Delighted to announce the publication in this week’s Journal of Neuroscience of our latest study, funded by the BBSRC and Wellcome Trust, in which we used reversible inactivation to better understand the role of auditory cortex in hearing and cognition. Image generated by Stable Diffusion AI Huge thanks go to an excellent team of co-aut...

Huge congratulations to @SorayaDunn on her paper in Nature Communications showing behaviourally modulated hippocampal theta oscillations in the ferret persist during both locomotion and immobility. Great to work with her @DanBendor and @jennybizley. The hippocampus is a brain region that plays an important role in learning, memory and navigatio...

I’m pleased to announce the publication of our study on the coordinate frames of spatial hearing in this week’s issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The paper was posted on BioRxiv a few months ago and has now been peer-reviewed for J. Neurosci. The full paper is available here, but this blog post outlines the main take-home points from the stu...

A new paper from our group presents the seasonal weight changes that laboratory ferrets undergo when exposed to regulated light changes. In contrast to other laboratory species like mice, ferrets have an annual reproductive cycle in which they come into season during the spring and would normally mate and have kits in the summer. With this annu...

Welcome to the research homepage for me, Stephen Town. I’m currently a senior research associate at University College London, working in the field of sensory, behavioral and systems neuroscience. My research asks how the activity of neurons in the brain gives rise to perception, with a specific focus on hearing and multisensory integration. Yo...