Hickok Selected Publications

Dr. Gregory Hickok, Ph.D.
Professor of Cognitive Sciences Director of the Center for Language Science
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Engineering
Department of Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Email: greg.hickok@uci.edu
Tel: 949.824.1409 (v) 949.824.8387 (f)

Dual stream model of speech processing:

Hickok, G. & Poeppel, D. (2000). Towards a functional neuroanatomy of speech perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 131-138PDF

Hickok, G. & Poeppel, D. (2004). Dorsal and ventral streams: A framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language. Cognition, 92, 67-99PDF

Hickok, G. & Poeppel, D. (2007). The cortical organization of speech processing. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8, 393-402PDF

Hickok, G. (2022). The dual stream model of speech and language processing. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 185, 57-69. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-823384-9.00003-7.

Sensorimotor control of speech production:

Hickok, G., Buchsbaum, B., Humphries, C., & Muftuler, T. (2003). Auditory-motor interaction revealed by fMRI: Speech, music, and working memory in area Spt. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience15, 673-682PDF

Hickok, G., Okada, K., & Serences, J. T. (2009). Area Spt in the human planum temporale supports sensory-motor integration for speech processing. Journal of Neurophysiology101, 2725-2732PDF

Hickok, G., Houde, J., & Rong, F. (2011). Sensorimotor integration in speech processing: Computational basis and neural organization. Neuron69, 407-422PDF

Hickok, G. (2012). Computational neuroanatomy of speech production. Nature Reviews Neuroscience13, 135-145PDF

Motor involvement in perception:

Hickok, G. (2009). Eight problems for the mirror neuron theory of action understanding in monkeys and humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience21, 1229–1243PDF

Hickok, G., Costanzo, M., Capasso, R., & Miceli, G. (2011). The role of Broca’s area in speech perception: Evidence from aphasia revisited. Brain and Language119, 214-220PDF

Venezia, J. H., Saberi, K., Chubb, C., & Hickok, G. (2012). Response bias modulates the speech motor system during syllable discrimination. Frontiers in Psychology, 3PDF

Hickok, G. (2014). The myth of mirror neurons: The real neuroscience of communication and cognition. New York: W.W. Norton

Neural basis of receptive language functions:

Humphries, C., Love, T., Swinney, D., Hickok, G. (2005). Response of Anterior Temporal Cortex to Syntactic and Prosodic Manipulations During Sentence Processing. Human Brain Mapping26, 128-138PDF

Hickok, G., Okada, K., Barr, W., Pa, J., Rogalsky, C., Donnelly, K., Barde, L. & Grant, A. (2008). Bilateral capacity for speech sound processing in auditory comprehension: Evidence from Wada procedures. Brain and Language107, 179-184PDF

Okada, K., Rong, F., Venezia, J., Matchin, W., Hsieh, I.-H., Saberi, K., Serences, J., & Hickok, G. (2010). Hierarchical organization of human auditory cortex: Evidence from acoustic invariance in the response to intelligible speech, Cerebral Cortex20, 2486-2495PDF

Rogalsky, C., Rong, F., Saberi, K., & Hickok, G. (2011). Functional anatomy of language and music perception: Temporal and structural factors investigated using fMRI. Journal of Neuroscience31, 3843-3852PDF

Neural basis of sign language:

Hickok, G., Bellugi, U., & Klima, E.S. (1996). The neurobiology of signed language and its implications for the neural basis of language. Nature381, 699-702. PDF

Buchsbaum, B., Pickell, B., Love, T., Hatrak, M., Bellugi, U., & Hickok, G. (2005). Neural substrates for verbal working memory in deaf signers: fMRI study and lesion case report. Brain and Language, 95, 265-272.PDF

Pa, J., Wilson, S.M. Pickell, H. Bellugi, U. & Hickok, G. (2008). Neural organization of linguistic short-term memory is sensory modality dependent: Evidence from signed and spoken language. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 2198-2210.PDF

Rogalsky, C., Raphel, K., Tomkovicz, V., O’Grady, L., Damasio, H., Bellugi, U., & Hickok, G. (2013). Neural basis of action understanding: evidence from sign language aphasia. Aphasiology, 27, 1147-1158 PDF

