Department of Otorhinolaryngology

Otorhinolaryngology
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Yale E. Cohen

Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Department: Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery

Contact information
Department of Otorhinolaryngology:Head and Neck Surgery
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
3400 Spruce - 5 Ravdin
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215 898 7504
Fax: 215 898 7504
Education:
BSE (Electrical Engineering)
University of Michigan, 1984.
MSE (Bioengineering)
University of Pennsylvania, 1990.
PhD (Bioengineering)
University of Pennsylvania, 1992.
Post-Graduate Training
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University, 1992-1996.
Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1996-1999.
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Description of Research Expertise

My research examines how the brain combines sensory, motor, and
cognitive cues to form internal computational models of the
external world. Specifically, my research program focuses on
understanding the representation of auditory information in the
cortex, how auditory information is integrated with cognitive
processes, such as attention, decision making, motor planning, or memory, and how auditory and visual information is combined to form unified sensory
percepts.

Selected Publications

Lee, Jung H., Russ, Brian E., Orr, Lauren E. Cohen, Yale E.: Prefrontal activity predicts monkeys' decisions during an auditory category task. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 3(16): 1-12, 2009.

Russ, Brian E. Orr, Lauren E. Cohen, Yale E.: Prefrontal neurons predict choices during an auditory same-different task. Current Biology 18(19): 1483-8, Oct 14 2008.

Russ, Brian E. Ackelson, Ashlee L. Baker, Allison E. Cohen, Yale E.: Coding of auditory-stimulus identity in the auditory non-spatial processing stream. Journal of Neurophysiology 99(1): 87-95, Jan 2008.

Russ, Brian E. Lee, Yune-Sang. Cohen, Yale E.: Neural and behavioral correlates of auditory categorization Hearing Research 229(1-2): 204-12, Jul 2007.

Cohen, Yale E. Theunissen, Frederic. Russ, Brian E. Gill, Patrick.: Acoustic features of rhesus vocalizations and their representation in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 97(2): 1470-84, Feb 2007.

Russ, Brian E. Kim, Amy M. Abrahamsen, Karilyn L. Kiringoda, Ruwan. Cohen, Yale E.: Responses of neurons in the lateral intraparietal area to central visual cues. Experimental Brain Research 174(4): 712-27, Oct 2006.

Cohen, Yale E. Hauser, Marc D. Russ, Brian E.: Spontaneous processing of abstract categorical information in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Biology Letters 2(2): 261-5, Jun 22 2006.

Mullette-Gillman, O'dhaniel A. Cohen, Yale E. Groh, Jennifer M.: Eye-centered, head-centered, and complex coding of visual and auditory targets in the intraparietal sulcus. Journal of Neurophysiology 94(4): 2331-52, Oct 2005.

Cohen, Yale E. Russ, Brian E. Gifford, Gordon W 3rd.: Auditory processing in the posterior parietal cortex. Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews 4(3): 218-31, Sep 2005.

Gifford, Gordon W 3rd. MacLean, Katherine A. Hauser, Marc D. Cohen, Yale E.: The neurophysiology of functionally meaningful categories: macaque ventrolateral prefrontal cortex plays a critical role in spontaneous categorization of species-specific vocalizations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17(9): 1471-82, Sep 2005.

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