Michael P. Kilgard – Curriculum Vitae

brain_smallUniversity of Texas at Dallas

Cognition and Neuroscience Program
School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, GR41
Richardson, TX  75083
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EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Neuroscience Program, 1998 (download dissertation)

University of California, San Francisco

B.A. Molecular and Cell Biology (Biochemistry), Honors Program, 1993
University of California, Berkeley
 

AWARDS:

Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award, 2008

Texas Advanced Research Program Award, 2008

Honorary Member, Golden Key International Honour Society, 2006

NIDCD Academic Research Enhancement Award, Cortical Plasticity and Processing of Speech Sounds, 2004

John Merck Scholar Finalist, 2003

James S. McDonnell Foundation Bridging Brain, Mind, and Behavior Research Award, Brain Plasticity and Neuro-Rehabilitation, 2002

Teaching Award, UTD School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2002

Cure Autism Now Foundation: Sensory Experience, Behavioral Therapy and Neural Plasticity:  Implications for Autism Remediation, 2002

Callier Scholar Award, 2002

NIDCD Research Grant, Cortical Plasticity and Processing of Complex Stimuli, 1999

NIDCD National Research Service Award, 1998

Krevan's Distinguished Dissertation Award, UC San Francisco, 1998

National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1994

Outstanding Geneticist of the Year, UC Berkeley, 1993

National Merit Scholar

Eagle Scout - BSA

RESEARCH:

2004-present: Associate Professor - UT Dallas
- Investigation of the principles of cortical plasticity

 

1999-2004: Assistant Professor - UT Dallas
- Investigation of the principles of cortical plasticity

1998: Post-doctoral Fellow - UC San Francisco
- Michael Merzenich, Sooy Professor
- Cortical Representation of Spectrotemporal Stimuli

1994-1998: Doctoral Research - UC San Francisco
- Michael Merzenich, Sooy Professor
- Induction of large-scale reorganization of primary auditory cortex
  by cholinergic forebrain stimulation
- Psychophysics of directed attention in tactile perception

1992-1993: Undergraduate Thesis - UC Berkeley
- Barbara Meyer, Howard Hughes Professor of Genetics
- Characterization of mutations in the synaptic vesicle protein, Rab-3 in C. elegans
- Cloning of cDNA of the C. elegans sex-determination gene, SDC-2

1991: Research Assistant - Baylor College of Medicine
- Ron Davis
- Enhancer trap screen for genes expressed in drosophila mushroom bodies

1990: Research Assistant - Baylor College of Medicine
- Ajay Rege
- Cloning of a cysteine protease from Schistosomiasis mansoni

1988-1989: Technician - Genosys, Inc. - Houston, Texas
- Polynucleotide synthesis

PUBLICATIONS:

Book Chapters:

Auditory Environment, Stress, and Brain Plasticity. Nichols JA, Bose M, Jakkamsetti VP, Kilgard MP, Atzori M. in The Neurobiology of Stress: an Evolutionary Approach, Research Signpost, (Eds. F Aboitiz and A Dagnino-Subiabre), 2007.

Cortical Plasticity and Rehabilitation. Moucha R, Kilgard MP, in Reprogramming the Brain, Progress in Brain Research, Elsevier, (Ed. A. Moller), 157:111-122, 2006 (download file).

How Sensory Experience Shapes Cortical Representations, MP Kilgard, in Neuropsychology of Memory, Guilford Press (Eds. L.R. Squire and D.L. Schacter), 2002. (download file)

Articles:  (Search PubMed or  Google Scholar)

Cortical activity patterns predict speech discrimination ability, Engineer CT, Perez CA, Chen YH,  Carraway RS, Reed AC, Shetake JA, Jakkamsetti V, Chang KQ, Kilgard MP. Nature Neuroscience, 11: 603-608, 2008 (download file, supplemental data, and video).

