Luke Remage-Healey
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
https://www.umass.edu/pbs/people/luke-remage-healey
“Walks like a duck: Conserved physiological principles in the songbird auditory cortex”
Luke says: “I will be talking about ideas I’m putting together for a new NSF grant. Our experiments will test the ‘cortical microcircuit’ hypothesis, which predicts that cortical excitatory and inhibitory neurons exhibit a conserved synaptic architecture among vertebrates. We will test predictions derived from recent work in mammalian cortex by studying auditory processing in a songbird species, the Australian zebra finch. We will examine the functional organization of songbird cortex using electrophysiological, optogenetic, and behavioral methods.”
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