"Roian Egnor to Deliver Public Talk at Janelia Farm",
http://www.hhmi.org/news/egnor20100419.htmlRoian Egnor, a fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Janelia Farm
Research Campus, will deliver a public lecture titled Whistling in the Dark:
What Can Mouse Vocalizations Tell Us about the Brain? at Janelia Farm in
Ashburn, VA
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Egnors presentation will offer an introduction to her research into the
neural basis of natural animal behaviors, a field called neuroethology. At
Janelia Farm, Egnor is studying mouse vocal and social behavior as a route
toward understanding information processing in the nervous system.
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As she looked around for a difficult but tractable problem in neuroscience,
she hit upon vocal communication.
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Her experiments at Janelia Farm are attempting to record and characterize the
vocalizations of 40 or more mice in the same enclosure going about their
daily, uncontrolled lives. Problem number one is just keeping track of all
the mice, she says. Then, you have to keep track of what theyre paying
attention to as they vocalize: Are they thinking about what they smell or are
they thinking about what they see or are they thinking about both?
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Do you suppose that there are microphones along with all those surveillance
cameras around Times Square, microphones in the "ring of steel" around London?
Anyway, whereas I didn't see the Roain lab on a wonderful tour of HHMI Janelia
Farm, and whereas tickets to this public lecture are free, and whereas I am
already in the vicinity (on other business) on 26-May, I may be at this
lecture. Can anyone point me to background reading on "neuroethology"?
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