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6110
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Frédéric E. Theunissen is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on several intersecting subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Theunissen's work explores diverse topics such as Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Marine animal studies, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Neural dynamics and brain function, Plant and animal studies, and Phonetics and Phonology Research.

Their publication record includes recent papers published in prominent journals. Notable papers include:

  • "Natural behavior is the language of the brain" (2022, Current Biology)
  • "Evolution of communication signals and information during species radiation" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Encoding of melody in the human auditory cortex" (2024, Science Advances)
  • "High-capacity auditory memory for vocal communication in a social songbird" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "Sparse ensemble neural code for a complete vocal repertoire" (2023, Cell Reports)

Among frequent coauthors are Julie E. Elie, Logan A. Thomas, Kevin Yu, William E. Wood, and Xue Gong. Theunissen has published multiple works with each of these collaborators, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Theunissen has contributed to research disseminated through various publication venues, including Nature Communications, Current Biology, Science Advances, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Cell Reports.

In recognition of their contributions, Theunissen was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile human cerebral cortex

    Alexander G. Huth;Wendy A. de Heer;Thomas L. Griffiths;Thomas L. Griffiths;Frédéric E. Theunissen;Frédéric E. Theunissen

  • Information theory and neural coding.

    Alexander Borst;Frédéric E. Theunissen

  • Spectral-Temporal Receptive Fields of Nonlinear Auditory Neurons Obtained Using Natural Sounds

    Frédéric E. Theunissen;Kamal Sen;Allison J. Doupe

  • Modulation spectra of natural sounds and ethological theories of auditory processing.

    Nandini C. Singh;Frédéric E. Theunissen

  • The Modulation Transfer Function for Speech Intelligibility

    Taffeta M. Elliott;Frédéric E. Theunissen;Frédéric E. Theunissen

  • Temporal encoding in nervous systems: A rigorous definition

    Frédéric E. Theunissen;John P. Miller

  • Estimating spatio-temporal receptive fields of auditory and visual neurons from their responses to natural stimuli.

    Frédéric E. Theunissen;Stephen V. David;Nandini C. Singh;Anne Hsu

  • Tuning for spectro-temporal modulations as a mechanism for auditory discrimination of natural sounds.

    Sarah M N Woolley;Thane E Fremouw;Anne Hsu;Frédéric E Theunissen

  • The Hierarchical Cortical Organization of Human Speech Processing

    Wendy A. de Heer;Alexander G. Huth;Thomas L. Griffiths;Jack L. Gallant

  • Feature analysis of natural sounds in the songbird auditory forebrain.

    Kamal Sen;Frédéric E. Theunissen;Allison J. Doupe

  • Neural processing of natural sounds.

    Frédéric E. Theunissen;Julie E. Elie

  • Estimating spatio-temporal receptive fields of auditory and visual neurons from their responses to natural stimuli.

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  • Temporal and Spectral Sensitivity of Complex Auditory Neurons in the Nucleus HVc of Male Zebra Finches

    Frédéric E. Theunissen;Allison J. Doupe

  • Representation of sensory information in the cricket cercal sensory system. II. Information theoretic calculation of system accuracy and optimal tuning-curve widths of four primary interneurons.

    Frédéric E. Theunissen;John P. Miller

  • Representation of sensory information in the cricket cercal sensory system. I. Response properties of the primary interneurons.

    J. P. Miller;G. A. Jacobs;Frederic E. Theunissen

  • Selectivity for Conspecific Song in the Zebra Finch Auditory Forebrain

    Julie A. Grace;Noopur Amin;Nandini C. Singh;Frédéric E. Theunissen

  • Natural behavior is the language of the brain

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  • Information theoretic analysis of dynamical encoding by four identified primary sensory interneurons in the cricket cercal system.

    Frederic E. Theunissen;J. C. Roddey;S. Stufflebeam;H. Clague

  • Stimulus-Dependent Auditory Tuning Results in Synchronous Population Coding of Vocalizations in the Songbird Midbrain

    Sarah M. N. Woolley;Patrick R. Gill;Frédéric E. Theunissen

  • Encoding and decoding models in cognitive electrophysiology

    Christopher R. Holdgraf;Christopher R. Holdgraf;Jochem W. Rieger;Cristiano Micheli;Stephanie Martin;Stephanie Martin

  • Song Selectivity in the Song System and in the Auditory Forebrain

    Frédéric E. Theunissen;Noopur Amin;Sarita S. Shaevitz;Sarah M.N. Woolley

  • Modulation power and phase spectrum of natural sounds enhance neural encoding performed by single auditory neurons.

    Anne Hsu;Sarah M. N. Woolley;Thane E. Fremouw;Frédéric E. Theunissen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack L. Gallant
Jack L. Gallant University of California, Berkeley
Allison J. Doupe
Allison J. Doupe University of California, San Francisco
Alexander Borst
Alexander Borst Max Planck Society
Robert T. Knight
Robert T. Knight University of California, Berkeley
David Whitney
David Whitney University of California, Berkeley
Michael Gastpar
Michael Gastpar École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Annemie Van der Linden
Annemie Van der Linden University of Antwerp
Stephen V. David
Stephen V. David Oregon Health & Science University
Jason D. Warren
Jason D. Warren University College London
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

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