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Prof. Benedikt Grothe

Principal Investigator

Address:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität - Department Biology II
Großhaderner Straße 2
82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Phone: +49 89-2180-74302
Fax: +49-89-2180-74304
Email: neurobio[at]lmu.de

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Associated with BCCN

Name Status

Todd Jennings

Postdoc

Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München

Research topics

  • Physiology and modelling of auditory brainstem circuits processing dynamic stimuli
  • Systemic and auditory neuroscience (mammals), the role of inhibition in defined neuronal circuits.
  • Development, experience dependent refinement of inhibitory circuits.
  • In vitro and in vivo electrophysiology, Ca++-imaging, anatomy and immunohistochemistry, psychophysics.

Scientific approach

Analysis of neuronal circuits via in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology: patch clamp, extracellular, multi-electrode recordings, neuropharmacology, immuno-histochemistry, modelling, psychophysics.

Bernstein projects

  • Temporal information processing in the auditory system - B. Grothe and W. Hemmert
  • Neuronal networks with spike timing dependent plasticity for speech recognition -  B. Grothe and W. Hemmert
  • Processing of static and dynamic acoustic cues in the mammalian auditory system - B. Grothe and L. van Hemmen
  • Neuronal Representations of Multiple Concurrent Sound Sources - C. Leibold and B. Grothe