envelope and Fine Structure in Human Auditory Cortex (SFN '05)
• Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Response to Speech and Speech-like Modulations (SFN '05)
• Auditory Steady State Responses to Broadband Noise in Human Auditory Cortex (SFN '05)
• Measuring Brain Dynamics: Investigating Auditory Processing with Magnetoencephalography (SAIC Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology '05)
• Measuring Brain Dynamics: Investigating Auditory Processing with Magnetoencephalography (Boston University Physics Colloquium '05)
• Two time scales in speech segmentation (CNS '05)
• Auditory steady state responses to AM-FM signals in human auditory cortex (CNS '05)
• Complex Valued Equivalent-Current Dipole Fits for MEG Responses (NE '05)
• MEG Responses to Speech and Stimuli With Speechlike Modulations (NE '05)
• MEG Adaptive Noise Suppression using Fast LMS (NE '05)
• Significance tests for MEG response detection (NE '05)
• Simultaneous Encoding for Envelope and Fine Structure in Human Auditory Cortex (COSYNE '05)
• Auditory Steady State Responses to Broadband Noise in Human Auditory Cortex (ARO '05)
• Phase Tracking of Slow and Fast Tone Sequences in Human Auditory Cortex (ARO '05)
• Human Auditory Cortical Sensitivity to Changes in Interaural Correlation (ARO '05)
• Two time scales in Speech Segmentation (Montreal '04)
• Auditory Cortical Responses at 100ms Post Onset are Modulated by Figure/Ground Status of the Stimulus (Montreal '04)
• Multi-Equivalent Dipole Fitting for Magnetoencephalography (BioScience '04)
• MEG Response to Speech and Stimuli with Complex Modulations (BioScience '04)
• Phase-locking in Human Auditory Cortex to Spectrotemporal Modulations (NIDCD Seminar '04)
• MEG Steady State Responses To Auditory Stimuli Of Varying Complexity (SFN '04)
• The M100 Auditory Evoked Field in Noise Stimuli: Indicator of Auditory Objectness? (SFN '04)
• Sound localization in the avian nucleus laminaris: a role for dendritic computation (ISN '04)
• Wavelet Analysis of MEG Auditory Response (MERIT '04)
• Cortical and sub-cortical mechanisms of binaural pitch processing: Evidence from MEG (Biomag '04)
• MEG Steady State Response to Broadband Sounds (Biomag '04)
• Periodic Noise Suppression for MEG Signals (Tech2004)
• Application of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) on Magnetoencephalography (MEG) (Tech2004)
• MEG Responses to Huggins Pitch - Time Course and Hemispheric Differences (ARO '04)
• Pressure vs. decibel modulation in spectrotemporal representations: How nonlinear are auditory cortical stimuli? (ARO '04)
• Detection of interaural time differences in the alligator (SFN '03)
• The role of dendrites in binaural synaptic summation in avian Nucleus Laminaris (SFN '03)
• Electrophysiological correlates of Huggins pitch - An MEG investigation (SFN '03)
• Linearity and Temporal Symmetry in Primary Auditory Cortex (SFN '03)
• Spectro-Temporal Processing in Primary Auditory Cortex (CAFOS '03)
• Modeling Coincidence Detection in Nucleus Laminaris (MBI '03)
• A Biophysical Computational Model: How the brain localizes sounds (RRD '03)
• Binding Mechanisms in Speech Binding Mechanisms in Speech Processing (CNS '03)
• On-Line Spectro-Temporal Receptive Fields in the Primary Auditory Cortex of the Behaving Ferret (ARO '03)
• The Columnar Organization of Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex (ARO '03)
• What does precise spiking in AI tell us about the structure of its receptive fields? (ARO '03)
• Magnetoencephalography (MEG) at UMCP (BioScience '02)
• Signal Processing of Auditory Responses from Magnetoencephalography (MEG) (EMBS '02)
• Comparison of Response Characteristics in Auditory Cortex of the Awake and Anesthetized Ferret (ARO '02)
• The Substrate For ITD Detection In The Emu (Dromaius Novaehollandiae) (SFN '01)
• Biophysical Model Of Coincidence Detection In Nucleus Laminaris Neurons (SFN '01)
• Computational Methods in Auditory Neuroscience (NIDCD-CEBH '01)
• Neural Constraints in Auditory Cortex (Telluride '01)
• Complete training analysis of feedback architecture networks that perform blind source separation and deconvolution (ICA '00)
• Analysis of Evoked Potentials on the Surface of Primary Auditory Cortex Combining Ripples and ICA (ARO '01)
• Spectro-Temporal Processing In Primary Auditory Cortex: Simplicity & Linearity (Paris '00)
• Intelligibility and Representation of Timbre in Primary Auditory Cortex (Utrecht '00)
• Cellular models of coincidence detection (ASA '00)
• Characterization of time-varying responses to dynamic broadband spectra in primary auditory cortex (ASA '00)
• Hemispheric Asymmetry of Gamma-Band Responses to Auditory Stimuli of Varying Spectral Complexity (CNS '00)
• Functional and Structural Implications of Non-Separability of Spectral and Temporal Responses in AI (ARO '00)
• The Cochlear Nucleus of the Caiman (SFN '99)
• Neural Signal and Neural Noise in Primary Auditory Cortex (SFN '99)
• Spectro-Temporal Processing of Dynamic Broadband Sounds In Auditory Cortex (IMA '99)
• Linear and Non-Linear Responses to Dynamic Broad-Band Spectra in Primary Auditory Cortex (ARO '99)
• Biophysical model of coincidence detection in single Nucleus Laminaris neurons (ARO '99)
• Representation Of Dynamic Broadband Spectra In Auditory Cortex (SFN '98)
• A Dendritic Model of Coincidence Detection in the Avian Brainstem (CNS '98)
• Spectro-Temporal Methods in Primary Auditory Cortex (ARO '98)
• Representation of Complex Spectra in Auditory Cortex (SFN 9'7)
• Response-Field Dynamics in the Auditory Pathway (CNS '97)
• Neuronal correlates of pitch in the Inferior Colliculus (ARO '97)

Meeting Abbreviations
ARO   Association for Research in Otolaryngology (Midwinter Meeting)
CNS    Computational Neuroscience or Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting
SFN    Society for Neuroscience Meeting
Biomag   Biomag Meeting
COSYNE   Computation and Systems Neuroscience
NE   Neural Engineering
APS March   March meeting of the American Physical Society
ASA   Acoustical Society of America Meeting
CRCNS   Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Meeting
NIDCD    National Institute for Deafness and Communication Disorders
ICA   Independent Component Analysis Meeting
ISN   International Society for Neuroethology Meeting
CAFOS   Chinese American Frontiers of Science Meeting
IMA    Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (Workshop in Audition)
MBI    Mathematical Biosciences Institute (Auditory System Workshop)
Telluride   Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop
Utrecht   The Nature of Speech Perception Meeting, Utrecht
Paris '00   Selectivity of Neurons in Sensory and Motor Cortices: Static and Dynamic Properties Meeting, Paris
Paris '06   Workshop on New Ideas in Hearing, Paris
Grantham '06   International Conference on the Auditory Cortex, Grantham U.K.
Montreal '04   Speech Separation and Comprehension in Complex Acoustic Environments, Montreal, Quebec
NIDCD-CEBH   UMCP joint meeting between NIDCD and CEBH
EMBS   IEEE EMBS (Baltimore)
Bioscience   BioScience Day (UMCP)
RRD   Research Review Day (UMCP)
Tech   Tech2004 day (UMCP)
MERIT   Maryland Engineering Research Internship Teams (UMCP)

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