Associate Professor of Neural Science, Psychology
Ph.D. 1981 (psychology and physiology), B.Sc. (honors) 1977 (psychology), Monash (Australia).

Research Interests:

Central neural mechanisms of hearing, including the brain's ability to process dynamic features of sound to identify their sources, as revealed by neurophysiological, neuroanatomical and behavioral approaches.

Affiliations:

Society for Neuroscience, Association for Research in Otolaryngology.

Fellowships/Honors:

First Independent Research and Support Transition (FIRST) Award, National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 1987; Associate Editor, Journal of Neuroscience; Chair, NYU Animal Welfare Committee.

Selected Works:

Development of ventral cochlear nucleus projections to the superior olivary complex in gerbil, with Kil, J., G. Kageyama and L. M. Kitzes. J. Comp. Neurol., 353. 1995. 317-340.
Factors shaping the tone level-sensitivity of single neurons in posterior field of cat auditory cortex, with Phillips, D. P. and L. M. Kitzes. J. Neurophysiol., 73. 1995. 674-686.
Monaural inhibition in cat auditory cortex, with Calford, M. B. J. Neurophysiol., 73. 1995. 1876-1891.
Role of synaptic inhibition in processing of dynamic binaural level stimuli, with Sanes, D.H., B.J. Malone. J. Neurosci., 18. 1998. 794-803.
Transformation of binaural response properties in the ascending auditory pathway: influence of time-varying interaural phase disparity, with Spitzer, M. W. J. Neurophysiol., 1998 (in press).

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