Renowned auditory neuroscientist Barbara Shinn-Cunningham has been named the 2019 recipient of the Helmholtz Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics and Speech Communication “for understanding the cogniti... read more
Speech is a highly variable signal. For example, acoustics of the same word spoken by different speakers are highly distinct; nevertheless, listeners can easily recognize the sounds to carry the same linguistic message. Human listeners and even infants ov... read more
CNBC CMU faculty members Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Lori Holt and Eric Yttri received grants from a gift to the Mellon College of Science from the DSF Charitable Foundation. Next-generation High-density Digital Neural Interfaces Based on Scalable CMOS Tech... read more
The Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia General anesthesia is a neurophysiological state in which a patient is rendered unconscious, insensitive to pain, amnestic and immobile, while being maintained physiologically stable. General ... read more
The trial-to-trial variability of neuronal responses provides detailed information on how the circuit structure connecting neurons drives brain activity and behavior. This idea combined with the widespread use of population recordings has prompted d... read more
The brain can anticipate stimuli that are behaviorally relevant, and attention can be deployed in advance of the stimuli’s appearance. The prevailing view is that attention works by acting as a sort of gain on neural activity leading to an amplification... read more
Adolescence is a period of development where complex cognitive abilities like working-memory and inhibitory control mature, becoming more consistent and reliable. These improvements in cognition are occurring at the same time that brain structures that su... read more
CNBC faculty member and associate director (CMU) Wayne Wu has just completed a survey of the neuroscience of consciousness in a review article for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The comprehensive review clarifies how consciousness can be empiric... read more
CNBC and CMU Biology faculty Aryn Gittis received the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Award which recognizes creativity and originality in research and aims to promote the success of early career researchers. She accepted the award at the Society for Neuroscie... read more
Single neurons in the brain’s primary visual cortex can reliably detect straight lines, even though the cellular makeup of the neurons is constantly changing, according to a new study by Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists, led by Associate Profe... read more