Representation of Speech and Vocalization Sounds in the Thalamus, Primary Auditory Cortex, and Posterior Auditory Field of Rat. Pandya PK, Moucha R, Rathbun DL, Engineer ND, Chen YH, Kilgard MP. (submitted).

Effect of the environment on the dendritic morphology of the rat auditory cortex. Bose M, Roychowdhury S, Muñoz P, Nichols J, Jakkamsetti V, Porter B, Salgado H, Kilgard MP, Aboitiz F, Dagnino-Subiabre A, Atzori M. (submitted).

Sensory Experience Determines Enrichment-Induced Plasticity in Rat Auditory Cortex, Percaccio CR, Pruette AL, Mistry ST, Chen YH, Kilgard MP. Brain Research, 1174:76-91, 2007 (download file).

Differential Reductions in Acoustic Startle Document the Discrimination of Speech Sounds in Rats. Floody OR, Kilgard MP. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122:1884-7, 2007 (download file).

Spectral and Temporal Processing in Rat Posterior Auditory Cortex.  PK Pandya, DL Rathbun, R Moucha, ND Engineer, MP Kilgard. Cerebral Cortex, 2007. (download file)

Plasticity in the Rat Posterior Auditory Field following Nucleus Basalis Stimulation. Puckett AC, Pandya PK, Moucha R, Dai W, Kilgard MP. Journal of Neurophysiology. 98:253-65, 2007. (download file)

Experience Dependent Plasticity Alters Cortical Synchronization. Kilgard MP, Vazquez JL, Engineer ND, Pandya PK. Hearing Research. 229:171-179, 2007. (download file)

Environmental Enrichment Selectively Increases Glutamatergic Responses in Layer II/III of the Auditory Cortex of the Rat. Nichols JA, Jakkamsetti V, Dinh L, Kilgard MP, Atzori M. Neuroscience, 145: 832-840, 2007.  (download file)

Anesthesia suppresses nonsynchronous responses to repetitive broadband stimuli. Rennaker RL, Carey HL, Anderson SE, Sloan AM, Kilgard MP.  Neuroscience, 145:357-69, 2007. (download file)

Neuroscientific Principles Underlying Reorganization After Brain Injury. Percaccio CR, Kilgard MP, Brain Injury Professional, 3: 26-29, 2006. (download file)

Response to Broadband Repetitive Stimuli in Auditory Cortex of the Unanesthetized Rat. SE Anderson, MP Kilgard, AM Sloan, RL Rennaker, Hearing Research, 213:107-17, 2006 (download file).

Cortical Map Reorganization Without Cholinergic Modulation. Kilgard MP. Neuron. 48:529-30, 2005.

Environmental Enrichment Increases Paired Pulse Depression in Rat Auditory Cortex. CR Percaccio, ND Engineer, AL Pruette, PK Pandya, R Moucha, DL Rathbun, MP Kilgard, Journal of Neurophysiology, 94:3590-600, 2005 (download file).

Asynchronous Inputs Alter Excitability, Spike Timing, & Topography in Primary Auditory Cortex. PK Pandya, R Moucha, ND Engineer, DL Rathbun, J Vazquez, MP Kilgard. Hearing Research, 203:10-20, 2005 (download file).

Background Sounds Contribute to Spectrotemporal Plasticity In Primary Auditory Cortex. R Moucha, PK Pandya, ND Engineer, DL Rathbun, MP Kilgard. Experimental Brain Research, 162:417-27, 2005 (download file).

Environmental Enrichment Improves Response Strength, Threshold, Selectivity, and Latency of Auditory Cortex Neurons. Engineer ND, Percaccio CR, Pandya PK, Moucha R, Rathbun DL, Kilgard MP.  Journal of  Neurophysiology, 92(1):73-82, 2004 (download file).

Cholinergic Modulation of Skill Learning and Plasticity, M.P. Kilgard, Neuron, 38(678-680), 2003.