Books:

Hickok, G., Small, S., 2015. Neurobiology of Language. Academic Press; 1 edition.
ISBN: 978-0-12-407794-2

Gastone, G., Hickok, G. 2015. The Human Auditory System: Fundamental Organization and Clinical Disorders (Handbook of Clinical Neurology). First Edition. ELSEVIER B.V. Waltman, MA. ISBN: 9780444626301

Hickok, G., Frediani, S. 2015. Il mito dei neuroni specchio: Comunicazione e facoltà cognitive. La nuova frontiera (Italian Edition). Bollati Boringhieri editore. Italy. ISBN: 978-88-339-7386-9

Hickok, G. 2014. The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition. W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition. New York. N.Y. ISBN: 0393089614

Hickok Laboratory Selected Recent Publications

Teghipco, A., Okada, K., Murphy, E., & Hickok, G. (2023). Predictive Coding and Internal Error Correction in Speech Production. Neurobiology of Language, 4(1), 81-119. doi:10.1162/nol_a_00088.

Busby, N., Hillis, A. E., Bunker, L., Rorden, C., Newman-Norlund, R., Bonilha, L., … Fridriksson, J. (2023). Comparing the brain-behaviour relationship in acute and chronic stroke aphasia. Brain Communications, 5(2), fcad014. doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcad014.

Hickok, G., Venezia, J., & Teghipco, A. (2023). Beyond Broca: neural architecture and evolution of a dual motor speech coordination system. Brain, 146(5), 1775-1790. doi:10.1093/brain/awac454.

Walker, G. M., & Hickok, G. (2023). Are recovery of fluency and recovery of phonology antagonistic? Brain, 146(7), e48-e51. doi:10.1093/brain/awad026.

Matchin, W., den Ouden, D. B., Hickok, G., Hillis, A. E., Bonilha, L., & Fridriksson, J. (2022). The Wernicke conundrum revisited: evidence from connectome-based lesion-symptom mapping. Brain, 145(11), 3916-3930. doi:10.1093/brain/awac219.

Rogalsky, C., Basilakos, A., Rorden, C., Pillay, S., LaCroix, A. N., Keator, L., … Hickok, G. (2022). The Neuroanatomy of Speech Processing: A Large-scale Lesion Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(8), 1355-1375. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01876.

Behroozmand, R., Bonilha, L., Rorden, C., Hickok, G., & Fridriksson, J. (2022). Neural correlates of impaired vocal feedback control in post-stroke aphasia. NeuroImage, 250, 118938. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.118938.

Hickok, G. (2022). The dual stream model of speech and language processing. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 185, 57-69. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-823384-9.00003-7.

Matchin, W., Basilakos, A., den Ouden, D. D., Stark, B. C., Hickok, G., & Fridriksson, J. (2022). Functional differentiation in the language network revealed by lesion-symptom mapping. NeuroImage, 247, 118778. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118778.

Walker, G. M., Basilakos, A., Fridriksson, J., & Hickok, G. (2022). Beyond Percent Correct: Measuring Change in Individual Picture Naming Ability. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(1), 215-237. doi:10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00205.

Gleichgerrcht, E., Roth, R., Fridriksson, J., den Ouden, D., Delgaizo, J., Stark, B., … Bonilha, L. (2021). Neural bases of elements of syntax during speech production in patients with aphasia. Brain and Language, 222, 105025. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105025.

Kristinsson, S., Thors, H., Yourganov, G., Magnusdottir, S., Hjaltason, H., Stark, B. C., … Fridriksson, J. (2020). Brain Damage Associated with Impaired Sentence Processing in Acute Aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(2), 256-271. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01478.

Bonilha, L., Hillis, A. E., Wilmskoetter, J., Hickok, G., Basilakos, A., Munsell, B., … Fridriksson, J. (2019). Neural structures supporting spontaneous and assisted (entrained) speech fluency. Brain, 142(12), 3951-3962. doi:10.1093/brain/awz309.

