Liberty Hamiltonمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Dr. Liberty Hamilton is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, holding joint appointments in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (Moody College of Communication) and the Department of Neurology (Dell Medical School). She earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on understanding how the brain processes speech sounds, particularly during development and in clinical populations with epilepsy. Using invasive electrophysiological techniques (ECoG/sEEG) and noninvasive EEG, her lab studies speech perception, production, and neural plasticity in children and adults. Key research themes include: 1) Mapping neural representations of speech in the auditory cortex; 2) Investigating speech processing changes during development; 3) Developing clinical interventions for communication disorders. Collaborations involve Dell Children’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and Texas Children’s Hospital. Her work has been funded by NIH, Department of Defense, and the Coleman Fung Foundation. Notable awards include the Ellen A. Wartella Distinguished Research Award (2023) and Kavli Fellowship (2022). She mentors a multidisciplinary team of graduate students and postdocs, with current projects on auditory attention, speech decoding models, and neuroplasticity interventions. Publications emphasize naturalistic stimuli analysis, EEG/ECoG encoding models, and clinical translation of neuroscientific findings. Her lab is relocating to UC Berkeley in 2025 but continues active research at UT Austin until then.





