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People
Principal Investigator
Graduate students
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Jiayue Liu
Jiayue is generally interested in how the acoustic signal that reaches the
eardrum is processed in the auditory system. More specifically, she is
devoted to understanding how hearing loss and hearing aids (including
cochlear implants) affect human auditory perception. Her current work
focuses on quantifying the perceptual cost of auditory nerve fiber loss.
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Evan Hare
Evan is interested in how auditory information and speech are processed in the brain.
Specific topics of interest include: (1) auditory scene analysis, (2) representations of
acoustic vs speech perception, (3) the mechanisms of auditory attention and phenomena such
as the “cocktail party effect.”
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Justine Shih (CNAP rotation student)
Justine is broadly interested in the intersection between neuroscience and music, including
the biological and emotional underpinnings of how music and sound affect the brain. Her research
interests focus on auditory and speech processing and multisensory integration. Prior to Duke,
Justine obtained dual Bachelor's degrees in Neuroscience and Music from the University of Chicago.
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Undergraduate Research Assistants
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Ying Yu
Ying is majoring in Program II, combining her interests in music,
neuroscience, and global health into her studies. She is currently
working on a project investigating Auditory Processing Disorder and is
also interested in how music can be used to improve patient outcomes,
mental health care, and memory care, especially in low-resource
settings. Ying is on the Triathlon team and loves backpacking and the
outdoors.
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Medy Mu
Medy is majoring in neuroscience and statistics. Medy was born in
Beijing, China, but did her secondary education in Austin, Texas. Medy
discovered her interests in neuroscience when she started to learn brain
anatomy in high school and was very surprised by the delicacy and
complexity of human brains. Medy also likes to spend her free time
playing drums and making origami.
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Allen Zhang
Allen is majoring in Biomedical Engineering. He is interested in the
connection between music and perception. In his free time, Allen enjoys
playing and performing violin and fishing.
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Kees Heetderks
Kees is majoring in neuroscience with a minor in chemistry. So far he has
focused on molecular neurobiology in a class setting, but is interested in
sound and language processing in the brain. In addition, he hopes to learn
more about neurological diseases, specifically Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
Disease in a lab setting. In his free time, he likes to play soccer and hike.
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Divya Nataraj
Divya is majoring in computer science. She is interested in exploring the
applications of computer science and data analytics to the field of neuroscience.
In her free time, Divya enjoys singing and also loves to travel.
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Annie Vila
Annie is planning on majoring in biology with a concentration in neurobiology.
She is double minoring in psychology and chemistry. She is interested in the sound
processing systems in the brain. She hopes to study neurological disorders in the future,
specifically epilepsy. Annie likes to spend her free time playing tennis and listening to music.
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Lab alumni
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SG (Seung-Goo) Kim
Postdoc; next stop: postdoc at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany
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Akshay Maggu
Postdoc; next stop: faculty in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Hofstra University.
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Jasmine Leahy
Undergraduate Research Assistant; next stop: Medical School at Mount Sinai
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Jie Wan
Lab manager; next stop: graduate student at UC Irvine with Greg
Hickok
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David Murphy
Graduate student (with Jenni Groh)
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Taylor Fistel
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Saqib Shahid
Rotating Masters student
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Charlie Todd
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Maddie Hsiang
Undergraduate Research Assistant; next stop: IRTA
Postbaccalaureate fellow at NIH
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Preethi Kannan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Valeria Caruso
Postdoc; next stop: Research Investigator at the
University of Michigan
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Jackson Lee
Research Assistant / Lab Manager; next stop: MS in
Computer Science at Georgia Tech
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Anthony Sali
Postdoc; next stop: Assistant
Professor at Wake Forest University
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Yoshie Mizuguchi
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Paul Dickinson
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Aurelio Falconi
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Matt Fecteau
Lab manager; next stop: Duke Track team
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Paige Mihalsky
Lab manager / Research assistant; next stop: Medical School at the University of Oklahoma
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Joon Paik
Undergraduate and Graduate Research Assistant; next stop: preparing for Med/Grad
School
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Jade Wu
North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics Mentorship
Program; next stop: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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