Researching the brain's audio processing

摘要

There has been quite a bit of coverage in the popular press about University of California, San Francisco researchers solving the mystery of how selective hearing works - how people can tune in to a single speaker while tuning out their crowded, noisy environs. But much of the interesting technical details were not covered.To understand how selective hearing works in the brain, UCSF neurosurgeon Dr. Edward Chang, a faculty member in the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery and the Keck Center for Inte-grative Neuroscience, and UCSF postdoctoral fellow Nima Mesgarani worked with three patients who were undergoing brain surgery for severe epilepsy.