FACULTY MEMBERS

Mark Bachman
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering

Interests: Nanotechnology, Physical Nanosensors, Extra-sensory engineering. We develop micro and nanotechnologies that can be applied to problems in medicine and life science research.

Bruce G. Berg
Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences

Interests: perception of complex sounds; mathematical modeling of psychophysical and physiological auditory processes.

Anne L. Calof
Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology

Interests: Molecular analysis of nervous system development and regeneration using transgenic mouse models; neural stem cells

Karina S. Cramer
Assistant Professor , Neurobiology & Behavior

Interests: We study the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie formation of neural circuitry in the auditory system during embyrogenesis, and we examine how these mechanisms operate during plasticity.

Hamid Djalilian
Associate Professor , Department of Otolaryngology

Interests: We conduct research in several areas related to cochlear implants, acoustic neuroma, and chronic ear disease.

Michael D'Zmura
Professor, Cognitive Sciences

Interests: Spatial hearing, attention, speech and multimodal processing

Nicole Gage
Assistant Researcher, Cognitive Sciences

Interests: Neural substrates of human speech and language.

Gregory S. Hickok
Professor, Cognitive Sciences

Interests: We use a variety of methods (fMRI, lesion, TMS) to map brain systems supporting speech and language processing, in both hearing and deaf populations.

Leonard M. Kitzes
Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology

Interests: Physiology and development of the auditory system.

Virginia Mann
Professor, Cognitive Sciences

Interests: Reading ability: phoneme awareness, developmental dyslexia, phonological skills, early intervention precocious readers speech perception: context effects, cross-linguistic comparisons.

Matthew McHenry
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior

Interests: The hydrodynamics and micromechanics of flow sensing in the lateral line system of zebrafish.

Raju Metherate
Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior

Interests: Mechanisms of auditory cortex physiology, development and modulation.

Edwin W Rubel
Professor, University of Washington

Interests: In general, I am interested in all aspects of development of hearing and the auditory pathways from the inner ear to the cerebral cortex. In particular, most of my work centers on understanding: 1) the intrinsic and extrinsic factors regulation development of the brainstem auditory pathways of birds and mammals; and 2) the cellular biology governing degeneration and regeneration of mechanoreceptive hair cells.

Kourosh Saberi
Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences

Interests: Cortical bases of sensory and perceptual processes.

Ramesh Srinivasan
Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences

Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Development, Consciousness, Perception, EEG, Brain Dynamics

Arne Starr
Research Professor, Neurology, Neurobiology & Behavior, Cognitive Sciences

Interests: We study altered auditory processes in normal subjects and in 1) auditory neuropathy, a disorder of auditory nerve function in the presence of normal hair cell functions; 2) auditory memory and attention and changes with aging and dementias. We use physiological brain potentials measures of auditory pathway activity from the hair cell to auditory cortex to localize the site of change in the auditory pathway.

Norman M. Weinberger
Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior

Interests: Our goals are to understand the acquisition, retention and representation of information in the primary auditory cortex that underlies behavioral memory. We use a multi-level approach: behavioral, systems, circuits and cells. We are currently studying specific memory traces in auditory cortex and behavioral memory induced during both learning and by activation of the cholinergic nucleus basalis, and the new field of memory codes, the latter appearing as tuning shifts that encode the magnitude of learned behavioral importance of sounds.

Jack Xin
Professor, Mathematics

Interests: Fronts in heterogeneous media, ear modeling, and sound signal processing.

Fan-Gang Zeng
Professor, Otolaryngology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Biomedical
Engineering, and Cognitive Sciences

Interests: Use systems and modeling approach to understand how the ear and the brain work together to process sounds, including human speech and music. Develop and design innovative prosthetic devices and training procedures for people who have lost hearing and balance functions.