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    • Research Theme The Social Brain Adaptive Brain Computations Brains and Machines
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    Dr Matt Davis

    University Position
    Programme Leader

    Interests

    My work is interdisciplinary, combining diverse methodologies from Cognitive Neuroscience to investigate the neural mechanisms involved in spoken and written language comprehension. I work on a range of topics, including speech perception, lexical representation and processing, morphological and semantic aspects of language comprehension.

    Key Publications

    Temporal lobe perceptual predictions for speech are instantiated in motor cortex and reconciled by inferior frontal cortex.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112422
    Journal: Cell Rep
    E-pub date: 30 May 2023
    Authors: TE Cope, E Sohoglu, KA Peterson, PS Jones, C Rua, L Passamonti, W Sedley, B Post, J Coebergh, CR Butler, P Garrard, K Abdel-Aziz, M Husain, TD Griffiths, K Patterson, MH Davis, JB Rowe

    Causal Contributions of the Domain-General (Multiple Demand) and the Language-Selective Brain Networks to Perceptual and Semantic Challenges in Speech Comprehension.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00081
    Journal: Neurobiol Lang (Camb)
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2022
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, RA Gilbert, Z Balewski, DJ Mitchell, SW Erzinçlioğlu, JM Rodd, J Duncan, E Fedorenko, MH Davis

    The Neural Time Course of Semantic Ambiguity Resolution in Speech Comprehension.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01493
    Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
    E-pub date: 1 Mar 2020
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, JM Rodd, RA Gilbert, O Hauk, E Sohoglu, MH Davis

    Evidence for causal top-down frontal contributions to predictive processes in speech perception.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01958-7
    Journal: Nat Commun
    E-pub date: 18 Dec 2017
    Authors: TE Cope, E Sohoglu, W Sedley, K Patterson, PS Jones, J Wiggins, C Dawson, M Grube, RP Carlyon, TD Griffiths, MH Davis, JB Rowe

    Publications

    Vocabulary knowledge and non-verbal IQ predict successful comprehension of ambiguous sentences

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2022-pclzl
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 28 Nov 2022
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, F Peters, RA Gilbert, MH Davis

    Early Visual Word Processing Is Flexible: Evidence from Spatiotemporal Brain Dynamics.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00815
    Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
    E-pub date: 1 Sep 2015
    Authors: Y Chen, MH Davis, F Pulvermüller, O Hauk

    Neural correlates of successful semantic processing during propofol sedation.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22375
    Journal: Human Brain Mapping
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2014
    Authors: RM Adapa, MH Davis, EA Stamatakis, AR Absalom, DK Menon

    Task modulation of brain responses in visual word recognition as studied using EEG/MEG and fMRI.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00376
    Journal: Front Hum Neurosci
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2013
    Authors: Y Chen, MH Davis, F Pulvermüller, O Hauk

    Can I have a quick word? Early electrophysiological manifestations of psycholinguistic processes revealed by event-related regression analysis of the EEG.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.04.015
    Journal: Biol Psychol
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2009
    Authors: O Hauk, F Pulvermüller, M Ford, WD Marslen-Wilson, MH Davis

    Modulation of brain activity by multiple lexical and word form variables in visual word recognition: A parametric fMRI study.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.05.054
    Journal: Neuroimage
    E-pub date: 1 Sep 2008
    Authors: O Hauk, MH Davis, F Pulvermüller

    Imagery or meaning? Evidence for a semantic origin of category-specific brain activity in metabolic imaging.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06143.x
    Journal: Eur J Neurosci
    E-pub date: 1 Apr 2008
    Authors: O Hauk, MH Davis, F Kherif, F Pulvermüller

    Differentiating morphology, form, and meaning: neural correlates of morphological complexity.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.9.1464
    Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
    E-pub date: 1 Sep 2007
    Authors: M Bozic, WD Marslen-Wilson, EA Stamatakis, MH Davis, LK Tyler

    When thoughts become action: an fMRI paradigm to study volitional brain activity in non-communicative brain injured patients.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.02.047
    Journal: Neuroimage
    E-pub date: 1 Jul 2007
    Authors: M Boly, MR Coleman, MH Davis, A Hampshire, D Bor, G Moonen, PA Maquet, JD Pickard, S Laureys, AM Owen

    Change detection in children with autism: an auditory event-related fMRI study.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.07.027
    Journal: Neuroimage
    E-pub date: 15 Jan 2006
    Authors: M Gomot, FA Bernard, MH Davis, MK Belmonte, C Ashwin, ET Bullmore, S Baron-Cohen