Cortical Network Reorganization Guided by Sensory Input Features, M.P. Kilgard, P.K. Pandya, N.D. Engineer, R. Moucha, Biological Cybernetics, 87(5-6):333-43, 2002 (download file).

Order Sensitive Plasticity in Adult Primary Auditory Cortex,  M.P. Kilgard,  M.M. Merzenich, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99: 3205-3209, 2002 (download file).

Dynamic categories, M.P. Kilgard, Nature, 412:693-694, 2001. (download file)

Spatial Features Control Temporal Plasticity in Auditory Cortex, M.P. Kilgard, P.K. Pandya, J.L. Vazquez, D. Rathbun, N.D. Engineer, R. Moucha, Audiology and Neuro-otology, 6:196-202, 2001. (download file) 

Sensory Input Directs Spatial and Temporal Plasticity in Primary Auditory Cortex, M.P. Kilgard, P.K. Pandya, J.L. Vazquez, Gehi, A., C.E. Schreiner, M.M. Merzenich, Journal of Neurophysiology, 86: 339-353, 2001. (download file)

Distributed Representation of Spectral and Temporal Information in Rat Auditory Cortex, M.P. Kilgard, M.M. Merzenich, Hearing Research, 134(1-2): 16-28, 1999. (download file)

Plasticity of Temporal Information Processing in the Primary Auditory Cortex, M.P. Kilgard, M.M. Merzenich, Nature Neuroscience, 1(8): 727-731, 1998. (download file)

Nucleus Basalis Activity Enables Cortical Map Reorganization, M.P. Kilgard, M.M. Merzenich, Science 279(5357): 1714-1718, 1998. (download file)

Representations in Natural and Artificial Systems, P. Konig, E. Bizzi, N. Burgess, N. Franceschini,  M.P. Kilgard, M. Oram, G, Sagerer, C. Scheier, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, 53(7-8):738-51, 1998. (download file)

Sound-Induced Seizures in Serotonin 5-HT2c Receptor Mutant Mice, T.J. Brennan, W.W. Seeley, M.P. Kilgard, C.E. Schreiner and L.H. Tecott, Nature Genetics, 16(4): 387-390, 1997. (download file)

Caenorhabditis elegans rab-3 Mutant Synapses Exhibit Impaired Function and Are Partially Depleted of Vesicles, M.L. Nonet, J.E. Staunton, M.P. Kilgard, T. Fergestad, E. Jorgestad, E. Hartwig, H.R. Horvitz, B.J. Meyer, J. Neuroscience, Nov 1;17(21):8061-8073, 1997. (download file)

Anticipated Stimuli Across the Skin, M.P. Kilgard, M.M. Merzenich, Nature, V373, Feb 23, p663, 1995.

Recessive Rab3 Mutations, M.P. Kilgard, M.L. Nonet, B.J. Meyer, Worm Breeders Gazette, 13(1), p39, 1993.

Patents:

System for stimulating brain plasticity. M.P. Kilgard, M.M. Merzenich, United States Patent 6,221,908, 1998.

Computer-Implemented Methods and Apparatus for Alleviating Abnormal Behaviors. M.P. Kilgard, M.M. Merzenich, S. Bao, United States Patent 7,024,398, 2006.

Dissertations Supervised:

Speech sound representation and experience-dependent plasticity in the rat auditory system, Pritesh K Pandya,  2005 (NIH predoctoral funding). (download file)

Environmental and training-induced plasticity in primary auditory cortex, Navzer D Engineer, 2004. (download file)

Environmental Enrichment Increases Response Strength and Paired Pulse Depression of Auditory Cortex Neurons, Cherie R Percaccio, 2006. (download file)

Long-Term and Short-Term Plasticity Induced by Experience with Spectrotemporally Complex Sounds in Rat Auditory Cortex, Raluca Moucha, 2006. (download file)

Plasticity in the Auditory Cortex and Changes in Perceptual Discrimination after Nucleus Basalis Stimulation in Rats, Amanda Reed, 2008.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS:

2009 – International Conference on Auditory Cortex, Magdeburg , Germany, “Neural Coding and Plasticity in the Auditory System: From Tones to Speech”.

