Publications

Liu, J. R., Zhao, L., Hullett, P. W., & Chang, E. F. (2025). Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-18.

Zhao, L., Silva, A. B., Kurteff, G. L., & Chang, E. F. (2025). Inhibitory control of speech production in the human premotor frontal cortex. Nature human behaviour, 9(5), 971-986.

Zhao, L., Khambhati, A. N., Hullett, P. W., & Chang, E. F. (2025). Corticography and human intracranial neurophysiology. In Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (pp. 1–15). Elsevier.

Zhao, L., & Wang, X. (2023). Frontal cortex activity during the production of diverse social communication calls in marmoset monkeys. Nature communications, 14(1), 6634.

Levy, D. F., Silva, A. B., Scott, T. L., Liu, J. R., Harper, S., Zhao, L., Hullett, P. W., Kurteff, G., Wilson, S. M., Leonard, M. K., & Chang, E. F. (2023). Apraxia of speech with phonological alexia and agraphia following resection of the left middle precentral gyrus: illustrative case. Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons, 5(13).

Silva, A. B., Liu, J. R., Zhao, L., Levy, D. F., Scott, T. L., & Chang, E. F. (2022). A neurosurgical functional dissection of the middle precentral gyrus during speech production. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(45), 8416-8426.

Zhao, L., & Wang, X. (2021). Frontal cortex activity underlying the production of diverse vocal signals during social communication in marmoset monkeys. BioRxiv, 2021-08.

Zhao, L., Roy, S., & Wang, X. (2019). Rapid modulations of the vocal structure in marmoset monkeys. Hearing Research, 384, 107811.

Zhao, L., Rad, B. B., & Wang, X. (2019). Long-lasting vocal plasticity in adult marmoset monkeys. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1905).

Roy, S., Zhao, L., & Wang, X. (2016). Distinct neural activities in premotor cortex during natural vocal behaviors in a new world primate, the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Journal of Neuroscience, 36(48), 12168-12179.

Shen, L., Zhao, L., & Hong, B. (2015). Frequency-specific adaptation and its underlying circuit model in the auditory midbrain. Frontiers in neural circuits, 9, 55.

Wang, F., Zuo, L., Hong, B., Han, D., Range, E. M., Zhao, L., Sui, Y., Guo, W., & Liu, L. (2013). Tonotopic reorganization and spontaneous firing in inferior colliculus during both short and long recovery periods after noise overexposure. Journal of biomedical science, 20(1), 91.

Zhao, L., & Zhaoping, L. (2011). Understanding auditory spectro-temporal receptive fields and their changes with input statistics by efficient coding principles. PLoS computational biology, 7(8), e1002123.

Zhao, L., Liu, Y., Shen, L., Feng, L., & Hong, B. (2011). Stimulus-specific adaptation and its dynamics in the inferior colliculus of rat. Neuroscience, 181, 163-174.