Theunissen Lab

Theunissen lab at UC Berkeley. Trying to understand how complex natural sounds are detected and recognized by the brain.

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New exciting work from Kevin Yu, Bill Wood, and @FrdricTheuniss1 showing the incredible memory capacity of zebra finches; they can differentiate up to 50 conspecifics based on distance calls and songs! 1/4 @UCBerkeleyNeuro @BerkeleyPsych https://t.co/vRziTNLXuR

[Theunissen Lab @TheunissenLab]

New exciting work from @lilyxuegong , @alex_ander, Fatma Deniz, Keith Johnson, @gallantlab, @FrdricTheuniss1 showing the segmentation of the speech stream occurs mostly at the level of diphones and fMRI can capture dynamics faster than TR https://t.co/T5HEJt8grh @UCBerkeleyNeuro

[Theunissen Lab @TheunissenLab]

Be sure to check out the Virtual Songbird Satellite series tomorrow! The topic of this symposium is social-vocal interactions and it should be great! Julie Elie will be presenting some very interesting work! Thanks to the organizers @sarahCwoolley and Mimi Kao

[sarah c. woolley @sarahCwoolley]

It’s time for the 2nd symposium of the Virtual Songbird Satellite Series! Social and vocal interactions with talks by @morbentov, Julie Elie, & Jonathan Benichov. Friday Nov. 20, 11am EST. See flier for details and register here: https://t.co/l05pq998cR.

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We found that they are able to learn to recognize the identity of ~40 vocalizers. A fast and high-capacity auditory memory for vocalizer identity has not been demonstrated in any nonhuman animals and is an important part of vocal communication in social species! 4/4

[Theunissen Lab @TheunissenLab]

New exciting work from Kevin Yu, Bill Wood, and @FrdricTheuniss1 showing the incredible memory capacity of zebra finches; they can differentiate up to 50 conspecifics based on distance calls and songs! 1/4 @UCBerkeleyNeuro @BerkeleyPsych https://t.co/vRziTNLXuR

[Theunissen Lab @TheunissenLab]

We trained zebra finches to recognize other birds by their calls using a modified go/no-go task. Subjects began by discriminating one rewarded from one nonrewarded vocalizer, additional vocalizers were added over a 5-day learning ladder. 3/4