2009 – University of Michigan, Biology and  Experience as Mediators of Neurodevelopmental Health Seminar Series, “Sensory Experience and Cortical Plasticity”.

2009 – University of California at Los Angeles Neuroscience Seminar, “Neural Coding and Plasticity in the Auditory System: From Tones to Speech”.

2008 – Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neurophysiology, Washington D.C., “Speech Sound Categorization and Plasticity in the Central Auditory System”.

2008 – University of Texas at Austin Neurobiology Seminar, Austin, Texas, “Neural Coding and Plasticity in the Auditory System: From Tones to Speech”.

2008 – Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, “Neural Plasticity in Animal Models”.

2008 – Healthy Minds Conference, Sarasota, Florida, “Neural Processing of Speech Sounds”.

2008 – Linking Auditory Neurophysiology to Perception Workshop, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Snow Bird, Utah, “Cortical Activity Patterns Predict Speech Discrimination Ability”.

2008 – Real-Time Processing and the Processing of Time Workshop, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Snow Bird, Utah, “Effect of Neural Correlations on Speech Discrimination”.

2007 –  University of Texas at Houston Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Houston, Texas, “Neural Coding and Plasticity in the Auditory System: From Tones to Speech

2007 –  Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neurophysiology, San Diego, California, “Activity Patterns in Awake Auditory Cortex Predict Speech Discrimination Ability in Rats”

2007 – International Dyslexia Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, “How Practice Changes the Brain’s Response to Speech Sounds”

2007 – Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar, University of Connecticut. “Coding and Plasticity in Auditory Cortex: From Tones to Speech

2006 – International Conference on the Auditory Cortex: The Listening Brain, Grantham, England. “Speech Processing and Plasticity”

2005 – Summer Institute In Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, “Cortical Plasticity: from Tones to Speech”

2005 – UCSF Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, San Francisco, California, “Cortical Plasticity: from Tones to Speech”

2005 – Center for BrainHealth Symposia Reprogramming the Human Brain, Dallas, Texas, “Translating Plasticity Research into Clinical Practice 

2005 – Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, “Perceptual Learning and Cortical Self-organization

2004 – Federation for European Neuroscience conference- “Plasticity in Central Auditory Processing: From Neural Mechanisms to Behavioral Significance”, Lisbon, Portugal, “Sensory Experience and Cortical Plasticity”.

2004 – 21st Century Science Initiative, Palisades, New York, “Experience-Dependent Cortical Plasticity”

2003 – Neural Representation and Processing of Temporal Patterns, Banbury Conference, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, “Sensory Experience and Temporal Plasticity”

2003 – International Conference on Auditory Cortex: towards a synthesis of human and animal research, Magdeburg, Germany, “Auditory Experience and Cortical Plasticity”

2003 – McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences, Heron Island, Australia, “Sensory Experience and Cortical Plasticity”

2003 – Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Daytona Beach, Florida, “Perceptual learning and cortical self-organization

2003 – American Academy of Audiology, San Antonio, Texas, Perceptual Learning & Plasticity Preconference (Co-presenter Beverly Wright, Northwestern University)

2003 – 21st Century Science Initiative, Tarrytown, New York, “Sensory Experience and Cortical Plasticity”

2003 – UTD/UTSW Reprogramming the Human Brain Symposium, Dallas, Texas, “Targeted Manipulation of Neural Plasticity”2003 - Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Daytona Beach, Florida, “Perceptual learning and cortical self-organization”

2002 - University of Pennsylvania Johnson Foundation for Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Department of Neuroscience, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Sensory Experience and Cortical Plasticity”

