News

April 5, 2012:
New article published in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience: Cortico-limbic morphology separates tinnitus from tinnitus distress. See our publications page for details.

February 15, 2012:
New article published in Journal of Neurophysiology: Sound-identity processing in early areas of the auditory ventral stream in the macaque. See our publications page for details.

January 30, 2012:
New study rewrites textbook location of Wernicke's Area. See our publications page for details.

Mission

The Lab investigates the functional organization and plasticity of the cerebral cortex, with special emphasis on the neural substrates of audition in humans and nonhuman primates. Research follows three general themes: processing streams in audition (space and objects; music and speech); brain reorganization in tinnitus; and cross-modal plasticity in the blind. Experimental techniques emphasized are in-situ electrophysiology and functional magnetic resonance imaging.