Gary Rose and Rishi Alluri (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Gary Rose and Rishi Alluri

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University of Utah biology professor Gary Rose and neuroscience doctoral student Rishi Alluri with some of the equipment they use to measure electrical activity in the brain cells of frogs. Their new study reveals how single brain cells or neurons compute the duration of sounds -- something necessary for human speech recognition.

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Lee J. Siegel, University of Utah

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