The auditory system uses sound to guide behavior. However, the aspects of the sensory environment that are relevant to an organism's behavioral goals change over time. Ho [...]

How are complex, learned behaviors—like speech and singing—encoded in our genes, and how did they evolve? Human speech depends on our ability to learn and control vocaliz [...]

The overall focus of my doctoral research was to characterize how sensory and behavioral context affect how the auditory brain perceives and interprets sound.

The brain regulates nociceptive processing through descending projections from the brainstem to the spinal and trigeminal dorsal horns. This is accomplished through endog [...]

Our senses are continuously bombarded by an avalanche of stimuli. The sensory epithelia, and the downstream regions of the brain a few synapses away from them, have the t [...]

The world is full of sound—often in the form of noisy, acoustically cluttered environments—that we must make sense of. Noise vying for our attention overlaps with the sou [...]

The auditory system underlies the ability to perceive and respond to sound in the environment. However, perception and behavioral responses to sound are not static, but c [...]