Language Imaging Laboratory Language 
Imaging 
Laboratory 		 The Medical College of Wisconsin

Rutvik H. Desai, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Medical College of Wisconsin
Department of Neurology
MEB 4550
8701 Watertown Plank Rd
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Office: 414-456-4483
Fax: 414-456-6562

E-mail : r-h-d-e-s-a-i@mcw.edu (remove -)
http://www.neuro.mcw.edu/~rhdesai/

Papers [Copyright Notice]
Neuroimaging of Language
Desai R, Liebenthal E, Waldron E, Binder JR (submitted). Left posterior temporal regions are sensitive to auditory categorization.
Sabri M, Binder JR, Desai R, Medler DA, Leitl MD, Possing E, Liebenthal E (submitted). Attentional and linguistic interactions in speech perception.
PDF Desai R, Binder JR, Medler DA, Conant L, Seidenberg MS (2006). Activation of sensory areas by sentences. Fifth International Conference on Development and Learning.
PDF Desai R, Conant L, Waldron E, Binder JR (2006). The effects of phonological complexity and task difficulty on past tense processing: An FMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(2), 278-297.
PDF Desai R, Liebenthal E, Possing ET, Waldron E, Binder JR (2005). Volumetric vs. surface-based intersubject alignment for localization of auditory cortex activation. NeuroImage 26(4), 1019-1029.
PDF Binder JR, Medler DA, Desai R, Conant L, Liebenthal E (2005). Some neurophysiological constraints on models of word naming. NeuroImage, 27(3), 677-693.
Language Acquisition
PDF Desai R. (In press). A model of Frame and Verb Compliance in language acquisition. Neurocomputing.
Desai R. (2002). Bootstrapping in miniature language acquisition. Cognitive Systems Research, 3(1), 15-23.
Desai R. (2002). Item-based language learning in children and connectionist networks. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago.
Pattern Recognition and Optimization
PDF Cheng HD, Desai R. (1998). Scene classification by fuzzy local moments. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 12(7), 921-938.
PDF Desai R, Patil R. (1996). SALO: Combining simulated annealing and local optimization for efficient global optimization. Proceedings of the Ninth Florida AI Research Symposium, 233-237. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
PDF Dhar A, Desai R. (1995). High-dimensional modeling with wavelets. Los Alamos National Labs Technical Report LA-UR-95-4437.
Cheng HD, Desai R. (1994). A fuzzy moment approach to character recognition. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology, 421-424. Durham, NC.
Desai R, Cheng HD. (1994). Pattern recognition by local radial moments. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2, 168-171. Jerusalem, Israel.
Posters
PDF Desai R et al. (2006). Correlations between categorical perception of sounds and white-matter integretiy in the temporal lobe. Society for Neuroscience Metting.
PDF Ellingson M et al. (2006). Dipole modeling of the P220 component after categorical training on phonemic and non-phonemic sounds. Society for Neuroscience Metting.
PDF Desai R et al. (2006). Activation of sensory areas by sentences. Fifth International Conference on Development and Learning.
PDF Binder JR et al. (2006). Neural organization of semantic knowledge reflects sensory-motor attributes. Human Brain Mapping.
PDF Desai R et al. (2006). Neural substrates of learning to categorize speech-like sounds. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Metting.
PDF Liebenthal E et al. (2006). ERP correlates of learning to categorize speech-like sounds. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Metting.
PDF Desai R et al. (2005). The left superior temporal sulcus is sensitive to categorical but not to acoustic properties of speech. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Metting.
PDF Liebenthal E et al. (2005). Neural substrates of phonemic categorization in the left temporal lobe. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Metting.
PDF Binder JR et al. (2005). Testing dual-route models of word naming with FMRI. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Metting.
PDF Sabri M et al. (2005). Attentional and linguistic interaction in speech perception. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Metting.
PDF Desai R et al. (2004). Neural correlates of continuous and categorical sinewave speech perception: An FMRI study. Society for Neuroscience Metting.
PDF Desai R et al. (2004). Volumetric vs. surface-based intersubject alignment for localization of auditory cortex activation. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Metting.
PDF Conant LL et al. (2004). The effects of phonological complexity on past tense processing: An FMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Metting.
PDF Medler DA et al. (2004). Activation of semantic regions by the printed word: An FMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Metting.

Last updated: Feb. 11, 2007