Faculty
| Faculty | Department | Lab Affiliation | Interests |
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Paul D. Allen, Ph.D.
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Research Assistant Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy | Paige Lab | Impact of presbycusis on functional hearing; auditory spatial processing; human and rodent psychoacoustics |
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Richard N. Aslin, Ph.D.
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William R. Kenan Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences | Aslin Lab | Perceptual development in infants |
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Loisa Bennetto, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Clinical & Social Sciences In Psychology | Bennetto Lab | Neurocognitive and communication deficits in autism and other developmental disabilities |
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Laurel H. Carney, Ph.D.
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology & Anatomy | Carney Lab | Auditory Neuroscience; neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids. |
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Benjamin T. Crane, M.D., Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology | Crane Lab | The interaction of vision, the vestibular system, and human disease on motion perception. |
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Greg DeAngelis, Ph.D.
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Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences | DeAngelis Lab | Visual neuroscience; multi-sensory integration; neural coding; linking neurons to perception |
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Charles J. Duffy, M.D., Ph.D.
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Professor of Neurology | Cognitive Neuroscience Lab | Functioning of cerebral neocortex, using neurophysiologic and psychophysical methods to examine mechanisms of spatial orientation |
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Edward G. Freedman, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy | Freedman Lab | Neural control of coordinated movements |
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Lin Gan, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Ophthalmology | Gan Lab | Development and degenerative diseases of sensory neurons, gene regulation |
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Greg T. Gdowski, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering | Vestibular neurophysiology: sensory neural control underlying the coordination of postural movements | |
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Joseph C. Holt, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy and Otolaryngology | Holt Lab | Synaptic pharmaco-physiology of vestibular efferent-afferent interactions |
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James R. Ison, Ph.D.
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Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences | Ison Lab | Analysis of sensory and perceptual function |
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Florian Jaeger, Ph.D.
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Wilmot Assistant Professor of the Sciences of Brain & Cognitive Sciences | Human Language Processing Lab | Language production and comprehension, language modeling |
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Amy Kiernan, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology | Kiernan Lab | Molecular development of the inner ear; regeneration; congenital deafness and vestibular dysfunction |
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Anne E. Luebke, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology & Anatomy | Luebke Lab | Role of cochlear outer hair cells in hearing and hearing loss, at both the molecular and systems levels |
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Amneris E. Luque, M.D.
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Research Assistant Professor of Medicine | Effects of HIV/AIDS on hearing | |
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Joyce McDonough, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics | Phonetics, laboratory phonology, morphology | |
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Michael Mustari, Ph.D.
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Faculty of Ophthalmology at University of Washington | Neural mechanisms associated with normal and pathological visual, vestibular, oculomotor, and gaze functions | |
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Jong-Hoon Nam, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering | Nam Lab | Biophysics of inner ear sensory cells, cell mechanics |
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Shawn D. Newlands, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
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Professor of Otolaryngology | Newlands Lab | Vestibular anatomy and physiology, recovery from vestibular injury, vestibular control of head unrestrained gaze. |
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William E. O'Neill, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy | Paige Lab | Processing of complex acoustic signals in the central auditory system; echolocation; aging effects on central auditory system |
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Gary D. Paige, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
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Chair and Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy | Paige Lab | Visual, vestibular, and adaptive control of spatial orientation and balance |
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James O. Phillips, Ph.D.
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Faculty of Otolaryngology at University of Washington, Seattle | Neurophysiology and behavior of vestibular and visual interactions | |
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Raphael Pinaud, Ph.D.
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Faculty of Neurobiology at Northwestern University | Neural bases of auditory processing and plasticity: molecular and physiological mechanisms of auditory discrimination and learning | |
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Lizabeth M. Romanski, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy | Romanski Lab | Organization and functions of the primate prefrontal cortex |
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Robert Schor, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy | Processing of spatial and temporal information by the vestibular system of mammals | |
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Scott H. Seidman, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology & Anatomy | Paige Lab | Vestibular systems, motor learning, physiological models, multi-sensory integration |
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Laura Silverman, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Autism Research | |
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Michael K. Tanenhaus, Ph.D.
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Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences | Mechanisms underlying real-time spoken language and reading comprehension | |
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Bruce Tempel, Ph.D.
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Faculty of Otolaryngology at University of Washington, Seattle | Genetic basis of auditory signal transduction and central processing; Complex genetics of noise resistance and hearing loss with age | |
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Patricia M. White, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy | White (Patricia) Lab | Sensory regeneration of the inner ear, or hair-cell regeneration |




