Alumni Profiles
Liberty Hamilton and Alex Huth were dating when they entered the Neuroscience PhD Program together in 2008. Now married, they are both faculty members at the University of Texas at Austin!
Liberty Hamilton eavesdrops on how the human brain processes natural sounds
“Something we can really add to the field is being able to understand at a much higher level how sounds become meaningful words and concepts.”
As an Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Neurology at UT Austin, Liberty Hamilton uses electrocorticography to record from the cerebral cortex of patients undergoing epilepsy surgery to study how the brain processes and produces natural sounds like language. In our Q&A, Hamilton talks about her research, experiences working with patients, and how being a faculty member makes her appreciate what went on behind the scenes in the PhD Program. Read our full profile…
Letting the data speak for itself: Alex Huth models language representation in the brain
“If you can get enough hours of data, enough data points, then we can let the data tell us what kind of features are important, instead of being forced to guess.”
As an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience at UT Austin, Alex Huth combines approaches from neuroscience, computer science, mathematics, and linguistics to build complex models of how language and meaning is represented in the brain, based on large amounts of fMRI data that he gathers as subjects listen to natural language. In our Q&A, Huth talks about how Star Trek sparked his interest in neuroscience, his experiences as a new faculty member, and the accepting community he found in the PhD Program. Read our full profile…
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