College of Medicine
Mears Lab
Led by Ryan Mears · Neuroscience(unverified)
What we study
Recent student projects in this lab have studied rodent behavior after ketamine, marking head-bob movements in rat videos and training machine-learning tools to detect them. The PI's papers also cover auditory processing and misophonia in people.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Computational
- Rats
- Coding required
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 4
Current projects
Rhythmic Dissociative Movements After Acute Ketamine: Kinematic annotation & Semi-supervised classification
The lab recorded videos of rats given ketamine, marked frames showing a characteristic head‑bob movement, and built a machine‑learning system to automatically detect those movements. The student helped label videos, track body points and train the classifier.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 76
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Recent papers, explained
- Resolving competition in auditory cortex: effects of emotional content and misophonia sensitivity
2026 · Cerebral Cortex
Explores how emotional sounds compete for attention in the brain.
- Auditory aversive generalization learning prompts threat-specific changes in alpha-band activity
2024 · Cerebral Cortex
Shows how brain waves change when sounds predict pain.
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- The Relationship Between Self-Reported Misophonia Symptoms and Auditory Aversive Generalization Leaning: A Preliminary Report
2022 · Frontiers in Neuroscience
Tests whether misophonia symptoms come from overgeneralized learning of sounds.
- Open science in psychophysiology: An overview of challenges and emerging solutions
2021 · International Journal of Psychophysiology
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How to reach out
Ryan Mears hasn't set up this page yet. Their UF Scholars profile lists their publications.