Overview
I am an auditory neuroscientist at Duke University. My research interests are focused on how perception, attention, and memory interact to organize and extract meaning from complex auditory scenes, such as speech in noise and music. I am passionate about contributing to the field through research and supporting the education of undergraduate students in neuroscience.
Through my early graduate training in the Duke Psychology & Neuroscience PhD program, I have gained expertise in utilizing single-unit intracranial recordings to explore auditory perception in rhesus macaques, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore multisensory representations underlying object recognition and subsequent memory, and stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG) in a patient with musicogenic epilepsy. As I progress towards my dissertation phase, I am diving deeper into the neural firing patterns underlying segregation and grouping in the auditory cortex.
Prior to the start of my graduate studies, I conducted research as an undergraduate at Duke in a variety of topics including, speech perception, auditory imagery, music and memory in individuals with dementia, and brain-computer interfaces for individuals suffering from severe paralysis.
