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Shared and language-specific speech phonological computations in the superior temporal cortex (2025). Bhaya-Grossman, I., Leonard, M.K., Zhang, Y., Gwilliams, L., Johnson, K., Lu, J., & Chang, E.F. Nature. (doi)
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Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding (2025). Zhang, Y.*, Leonard, M.K.*, Bhaya-Grossman, I, Gwilliams, L., & Chang, E.F. Neuron. (doi)
Computational Architecture of Speech Comprehension in the Human Brain (2025). Gwilliams, L.*, Bhaya-Grossman, I*, Zhang, Y.*, Scott, T.*, Harper, S.*, & Levy, D.* Annual Review of Linguistics. (doi)
Vowel and formant representation in the human auditory speech cortex (2023). Oganian., Y.* Bhaya-Grossman, I.*, Johnson, K., & Chang, E.F. Neuron. (doi)
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Speech Computations of the Human Superior Temporal Gyrus (2021). Bhaya-Grossman, I. & Chang, E.F. Annual Review of Psychology. (doi)
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Graduate Thesis

Cross-language speech computations in the human temporal cortex (2025). Bhaya-Grossman I. (ProQuest)
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Undergraduate Thesis

Dual-EEG Evidence for a Shared Cognitive Space Underlying Human Communication (2019). Bhaya-Grossman I., Perry A., Knight R.T., Stolk A. (pdf)
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