Research Discovery Zebra finches amazing at unmasking the bird behind the song New study from the Theunissen lab, led by Neuroscience PhD student Kevin Yu and postdoc…barbaraNovember 20, 2020
Research Discovery How neuronal recognition of songbird calls unfolds over time A novel computational approach sheds new light on the response of neurons in the brain…Cari IrwinOctober 14, 2019
Announcement Theunissen wins Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award Congratulations to Professor Frédéric Theunissen for winning a Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award from…Cari IrwinFebruary 5, 2019
Research Discovery Pop-outs: How the brain extracts meaning from noise When you’re suddenly able to understand someone despite their thick accent, or finally make out…barbaraDecember 20, 2016
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News Words On The Brain: A Semantic Map of the Cortex In a new Nature paper, Berkely neuroscientists Alexander G. Huth and colleagues present a ‘semantic atlas’ of the…georgeannApril 30, 2016
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News New brain research offers hope for those who have lost speech As humans interpret the meaning of the words they’re hearing, they must use a wide…georgeannApril 28, 2016
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News How the ‘Moth Radio Hour’ helped scientists map out meaning in the brain This is your brain on stories. By tracking the blood flow in people’s brains as…georgeannApril 28, 2016
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News This Is Your Brain on Podcasts Listening to music may make the daily commute tolerable, but streaming a story through the…georgeannApril 28, 2016
Research Discovery Detailed Map of Language Representation in Human Brain Figure 2 from Nature 2016 Apr 28;532(7600):453-8. doi: 10.1038/nature17637. In their paper published in Nature today,…georgeannApril 28, 2016