Kofi Vordzorgbe

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M.D.- Ph.D. candidate; Emory University School of Medicine
M.S. in Biomedical Sciences; Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
B.A. in Music Composition; Morehouse College

Research Interests

Kofi’s research interests lie broadly in understanding how neurons work together in a network to control behavior and cognition. He pursues that interest by studying the mechanisms of neural control of motor behavior in songbirds. Songbirds provide a great model for understanding neural control of a skilled behavior because they have a dedicated neural circuitry that is designed and equipped to learn songs from a tutor, refine it based on environmental stimuli, and produce fairly stable renditions of these motifs in various naturalistic contexts. Kofi currently studies the role of HVC, a pre-motor nucleus that plays a role in encoding syllable identity and timing; to answer the question of how internal dynamics of this nucleus controls its output at various points in song where the bird transitions between different sequences.