Yale Cohen
Animal Learning and Behavior; Sensation and Perception
Specific Research Areas
neural correlates of auditory cognition; neural correlates of communication and spatial processing; multimodal perception
Research Synopsis
My research examines how the brain combines sensory, motor, and cognitive cues to form internal models of the external world. Specifically, my research interests focus on understanding the representation of auditory information in the cortex, how auditory information is integrated with cognitive processes such as attention, motor planning, or memory, and how auditory and visual information is combined to form unified sensory percepts.
Appointments
Department of Otorhinolaryngology; Neuroscience Graduate Group; Psychology Graduate Group
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Neural Correlates of Auditory Cognition (In Press) Edited by Y.E. Cohen, A.N. Popper, and R.R Fay, Springer-Verlag
Lee J.H., Tsunada J., and Cohen Y.E. (In Press) A model of the differential representation of signal novelty in the local field potentials and spiking activity of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex t Neural Comp.
Tsunada J., Lee J.H., and Cohen Y.E. (2012) Differential representation of auditory categories between cell classes in primate auditory cortex {\it J. Physiol.} 590:3129-3139
Tsunada J., Baker A.E., Christison-Lagay K.L., Davis, S.J., and Cohen Y.E. (2011) Modulation of cross-frequency coupling by novel and repeated stimulus in the primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. {\it Front. Psychol.} 2:217 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00217
Tsunada J, Lee JH, and Cohen, YE. Representation of speech categories in the primate auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol. 105(6):2634-46.
Russ BE, Cohen YE. Rhesus monkeys' valuation of vocalizations during a free-choice task. PLoS One. 18; 4(11):e7834, 2009.
Cohen YE, Russ BE, Davis SJ, Baker AE, Ackelson AL, and Nitecki R. A functional role for the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in non-spatial auditory cognition. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. Nov 24; 106(47):20045-50, 2009.
Recanzone GH, Cohen, YE. Serial and parallel processing in the primate auditory cortex revisited. Behav Brain Res. 206(1):1-7, 2010.
Lee JH, Russ BE, Orr LE, and Cohen YE. Prefrontal activity predicts monkeys' decisions during an auditory category task. Front Integr Neurosci. 3:16, 2009.
Russ BE, Orr LE, and Cohen YE. Prefrontal neurons predict choices during an auditory same-different task. Curr Biol 18: 1483-1488, 2008.
Russ BE, Ackelson AL, Baker AE, and Cohen YE. Coding of auditory-stimulus identity in the auditory non-spatial processing stream. J Neurophysiol 99: 87-95, 2008.
Mullette-Gillman OA, Cohen YE, and Groh JM. Motor-related signals in a hybrid reference frame in intraparietal cortex. Cereb Cortex, In Press.
Russ BE, Lee Y-S, and Cohen YE. Neural and behavioral correlates of auditory categorization. Hear Res 229: 204-212, 2007.
Cohen YE, Theunissen FE, Russ BE, and Gill P. The acoustic features of rhesus vocalizations and their representation in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. J Neurophysiol: 1470-1184, 2007.
Russ BE, Kim A, Abrahamsen KL, Kiringoda R, and Cohen YE. Responses of neurons in the lateral intraparietal area to central visual cues. Exp Brain Res 174: 712-727, 2006.
Gifford III GW and Cohen YE. Categorization of species-specific vocalizations in the non-humanprimate: features guiding behavioral discrimination and neuralprocessing in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Cog Sci 2: 65-87, 2006.