For a full list of publications, visit Google Scholar. Featured recent work is highlighted below.

📄
Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments
V Choudhari, M Nentwich, S Johnson, J Herrero, S Bickel, A Mehta, D Friedman, A Flinker, E Chang, N Mesgarani
Nature Neuroscience (2026)
📄
Parallel hierarchical encoding of linguistic representations in the human auditory cortex and recurrent automatic speech recognition systems
M Keshishian, G Mischler, S Thomas, B Kingsbury, S Bickel, A Mehta, N Mesgarani
Nature Machine Intelligence (2026)
📄
Dual-path mamba: Short and long-term bidirectional selective structured state space models for speech separation
X Jiang, C Han, N Mesgarani
ICASSP 2025-2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (2025)
📄
The impact of musical expertise on disentangled and contextual neural encoding of music revealed by generative music models
G Mischler, Y Li, S Bickel, A Mehta, N Mesgarani
Nature Communications (2025), Vol. 16, pp. 8874
📄
Temporal integration in human auditory cortex is predominantly yoked to absolute time
S Norman-Haignere, M Keshishian, O Devinsky, W Doyle, G McKhann, C Schevon, A Flinker, N Mesgarani
Nature Neuroscience (2025)
📄
Contextual feature extraction hierarchies converge in large language models and the brain
G Mischler, Y Li, S Bickel, A Mehta, N Mesgarani
Nature Machine Intelligence (2024), Vol. 6, pp. 1467--1477
📄
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex
M Keshishian, S Akkol, J Herrero, S Bickel, A Mehta, N Mesgarani
Nature human behaviour (2023), Vol. 7, pp. 740--753
📄
Styletts 2: Towards human-level text-to-speech through style diffusion and adversarial training with large speech language models
Y Li, C Han, V Raghavan, G Mischler, N Mesgarani
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (2023), Vol. 36, pp. 19594--19621
📄
Multiscale temporal integration organizes hierarchical computation in human auditory cortex
S Norman-Haignere, L Long, O Devinsky, W Doyle, I Irobunda, E Merricks, N Feldstein, G McKhann, C Schevon, A Flinker, others
Nature human behaviour (2022), Vol. 6, pp. 455--469