
- Professor, Psychology
- Professor, Biology
- Professor, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
- Professor, Neuroscience
Research Interests
- Neural Mechanisms of Vocal Learning
Education
- Ph.D., Tel Aviv University
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Affiliated Campus(es)
- Hunter College
Ofer Tchernichovski uses the songbird to study mechanisms of vocal learning. Like early speech development in the human infant, the songbird learns to imitate complex sounds during a critical period of development. The adult bird cannot imitate any more - we do not know why. His lab studies the animal behavior and dynamics of vocal learning and sound production across different brain levels. The lab aims to uncover the specific physiological and molecular (gene expression) brain processes that underlie song learning.

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Affiliated Campus(es)
- Hunter College