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

Banno T, Shirley H, Fishman YI, Cohen YE.: Changes in neural readout of response magnitude during auditory streaming do not correlate with behavioral choice in the auditory cortex Cell Rep 42 : 113493,2023.

DiTullio RW, Parthiban C, Piasini E, Chaudhari P, Balasubramanian V, Cohen YE.: Time as a supervisor: temporal regularity and auditory object learning Front Comput Neurosci 17 : 1150300,2023.

Lestang JH, Cai H, Averbeck BB, Cohen YE.: Functional network properties of the auditory cortex Hear Res : 2023.

Lee JH, Tsunada J, Vijayan S, Cohen YE.: Cortical circuit-based lossless neural integrator for perceptual decision-making: A computational modeling study Front Comput Neurosci 16 : 979830,2022.

Tardiff N, Suriya-Arunroj L, Cohen YE, Gold JI.: Rule-based and stimulus-based cues bias auditory decisions via different computational and physiological mechanisms PLoS Comput Biol 18 : e1010601,2022.

Chiang CH, Lee J, Wang C, Williams AJ, Lucas TH, Cohen YE, Viventi J.: A modular high-density μECoG system on macaque vlPFC for auditory cognitive decoding J Neural Eng 17 : 046008,2020.

Banno T, Lestang JH, Cohen YE.: Computational and neurophysiological principles underlying auditory perceptual decisions Curr Opin Physiol : 2020.

Gifford AM, Sperling MR, Sharan A, Gorniak RJ, Williams RB, Davis K, Kahana MJ, Cohen YE.: Neuronal phase consistency tracks dynamic changes in acoustic spectral regularity Eur J Neurosci : 2019.

Christison-Lagay KL, Cohen YE.: The Contribution of Primary Auditory Cortex to Auditory Categorization in Behaving Monkeys Front Neurosci 12 : 601,2018.

Butler BE, Cohen YE, Lomber SG.: Editorial introduction: The 6(th) International Conference on Auditory Cortex Hear Res : 2018.

Academic Contact Information

Department of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
5 Ravdin
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-898-7504