NPC Fellow Sudan Duwadi Wins CAN DO Award to Decode Attended Location Using fNIRS
Congratulations to 2023 CAN DO awardee Sudan Duwadi! Thanks to funding from the CAN DO award, Neurophotonics Center fellow and graduate student Sudan Duwadi will be working in collaboration with Professor Kamal Sen, as well as the fNIRS core of the NPC, on “Decoding Attended Location using fNIRS.” The project aims to use fNIRS measurements […]
Kamal Sen Receives $2.96M NSF Award
Professor Kamal Sen, Associate BME professor and Director of the Natural Sounds and Neural Coding Laboratory, was recently granted an NSF Award of $2.96 million for the Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) funding opportunity. Sen, serving as principal investigator, has advanced the study of complex scene analysis (CSA) in the hopes […]
New Article from David Boas, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and Meryem Yücel
Professors Boas, Tager-Flusberg, and Yücel were recently published in MDPI discussing “The Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in the Production and Comprehension of Phonologically and Semantically Related Words”
New “Scientist Profile” on Chantal Stern
Professor Chantal Stern’s research focuses on mapping the human brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with the primary goal of studying how the human brain encodes, stores, and subsequently recognizes visual, spatial, and verbal information.
New Article from Michael Wallace
Michael Wallace and coauthor Bernardo Sabatini were recently published in “Neuron” on synaptic and circuit functions of multitransmitter neurons in the mammalian brain.
New “Nature” Article from Xue Han and Kamal Sen
Professors Xue Han and Kamal Sen were recently published in “Nature” discussing Parvalbumin neurons enhance temporal coding and reduce cortical noise in complex auditory scenes
New Article from Chen Yang
Professor Yang recently published an article on Multifunctional Fiber-based Optoacoustic Emitter as A Bidirectional Brain Interface.
“Laser Focus World” Article on Jerry Chen’s Voltage Imaging Advancements
An approach to imaging electrical activity deep in the brain makes neurological studies more effective and less invasive.
Professors Jerry Chen and Louis Awad Awarded Tenure
Professors Chen and Awad, alongside 23 other BU faculty, have been awarded with tenure following the end of the 2022–2023 academic year.
New Article from Lee Goldstein
Neurophotonics Center professor Lee Goldstein was recently published in iovs, an ARVO journal, on in vivo quasi-elastic light scattering eye scanner detects molecular aging in humans and mice.