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Christopher I Petkov, PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery and Vice Chair for Research

Current Positions

  • Professor - Neurosurgery
  • Vice Chair for Research

Education

  • PhD. in Systems Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, CA.
  • BA, Honors Psychology and Biology, California State University, Chico

Center, Program and Institute Affiliations

Selected Publications

  • Petkov, C.I., Kang, X.J., Alho K., Bertrand, O., Yund, E. W. & Woods, D.L. (2004). Attentional modulation of human auditory cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 7(6):658-63.
  • Kayser, C., Petkov, C.I., Augath, M. & Logothetis, N.K. (2005). Integration of touch and sound in auditory cortex. Neuron, 48(2): 373-384.
  • Petkov, C.I., O'Connor, K.N. & Sutter, M.L. (2007). Encoding of illusory continuity in primary auditory cortex. Neuron 54, 153-165.
  • Kayser, C., Petkov, C.I. & Logothetis, N.K. (2008). Visual modulation of neurons in auditory cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 18(7), 1560-1574.
  • Petkov, C.I., Kayser, C., Steudel T., Whittingstall, K., Augath, M. & Logothetis, N.K. (2008). A voice region in the monkey brain. Nature Neuroscience. 11(3), 367-374.
  • Baumann S, Griffiths TD, Sun L, Petkov CI, Thiele A & Rees A (2011) Orthogonal representation of sound dimensions in the primate midbrain. . Nature Neuroscience, 14(4): 423-5.
  • Perrodin, C., Kayser, C., Logothetis, N.K. & Petkov, C.I. (2011) Voice cells in the primate temporal lobe. Current Biology, 21(16): 1408-15.
  • Petkov, C.I. & Jarvis, E. (2012) Spoken language origins and motor theories in birds and primates. . Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience. 4:12.doi: 10.3389/fnevo.2012.00012, p 1-24.
  • Perrodin C, Kayser C, Logothetis NK & Petkov, CI. (2015) Natural asynchronies in audio-visual communication signals regulate neuronal multisensory interactions in voice-sensitive cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - USA. 112(1): 273-278. Open Access.
  • Petkov CI, Kikuchi Y, Milne A, Mishkin M, Rauschecker JP & Logothetis NK. (2015) Different forms of hierarchical effective connectivity in primate fronto-temporal pathways. Nature Communications 6, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7000. Open Access.

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