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Dr. Asif A. Ghazanfar

Asif A. Ghazanfar

Position: Research Scientist Unit: Alumni Logothetis

Publications

Books (1):
•	Ghazanfar AA : Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology, 312, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, (August-2002). ISBN: 978-0-8493-0956-4
Articles (28):
•	Maier JX , Chandrasekaran C and Ghazanfar AA (July-2008) Integration of Bimodal Looming Signals through Neuronal Coherence in the Temporal Lobe Current Biology 18(13) 963-968.
•	Ghanzafar AA , Chandrasekaran C and Logothetis NK (April-2008) Interactions between the Superior Temporal Sulcus and Auditory Cortex Mediate Dynamic Face/Voice Integration in Rhesus Monkeys Journal of Neuroscience 28(17) 4457-4469.
•	Hoffman KL , Ghanzafar AA , Gauthier I and Logothetis NK (March-2008) Category-specific responses to faces and objects in primate auditory cortex Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 1(2) 1-8.
•	Maier JX and Ghazanfar AA (April-2007) Looming Biases in Monkey Auditory Cortex Journal of Neuroscience 27(15) 4093-4100.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Turesson HK , Maier JX , Dinther RV , Patterson RD and Logothetis NK (February-2007) Vocal-Tract Resonances as Indexical Cues in Rhesus Monkeys Current Biology 17(5) 425-430.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Nielsen KJ and Logothethis NK (January-2006) Eye movements of monkey observers viewing vocalizing conspecifics Cognition 101(3) 515-529.
•	Jordan KE , Brannon EM , Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (June-2005) Monkeys match the number of voices they hear to the number of faces they see Current Biology 15(11) 1034-1038.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Maier JX , Hoffman KL and Logothetis NK (May-2005) Multisensory integration of dynamic faces and voices in rhesus monkey auditory cortex Journal of Neuroscience 25(20) 5004-5012.
•	Ghazanfar AA and Santos LR (August-2004) Primate brains in the wild: the sensory bases for social interactions Nature Reviews Neuroscience 5(8) 603-616.
•	Maier JX , Neuhoff JG , Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (July-2004) Multisensory integration of looming signals by rhesus monkeys Neuron 43(2) 177-181.
•	Ghazanfar AA and Logothetis NK (June-2003) Neuroperception: Facial expressions linked to monkey calls Nature 423(6943) 937-938.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Neuhoff JG and Logothetis NK (November-2002) Auditory looming perception in rhesus monkeys Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99(24) 15755-15757.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Smith-Rohrberg D , Pollen AA and Hauser MD (2002) Temporal cues in the perception of long calls by cotton-top tamarins. Animal Behaviour 64 427-438.
•	Ghazanfar AA and Hauser MD (December-2001) The auditory behaviour of primates: a neuroethological perspective Current Opinion in Neurobiology 11(6) 712-720.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Krupa DJ and Nicolelis MAL (2001) Role of cortical feedback in the receptive field structure and nonlinear response properties of somatosensory thalamic neurons. Experimental Brain Research 141 88.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Smith-Rohrberg D and Hauser MD (2001) The role of temporal cues in conspecific vocal recognition: rhesus monkey orienting asymmetries to reversed calls. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 58 163-172.
•	Ghazanfar AA and Nicolelis MAL (2001) The structure and function of dynamic cortical and thalamic receptive fields. Cerebral Cortex 11 183-193.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Flombaum JI , Miller CT and Hauser MD (2001) Units of perception in the antiphonal calling behavior of cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus): playback experiments with long calls. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 187 27-35.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Stambaugh CR and Nicolelis MAL (2000) Encoding of tactile stimulus location by somatosensory thalamocortical ensembles. Journal of Neuroscience 20 3761-3775.
•	Krupa DJ , Ghazanfar AA and Nicolelis MAL (1999) Immediate thalamic sensory plasticity depends on cortical feedback. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 96 8200-8205.
•	Ghazanfar AA and Nicolelis MAL (1999) Spatiotemporal properties of layer V neurons in the rat primary somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex 9 384.
•	Ghazanfar AA and Hauser MD (1999) The neuroethology of primate vocal communication: substrates for the evolution of speech. Trends in Cognitive Science 3 377-384.
•	Nicolelis MAL , Ghazanfar AA , Stambaugh CR , Oliveira LMO , Laubach M , Chapin JK , Nelson RJ and Kaas JH (November-1998) Simultaneous encoding of tactile information by three primate cortical areas Nature Neuroscience 1(7) 621-630.
•	Ghazanfar AA and Katz DB (1998) Distributed neural substrates and the evolution of speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 516-517.
•	Grober MS , Winterstein G , Ghazanfar AA and Eroschenko V (1998) The effects of estradiol on gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the developing mouse brain. General & Comparative Endocrinology 112 356-363.
