Selected Publications: Matthew A. Howard III, M.D.

Howard MA, Simons DJ: Nucleus basalis stimulation alters spontaneous and stimulus-evoked responses of somatosensory cortical neurons. Exp Br Res 102:21-33, 1994.

Howard MA, Volkov I0, Granner MA, Damasio HM, Ollendieck MC, Bakken HE: A hybrid clinical-research depth electrode for acute and chronic in vivo microelectrode recording of human brain neurons.  J Neurosurgery, 84:129-132, 1996.

Howard MA, Volkov I, Abbas P, Damasio H, Ollendieck M, Granner M.  A Chronic Microelectrode Investigation of the Tonotopic Organization of Human Auditory Cortex.  Brain Research 724:260-264, 1996.

Howard MA, Dacey RG, Henegar MM, Grady MS, Ritter RC, Gillies GT.  Review of Magnetic Neurosurgery Research .  J Image Guided Surgery 1 (6):295-99, 1996.

Howard MA, Grady MS, Broaddus WC, Ritters RC, Gillies GT, Dacey RG.  Recent advances in magnetic surgery.  Clinical Neurosurgery 43:382-391, 1996.

Howard MA, Grady MS, Broaddus WC, Ritters RC, Gillies GT, Dacey RG.  Magnetic Neurosurgery. J Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 66:102-107, 1996.

Howard MA, Volkov IO, Noh MD, Granner MA, Mirsky R, Garell PC.  Chronic microelectrode investigations of normal human brain physiology using a hybrid depth electrode.  J Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 68:236-242, 1997.

Howard MA, Reed LK, Mirsky R, Abkes BA, Volkov IO.  An integrated multipurpose lesion making electrode. Neurosurgery 42:137-142, 1998.

Ritter RC, Quate EG, Gillies GT, Grady MS, Howard MA, Broaddus WC. Measurement of friction on straight catheters in in-vitro brain and phantom  materials. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 45:476-485,1998.    

Steinschneider M, Volkov IO, Noh MD, Garell PC, Howard MA. Temporal encoding of the voice onset time (VOT) phonetic parameter by field potentials recorded directly from human auditory cortex. J Neurophysiology 82:2346-2357, 1999.

Howard MA, Volkov IO, Mirsky R, Garell PC, Noh MD, Granner MA, Damasio H, Steinschneider M, Reale RA, Hind JE, Brugge JF.  An  auditory field on the posterior superior temporal gyrus of human cerebral cortex.  J Comparative Neurology 416:79-92, 2000.

Wang G, Skinner MW, Rubinstein JT, Howard MA, Vannier MW.  Digital X-ray stereophotogrammetry for cochlear implantation.  IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 47:1120-1130, 2000.

Grady MS, Howard MA, Dacey R, Ritter RC.  An experimental study of the magnetic stereotaxis system for catheter manipulation within the brain.  J Neurosurgery 93:282-288, 2000.

Nawrot M, Rizzo M, Rockland KS, Howard MA.  A transient deficit of motion perception in human.  Vision Research 40:3435-3446, 2000.

Kawasaki H, Adolphs R, Kaufman O, Damasio H, Damasio AR, Granner M, Bakken H, Hori T, Howard MA. Single-neuron responses to emotional visual stimuli recorded in human ventral prefrontal cortex.  Nature Neuroscience 4(1):15-16, 2001.

Fishman YI, Volkov IO, Noh MD, Garell PC, Bakken H, Arezzo JC, Howard MA, Steinschneider M.  Consonance and dissonance of musical chords:  Neural correlates in auditory cortex of monkeys and humans.  J Neurophysiol 86:2761-2788, 2001.

Kawasaki H, Adolphs R, Oya H, Kovach C, Damasio H, Kaufman, Howard M.  Analysis of single-unit responses to emotional visual stimuli recorded in human ventral prefrontal cortex. Nat Neurosci 4:15-16, 2001.

Oya H, Kawasaki H, Howard MA.  Electrophysiological response in the human amygdala discriminate emotion categories of complex visual stimuli.  J Neuroscience, 22:9502-9512, 2002. 

Bakken HE, Kawasaki H, Oya H, Greenlee JD, Howard MA.  A device for cooling localized regions of human cerebral cortex.  J Neurosurg 99:604-608, 2003.

Brugge J, Volkov I, Reale R, Garrel P, Howard M. Functional connections between auditory cortex on

Heschl’s gyrus and on the lateral superior temporal gyrus in humans.  J Neurophysiol  90:3750-3763, 2003

Greenlee J, Hiroyuki O, Kawasaki H, Volkov I, Kaufman O, Kovach, C, Howard M, Brugge J.  A functional connection between inferior frontal gyrus and orofacial motor cortex in humans.   J Neurophysiol  92:1153-1164, 2004

Steinschneider M, Volkov IO, Fishman YI, Oya H, Arezzo JC, Howard MA. Intracortical responses in human and monkey primary auditory cortex support, a temporal processing mechanism for encoding of the voice onset time (VOT) phonetic parameter.  Cerebral Cortex 15:170-185, 2005

Oya H, Adolphs R, Kawasaki H, Bechara A, Damasio A, Howard MA.  Electrophysiological correlates of reward prediction error recorded in the human prefrontal cortex.   PNAS 102:8351-8356, 2005

Kawasaki H, Adolphs R, Oya H, Kovach C, Damasio H, Kaufman O, Howard M III. Analysis of single-unit responses to emotional scenes in human ventromedial prefrontal cortex. J Cogn Neurosci 17:1509-1518, 2005

Oya H, Poon PW, Brugge JF, Reale RA, Kawasaki H, Volkov IO, Howard MA III. Functional connections between auditory cortical fields in humans revealed by Granger causality analysis of intra-cranial evoked potentials to sounds: Comparison of two methods. Biosystems 2006

Fenoy AJ, Severson MA, Volkov IO, Brugge JF, Howard MA III. Hearing suppression induced by electrical stimulation of human auditory cortex. Brain Res 1118:75-83 2006

Reale RA, Calvert GA, Thesen T, Jenison RL, Kawasaki H, Oya H, Howard MA, Brugge JF. Auditory-visual processing represented in the human superior temporal gyrus. Neuroscience 145:162-184, 2007