Lab News
Emily J. Allen contributes to a Nature Communications study revealing how the human pulvinar represents faces and bodies during natural scene viewing.
The University of Minnesota’s Auditory Perception and Cognition Lab presented its interactive research project, “How high do you hear?” at the 2025 Minnesota State Fair.
APC Lab Alum Spotlight: Daniel Guest, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
A new study, co-authored by Dr. Andrew Oxenham, challenges the belief that musicians have enhanced neural processing when it comes to sound.
Congratulations to Jaeeun Lee for being awarded a COGS (Council of Graduate Students) Summer 2025 Grant to support her research experience in Denmark.
From May 18–23, 2025, members of the Auditory Perception and Cognition (APC) Lab participated in the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Spring Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
We are excited to congratulate Andrew Oxenham for receiving a Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America.
CATSS is pleased to announce that Elaea Purmalietis is the recipient of the first-ever CATSS Summer Fellowship in Translational Sensory Sciences.
Andrew Oxenham receives the Social Science Research Grant for the project “Encoding and decoding of natural timbre in the human cortex.”
The Auditory Perception and Cognition (APC) Laboratory participated in the Bell Museum's "Spotlight Science: The Science of Sound."
Read about Sara Madson, who first visited the APC Lab on a 3.5-month external research stay in 2016 and returned as a full lab member from 2019-2020.
Andrew Oxenham was quoted in the Minnesota Daily on the department of psychology being ranked 8th internationally based on the Shanghai rankings.
Congratulations to Andrew Oxenham and Magdalena Wojtczak for receiving a $766, 307 grant from the Uniformed Services University.
The APC lab would like to welcome its newest member, Jorji Emika Mesik, daughter of Research Assistant Professors Emily Allen and Juraj Mesik.
Congratulations to Juraj Mesik for receiving an NIH Administrative Assistant Supplement of $189,577.
In August 2024, Zi Gao successfully defended their PhD thesis, entitled "Perceptual Categorization and Neural Representations of the Human Voice." Zi is taking up a postdoc position with Shuman He at The Ohio State University. Best wishes Dr. Gao!