CSL2

The Comparative Sensorimotor Learning Lab (CSL2)

We use a combination of neurophysiology and behavior to study implicit learning, sensory perception, and memory in humans and marine mammals.

Students apprenticing for research in marine mammals first learn how to acquire clean electrical signals from human brains before attempting to do the same on marine species.

News & Updates

CSL2 alum Kayla Henson heads to Washington DC to present her thesis work at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting!

Examining Executive Functions in ADHD Students During Explicit Sequence Learning: an ERP Study

Find her in the ADHD, SLI, Dyslexia, and Other Specific Disorders of Neurobehavior session!

November 14, 2026, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Catch lab alum William Lopez at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference in Evanston!

Music & Emotion: Matching Neurobiological Proxies to Affect Components Induced by Music Modality

July 22-24, 2026

Taylor Combe will present our work at the Florida Academy of Science annual meeting in Tampa!

Auditory evoked potentials and vocal response timing during signal detection in bottlenose dolphins.

Find her in the Biological Sciences session

March 20, 2026, 12:15

CSL2 is headed to Society for Neuroscience in San Diego!

Auditory processing and response time in bottlenose dolphins performing a signal detection task: proof of principle neurobehavioral observations

Find us in the Auditory Processing: Animal Models session

November 16, 2025, 1:00 -5:00 PM

New paper alert summer 2025!

Lee, Wu-Jung, Michael Ladegaard, Matt D. Schalles, John R. Buck, Kristian Beedholm, Peter T. Madsen, and Peter L. Tyack. "Movement trajectories reflect active information acquisition by an echolocating porpoise in a target discrimination task." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 158, no. 1 (2025): 173-185. full text

New paper alert summer 2025!

Cheong, YeonJoon, Alexander Ruesch, Matt D. Schalles, Jana M. Kainerstorfer, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, and Wu-Jung Lee. "Head-related transfer function predictions reveal dominant sound propagation mechanisms to the dolphin ears." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 158, no. 1 (2025): 222-234. full text

Lab director Matt Schalles will present work from dolphin experiments at the International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group in Boulder!

Designing sparse EEG arrays to capture dolphin auditory evoked response

Find him in the AEPs in Animal Models session

June 15, 2026

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