jennifer_melcher@meei.harvard.edu

Dr. Melcher seeks to understand how sound is coded in population neural activity of the human central auditory system. Her work uses functional MRI to assay brain activity and high-resolution structural MRI to examine brain architecture. Dr. Melcher's current research falls into three broad categories: (1) determining functional and structural organizational principles of the human central auditory system, (2) identifying neural correlates of sound perception, and (3) establishing the neural mechanisms of tinnitus, a poorly understood auditory disorder with no uniformly effective treatment.