Shovan Bhatia, a current MS1 student in the PSTP, presented his summer research work titled “Spectrotemporal receptive fields predict neural response to natural sound stimuli in the primary auditory cortex” at the 2023 Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neurosciences (APAN) Conference in Washington DC. Shovan spent his first summer rotation in the Pediatric Brain Electrophysiology Lab mentored by Taylor Abel, MD.
In his project, Shovan used novel computational methods to understand how the human brain processes natural sound stimuli such as a baby crying or a telephone ringing. Shovan found that a spectrotemporal receptive field, a specific learning model, can extract key features from each sound to predict neural response in the human primary auditory cortex.
Shovan is thankful for the support of the PSTP, Dr. Taylor Abel, and the Pediatric Brain Electrophysiology Lab, and is especially eager to learn more about various applications of computational work in the neurosciences!