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Dr Jennifer Bizley, Principal Investigator

Jenny set up her lab at UCL Ear Institute in 2011, as a UCL Excellence Fellow. She now holds a Sir Henry Dale Research fellow and is a Reader in Auditory Neuroscience. Previously she was a PhD student at the University of Oxford, working with Profs Andy King and Jan Schnupp, where she was also a post-doc and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow. Her main interest is in how the brain makes sense of the barrage of sensory information available to it. Her research focus is on the neural mechanisms of listening in noisy and complex - yet everyday - listening conditions. This includes understanding how visual information and attention enable us to listen effectively. While much of our work is centred on understanding auditory cortex we consider a number of other cortical areas including frontal and parietal cortex.


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Dr Stephen Town, Senior Research Associate 

​Stephen's current research project explores the neural circuits that allow us to flexibly switch between sensory modalities. His ongoing projects involve exploring spatial co-ordinate frames in auditory cortex, and perceptual invariance. 

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Dr Soraya Dunn, Post-Doctoral Research Associate
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Soraya completed her PhD co-supervised by Jenny & Dr Daniel Bendor at the IBN, UCL and established the ferret as an animal model for studying the hippocampus. 
Most of our understanding of the hippocampus, an area essential for spatial navigation, comes from rodents who sense the environment through whisking and sniffing. Ferrets, like humans, rely predominantly on hearing and vision, and therefore make an interesting comparison species. She is now continuing this project using chronically implanted neuropixel probes to record spiking activity. 

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Dr Rebecca Norris Post-Doctoral Research Associate
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Rebecca is looking at how auditory and visual cortices interact to link crossmodal information. She is investigating how silencing visual cortex impacts audiovisual processing in auditory cortex, and making simultaneous recordings in AC and VC to understand how visual information can shape auditory scene analysis.

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Dr Andrea Caso, Post-doctoral Research Associate

Andrea is a computational neuroscientist analysing neural recordings in Auditory Cortex made during the performance of an audio-visual rate discrimination task.

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Bhavisha Parmar, PhD student
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Bhavisha is co-supervised by Dr Debi Vickers and funded by the BRC. She is a qualified audiologist and spent 2017 as a sound seekers volunteer, establishing paediatric audiology services in Zambia. Her research project is to develop a spatial hearing test that mimics real-world listening in order to better assess hearing aid and cochlear implant fits.

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Katarina Poole, PhD Student 

Kat is funded by the ERC. Her project is investigating the role of auditory cortex and auditory cortex-hippocampus interactions in the detection of regularity. She is combining multielectrode recording with optogenetic methods to observe and perturb neural activity during behaviour. 



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Carla Griffiths, PhD Student
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Carla is funded by the ERC. Her project is investigating the role of auditory cortex and auditory cortex-hippocampus interactions in auditory stream formation. She is combining multi-electrode recordings during behaviour with computation methods to elucidate uncover neural signatures of feature to object-based representations. 

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Lida Alampounti, PhD Student

Lida is a BRC funded student developing clinical assessment tools for understanding how listeners exploit visual information when listening. She will be relating the ability of listeners to use visual cues to separate competing sounds to their ability to benefit from lip reading cues when listening in noise with the long term goal of provided targeted training to listeners who might benefit from improving their ability to exploit audiovisual integration.



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Jules Lebert, PhD student
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Jules is an ERC funded PhD student working to understand how auditory perception is maintained in the presence of background noise and how auditory-prefrontal interactions support selective listening.


Former Lab members:​
Dr Joseph Sollini - former postdoctoral researcher, now University of Nottingham.
Dr Gareth Jones -
 former post-doctoral researcher.
Dr Huriye Atilgan - former PhD student, now a post-doc in Alex Kwan's lab, at Yale.
Dr Katherine Wood - former PhD student, now a post-doc in Maria Geffen's lab at UPenn.
Jonatan Nordmark  - former MSc student, now a PhD student with Yves Boubenec and Shihab Shamma
Otso Pelkonen - returned to study medicine
Tara Etherington - now studying medicine
Shriya Banerji 
Mana Ahnood, Advanced Audiology MSc student
Ana Isabel Sanchez Jimenez - MRes student, now a PhD student with Vicky Bajo and Andy King in Oxford.

Collaborators: 
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University College London
Daniel Bendor
Debi Vickers

University of Washington, Seattle.
Adrian KC Lee

University of Rochester,
Ross Maddox

University of North Carolina
Flavio Frohlich

University of Oxford
Andy King
Kerry Walker

City University of Hong Kong
Jan Schnupp
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