Eric Knudsen, Ph.D.
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Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Eric Knudsen, Ph.D., is the Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research focuses on mechanisms of learning and attention and strategies of information processing in the developing and adult auditory system. He investigates how the capacity for learning changes with development and maturation, and the effects of early experience on the architecture and function of the central auditory system.
He is a member of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. He has received a number of honors, including elected membership to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology.
