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Yale Eric Cohen

Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Departments

  • Psychological and Brain Sciences

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Contact Information

Email: yec@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-0532
Office: 6207 Moore Hall

Education

B.S.E. University of Michigan; M.S.E. University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Expertise

Brain; perception; senses; sensory, motor and cognitive cues; internal models of the external world; representation of auditory information in the cortex; how auditory and visual information is combined to form unified sensory precepts

Selected Works

  • "Selectivity for the Spatial and Non-spatial Attributes of Auditory Stimuli in the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex," with B E Russ, G W Gifford III, R Kiringoda, and K A MacLean, Journal of Neuroscience, 24 (2004) 11307-11316.
  • "Auditory Processing in the Posterior Parietal Cortex," with B E Russ, G W Gifford III, Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience Review, 4 (2005) 218-231.
  • "The Neurophysiology of Functionally Meaningful Categories: Macaque Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Plays a Critical Role in Spontaneous Categorization of Species-specific Vocalizations," with G W Gifford III, K A MacLean, and M D Hauser, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 (2005) 1471-1482.
  • "Spatial and Non-spatial Auditory Processing in the Lateral Intraparietal Area," with G W Gifford III, Experimental Brain Research, 162 (2005) 509-512.
  • "Eye-centered, Head-centered, and Complex Coding of Visual and Auditory Targets in the Intraparietal Sulcus," with O A Mullette-Gillman, J M Groh, Journal of Neurophysiology, 94 (2005) 2331-2352.

Current Projects

"Spontaneous Processing of Abstract Categorical Information in the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex;" "Responses of Neurons in the Lateral Intraparietal Area to Central Visual Cues;" "Modulation Spectra of Rhesus Vocalizations and Auditory Coding in the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex;" "Primate Communication and its Neural Bases"