Nick Audette

Assistant Professor

Psychological Sciences

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Education

Ph.D., 2018, Carnegie Mellon University

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Research Interests

The raw sensory information that enters our nervous system is often chaotic and overwhelming, yet we effortlessly turn these signals into simple and interpretable knowledge about our surroundings. Dr. Audette’s lab studies how the brain combines sensory input with environmental context, ongoing behavior, and life experience to help us successfully perceive the world. Experiments in the lab focus on large-scale neural recordings in mice as they explore acoustically enriched environments.

• Flexible Sensory Processing
• Thalamocortical Circuits
• Learning and Memory

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Representative Publications

Google Scholar

Audette NJ, Schneider DM (2023). Stimulus-Specific Prediction Error Neurons in Mouse Auditory Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(43):7119-7129. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/43/43/7119

Audette NJ, Zhou W, La Chioma A, Schneider DM (2022). Precise Movement-Based Predictions in the Mouse Auditory Cortex. Current Biology. 32(22):4925-4940.e6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222016062?via%3Dihub

Audette NJ, Bernhard SM, Ray A, Stewart LT, Barth AL (2019). Rapid Plasticity of Higher-Order Thalamocortical Inputs during Sensory Learning. Neuron. 103(2):277-291.e4. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627319303940?via%3Dihub

Audette NJ, Urban-Ciecko J, Matsushita M, Barth AL. POm Thalamocortical Input Drives Layer-Specific Microcircuits in Somatosensory Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 28(4):1312-1328. https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/28/4/1312/3064955