Achim Klug, PhD
Professor

Our laboratory studies the mammalian sound localization pathway, a circuit in the auditory brainstem which is involved in telling us “where” in space a sound is coming from. This circuit is critical for animals and humans to localize sound. Additionally, it plays a key role in helping us spatially separate multiple simultaneous and competing sounds from each other, thereby helping us function in typical “cocktail party” situations. We would like to understand how this circuit operates in the healthy auditory system, and how it changes in conditions such as age-related central hearing loss or autism spectrum disorder (ASD).