2001 - UT Southwestern Department of Psychiatry and Center for Basic Neuroscience Seminar Series, Dallas, Texas, “How Experience Shapes Brain Function”

2001 - Auditory Function and Dysfunction:Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms, Auckland, New Zealand, "Sensory Experience and Cortical Plasticity"

2001 - Learning Brain Expo (keynote speaker), San Antonio, Texas, "Learning and Brain Plasticity"

2001 - American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, "How Experience Rewires the Brain"

2000 - Summer Brain Institute, Doubletreee Hotel Dallas, "How is the Brain like a Child? - a Neuroscience Perspective on Learning"

2000 - NICE2000: Neural Plasticity and Learning, Grindelwald, Switzerland, “Toward a General Theory of Cortical Plasticity”

1999 - Alief Independent School District, Houston, "How is the Brain like a Child? - a Neuroscience Perspective on Learning"

1998 - Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, "Stimulation of the Nucleus Basalis Enables Plasticity of Spatial and Temporal Representations in Primary Auditory Cortex"

1998 - Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany, " Stimulation of the Nucleus Basalis Enables Plasticity of Spatial and Temporal Representations in Primary Auditory Cortex"

1998 - Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, " Stimulation of the Nucleus Basalis Enables Plasticity of Spatial and Temporal Representations in Primary Auditory Cortex"

1997 - Ear Club, Department of Psychology,University of California, Berkeley, "Cholinergic Basal Forebrain Stimulation Guides Large-Scale Reorganization of Adult Primary Auditory Cortex"

Conference Abstracts:

Cortical Responses to Spatio-Temporal Patterns Encode the Preceding Stimuli D.V. Buonomano, P.K. Pandya, N.D. Engineer, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, Washington D.C., 2008.

M1 Agonist Cevimeline (AF102B) Induces Input Specific Frequency Map Plasticity In Rat Primary Auditory Cortex. V Jakkamsetti, JA Shetake, KQ Chang, K Krishnan, RO Torres, KM Jordan, MP Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, Washington D.C., 2008.

Effect of White noise on Speech Discrimination Ability in Primary Auditory Cortex of Rats J. A. Shetake, K. G. Ranasinghe, B. A. Porter, H. Mumtaz, E. Tran, J. Wolf, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, Washington D.C., 2008.

Environmental Enrichment Increases Response Strength And Paired-Pulse Depression Of Auditory Cortex Neurons. C.R. Percaccio, A.L. Pruette, S.T. Mistry, Y.H. Chen, D.L. Rathbun, M.P. Kilgard, Acoustical Society of America, Paris, France, 2008.

Speech Training Enhances Responses in Rat Primary Auditory Cortex.  C. T. Engineer, C. A. Perez, R. S. Carraway, A. C. Puckett, K. Q. Chang, Y. H. Chen, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, San Diego, 2007.

Behavioral Correlates of NB-Stimulation Induced Frequency Map Plasticity Iin Primary Auditory Cortex Of Rats A. C. Puckett, R. S. Carraway, C. A. Perez, C. T. Engineer, V. Jakkamsetti, J. R. Riley, H. A. Fenus, V. Badhiwala, J. L. Choi, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, San Diego, 2007.

Unimpaired Speech Discrimination in Rats Following Bilateral Auditory Cortex Lesions B. A. Porter, O. R. Floody, L. Ouda, C. Skillern, T. Sharma, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, San Diego, 2007.

Rolipram Causes Frequency-Specific Map Reorganization in the Primary Auditory Cortex V. Jakkamsetti, K. Q. Chang, J. A. Shetake, G. L. Mettlach, M. G. Ditzler, J. G. Kalangara, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, San Diego, 2007.

Effect of Sensory Stimulation on the Neuronal Morphology in the Auditory Cortex M. Bose, V. P. Jakkamsetti, J. A. Nichols, R. Byrapureddy, B. A. Porter, M. P. Kilgard, M. Atzori, Society For Neuroscience, San Diego, 2007.

