Robert Froemke Moves to New Lab at the NYU Langone Medical Center

Robert is moving to NYU from the University of California at San Francisco to begin work  on how forms of sensory experience and conditioning modify neural circuits with a focus on the auditory cortex.  They hope to learn how these changes to synapses and neural networks affect perception and behavior.

Robert described their research as “trying to use neuroplastic mechanisms to rewire specific neural circuits, and thus improve animals’ perceptual abilities and behavioral performance”.  Researchers began by measuring rats’ abilities to “hear quiet sounds, then determined what sounds are just barely imperceptible, and finally used mechanisms of cortical plasticity to ‘boost’ the signal to those subliminal sounds. Sure enough, this made rats hear very quiet, subliminal sounds they previously couldn’t hear before. It works great.”

We would like to congratulate Robert Froemke on his new lab at the NYU Langone Medical Center and his team on their exciting new research!

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