Researcher Sets the Record Straight

In “Tuning Up Brains” (Jan. 20), I was incorrectly identified as one of Dr. (Gordon) Shaw’s (brain research) group: “ . . . said Shaw, who is working with fellow UCI scientists Norman Weinberger, a psychobiologist; Xiaodan Leng, a physicist, and musician Eric Wright of the Irvine Conservatory of Music.”

In so doing, you omitted the name of Dr. Leslie Brothers of the department of psychiatry at UCLA, who is a member of Dr. Shaw’s group.

My research is quite distinct from that of Dr. Shaw and his colleagues. While Dr. Shaw and I work together as directors of the Music Brain Information Center, this activity is also quite distinct from our individual research activities.

NORMAN M. WEINBERGER, Professor, UC Irvine