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Awardee

Michael A. Long, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Affiliations
  • Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Website
longlab.med.nyu.edu

Publications

Thalamus drives vocal onsets in the zebra finch courtship song

Nature, March 23, 2023

FW Moll, D Kranz, A Corredera Asensio, M Elmaleh, LA Ackert-Smith, and M. Long

A Theoretical Framework for Human and Nonhuman Vocal Interaction

Annual Review of Neuroscience, July 7, 2022

GA Castellucci, FH Guenther, and M. Long

A speech planning network for interactive language use

Nature, January 5, 2022

GA Castellucci, CK Kovach, MA Howard 3rd, JDW Greenlee, and M. Long

Using focal cooling to link neural dynamics and behavior

Neuron, August 18, 2021

A Banerjee, R Egger, and M. Long

Projects

Fluorescence microscopy image showing a network of bright green nerve fibers connecting to a cluster of yellow and red cellular structures.

Global Brain

Simons Collaboration
Ink drawing of a Zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

Neural circuit dynamics underlying sequence and variability

Funded Work

Analyzing a complex motor act at the mesoscopic scale

Funded Work

Featuring Michael A. Long

Michael Long

Studying Human Speech With Animals That Can’t Talk

Expanding Neuroscience’s Menagerie of Model Animals

Events

Neural Mechanisms of Interactive Communication: From Bird Cage to Bedside

Lecture

May 8, 2024

6–7 p.m. ET

Speaker

Michael A. Long

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