Yale Cohen

Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
Professor of Bioengineering; Chair, Bioengineering Graduate Group; Director, Hearing Sciences Center; Chair, IACUC; Director, Office of Animal Welfare; Director, Hearing Sciences Center

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

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.

Office Location: 
3400 Spruce Street 5 Ravdin Suite A - ORL
Email: 
ycohen@mail.med.upenn.edu
Phone: 
215-898-7504
Website: 
http://auditoryresearchlaboratory.weebly.com/
Research Interests: 

Neural Correlates of Auditory Cognition

Neural Correlates of Communication and Spatial Processing

Multimodal Perception

Selected Publications: 

Liu ASK, Tsunada J, Gold JI, & Cohen YE Temporal integration of auditory information is invariant to temporal grouping cue. eNeuro. DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0077-14.2015 (2015)

Escabi MA, Read HL, Viventi J, Kim D-H, Higgins NC, Storace DA, Liu ASK, Gifford AM, Burke JF, Campisi M, Kim Y-S, Avrin AE, van der Spiegel J, Huang Y, Li M, Wu J, Rogers JA, Litt B, & Cohen Y.E. A high-density, high-channel count, multiplexed µECoG array for auditory-cortex recordings. J. Neurophysiol 112:1566-1583 (2014)

Christison-Lagay KL, Gifford AM, & Cohen YE Neural correlates of auditory scene analysis and perception Int J Psychophysiol 95:238-245 (2014)

Tsunada J & Cohen YE Neural mechanisms of auditory categorization: from across brain areas to within local microcircuits. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00161 (2014)

Christison-Lagay KL, Bennur S, Blackwell J, Lee JH, Schroeder T, & Cohen YE Natural variability in species-specific vocalizations constrains behavior and neural activity 312:128-142 (2014)

Christison-Lagay KL & Cohen YE Behavioral correlates of auditory streaming in rhesus macaques 309:17-25 (2014)

Gifford AM, Cohen YE, & Stocker AA Characterizing the impact of category uncertainty on human auditory categorization behavior DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003715 (2014)