Language is one of the few uniquely human cognitive abilities and a foundation of human culture and civilization. What cognitive and neural mechanisms enable us to produce and understand language? A broad array of brain regions have been implicated in...
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The Amazing Success of Biological Auditory Systems
Humans routinely perform tasks with sound that remain impossible for even the most powerful and sophisticated machine hearing systems. Following a conversation on a noisy...
A fundamental problem in psychiatry is that there are no biological markers for diagnosing mental illness or for indicating how best to treat it. Treatment decisions are based entirely on symptoms, and doctors and their patients will typically try one...
John Gabrieli's goal is to understand the organization of memory, thought, and emotion in the human brain. By combining brain imaging with behavioral tests, he studies the neural basis of these abilities in human subjects. In collaboration with clinical...
Professor Freeman’s research is aimed at understanding the cellular and molecular origins of the remarkable properties of human hearing. Human hearing is sensitive: we can detect sounds that vibrate the eardrum less than the diameter of a hydrogen atom. ...
