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Christoph E. Schreiner, the coordinating author, is a Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Bioengineering at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics and an MD from the University of Göttingen, Germany. His main research interests include the processing of complex sounds from the auditory midbrain to the auditory cortex in various animal models with spe- cial consideration of hearing impairments. He is a member of the Tinnitus Research Consortium and has edited—jointly with Dr. Jeffery Winer—two books on central auditory processing.
absence of acoustic input and following the initiation of audi- tory processing through the means of cochlear prosthetics.
Hisayuki Ojima is Professor of Cognitive Neurobiology at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Dr. Ojima’s research focuses on the neuronal substrates and their morphological entity for acoustical signal processing in the auditory cortex, with emphasis on feedback connections, background firing, inhibitory synaptic potentials, and their relationship to animal behavior.
Shihab Shamma is Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Shamma's research deals with issues in compu- tational neuroscience, euromorphic engineering, and the devel- opment of microsensor systems for experimental research and neural prostheses. Primary focus has been on studying the computational principles underlying the processing and recog- nition of complex sounds (speech and music) in the auditory system, and the relationship between auditory and visual pro- cessing. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
Patrick Kanold is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He received is Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Dr. Kanold studies the development and plasticity of the brain, in particular how periods of learning and plasticity are initiated and controlled. He uses advanced neurophysiological, in vivo imaging, optogenetic, molecular and computational tech- niques. His work furthers our understanding of how prenatal and postnatal brain injury contributes to neurodevelopmental disorders such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
Stephen G. Lomber, Ph.D., is a Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Psychology at Western University in London, Canada, where he directs the Cerebral Systems Laboratory. He holds degrees in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester and the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Lomber is a Principal Investigator at the Brain and Mind Institute and an Associate Member of the National Centre for Audiology and Robarts Research Institute. Dr. Lomber uses an integrated approach of psychophysics, electro- physiological recording, neuroanatomical techniques, and functional imaging to examine processing in the auditory cor- tex. His work examines cortical plasticity in the presence and
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