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Auditory Neuroscience Research Initiative

The Auditory Neuroscience Research Initiative unites the many researchers and physician-scientists studying auditory neurophysiology at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute. Our mission as a group of researchers and clinicians is to promote excellence in research and innovative training in the hearing sciences, and translation to clinical practices. Together, we can foster scientific breakthroughs that will support the health and well-being of people who are physically, emotionally, or psychologically affected by hearing and balance disorders.

Our goal is to network faculty across disciplines and administrative units in ways that leverage and strengthen bridges from discoveries at the bench to applications at the bedside.

Everyday hearing - understanding a sentence, recognizing a voice, or picking out the melody of a song - is a feat of biological engineering. Machine hearing systems are just beginning to catch up to their biological counterparts and still lag behind them in many respects.

The long-term goal of the lab is to understand and model the neural computations that underlie human hearing, and to use these insights to improve machine systems and aid in the treatment of sensory deficits.

Our lab focuses on measuring human brain responses using functional MRI as well as intracranial recordings from patients undergoing electrode implantation as a part of their clinical care.

How Hearing Works: Neuroscience of Auditory Perception

Neurons in auditory cortex integrate information within a constrained and context-invariant temporal window.

Members of the TexAN Lab recently traveled to the Acoustical Society of America and Association for Research in Otolaryngology conferences to present their research on binaural hearing. These presentations described methods for quickly assessing the brain’s ability to detect subtle timing differences between right and left ears.

Members of the TexAN Lab recently traveled to the 181st Acoustical Society of America conference in Seattle to present two research projects on neural indices of spatial listening and bimodal hearing, respectively.

Ear Anatomy

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