Frederic Theunissen

Frederic Theunissen is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an Affiliated Faculty role. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms of vocal communication in both songbirds and humans, including auditory physiology, speech perception, and the effects of environmental noise on sound recognition. Contact him via email or visit his website; his office is located at 2121 Berkeley Way, Room 3328.

Education: PhD in Psychology from UC Berkeley.

Research Interests:

• Neuroscience and Neuroethology of vocal communication
• Auditory physiology and speech perception in humans and songbirds
• Neural coding principles for natural sounds, including timbre adaptation and categorical perception
• Development of computational models (e.g., BILSTM networks) and tools like the BioSound Python library
• Effects of noise and environmental degradation on individual vocal recognition

Advising & Grants: No information provided on advisees or grants in the text.

Labs/Teams: Contributed to the development of the BioSound library and collaborated on a US-French project exploring auditory computations in communication signals (2013).