Tim Gardner is a Professor of Biology at Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences. Professor Gardner\u00a0studies the mechanisms of temporal sequence perception and production, focusing on vocal learning in songbirds.<\/p>\n
The song circuit produces stereotyped structure over a range of time-scales from milliseconds to tens of seconds. Gardner\u00a0asks how complex songs are assembled from elementary neural units. What are the relationships between patterns of neural activity on different time-scales? Gardner\u00a0also studies information processing in auditory cortex, examining how auditory signals are transformed as they move from low to high level sensory areas. How are memories for temporal patterns formed?<\/p>\n
To address these questions, Gardner works to develop minimally invasive electrodes that provide stable neural recordings in behaving animals. Gardner\u00a0also develops high-resolution signal processing algorithms for auditory and neural time-series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70362,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58062\/revisions\/70362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}