Faculty/Staff/PhD
Academic Faculty
Higgins, Nathan C., Ph.D
Research Assistant Professor
Phone: 813.974.4148
Office: BPB 210
Auditory & Speech Sciences Laboratory
Dr. Nathan Higgins earned his PhD from the Psychology Department at the University of Connecticut studying Behavioral Neuroscience. He did his postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University and University of Nevada Las Vegas. His research is focused on neural processing of spatial auditory information, auditory scene analysis, and cognitive perception using neuroimaging and psychophysics. Current research projects focus on processing mechanisms of interaural correlation and development of online classification of electrophysiological neural signatures of perception.
| Post-Doctoral Fellow | Unviversity of Nevada Las Vegas | 2017 |
| Post-Doctoral Fellow | Vanderbilt University/University of Washington | 2012 |
| Ph.D. (Psychology) | University of Connecticut | 2012 |
| M.A. (Psychology) | University of Connecticut | 2007 |
B.S. (Psychology) |
University of Connecticut | 2004 |
Teaching
- Laboratory Instruction
Recent Scholarly Activity
- Higgins NC, Little DF, Yerkes BD, Nave KM, Kuruvilla-Mathew A, Elhilali M, Snyder JS. Neural correlates of perceptual switching while listening to bistable auditory streaming stimuli. Neuroimage. 2020 Jan 1; 204:116220.
- Higgins NC, McLaughlin SA, Rinne T, Stecker GC. Evidence for cue-independent spatial representation in the human auditory cortex during active listening. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Sep 5;114(36): E7602-E7611.
- Higgins NC, McLaughlin SA, Da Costa S, Stecker GC. Sensitivity to an Illusion of Sound Location in Human Auditory Cortex. Front Syst Neurosci. 2017; 11:35.
- McLaughlin SA, Higgins NC, Stecker GC. Tuning to Binaural Cues in Human Auditory Cortex. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. 2016 Feb;17(1): 37-53.