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Ellen Covey is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. Her research program addresses the complex patterns of sound processing and how this is analyzed in the central nervous system, leading to appropriate behavioral responses. She primarily studies echolocating bats, which rely entirely on their auditory systems for navigation and prey capture, providing an ideal model for understanding auditory processing. Her research investigates the mechanisms within the brainstem auditory circuitry and its role in transmitting information to higher centers. Additionally, her work explores the contributions of gene expression and neural activity in the development of modality-specific sensory areas. Ongoing projects include neuropharmacological studies to understand excitatory neurotransmission in the brainstem and whole-cell patch clamp recordings to identify synaptic mechanisms responsible for neural selectivity in the auditory system.
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