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Eric Knudsen

Eric Ingvald Knudsen is a professor of neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he also served as chairman during 2001–2006. He is best known for his discovery, along with Masakazu Konishi, of a brain map of sound location in two dimensions in the barn owl, tyto alba. His work has contributed to the understanding of information…

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Sound map of the barn owl co-discovery

MidbrainSomatotopicInferior colliculusReceptive fieldSound localization
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Theodore H. BullockCalifornia Institute of Technology
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Sound map plasticity

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Known for
Auditory system brain-mapping of the barn owl
Alma mater
University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., M.A.) University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.)
Born
(1949-10-07)October 7, 1949 Palo Alto, California, United States
Doctoral advisor
Theodore H. Bullock
Fields
Biology, Neuroscience
Thesis
Midbrain responses to electroreceptive input in catfish (1976)

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Eric Knudsen

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Eric Knudsen → American Philosophical Society, Eric Knudsen’s Academic ProfileThe, Karl Spencer Lashely Award
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Eric Knudsen → University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., M.A.) University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.)
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Eric Knudsen → (1949-10-07)October 7, 1949 Palo Alto, California, United States
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Eric Knudsen → Biology, Neuroscience
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Eric Knudsen → Auditory system brain-mapping of the barn owl
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Eric Knudsen → Midbrain responses to electroreceptive input in catfish (1976)
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