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Eric Knudsen: Works, Sound map of the barn owl co-discovery & Biography

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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Eric Knudsen topic overview

The analysis highlights Works, Sound map of the barn owl co-discovery and Biography as prominent areas in the source structure around Eric Knudsen.

Related topics
18
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
23
Extracted relationships
18
Concept neighborhoods
14
Bridge connections
23

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 8 topics
Sound map of the barn owl co-discovery · 6 topics
Biography · 2 topics
Sound map plasticity · 1 topics
Sound map vision guides development · 1 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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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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Overview

Biography

Sound map of the barn owl co-discovery

Sound map plasticity

Sound map vision guides development

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Eric Knudsen connects Entity context

The extracted context around Eric Knudsen shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Eric Knudsen → Binocular, Even, In, Knudsen's, Phyllis Knudsen, The, This, While Another extracted example is Eric Knudsen → American Philosophical Society, Eric Knudsen’s Academic ProfileThe, Karl Spencer Lashely Award. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Eric Knudsen

Top relations

related to Sound map vision guides development · 8
Eric Knudsen → Binocular, Even, In, Knudsen's, Phyllis Knudsen, The, This, While
related to External links · 3
Eric Knudsen → American Philosophical Society, Eric Knudsen’s Academic ProfileThe, Karl Spencer Lashely Award
Alma mater · 1
Eric Knudsen → University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., M.A.) University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.)
Born · 1
Eric Knudsen → (1949-10-07)October 7, 1949 Palo Alto, California, United States
Doctoral advisor · 1
Eric Knudsen → Theodore H. Bullock
Fields · 1
Eric Knudsen → Biology, Neuroscience
Known for · 1
Eric Knudsen → Auditory system brain-mapping of the barn owl
Thesis · 1
Eric Knudsen → Midbrain responses to electroreceptive input in catfish (1976)
Workplaces · 1
Eric Knudsen → Stanford University School of Medicine

Important terminology

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Important terminology

map sound knudsen owl auditory barn space cues visual plasticity azimuth information elevation konishi owls experience neuroscience location vision localization

Eric Knudsen relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 18 structured relationships around Eric Knudsen. Examples in this analysis include Eric Knudsen → Alma mater → University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., M.A.) University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.) and Eric Knudsen → Born → (1949-10-07)October 7, 1949 Palo Alto, California, United States. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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Eric KnudsenAlma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., M.A.) University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.)1.00infobox
Eric KnudsenBorn(1949-10-07)October 7, 1949 Palo Alto, California, United States1.00infobox
Eric KnudsenDoctoral advisorTheodore H. Bullock1.00infobox
Eric KnudsenFieldsBiology, Neuroscience1.00infobox
Eric KnudsenKnown forAuditory system brain-mapping of the barn owl1.00infobox
Eric KnudsenThesisMidbrain responses to electroreceptive input in catfish (1976)1.00infobox
Eric KnudsenWorkplacesStanford University School of Medicine1.00infobox
Eric Knudsenrelated to External linksEric Knudsen’s Academic ProfileThe0.60section
Eric Knudsenrelated to External linksAmerican Philosophical Society0.60section
Eric Knudsenrelated to External linksKarl Spencer Lashely Award0.60section
Eric Knudsenrelated to Sound map vision guides developmentKnudsen's0.60section
Eric Knudsenrelated to Sound map vision guides developmentBinocular0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Eric Knudsen bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Auditory, Barn and Space. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Eric Knudsen
    • Auditory
    • Barn
    • Space
    • Konishi
    • Plasticity
    • Owl
    • Localization
    • Owls
    • Map
    • Sound
    • Adult
    • Interaural
  • eric knudsen
    • Auditory
    • Barn
    • Space
    • Konishi
    • Plasticity
    • Owl
    • Localization
    • Owls
    • Map
    • Sound
    • Adult
    • Interaural
  • barn owl
    • Owl
    • Interaural
    • Knudsen
    • Auditory
    • Sound
    • Information
    • Localization
    • Konishi
    • Owls
    • Two
    • Plasticity
    • Map
  • auditory system
    • Space
    • Plasticity
    • Knudsen
    • Map
    • Adult
    • Barn
    • Visual
    • Owl
    • Experience
    • Cues
    • Midbrain
    • University
  • sound localization
    • Vision
    • Owls
    • Owl
    • Localization
    • Sound
    • Mechanisms
    • Auditory
    • Location
    • Two
    • Plasticity
    • Visual
    • Cues
  • sound map of the barn owl co-discovery
    • Owl
    • Interaural
    • Auditory
    • Knudsen
    • Space
    • Sound
    • Localization
    • Information
    • Konishi
    • Owls
    • Two
    • Plasticity
  • sound map plasticity
    • Adult
    • System
    • Experience
    • Auditory
    • Space
    • Work
    • Sound
    • Owl
    • Localization
    • Plasticity
    • Visual
    • Stanford
  • sound map vision guides development
    • Auditory
    • Space
    • Sound
    • Owl
    • Localization
    • Plasticity
    • Work
    • Experience
    • Two
    • Adult
    • Vision
    • Abnormal

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Eric Knudsen, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Eric Knudsen with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Eric KnudsenOverview · splits 15 ⟂ 9
Eric KnudsenSound map of the barn owl co-discovery · splits 17 ⟂ 7
Eric KnudsenBiography · splits 21 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Eric Knudsen

Nodes24
Edges23
Triples18
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.083333
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Eric Knudsen to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Sound map of the barn owl co-discovery & Biography, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Eric Knudsen · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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