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Andrew H. Bass
Andrew H. Bass is the Horace White Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University, known for a 2008 Science study tracing vertebrate vocalization origins to fish.
Andrew J. King
Andrew J. King, born in 1959, is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Neurophysiology at Oxford known for discovering the brain's spatial map of sound.
Anne Takesian
Anne E. Takesian is an auditory neuroscientist at Mass Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School who studies how auditory cortex circuits reorganize after hearing loss.
Carl C.H. Petersen
Carl C.H. Petersen is a Swiss-based neuroscientist who studies how the mammalian cortex processes touch, as Full Professor at EPFL and head of its Laboratory of Sensory Processing.
Catherine Weisz
Catherine Weisz is an American auditory neuroscientist who leads the Section on Neuronal Circuitry at the NIDCD, part of the NIH, and received a 2017 PECASE award.
Claire Wyart
Claire Wyart is a French and American biophysicist and neuroscientist who leads the SIBBIL team at the Paris Brain Institute, known for discovering spinal neurons that sense body bending.
Clinton N. Woolsey
Clinton N. Woolsey (1904–1993) was an American neurophysiologist who pioneered functional mapping of the cerebral cortex, showing where touch, hearing, and vision are represented on the brain's surface.
Dana Boatman
Dana Boatman, also known as Dana Frances Boatman-Reich, is an audiologist and clinical neurophysiologist, professor at Johns Hopkins, and director of its Auditory Neurophysiology Laboratory, studying speech perception.
Daniel Llano
Daniel Adolfo Llano is an American physician-scientist, professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and neurologist at Carle, known for auditory thalamocortical research and tinnitus.
Daniel O'Connor (American neuroscientist)
Daniel O'Connor is an American systems neuroscientist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins, known for studying how neural circuits convert touch into perception and decisions.
David P. Corey
David P. Corey is an American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who studies how inner-ear hair cells convert sound into electrical signals and develops gene therapies for hereditary deafness.
Elena Gracheva
Elena Gracheva is a sensory neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine known for identifying the ion channels that let snakes and vampire bats sense infrared heat.
Eric I. Knudsen
Eric I. Knudsen is an American neuroscientist and Stanford professor emeritus who mapped auditory space in the barn owl midbrain and studied how early experience shapes it.
Fan Wang (neuroscientist)
Fan Wang is a neuroscientist, MIT professor, and McGovern Institute investigator who studies brain circuits of touch, pain, and anesthesia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.
Hallowell Davis
Hallowell Davis (1896–1992) was an American neurophysiologist who helped found clinical electroencephalography in the United States and became a leading figure in audiology and hearing conservation.
Ian J. Russell
Ian J. Russell is a neuroscientist and Fellow of the Royal Society who studied cochlear hair cells, hearing, and noise-induced hearing loss at the Universities of Sussex and Brighton.
Jeffrey R. Holt
Jeffrey R. Holt is a Harvard Medical School neuroscientist who established TMC1 as the inner ear's mechanotransduction channel and pioneered gene therapies that restored hearing in deaf mice.
Jerzy E. Rose
Jerzy E. Rose (Jerzy Edwin Rose) was a Polish-born American neuroscientist in auditory neurophysiology who, with Clinton Woolsey, shaped the first view of auditory cortex organization.
Jerzy Edwin Rose
Jerzy Edwin Rose (1909–1992) was a Polish-born American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Jonathan Ashmore
Jonathan Ashmore, born in 1948, is a neuroscientist and the Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics at University College London, known for his work on cochlear outer hair cells and the cochlear amplifier.
Josef P. Rauschecker
Josef P. Rauschecker is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Georgetown University since 1995, known for the dual-stream "what" and "where" model of auditory processing.
Karl Kandler
Karl Kandler is a German-trained neuroscientist and professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh who studies how auditory brain circuits are wired before hearing begins.
Katie Kindt
Katie Kindt is an American hair-cell neurobiologist who leads the Section on Sensory Cell Development and Function at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH.
Konstantina M. Stanković
Konstantina M. Stanković is an American otolaryngologist and auditory neuroscientist who became chair of otolaryngology at Stanford in 2021, researching gene therapy and other approaches to hearing restoration.
Laurence O. Trussell
Laurence Trussell is a neuroscientist and professor at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for his 2001 Nature work on presynaptic glycine receptors in the auditory brainstem.
Li Zhang
Li Zhang, professionally Li I. Zhang, is a systems neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California who studies how neural circuits generate perception and behavior.
Masakazu Konishi
Masakazu Konishi (小西正一), known in the United States as Mark Konishi, was a Japanese-born American neuroethologist at Caltech who studied how barn owls localize sound.
Matthew I. Banks
Matthew I. Banks is a neuroscientist and Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research studies how anesthesia and brain connectivity alter consciousness.
Michael J. Caterina
Michael J. Caterina is a sensory neurobiologist and Solomon H. Snyder Professor at Johns Hopkins University who identified TRPV1, the capsaicin receptor, the first heat-gated ion channel cloned.
Nobuo Suga
Nobuo Suga, born 1933, is a Japanese-born neurophysiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for discovering combination-sensitive neurons in the mustached bat's auditory cortex.