Publications
Journal Articles
Steckenfinger SA and Ghazanfar AA (2009) Monkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valley. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106: 18362-18466, doi:10.1073/pnas.0910063106. PDF
- Nature Highlight Dislikeable Likeness
- Wired magazine Monkeys Fall Into Uncanny Valley, Just Like Humans
- New Scientist magazine Macaques are creeped out by cyber-selves
- The New York Times Freakonomics and Science in Pictures
- Boston Globe Monkeys and "the uncanny valley"
- National Geographic "The Polar Express" Would Creep Out Monkeys Too?"
- BBC News "Early origins for uncanny valley"
- SEED Magazine "Into the uncanny valley"
Lewkowicz DJ and Ghazanfar AA (2009) The emergence of multisensory systems through perceptual narrowing. Trends in Cognitive Science, 13: 470-478, doi:10.1016/j.tics.2009.08.004. PDF
Chandrasekaran C, Trubanova A, Stillittano S, Caplier A and Ghazanfar AA (2009) The natural statistics of audiovisual speech. PLoS Computational Biology, 5: e1000436. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000436. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Maier JX (2009) Monkeys hear rising frequency sounds as looming. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123: 822-827. PDF
Ghazanfar AA (2009) The multisensory roles for auditory cortex in primate vocal communication. Hearing Research, In press. PDF
Chandrasekaran C and Ghazanfar AA (2009) Different neural frequency bands integrate faces and voices differently in the superior temporal sulcus. Journal of Neurophysiology, 101: 773-788. doi:10.1152/jn.90843.2008. PDF
Zangenehpour S, Ghazanfar AA, Lewkowicz DJ and Zatorre RJ (2009) Heterochrony and cross-species intersensory matching by infant vervet monkeys. PLoS ONE, 4: e4302. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004302. PDF
Maier JX, Chandrasekaran C and Ghazanfar AA (2008) Integration of bimodal looming signals through neuronal coherence in the temporal lobe. Current Biology, 18: 963-968. PDF with supplemental data
- Commentary by M Bauer, "Multisensory integration: A functional role for inter-area synchronization?" in Current Biology, 18: 709-710. PDF
Vatakis A, Ghazanfar AA and Spence C (2008) Facilitation of multisensory integration by the ‘unity effect’ reveals that speech is special. Journal of Vision, 8: 1-11. doi:10.1167/8.9.14. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Rendall D (2008) Evolution of human vocal production. Current Biology, 18: R457-R460. PDF
Ghazanfar AA, Chandrasekaran C and Logothetis NK (2008) Interactions between the superior temporal sulcus and auditory cortex mediate dynamic face/voice integration in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience, 28: 4457-4469. PDF
Hoffman KL, Ghazanfar AA, Gauthier I, and Logothetis NK. (2008) Category-specific responses to faces and objects in monkey auditory cortex. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 1: 2. doi:10.3389/neuro.06/002.2007. PDF
Maier JX and Ghazanfar AA. (2007) Looming biases in monkey auditory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 27: 4093-4100. PDF
Ghazanfar AA, Turesson HJ, Maier JX, van Dinther R, Patterson RD and Logothetis NK (2007) Vocal tract resonances as indexical cues in rhesus monkeys. Current Biology, 17: 425-430. PDF
- Commentary by KG Munhall and SK Byrne, "Animal communication: big talkers and small talk" in Current Biology, 17: R247-R249. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Schroeder CE (2006) Is the neocortex essentially multisensory? Trends in Cognitive Science, 10: 278-285. PDF
Lewkowicz DJ and Ghazanfar AA (2006) The decline of cross-species intersensory perception in human infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 103: 6771-6774. PDF
Ghazanfar AA, Nielsen K and Logothetis NK (2006) Eye movements of monkey observers viewing vocalizing conspecifics. Cognition, 101: 515-529. PDF
Jordan KE, Brannon EM, Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (2005) Monkeys match the number voices they hear to the number of faces they see. Current Biology, 15: 1034-1038. PDF
- Commentary by LR Santos, "Primate cognition: putting two and two together" in Current Biology 15: 545-547 PDF
- Faculty of 1000 evaluation
Ghazanfar AA, Maier JX, Hoffman KL and Logothetis NK (2005) Multisensory integration of dynamic faces and voices in primate auditory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 25: 5004-5012. PDF
- Faculty of 1000 evaluation
Ghazanfar AA and Santos LR (2004) Primate brains in the wild: the sensory bases for social interactions. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5: 603-616. PDF
Maier JX, Neuhoff JG, Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (2004) Multisensory integration of looming signals by rhesus monkeys. Neuron, 43: 177-181. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Logothetis NK (2003) Facial expressions linked to monkey calls. Nature, 423: 937-938. PDF
Ghazanfar AA, Neuhoff JG and Logothetis NK (2002) Auditory looming perception in rhesus monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 99: 15755-15757. PDF
- Commentary by DA Hall and DR Moore, "Auditory neuroscience: The salience of looming sounds" in Current Biology 13: R91-R93 PDF].
