Welcome

Hello and thank you for visiting!    This site is designed for people outside science as well as for colleagues. I am still filling in some pages, so please check back again.

I study how the brain computes the mind; specifically how sets of brain cells process information (and team up with other sets of cells) to allow us to speak. Language is central to the human condition, so i am thrilled to be able to probe the brain’s language system in detail – to try to uncover part of its own internal language.

Language is also unique to humans, which poses a limitation since all our experiments to understand it must thus be done on humans (rather than animals), and methods for measuring brain activity that can be used with humans generally offer low resolution. My research utilizes a rare method that brings high-resolution brain-cell recording techniques to human studies (see the ICE page).

One function of this web site is to share results of the research. I hope that you will feel inspired to participate in some way – please see the participation menu.

Meanwhile, the site also has my bio and cv, and may soon be expanded to include educational resources on using the various neuroscience methods.

Thanks for dropping by, and I hope you enjoy the site! Please give me feedback to make it better.

~ned