Dr. Kevin Sitek

Biography

Kevin Sitek is a Research Assistant Professor in the Roxelyn Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. in Speech Hearing Bioscience Technology from Harvard University. His research background includes studying the anatomy and connectivity of the human subcortical auditory system at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Furthermore, he completed postdoctoral work in the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, where he focused on ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the human brainstem. Before joining Northwestern, he was a research scientist in the Department of Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Sitek's research primarily aims to map brain regions, connections, and representations that facilitate human hearing and communication. His published work employs techniques such as electroencephalography, diffusion-weighted MRI for structural connectivity, functional MRI for connectivity analysis, task-based functional MRI, postmortem histology, and anatomical MRI. Currently, at the SoundBrain Lab at Northwestern University, he investigates how representations of speech sounds and the connectivity within the human auditory system can be studied using MRI techniques. His work is supported by grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the National Institutes of Health.

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