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. PDF
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. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Hauser MD (2001) The auditory behaviour of primates: a neuroethological perspective. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 11: 712-720. PDF
Ghazanfar AA, Krupa DJ and Nicolelis MAL (2001) Role of corticothalamic feedback in processing simple and complex tactile stimuli. Experimental Brain Research, 141: 88-100. PDF
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. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Nicolelis MAL (2001) The structure and function of dynamic cortical and thalamic receptive fields. Cerebral Cortex, 11: 183-193. PDF
Ghazanfar AA, Stambaugh CR and Nicolelis MAL (2000) Encoding of tactile stimulus location by somatosensory thalamocortical ensembles. Journal of Neuroscience, 20: 3761-3775 PDF
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. PDF
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. PDF
- Commentary by JH Kaas, "Is most of neural plasticity in the thalamus cortical?" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 96: 7622-7623 PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Nicolelis MAL (1999) Spatiotemporal properties of layer V neurons in the rat primary somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 9: 348-361. PDF
Nicolelis MAL, Ghazanfar AA, Stambaugh, CR, Oliveira LMO, Laubach, M, Chapin JK, Nelson RJ and Kaas JH (1998) Simultaneous encoding of tactile information by three primate cortical areas. Nature Neuroscience, 1:621-630. PDF
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. PDF
Nicolelis MAL, Ghazanfar AA, Faggin B, Votaw S and Oliveria LMO (1997) Reconstructing the engram: simultaneous, multi-site, many single neuron recordings. Neuron, 18: 529-537. PDF
Nicolelis MAL, Fanselow EE and Ghazanfar AA (1997) Hebb's dream: the resurgence of cell assemblies. Neuron, 19: 219-221. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Nicolelis MAL (1997) Non-linear processing of tactile information by thalamocortical ensembles. Journal of Neurophysiology, 78: 506-510. PDF
Book Chapters
Lewkowicz DJ and Ghazanfar AA (2010) Paradoxical psychological functioning in early childhood development. In The parodoxical brain. Edited by N. Kapur, A. Pascual-Leone & V. Ramachandran. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. In press.
Ghazanfar AA (2010) The default mode of primate vocal communication and its neural correlates. In Multisensory object processing in the primate brain. Edited by Marcus J. Naumer & Jochen Kaiser. Springer, Germany. In press.
Ghazanfar AA (2009) The unity of the senses in primate vocal communication. In Frontiers in the neural bases of multisensory processes. Edited by Micah J. Murray & Mark Wallace. Taylor & Francis Press. In press.
Romanski LM and Ghazanfar AA (2009) The primate frontal and temporal lobes and their role in multisensory vocal communication. In Primate Neuroethology. Edited by Michael L. Platt & Asif A. Ghazanfar. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. In press.
Shepherd SV and Ghazanfar AA (2009) Engaging neocortical networks with dynamic faces. In Dynamic faces: insights from experiments and computation. Edited by Martin Giese, Cristobal Curio & Heinrich Buelthoff. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. In press.
Turesson HK and Ghazanfar AA (2008) Animal vocalizations. In Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. Edited by David Sander & Klaus R. Scherer. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. In press.
Cohen YE and Ghazanfar AA (2008) Primate vocal communication. In Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences. Edited by Patrick Hogan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. In press.
Ghazanfar AA and Cohen YE (2008) Primate communication: evolution and neurobiology. In The Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Edited by Larry Squire et al. Elsevier Press, Oxford, UK.
Ghazanfar AA and Lewkowicz DJ (2008) The ontogeny and phylogeny of bimodal primate vocal communication. In The Origins of Language Revisited. Edited by Nobuo Masataka, Springer Press, Tokyo. pp. 85-110.
Ghazanfar AA, Maier JX and Turesson HK (2007) Multisensory communication and cognition in non-human primates. In Comparative Social Cognition. Edited by Shigeru Watanabe, Takeo Tsujii & Julian Keenan. Keio University Press, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 125-146.
Ghazanfar AA and Miller CT (2004) Acoustic communication. In The Handbook of Animal Behavior. Edited by Marc Bekoff. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. pp. 334-343.
Ghazanfar AA and Santos LR (2003) Primates as auditory specialists. In Primate Audition: Ethology & Neurobiology. Edited by A.A. Ghazanfar. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 1-12.
