Growing Up in Science - Maria Geffen, PhD

MindCORE spotlights the life of Maria Geffen, PhD (Associate Professor in Neuroscience & Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery; Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Auditory Coding; UPenn) who studies the way the brain encodes information about the world and how our perception is shaped by our emotional state and experience. She combines computational and biological approaches to study the mechanisms behind dynamic auditory perception, memory and learning.