Dana Boebinger

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester, working with Sam Norman-Haignere. I received my PhD from Harvard University’s Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology program, where I conducted my doctoral research with Josh McDermott and Nancy Kanwisher at MIT. I completed my master’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London as a Fulbright Scholar, and my undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Music from Florida State University. My research asks how the human brain transforms complex acoustic signals — speech, music, and environmental sounds — into meaningful percepts, even under challenging listening conditions.

I use intracranial EEG and fMRI to study the computational architecture of human auditory cortex. My current work, funded by an NIH/NIDCD F32 postdoctoral fellowship, investigates how the brain constructs invariant representations of speech.