Miller CT and Ghazanfar AA (2002) Meaningful acoustic units in nonhuman primate vocal behavior. In The Cognitive Animal. Edited by C. Allen, M. Bekoff & G.M. Burghardt. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 265-273.
Weiss DJ, Ghazanfar AA, Miller CT and Hauser MD (2002) Specialized processing of primate facial and vocal expressions: evidence for cerebral asymmetries. In Comparative Vertebrate Lateralization. Edited by L.J. Rogers & R.J. Andrew. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 480-530.
Ghazanfar AA and Nicolelis MAL (2000) The space-time continuum in mammalian sensory pathways. In Time and the Brain. Edited by R. Miller. Hardwood Press, Sidney, pp. 97-130.
Commentaries
Ghazanfar AA and Turesson HK (2008) Speech production: how does a word feel? Current Biology, 18: R1142-R1144. PDF
Ghazanfar AA (2008) Cultural evolution: Bridging the Big Gap. Review of "On deep history and the brain" by Daniel Lord Smail. Science, 321: 914. PDF
Ghazanfar AA (2008) Language evolution: neural differences that make a difference. Nature Neuroscience, 11: 382-384. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Turesson HK (2008) How robots will teach us how the brain works. Review of "How the body shapes the way we think" by Rolf Pfeiffer & Josh Bongard. Nature Neuroscience, 11: 3. PDF
Ghazanfar AA (2007) Social climbers. Review of "Baboon metaphysics: the evolution of a social mind" by Dorothy L. Cheney & Robert M. Seyfarth. Nature, 448: 535-536. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Pinsk MA (2007) Speech perception: Linking comprehension across a cortical network. Current Biology, 17: R420-R422. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Chandrasekaran CF (2007) Paving the way forward: integrating the senses through phase-resetting of cortical oscillations. Neuron, 53: 162-164. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Miller CT (2006) Language evolution: loquacious monkey brains? Current Biology, 16: R879-R881. PDF
Ghazanfar AA (2006) Review of "Evolution of communication systems: a comparative approach" edited by D.K. Oller & U. Griebel. Acta Biotheoretica, 54: 147-150.
Gross CG and Ghazanfar AA (2006) A mostly sure-footed account of the hand. Review of "The sensory hand" by Vernon Mountcastle. Science, 312: 1314
Ghazanfar AA (2002) Review of "Animal experimentation: a guide to the issues." by Vaughan Monamy. Animal Behaviour, 63: 631-632.
Ghazanfar AA (2002) Flexible apes. Review of "Tree of origin: what primate behavior can tell us about human social evolution" edited by F.B.M. De Waal. American Scientist, 90: 90-92.
Ghazanfar AA (2001) "Nano"-review of "A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future." by David Hancocks. American Scientist, 89: 552.
Ghazanfar AA (2001) Hanging around with baboons. Review of "A primate's memoirs" by R. M. Sapolsky. Trends in Cognitive Science, 5: 366-367.
Ghazanfar AA (2001) Biomedical research and animal welfare--a delicate balance. Joint review of "The scalpel and the butterfly" by D. Rudacille and "The Lives of Animals" by J.M. Coetzee. Nature Neuroscience, 4:227-229.
Ghazanfar AA (2001) Review of "Sound" edited by P. Kruth & H. Stobart. The Physiologist, 44: 50.
Ghazanfar AA and Katz DB (1998) Distributed neural substrates and the evolution of speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21:516-517.
Abstracts
Chandrasekaran C and Ghazanfar AA (2009) Encoding of natural habitat scenes in the primary auditory cortex of monkeys. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, Chicago, IL.
Shepherd SV and Ghazanfar AA (2009) Spontaneous facial expressions and electromyography of monkeys viewing dynamic conspecific expressions. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, Chicago, IL.
Steckenfinger SA, Shepherd SV, Hasson U and Ghazanfar AA (2009) Inter-species and inter-subject scanpath correlations while viewing complex dynamic visual sequences. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, Chicago, IL.
Baker AE, Tsunada J, Davis SJ, Ghazanfar AA and Cohen YE (2009) Context-dependent neural representation of vocalizations in primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, Chicago, IL.
Tsunada J, Baker AE, Davis SJ, Ghazanfar AA and Cohen YE (2009) Vocalization-context dependent neural representation of faces in primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, Chicago, IL.
Chandrasekaran C and Ghazanfar AA (2009) Different neural frequency bands integrate faces and voices differently in the superior temporal sulcus. 10th International Multisensory Research Forum, New York, NY.
Tsunada J, Baker AE, Davis SJ, Ghazanfar AA and Cohen YE (2009) Vocalization-context dependent neural representation of faces in monkey lateral prefrontal cortex. 10th International Multisensory Research Forum, New York, NY.
