Next Meeting:

May 1, 2007

Presenter:

Curtis Billings

Topic:

Alain C and McDonald KL (2007) Age-related differences in neuromagnetic brain activity underlying concurrent sound perception. J Neurosci.

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Date:

April 24, 2007

Presenter:

Kate Tabor

Topic:

Sviritas, Kotak, Sanes and Rinzel (2004) Sodium along with low-threshold potassium currents enhance coincidence detection of subthreshold noisy signals in MSO neurons.

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Date:

April 17, 2007

Presenter:

Jeff Longnion

Topic:

Felix and {Portfors (2007) Excitatory, inhibitory and facilitatory frequency response areas in the inferior colliculus of hearing impaired mice.

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Date:

April 10, 2007

Presenter:

Peter Alderks

Topic:

Ladich F (1999) Did auditory sensitivity and vocalization evolve independently in otophysan fishes? Brain Behav. Evol. 53:288-304.

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Date:

April 3, 2007

Presenter:

Katie Faulkner

Topic:

Aizawa N, Eggermont JJ. 2006. Effects of noise-induced hearing loss at a young age on voice onset time an gap in noise representations in adult cat primary auditory cortex. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol, Mar;7(1):71-81.

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Date:

February 27, 2007

Presenter:

Chris Templeton

Topic:

KA Spencer, KL Buchanan, S Leitner, AR Goldsmith and CK. Catchpole. Parasites affect song complexity and neural development in a songbird. Proc. R. Soc. B (2005) 272, 2037Ð2043

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Date:

February 13, 2007

Presenter:

Marina

Topic:

Witten IB, Bergan JF, Knudsen EI. Dynamic shifts in the owl's auditory space map predict moving sound location.Nat Neurosci. 2006 Nov;9(11):1439-45

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Date:

February 6, 2007

Presenter:

Jeff Longnion

Topic:

Barbour DL and Wang X (2003) Contrast Tuning in Auditory Cortex.

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Date:

January 31, 2007

Presenter:

Curtis Billings

Topic:

Phillips, Dennis. (1989). Neural representation of sound amplitude in the auditory cortex: effects of noise masking. Beh Brain Research. 37:197-214

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Date:

January 23, 2007

Presenter:

Kate Tabor

Topic:

Kuba, Ishii and Ohmori (2006) Axonal site of spike initiation enhances auditory coincidence detection. Nature 444:1069-1072.

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Date:

January 9, 2007

Presenter:

Katie Faulkner

Topic:

Steinschneider M, Schroeder CE, Arezzo JC, Vaughan HG. Physiologic correlates of the voice onset time boundary in primate auditory cortex (A1) of the awake monkey: temporal response patterns. Brain and Language 1995;48:326-40.

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Date:

December 12, 2006

Presenter:

Leonard Kitzes visiting from UC Irvine

Topic:

Auditory Cortex

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Date:

December 5, 2006

Presenter:

Marina Kuznetsova

Topic:

Task-modulated "what" and "where" pathways in human auditory cortex. Ahveninen J, Jaaskelainen IP, Raij T, Bonmassar G, Devore S, Hamalainen M, Levanen S, Lin FH, Sams M, Shinn-Cunningham BG, Witzel T, Belliveau JW.

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Date:

November 21, 2006

Presenter:

Kelly Owens

Topic:

KI Nagel and AJ Doupe (2006) Temporal Processing and Adaptation in the Songbird Auditory Forebrain. Neuron 51(6):845-859.

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Date:

November 14, 2006

Presenter:

Kate Tabor

Topic:

Christianson GB and Pena JL (2006) Noise reduction of coincidence detector output by inferior collicuus of the barn owl. J Neurosci 26(22):5948-5954.

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Date:

November 7, 2006

Presenter:

Jeff Longnion

Topic:

Fritz J, Shamma S, Elhilali M, Klein D (2003) Rapid task-related plasticity of spectrotemporal fields in primary auditory cortex. Nature Neurosci. 6: 1216-1223.

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Date:

October 31, 2006 (Halloween!)

Presenter:

Curtis Billings

Topic:

Phillips DP (1997) Factors shaping response latency of neurons in the cat's auditory cortex. Behav. Brain Res. 93:33-41.

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Date:

October 24, 2006

Presenter:

Chris Templeton

Topic:

Phan, ML, Pytte CL, Vicario DS (2006) Early auditory experience generates long-lasting memories that may subserve vocal learning in songbirds. PNAS 103: 1088-1093.

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Date:

October 10, 2006

Presenter:

Sam Gale

Topic:

Kacelnik O, Nodal FR, Parsons CH, King AJ (2006) Training-induced plasticity of sound localization in adult mammals. PLOS Biology 4: 627-638.

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