The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the role of neuronal synchrony and high‑frequency oscillations in perceptual processing within the auditory cortex of a [...]

Sensory information is the basis of an integrated perception of reality and allows an organism to make informed decisions based upon events occurrin [...]

The hair bundle, an exquisitely structured organelle of filamentous actin-based protrusions, mediates the transduction of sound into electrochemical signals, thus enablin [...]

Individuals with similar hearing abilities often vary greatly in their ability to successfully understand reverberant speech. Our poor understanding of reverberant speech [...]

Actin crosslinkers help shape the structure and mechanics of hair cell stereocilia. We identified several abundant crosslinkers and examined the developmentally regulated [...]

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 [...]

Individuals with a history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) often report difficulties understanding speech in competition that are not well predicted by the pure-ton [...]

Sensory hair cells adapt to sustained mechanical stimulation through Ca²⁺-dependent closure of transduction channels via fast and slow mechanisms. Using genetically sensi [...]

Zebrafish serve as a key model for auditory and vestibular research. We developed a novel method to quantify vestibular defects in larvae using the vestibulo-ocular refle [...]