•	Nicolelis MAL , Fanselow EE and Ghazanfar AA (1997) Hebb’s dream: the resurgence of cell assemblies. Neuron 19 219-221.
•	Ghazanfar AA and Nicolelis MAL (1997) Non-linear processing of tactile information by thalamocortical ensembles. Journal of Neurophysiology 78 506-510.
•	Nicolelis MAL , Ghazanfar AA , Faggin B , Votaw S and Oliveira LMO (1997) Reconstructing the engram: simultaneous, multi-site, many single neuron recordings. Neuron 18 529-537.
Contributions to books (6):
•	Shuler MG , Katz DB and Ghazanfar AA : Temporal organization of behavior and its relation to neural events, -. In: Temporal processing in the nervous system, (Ed) E. Covey, Kluwer, New York, USA, (January-2012). accepted
•	Ghazanfar AA and Miller CT : Acoustic communication, 334-343. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, (Ed) M. Bekoff, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, USA, (2004).
•	Ghazanfar AA and Santos LR : Primates as auditory specialists, 1-12. In: Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology, (Ed) A.A. Ghazanfar, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, (August-2002).
•	Miller CT and Ghazanfar AA : Meaningful acoustic units in nonhuman primate vocal behavior., 265-273. , MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (2002).
•	Weiss DJ , Ghazanfar AA , Miller CT and Hauser MD : Specialized processing of primate facial and vocal expressions: evidence for cerebral asymmetries., 480-530. , Cambridge University Press, (2002).
•	Ghazanfar AA and Nicolelis MAL : The space-time continuum in mammalian sensory pathways., 97-130. , Hardwood Press, Sidney, (2000).
Posters (13):
•	Petkov C , Kayser C , Patterson R , Ghazanfar AA and Logothetis N (April-2008): Whose voice is that? In pursuit of an animal model of vocal recognition, Days of Molecular Medicine, Stockholm.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Chandrasekaran CF and Logothetis NK (October-2006): Coherence in auditory cortical activity is modulated by face/voice integration in rhesus monkeys, 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2006), Atlanta, GA, USA.
•	Chandrasekaran CF , van Dinther R , Patterson RD , Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (October-2006): Representation of Formants & Fundamental Frequencies of Coo Calls in Rhesus Monkey Auditory Cortex, Tucker-Davis Symposium on Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neurophysiology (APAN IV), Atlanta, GA, USA.
•	Chandrasekaran C , van Dinther R , Patterson RD , Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (October-2006): Representation of formants and fundamental frequencies of coo calls in rhesus monkey auditory cortex, 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2006), Atlanta, GA, USA.
•	Maier J , Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (November-2005): Looming versus receding signals in rhesus monkey auditory cortex, 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2005), Washington, DC, USA.
•	Maier J , Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar A (June-2005): Multisensory processing of looming signals in primates, 6th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2005), Trento, Italy.
•	Hoffman KL , Ghazanfar AA , Gauthier I and Logothetis NK (October-2004): Category-specific responses for faces and objects in the superior temporal sulcus and beyond, 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2004), San Diego, CA, USA.
•	Hoffman K , Ghazanfar A , Gauthier I and Logothetis NK (June-2004): Differential responses for faces and objects in auditory cortex and superior temporal sulcus, 5th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2004), Barcelona, Spain.
•	Nielsen KJ , Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (June-2004): Eye movements of monkey perceivers during viewing of species-specific vocal signals, 5th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2004), Barcelona, Spain.
•	Maier J , Neuhoff J , Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar A (June-2004): Monkeys naturally integrate auditory-visual looming signals, 5th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2004), Barcelona, Spain.
•	Ghanzafar AA , Leopold DA , Hauser MD and Logothetis NK (November-2003): Acoustic parameters underlying vocalization-sensitive neural responses in Rhesus monkey auditory cortex, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2003), New Orleans, LA, USA.
•	Ghazanfar AA , Pauls J , Leopold DA , Hauser MD and Logothetis NK (November-2002): Neural responses to species-specific vocalizations in the auditory association cortex of the awake behaving rhesus monkey, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2002), Orlando, FL, USA.
•	Wilke M , Maier A , Leopold DA , Ghazanfar AA and Logothetis NK (November-2001): Periods of stimulus absence stabilize the perception of ambiguous patterns, 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2001), San Diego, CA, USA.
Popular Scientific Articles (5):
•	Ghazanfar AA : Book Review - Animal Experimentation: A Guide to the Issues. By Vaughan Monamy, Animal Behaviour(March-2002) 63, 631-632.
•	Ghazanfar AA : Flexible Apes - Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution by Frans B. M. de Waal, American Scientist(January-2002) 90, 90-92.