In a study just published in the premier journal Nature, co-authors Runyan, Piasini, Panzeri & Harvey asked how the brain decides where a sound is coming from.

http://go.nature.com/2fcmUpm

Dr. Stefano Panzeri, a computational biologist from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, has collaborated with Chris Harvey, a faculty member in our department, who uses optical signals to watch neurons process information in real time as a mouse thinks. Panzeri then uses sophisticated statistical methods to...