Edward Bartlett

Research Areas

• Biology Education
• Neuroscience & Physiology

Our lab is interested in how hearing circuits function in normal and pathological conditions. We are interested in the representation of sound at various levels - behavioral responses to sound, auditory evoked potentials from the entire auditory system, in vivo discharge patterns to sound from a single neuron or ensembles, intrinsic and synaptic currents produced by neurons, and the changes in protein expression and molecular organization that underlie functional changes.

Other Activities

Professional Organizations:

• Society for Neuroscience
• Association for Research on Otolaryngology

Invited Lectures, 2013-2018:

• "Short stories about the non-lemniscal thalamus." Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February 19, 2013.
• "'Eh, what's that sonny?': Neural representations of sounds in young versus old animals." Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 22, 2013.
• "Mechanisms of temporal processing across the lifespan: Current research and future possibilities." The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, May 28, 2013.
• "Parallel pathways for processing in auditory thalamus and cortex." University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, November 1, 2013.
• "Cellular properties that shape temporal processing in the auditory thalamus across the lifespan." University of Souther California, Los Angeles, California, April 7, 2014.
• "Multi-level analysis of age-related declines in auditory temporal processing." Hearing Across the Lifespan, Como, Italy, June 5, 2014.
• "Multi-level analysis of age-related declines in auditory temporal processing," NEOMED, Rootstown, Ohio, September 25, 2014.
• "The trick is growing up without growing old: Auditory processing throughout the lifespan," National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland, April 6, 2015.
• "Neural representations of complex sound processing in young and aged animals," Aging and Speech Communication, October 12, 2015.
• "The beat goes on...phase lag and lead between my research and Tom Yin's research," University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, October 22, 2015.
• "Don't stop 'til you get enough: balance of excitation and inhibition across the lifespan in auditory circuits," University of Connecticut, April 16, 2016.
• "Overcompensation in older males — for hearing," Frequency Following Response workshop, Boston University and Harvard/MIT hosting, May 19, 2016.
• "Overcompensation in older males — for hearing in circuits across the lifespan," University of Florida, June 2, 2016.

Center on Aging and the Life Course