Understanding the Mind and Brain

George Pollak is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Texas, where he studies how the brain controls behavior. His expertise is in auditory neuroscience and how we process sound, including how the brain computes from where in space a sound is coming. He uses bats as experimental subjects due to their high reliance on hearing. Dr. Pollak's many honors and awards include a Claude Pepper Award from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders and a Career Research Award from the National Institutes of Health. Pollak earned his PhD in physiology from the University of Maryland and has been on the faculty at the University of Texas since 1973.