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Fernando Nodal
Departmental Lecturer
- Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Neural basis of experience-dependent plasticity, tinnitus.
Fernando Nodal read Biological Sciences (BSc, MSc) at the University of Salamanca, Spain, where he also obtained his PhD in Neuroscience, studying the neural circuits of auditory reflexes. In 2000 thanks to a Marie Curie Fellowship from the EU, he moved to Oxford to work with Prof A J King on the development of spatial representations in the ferret Superior Colliculus. Since then, Fernando has been a member of the Auditory Neuroscience group supported by Wellcome Trust. He continues to research different aspects of auditory perception by combining behavioural, electrophysiological and anatomical techniques. One of his main interests is studying the neural plasticity exhibited by the auditory system using a unilateral conductive hearing loss model. Neural plasticity underpins our stable perception in ever-changing situations, although maladaptive processes can result in phantom perceptions like tinnitus. Another area of his research is to unravel how the behavioural relevance of sensory stimuli affects their neural representation.
Recent publications
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Persistence and generalization of adaptive changes in auditory localization behavior following unilateral conductive hearing loss.
Journal article
Sanchez Jimenez A. et al, (2023), Front Neurosci, 17
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Tinnitus: at a crossroad between phantom perception and sleep
Journal article
MILINSKI L. et al, (2022), Brain Communications
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When and How Does the Auditory Cortex Influence Subcortical Auditory Structures? New Insights About the Roles of Descending Cortical Projections.
Journal article
Souffi S. et al, (2021), Front Neurosci, 15