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Surprise! – How the brain learns to deal with the unexpected
Patricia’s paper, “Sequential maturation of stimulus-specific adaptation in the lemniscal auditory pathway” is out at Science Advances. It has been well discussed in the news, including an article from Angelika Jacobs in…
Podcast Primenews UniBâle
I was interviewed for a podcast in the series UniBâle from primenews to tell about our research – and hearing in general. If you are open for some broken german, listen to…
The sounds of silence
Yvonne Vahlensieck wrote a very nice article about our lab’s research, focusing on the work on the relevance and mechanisms of offset responses by Magdalena. The article was published in UniNova, the…
When the brain switches from hearing to listening
Gioia’s paper, “Task-induced modulations of neuronal activity along the auditory pathway” is out at Cell Reports. It has been well discussed in the news, including an article from Angelika Jacobs in the…
Forschungsporträt in the UniNews
Interested in reading more about researchers at the University of Basel? Follow this link to see a few of them, including the one for our lab! Available both in german (original) and…
Listening happens in the brain, not in the ears…
An article was published in the University of Basel’s English-language blog “Sci Five” (Medium) on our research on critical periods in the developing auditory system (Bhumika et al, 2019; Nakamura et al.,…
Optimize the bionic ear to get it in better shape
Charlotte wrote a super nice “Behind the paper” blogpost on her last publication. Check it out here: [link] . With it we would also like to pay tribute to Jonathan Laudansky who…
Good noise, bad noise: white noise improves hearing
Our Cell Reports paper is advertised for in the Uni news! Thank you Iris Mickein for the nice article. It has also been noticed by the swiss radio, who called me for an interview on…
In die TagesWoche: how sounds can affect the brain
Andrea Fopp from the local Basel journal die TagesWoche came to the Biozentrum to discuss with Tania about how sounds can affect the brain. The related article is incorporate in a thematic…
Rasmus is on the radio to explain how the brain hears
Rasmus was invited at the danish radio P2 as a neuroscientist expert in hearing to discuss how the brain hears, in the radio’s series “P2 fejrer lyd” (P2 celebrate sounds). Rasmus also…
Charlotte explains how sounds affect the brain
Charlotte gave a public lecture on How sounds affect the brain at a Sound and Science event taking place at the Bolsjefabrikken in Copenhagen on April 20 2017. Topics related to auditory illusion,…
Article on the auditory system by Charlotte and Hans
Charlotte and Hans wrote a chapter about the auditory system in the book “The talented brain” (Den talentfulde Hjerne) edited this year by “hjerneforumet”. For danish readers, you can find the article by following this…
Christina talks about animal experiments on TV
Christina participated in a danish TV show (DR) on Peter Panum, a famous danish physiologist (1820-1885) . Christina explained why animal experiments are necessary for advancing our knowledge of the functions of…
On why Basel is the place to be (at least for me!)
A little youtube recording explaining why I chose Basel…in german only: [link] I could cite many other reasons – just get in touch with me in case you want to know more…
Tag der Biomedizin
The Department of Biomedicine of Basel University had open doors on April 9, 2016. A supplement describing the department and featuring among others our lab, was distributed in the local newspaper. It…
Radio show about Hearing and the Brain
A danish radio show (Romerriget on Radi24ysv) wanted to know more about what is going in the brain when a sound reaches our ear. In addition to Kamilla Angelo (senior researcher at Oticon), Peter…
The SNSF compensates for ERC Starting Grants
As a result of the Swiss vote on February 9th 2014, Swiss researchers who had obtained a ERC Starting Grant and were moving their lab back to Switzerland had to be give…
The ERC Starting Grant
We are very delighted to announce that the lab’s research proposal for the coming 5 years has been recommended for funding as an ERC Starting Grant 2014. This grant is aimed at…
In the SUND news
As the Lundbeck Foundation published the list of recipients for its 2014 fellowships, the Faculty of Health Sciences of Copenhagen University wrote about our research interests and future directions. Read more about…
The boy whose brain could unlock autism
A recent article in Medium describes autism from a different angle, based on research on the Valproic Acid (VPA) rat model conducted in Henry Markram’s Lab by Tania Rinaldi Barkat and Kamila…
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