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Zoltan M. Fuzessery
Personal biography

Zoltan M. Fuzessery
Professor, Department of Zoology and Physiology
Auditory and Developmental Neurophysiology

Ph.D. University of Illinois
zmf@uwyo.edu • (307) 766-2948

Research:

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Neuroethological approach to information processing in the vertebrate auditory system, using behavioral, psychophysical, neurophysiological and neuroanatomical approaches to unravel the neural substrates for sound localization, echolocation and recognition of communication signals. Current research focuses on parallel information processing in the central auditory system of the pallid bat, a species that uses both echolocation and passive hearing to detect and locate prey.

Publications:

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

2003

Barber JR, Razak KA, Fuzessery ZM (2003). Can two streams of auditory information be processed simultaneously? Evidence from the gleaning bat Antrozous pallidus. J Comp Physiol A 189: 843-855.

2002

Fuzessery ZM, Wenstrup JJ, Hall JC, Leroy S (2002). Inhibition has little effect on response latencies in the inferior colliculus. JARO 04: 60-73.

Marsh RA, Fuzessery ZM, Grose CD, Wenstrup JJ (2002). Projection to the inferior colliculus from the basal nucleus of the amygdala. J Neurosci 22(23): 10449-10460.

Razak KA, Fuzessery ZM (2002). Functional organization of the pallid bat auditory cortex: emphasis on binaural organization. J Neurophysiol 87: 72-86.

2000

Lohuis TD, Fuzessery ZM (2000). Neuronal sensitivity to interaural time differences in the sound envelope in the auditory cortex of the pallid bat. Hear Res 00:1-15.

Razak KA, Fuzessery ZM (2000). A systematic representation of interaural intensity difference in the auditory cortex of the pallid bat. NeuroReport 11:2919-2924.

1999

Fuzessery ZM, Hall JC (1999). Sound duration selectivity in the pallid bat inferior colliculus. Hear Res 137: 137-154.

Razak KA, Fuzessery ZM, Lohuis TD (1999). Single cortical neurons serve both echolocation and passive sound localization. J Neurophysiol 81: 1438-1442.

1997

Fuzessery ZM (1997). Acute sensitivity to interaural time differences in the inferior colliculus of a bat that relies of passive sound localization. Hear Res. 109:46-62.

1996

Fuzessery ZM (1996). Monaural and binaural spectral cues created by the external ears of the pallid bat. Hear Res. 95:1-17.

Fuzessery ZM , Hall JC (1996). The role of GABA in shaping frequency tuning and selectivity for FM sweep direction in the inferior colliculus. J Neurophysiol 76:1059-1073.

1994

Fuzessery ZM (1994). Response selectivity for multiple dimensions of frequency sweeps in the pallid bat inferior colliculus. J Neurophysiol 72:1061-1079.

1993

Fuzessery ZM, Buttenhoff P, Andrews B, Kennedy, JM (1993). Passive sound localization of prey by the pallid bat (Antrozous p. pallidus). J Comp Physiol 171:767-777.

1992

Fuzessery ZM , Hartley DJ, Wenstrup JJ (1992). Spatial processing within the mustache bat echolocation system: possible mechanisms for optimization. J Comp Physiol 170:57-71.

1990

Fuzessery ZM, Wenstrup JJ, Pollak GD (1990). Binaural response properties and spatial tuning of binaurally excited neurons in an isofrequency region of the mustache bat inferior colliculus . J Neurophysiol 63:1128-1147.

1988

Fuzessery ZM (1988). "Frequency selectivity in the frog central auditory system". In The Evolution of the Amphibian Auditory System, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

1985

Fuzessery ZM, Pollak GD (1985). Determinants of sound location selectivity in the bat inferior colliculus: a combined free-field and dichotic stimulation study. J Neurophysiol 54:59-83.

1984

Fuzessery ZM, Pollak GD (1984). Neural correlates of sound localization in an echolocating bat. Science 225:725-728.

1983

Fuzessery ZM, Feng AS (1983). Mating call selectivity in the thalamus and midbrain of the leopard frog (Rana p. pipiens): single and multiunit responses. J Comp Physiol 150:333-344.

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