Professor of Neuroscience, Comp Sci, BME at Duke Uni. Author: Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are. Coursera: Brain and Space. Also chickens.
First some background: A couple years ago, we (Gruters, Murphy et al.) discovered that your ears *make* tiny sounds when your eyes move. See theatlantic.com/science/archiv… by @edyong209 2/
Jul 19, 2020 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
The eardrums move when the eyes move up, down, and sideways: our latest on eye movement-related eardrum oscillations – what information they carry, and what they might indicate about how vision and hearing operate as partners. A tweeprint! 1/N biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Proud of the team: David L. K. Murphy is lead author, with @cindyking40, Stephanie N. Schlebusch, Christopher A. Shera, and me. This line of research was originally initiated by former PhD student, now Capt. Dr. Kurtis Gruters. 2/