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Jonathan Z. Simon is a researcher affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and related subfields such as Signal Processing, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Statistics and Probability, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their research covers a range of topics including Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Blind Source Separation Techniques, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills.

Jonathan Z. Simon has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Their recent papers highlight work on continuous speech processing and cortical responses. Selected publications include:

  • "Continuous speech processing," 2020, Current Opinion in Physiology
  • "Eelbrain, a Python toolkit for time-continuous analysis with temporal response functions," 2023, eLife
  • "High gamma cortical processing of continuous speech in younger and older listeners," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Eelbrain: A Python toolkit for time-continuous analysis with temporal response functions," 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Effects of aging on cortical representations of continuous speech," 2023, Journal of Neurophysiology

Collaboration forms a significant part of their research output. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Joshua P. Kulasingham
  • Christian Brodbeck
  • I. M. Dushyanthi Karunathilake
  • Stefanie E. Kuchinsky
  • Proloy Das

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms Underlying Selective Neuronal Tracking of Attended Speech at a “Cocktail Party”

    Elana M. Zion Golumbic;Elana M. Zion Golumbic;Nai Ding;Stephan Bickel;Stephan Bickel;Peter Lakatos

  • Emergence of neural encoding of auditory objects while listening to competing speakers

    Nai Ding;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Spectro-temporal response field characterization with dynamic ripples in ferret primary auditory cortex.

    Didier A. Depireux;Jonathan Z. Simon;David J. Klein;Shihab A. Shamma

  • Neural coding of continuous speech in auditory cortex during monaural and dichotic listening

    Nai Ding;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Cortical entrainment to continuous speech: functional roles and interpretations

    Nai Ding;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Adaptive Temporal Encoding Leads to a Background-Insensitive Cortical Representation of Speech

    Nai Ding;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Rapid Transformation from Auditory to Linguistic Representations of Continuous Speech.

    Christian Brodbeck;L. Elliot Hong;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Diffusion Kurtosis as an In Vivo Imaging Marker for Reactive Astrogliosis in Traumatic Brain Injury

    Jiachen Zhuo;Su Xu;Julie L. Proctor;Roger J. Mullins

  • Robust spectrotemporal reverse correlation for the auditory system: optimizing stimulus design.

    David J. Klein;Didier A. Depireux;Jonathan Z. Simon;Shihab A. Shamma

  • Robust cortical entrainment to the speech envelope relies on the spectro-temporal fine structure.

    Nai Ding;Nai Ding;Monita Chatterjee;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Speech Intelligibility Predicted from Neural Entrainment of the Speech Envelope.

    Jonas Vanthornhout;Lien Decruy;Jan Wouters;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Denoising based on spatial filtering.

    Alain de Cheveigné;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Denoising based on time-shift PCA

    Alain de Cheveigné;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Evidence of degraded representation of speech in noise, in the aging midbrain and cortex

    Alessandro Presacco;Jonathan Z. Simon;Samira Anderson

  • Interaction between Attention and Bottom-Up Saliency Mediates the Representation of Foreground and Background in an Auditory Scene

    Mounya Elhilali;Juanjuan Xiang;Shihab A. Shamma;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Dynamics of precise spike timing in primary auditory cortex.

    Mounya Elhilali;Jonathan B. Fritz;David J. Klein;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Neural source dynamics of brain responses to continuous stimuli: Speech processing from acoustics to comprehension.

    Christian Brodbeck;Alessandro Presacco;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • Neural markers of speech comprehension: measuring EEG tracking of linguistic speech representations, controlling the speech acoustics.

    Marlies Gillis;Jonas Vanthornhout;Jonathan Z. Simon;Tom Francart

  • Continuous speech processing.

    Christian Brodbeck;Jonathan Z Simon

  • Speech-in-noise representation in the aging midbrain and cortex: Effects of hearing loss.

    Alessandro Presacco;Jonathan Z. Simon;Samira Anderson

  • The auditory system at the cocktail party

    John C. Middlebrooks;Jonathan Z. Simon;Arthur N. Popper;Richard R. Fay

  • Overlapping communities reveal rich structure in large-scale brain networks during rest and task conditions.

    Mahshid Najafi;Brenton W. McMenamin;Jonathan Z. Simon;Luiz Pessoa

Frequent Co-Authors

Shihab A. Shamma
Shihab A. Shamma University of Maryland, College Park
David Poeppel
David Poeppel New York University
Samira Anderson
Samira Anderson University of Maryland, College Park
L. Elliot Hong
L. Elliot Hong University of Maryland, Baltimore
Catherine E. Carr
Catherine E. Carr University of Maryland, College Park
Jonathan B. Fritz
Jonathan B. Fritz New York University
Riccardo Rovatti
Riccardo Rovatti University of Bologna
Robert C. Myers
Robert C. Myers Perimeter Institute
Steven I. Marcus
Steven I. Marcus University of Maryland, College Park
Gianluca Setti
Gianluca Setti Polytechnic University of Turin

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