Activity Patterns in Awake Auditory Cortex Predict Speech Discrimination Ability in Rats. J. A. Shetake, C. T. Engineer, C. A. Perez, R. S. Carraway, G. L. Mettlach, R. L. Rennaker, M. P. Kilgard, Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neurophysiology, San Diego, 2007.

Rolipram Enhances Cortical Plasticity in Primary Auditory Cortex (A1) of Rats, V. Jakkamsetti, R. Jain, K. Q. Chang, R. J. Nance, J. G. Kalangara, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, Atlanta, 2006.

Perceptual Consequences of Frequency Map Plasticity in Auditory Cortex, A. C. Puckett, C. T. Novitski, R. S. Carraway, C. L. Heydrick, A. L. McMenamy, C. A. Perez, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, Atlanta, 2006.

Neural Coding of Speech Sounds in Naïve And Trained Rat Primary Auditory Cortex, C. T. Novitski, C. A. Perez, A. C. Puckett, Y. H. Chen, V. Jakkamsetti, M. S. Perry, R. S. Carraway, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, Atlanta, 2006.

Discrimination Training of Speech Sounds in Rats, C. A. Perez, C. T. Novitski, A. C. Puckett, Y. H. Chen, M. S. Perry, R. S. Carraway, O. R. Floody, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, Atlanta, 2006.

The Effects of Long Term Auditory Experience on Surface Vasculature in Rat Auditory Cortex, D. M. A. E. Listhrop, K. J. Dominguez, P. Kan, R. Carrasco, T. Sharma, A. R. Moller, M. P. Kilgard, Society For Neuroscience, Atlanta, 2006.

Environmental Enrichment Selectively Increases Excitatory Synaptic Currents in Auditory Cortex Layers II/III vs. Layer V, J. A. Nichols, V. Jakkamsetti, L. Dinh, M. Kilgard, M. Atzori, Society For Neuroscience, Atlanta, 2006.

In Vivo Cortical Responses Compared with the Responses of Ensembles of Spectro-Temporal Fragments and a Simple Thalamo-Cortical Model, M. Coath, S.L. Denham, M.P. Kilgard, International Conference on the Auditory Cortex: The Listening Brain, England, 2006.

Discrimination Training and Neural Coding of Speech Sounds in Rat Primary Auditory Cortex,  C.T. Novitski, A.C. Puckett., Y.H. Chen., C.A.Perez, V. Jakkamessetti, M.S. Perry, R.S. Carraway, M.P. Kilgard, COSYNE: Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2006.

Effect of Enriched Environment on Synaptic Transmission in the Rat Auditory Cortex. J. Nichols, V. Jakkamsetti, R. Byrapureddy, B. Roof, H. Bui, T. Thompson, M.P. Kilgard, M. Atzori,  Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, 2006.

Complex Sound Discrimination Abilities of Rats and the Effects of Multiple Training Manipulations. A.C.Puckett, C.T.Novitski, N.D.Engineer, A.L.McMenamy, M.S.Perry, C.A.Perez, P.Kan, Y.H.Chen, V.Jakkamsetti, C.L.Heydrick, M.P.Kilgard, Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., 2005.   

Pharmacological modulation of Training-Induced Plasticity in Rat Auditory Cortex, R.Carrasco, R.Jain, V.Jakkamsetti, J.Record, M.Noorizadeh, M.P.Kilgard, Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., 2005.   

A Comparison of Neural Response Dynamics to Broadband Repetitive Stimuli in Auditory Cortex of the Unanesthetized and Ketamine-Anesthetized Rat  A.Ruyle, H.Mc Clenathan, M.P.Kilgard, R.L.Rennaker, Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C. 2005. 

Modulatory Influence of the Auditory Cortex on the Activity of Medial Geniculate Body Neurons in Rat,  R.Moucha, J.Popelar, D.Suta, M.P.Kilgard, J.Syka, Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C. 2005.   

