Description of Research Expertise
My research examines how the brain combines sensory, motor, and
cognitive cues to form internal computational models of the
external world. Specifically, my research program focuses on
understanding the representation of auditory information in the
cortex, how auditory information is integrated with cognitive
processes, such as attention, decision making, motor planning, or memory, and how auditory and visual information is combined to form unified sensory
percepts.
Selected Publications
Lee JH, Tsunada J, Vijayan S, and Cohen YE: Cortical circuit based lossless neural integrator for perceptual decision-making. bioRxiv, bioRxiv; doi:10.1101/158865 : 2017.
Cohen YE: The Hearing Brain Princeton Press : 2017.
Cohen YE, Bennur S, Christison-Lagay KL, Gifford AM, and Tsunada J: Functional Organization of the Ventral Auditory Pathway
Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing 894 : 381-388,2016.
Tsunada J, Liu ASK, Gold JI, and Cohen YE: Causal contribution of primate auditory cortex to auditory perceptual decision-making Nature Neuroscience 19 : 139-142,2016.
Lee J, Bennur S, Fishman Y, and Cohen YE: Combined effects of frequency and location differences on auditory streaming Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, Online : 508.26/N9 ,2015.
Tsunada J, Liu ASK, Gold JI, and Cohen YE: Dissociation between spiking activity and local field potentials in the auditory cortex during auditory decision-making Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, Online : 508.12/M43,2015.
Gifford AM, Kahana M, and Cohen YE: Characterizing the dynamic representation of acoustic spectral regularity in humans Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, Online : 231.25/K5 ,2015.
Christison-Lagay KL and Cohen YE: Contribution of primary auditory cortex to auditory-streaming behavior Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, Online : 508.14/M45 ,2015.
Liu ASK, Tsunada J, Gold JI, and Cohen YE: Temporal integration of auditory information is invariant to temporal grouping cues eNeuro 2 (2): DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0077-14.2015 ,2015.
Bennur S and Cohen YE: The Contribution of the Core and Belt Regions of the Auditory Cortex to Figure-ground Segregation How Do We Hear in Noise? MidWinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD : 2015.
Academic Contact Information
Department of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
5 Ravdin
Philadelphia,
PA
19104
Phone: 215-898-7504