Jonathan Simon
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Associate Professor 301/405-3645 TEL |
Research Interests
Speech and higher order processing with a focus on how auditory cortex processes complex sounds; human auditory responses to speech and speechlike modulations; auditory scene analysis; binaural processing
Background Information
Jonathan Simon joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in January '01 and the Biology Department in July '02. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Systems Research. His expertise is applied and theoretical neuroscience. He earned his doctorate in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and did postdoctoral research in theoretical general relativity (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and University of Maryland-College Park) before embracing the field of neuroscience.
Simon is co-director of the Computational Sensorimotor Systems Laboratory (CSSL) with ECE/ISR professor Timothy Horiuchi. CSSL focuses on the investigation, modeling and implementation of biological sensorimotor systems for both scientific and engineering purposes. Simon's research focuses on neural processing in the brain's auditory system, from specialized processing found only in humans (used in speech processing) to generalized processing found in most mammals, including sound localization.
Links
Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department
Department
of Biology
Computational
Sensorimotor Systems Laboratory
Program
in Bioengineering
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program
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