Dr Roy Patterson

Roy Patterson

University position

Head of Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing

Departments

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

Email

rdp1@cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/cnbh/

Research Themes

Systems and Computational Neuroscience

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

We have developed a computational model of the auditory signal processing that transforms a sound wave into the auditory image you hear in response to that sound wave. We investigate how the cochlea and neural centres in the auditory pathway process speech and music with the aim of incorporating the algorithms into speech recognition machines and hearing aids.

Research Focus

Keywords

hearing

speech

auditory processing

brain imaging

neural circuit

Clinical conditions

No direct clinical relevance

Equipment

auditory behavioural experiments

Collaborators

Cambridge

William Marslen-Wilson

United Kingdom

Timothy Griffiths Web: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/t.d.gri...

International

Toshio Irino Web: http://www.wakayama-u.ac.jp/~irino

Key publications

Ghazanfar AA, Turesson HK, Maier JX, van Dinther R, Patterson RD, Logothetis NK (2007), “Vocal tract resonances as indexical cues in rhesus monkeys” Current Biology 17:425-430 Details

Warren JD, Uppenkamp S, Patterson RD, Griffiths TD (2003), “Separating pitch chroma and pitch height in the human brain” Proc Nat Acad Sci 100(17):10038-10042

Patterson RD, Uppenkamp S, Johnsrude I, Griffiths TD (2002), “The processing of temporal pitch and melody information in auditory cortex” Neuron 36:767-776