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Sensory Processing and Cognition Lab

Research in the Sensoring Processing and Cognition Lab focuses on basic questions investigating how the cortex integrates information from more than one sense (e.g., sight and hearing), as well as on clinically-relevant questions as to how the cortex adapts to hearing loss and its perceptual implications. The Sensory Processing and Cognition Lab investigates:

Multisensory Processing and Perception

Simply by considering our own daily experiences, we become keenly aware that the processing of information from each of our senses does not occur solely in isolation; rather, our brains naturally merge information from our different senses to provide us with a more complete sensory experience.

Brain Plasticity Following Hearing Loss

How does the brain adapt (or mal-adapt) when it is deprived one of its senses? To address this question, my lab my lab has taken a multi-faceted approach that ranges from in vitro investigations of the sensory cells in the inner ear, all the way up to studying cortical processing at the level of single neurons, local cortical micro-circuits and sensory perception. It remains a long-term goal of my research program to reveal the brain circuits and cellular mechanisms that contribute to the perceptual consequences commonly associated with hearing loss-induced brain plasticity.