Environmental Influence in Cortical Map Reorganization Generated by Basal Forebrain Activation, R. Carrasco, A. Puckett, P. Pandya, R. Jain, A. McMenamy, J. Gibbons, R. Moucha, C. Heydrick, M.P. Kilgard, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, New Orleans, 2005.

Frequency Map Reorganization in Rat Primary Auditory Cortex Enabled by Basal Forebrain Activation Endures for at Least 20 Days  R.A.Carrasco, A.Puckett, P.K.Pandya, A.McMenamy, J.Gibbons, C.Heydrick, R.Moucha, R.Jain, M.P.Kilgard, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, 2004. 

Cortical Plasticity Directed by Complex Stimuli, M.P. Kilgard, C.R. Percaccio, N.D. Engineer, P.K. Pandya, R. Moucha, A.C. Puckett, C.T. Novitski, McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Science, Palisades, New York, 2004.

Contributions of Experience and Acetylcholine to Environmental Plasticity in Auditory Cortex  C.R. Percaccio, A.L. Pruette, S.T. Mistry, E.J. Kildebeck, Y.H. Chen, M.P. Kilgard Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Florida, 2004.

Progressive Decay of Cortical Map Reorganization Induced by Basal Forebrain Activation in Rat A1  R.A. Carrasco, A. Puckett, P.K. Pandya, A. McMenamy, J. Gibbons, R. Moucha, R. Jain, M.P. Kilgard, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Florida, 2004.

Representation of Frequency Modulation: Comparison Between Thalamic, Primary and Posterior Auditory Field, R. Moucha, D.L. Rathbun, P.K. Pandya, N.D. Engineer, and M.P. Kilgard International Conference on Auditory Cortex, Magdeburg, Germany, 2003.

Nucleus Basalis Induced Plasticity in Primary and Posterior Auditory Fields, A. Puckett, P.K. Pandya, W. Dai, N. Engineer, R.Moucha, D.L. Rathbun, and M.P. Kilgard, International Conference on Auditory Cortex, Magdeburg, Germany, 2003.

Background Stimuli Control Cortical Map Expansion in Primary Auditory Cortex, P.K. Pandya, N. Engineer, R. Moucha, D.L. Rathbun, J. Vazquez, and M.P. Kilgard, International Conference on Auditory Cortex, Magdeburg, Germany, 2003.

Representation of Complex Sounds in Auditory Thalamus, Primary and Non-Primary Cortex, P. K Pandya, D. L Rathbun, N. D Engineer, R. Moucha, R.L. Rennaker, M. P. Kilgard, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Florida, 2003.

Cholinergic Modulation of Auditory Evoked Potentials, C. R. Percaccio, S. T. Mistry, L. J.Cauller, M.P. Kilgard, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Florida, 2003.

Dynamic Filtering in Rat Auditory Cortex, R.L. Rennaker, H.H., P. Kilambi, M.P. Kilgard, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Florida, 2003.

Representational Remodelling Induced by Distributed Spatial Inputs in Auditory Cortex. P.K. Pandya, R. Moucha, D.L. Rathbun, N.D. Engineer, J.L. Vazquez, M.P. Kilgard, Society for Neuroscience. Orlando, 2002.

Representational Plasticity of Marmoset and Human Vocalizations in Rat Auditory CortexP.K. PandyaN.D. EngineerR. Moucha, W. Dai, D. L. Rathbun, A. Puckett, J. L. Vazquez, Cherie R. Percaccio, M.P. Kilgard, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Florida, 2002.

Auditory Enrichment Enhances Evoked Potential Amplitude in Rat Auditory Cortex C. R. Percaccio, N.D. Engineer, N. C. Dempsey, P.K. Pandya, M.P. Kilgard, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Florida, 2002.

Characterization of Response Properties in Rat Posterior Auditory Cortex D. L. Rathbun, N.D. EngineerR. Moucha