Faculty
A study of zebra finches offers new insights into how the brain learns motor skills.
USC Dornsife News
Student
A new bachelor of science degree in computational neuroscience gives undergraduates a rare opportunity to apply mathematics to the study of the brain and nervous system. One is Sarah Herald, winner of the 2014 Rakusin Neuroscience Scholarship Award.
Student
A regional conference organized by USC Dornsife and the University of California at Irvine brings together researchers of hearing and vocal communication.
Faculty
USC Dornsife’s Jennifer Achiro, a neuroscience doctoral student in Sarah Bottjer’s laboratory, is first author on a songbird study that could lead to better treatment of language disorders in children.
Faculty
Sarah Bottjer of neurobiology and psychology and her team are the first to locate the neural circuit in the songbird brain that encodes a representation of learned vocal sounds.
Faculty
Stuttering, Parkinson's disease, Fragile X syndrome. The neural circuitry of songbirds holds one of the keys to understanding and repairing vocal learning in humans.
