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Departmental homepageDr Winter obtained his DPhil from the University of Sussex. He undertook postdoctoral training in the Department of Physiology at the University of Western Australia and the Medical Research Council's Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham. He then moved to the University of Cambridge where he established his own laboratory in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and became Associate Professor in Neuroscience.
Dr Winter has taught undergraduate courses on Part IB Neurobiology of Human and Animal Behaviour (Medical and Veterinary Medical Sciences Triposes), Part IB Neurobiology (Natural Sciences Tripos) and Part II Physiology. He has previously supervised both Part IA and Part IB Physiology courses and currently supervises the Part IB Neurobiology of Human and Animal Behaviour course.
Dr Winter's research focuses on the neural mechanisms, located in the auditory brainstem, that underlie auditory scene analysis.
D. Pressnitzer, R. Meddis, R. Delahaye and I.M. Winter, "Physiological correlates of comodulation masking release in the mammalian ventral cochlear nucleus," J. Neurosci. 21, 6377-6386, 2001.
M. Sayles and I.M. Winter, "Reverberation challenges the temporal representation of the pitch of complex sounds," Neuron 58, 789-801, 2008.
Pressnitzer, D., Micheyl, C., Sayles, M. and Winter, I.M., "Perceptual organisation of sound begins in the auditory periphery," Curr. Biol. 18, 1124-1128, 2008.
