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Music is core to the human experience yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music perception remain unknown. Dr. Gerwin Schalk, Director of the Chen Frontier Lab for Neurotechnology was part of a team of researchers who analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) dataset of 29 patients who listened to a Pink Floyd song and applied […]

A study, recently published in the journal Nature Human Behavior (IF: 30) by the clinical research team of Prof. Yu Jintai from the Department of Neurology at Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital, comprehensively mapped the modifiable risk factors for dementia for the first time. The research explored their joint effect on dementia and predicted that 47% […]

Making hand movements in response to visual cues is common in daily life. It has been well known that this process activates multiple areas in the brain, but how these neural activations progress across space and time remains largely unknown. Taking advantage of intracranial electroencephalographic (iEEG) recordings using depth and subdural electrodes from 36 human […]

Our brains are excellent at making predictions about what we should hear next, based on context. These predictions help us understand and interact with our surroundings. For example, when listening to a melody, we may predict the next note in a sequence. Dr. Gerwin Schalk, Director of the Chen Frontier Lab for Applied Neurotechnology, and […]

The human body and all its complexity arise from just a small collection of cells that divide and morph into different types of tissues. But exactly how this occurs is hard to study because embryos are hidden inside their mothers. Some embryos are donated to science by individuals who have undergone in vitro fertilization, but […]