Wilmskoetter, J., Marebwa, B., Basilakos, A., Fridriksson, J., Rorden, C., Stark, B. C., … Bonilha, L. (2019). Long-range fibre damage in small vessel brain disease affects aphasia severity. Brain, 142(10), 3190-3201. doi:10.1093/brain/awz251.

Kim, K., Adams, L., Keator, L. M., Sheppard, S. M., Breining, B. L., Rorden, C., … Hickok, G., & Hillis, A. E. (2019). Neural processing critical for distinguishing between speech sounds. Brain and Language, 197, 104677. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104677.

Wilmskoetter, J., Fridriksson, J., Gleichgerrcht, E., Stark, B. C., Delgaizo, J., Hickok, G., … Bonilha, L. (2019). Neuroanatomical structures supporting lexical diversity, sophistication, and phonological word features during discourse. NeuroImage: Clinical, 24, 101961. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101961.

Houde, J. F., Gill, J. S., Agnew, Z., Kothare, H., Hickok, G., Parrell, B., & Nagarajan, S. S. (2019). Abnormally increased vocal responses to pitch feedback perturbations in patients with cerebellar degeneration. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(5), EL372. doi:10.1121/1.5100910.

Stark, B. C., Basilakos, A., Hickok, G., Rorden, C., Bonilha, L., & Fridriksson, J. (2019). Neural organization of speech production: A lesion-based study of error patterns in connected speech. Cortex, 117, 228-246. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2019.02.029.

Venezia, J. H., Martin, A. G., Hickok, G., & Richards, V. M. (2019). Identification of the Spectrotemporal Modulations That Support Speech Intelligibility in Hearing-Impaired and Normal-Hearing Listeners. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(4), 1051-1067. doi:10.1044/2018_JSLHR-H-18-0045.

Stokes, R. C., Venezia, J. H., & Hickok, G. (2019). The motor system’s [modest] contribution to speech perception. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(4), 1354-1366. doi:10.3758/s13423-019-01580-2.

den Ouden, D. B., Malyutina, S., Basilakos, A., Bonilha, L., Gleichgerrcht, E., Yourganov, G., … Fridriksson, J. (2019). Cortical and structural-connectivity damage correlated with impaired syntactic processing in aphasia. Human Brain Mapping, 40(7), 2153-2173. doi:10.1002/hbm.24514.

Venezia, J. H., Thurman, S. M., Richards, V. M., & Hickok, G. (2019). Hierarchy of speech-driven spectrotemporal receptive fields in human auditory cortex. NeuroImage, 186, 647-666. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.11.049.

Conner, C. R., Kadipasaoglu, C. M., Shouval, H. Z., Hickok, G., & Tandon, N. (2019). Network dynamics of Broca’s area during word selection. PLoS One, 14(12), e0225756. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0225756.

Matchin, W., & Hickok, G. (2019). The Cortical Organization of Syntax. Cerebral Cortex. Advance online publication. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhz180.

Rong, F., Isenberg, A. L., Sun, E., & Hickok, G. (2018). The neuroanatomy of speech sequencing at the syllable level. PLoS One, 13(10), e0196381. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0196381.

McKinnon, E. T., Fridriksson, J., Basilakos, A., Hickok, G., Hillis, A. E., Spampinato, M. V., … Bonilha, L. (2018). Types of naming errors in chronic post-stroke aphasia are dissociated by dual stream axonal loss. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 14352. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-32457-4.

Okada, K., Matchin, W., & Hickok, G. (2018). Phonological Feature Repetition Suppression in the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30(10), 1549-1557. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01287.

Forseth, K. J., Kadipasaoglu, C. M., Conner, C. R., Hickok, G., Knight, R. T., & Tandon, N. (2018). A lexical semantic hub for heteromodal naming in middle fusiform gyrus. Brain, 141(7), 2112-2126. doi:10.1093/brain/awy120.

Hickok, G., Rogalsky, C., Matchin, W., Basilakos, A., Cai, J., Pillay, S., … Fridriksson, J. (2018). Neural networks supporting audiovisual integration for speech: A large-scale lesion study. Cortex, 103,