Turesson HK, Chandrasekaran C and Ghazanfar AA (2009) The influence of theta (4-8Hz) structure in vocalizations on neural activity in auditory cortex. Cosyne 2009, Salt Lake City, UT.
Hoffman KL, Turesson HK, Ghazanfar AA and Logothetis NK (2009) Phase coding of faces and objects in the superior temporal sulcus. Cosyne 2009, Salt Lake City, UT.
Petkov CI, Kayser C, Ghazanfar AA, Patterson RD and Logothetis NK (2008) Functional Imaging of the Sensitivity to Vocal Components in the Monkey Auditory Cortex. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Chandrasekaran C and Ghazanfar AA (2008) Different oscillations in the superior temporal sulcus integrate faces and voices differently. Cosyne 2008, Salt Lake City, UT.
Zangenehpour S, Lewkowicz DJ, Ghazanfar AA and Zatorre RJ (2007) Intersensory integration of ecologically relevant and irrelevant stimuli in young vervet monkeys. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Ghazanfar AA, Chandrasekaran CF and Turesson HK (2007) The structure of primate vocalizations exploits the structure of neocortical oscillations. Kavli Frontiers of Science, Irvine CA
Lewkowicz DJ, Ghazanfar AA (2006) Perceptual narrowing in infancy: the loss of Intersensory function in human infants. International Conference on Infant Studies
Maier J, Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (2005) Looming versus receding signals in rhesus monkey auditory cortex. Society for Neuroscience abstracts
Maier J, Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (2005) Multisensory processing of looming signals in primates. International Multisensory Research Forum, Trento, Italy
Jordan KE, Brannon EM, Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (2005) Monkeys match number of voices they hear with number of faces they see. Vision Sciences Society abstracts.
Hoffman KL, Ghazanfar AA, Gauthier I and Logothetis NK (2004) Category-specific responses for faces and objects in the superior temporal sulcus and beyond. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Maier J, Neuhoff JG, Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (2004) Monkeys naturally integrate auditory-visual looming signals. International Multisensory Research Forum, Barcelona, Spain.
Nielsen K, Logothetis NK and Ghazanfar AA (2004) Eye movements of monkey perceivers during viewing of species-specific vocal signals. International Multisensory Research Forum, Barcelona, Spain
Hoffman KL, Ghazanfar AA, Gauthier I and Logothetis NK (2004) Differential responses for faces and objects in audtiory cortex and superior temporal sulcus. International Multisensory Research Forum, Barcelona, Spain
Ghazanfar AA, Leopold DA, Hauser MD and Logothetis NK. (2003) Acoustic parameters underlying species-specific vocalization sensitivity in rhesus monkey auditory cortex. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Ghazanfar AA and Logothetis NK. (2003) Representation of conspecific vocalizations in rhesus monkey auditory cortex. International Conference on Auditory Cortex, Magdeburg, Germany.
Ghazanfar AA, Pauls J, Leopold DA, Hauser MD and Logothetis NK. (2002) Neural responses to species-specific vocalizations in the auditory association cortex of the awake behaving rhesus monkey. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Ghazanfar AA and Hauser MD (2000) Temporal cues, orienting asymmetries, and brain lateralization in the perception of species-specific vocalizations by rhesus macaques: field studies. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Ghazanfar AA, Stambaugh, CR and Nicolelis MAL (1999) Putative coding strategies of somatosensory cortical and thalamic ensembles in the rat. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Ghazanfar AA, Stambaugh CR and Nicolelis MAL (1998) Coding of tactile information by cortical and thalamic ensembles. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Ghazanfar AA, Krupa DJ and Nicolelis MAL (1997) Tactile processing by thalamic neural ensembles: the role of cortical feedback. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Krupa DJ, Ghazanfar AA and Nicolelis MAL (1997) Role of SI cortex in receptive field reorganization in VPM thalamus following peripheral deafferentation. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Nicolelis MAL, Oliveira LMO, Ghazanfar AA, Shuler MG, Chapin JK, Nelson RJ and Kaas JH (1997) Neural ensemble coding of tactile information by multiple cortical areas in primates. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Ghazanfar AA, Shuler MG and Nicolelis MAL (1997) Processing of behaviorally-relevant tactile information by thalamocortical ensembles. Computational Neuroscience (CNS ’97) abstracts.
Ghazanfar AA, Votaw S, Oliveira LM and Nicolelis MAL (1996) Spatiotemporal representation of multiwhisker stimulation by thalamocortical ensembles. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Nicolelis MAL, Carswell B, Oliveira LM, Ghazanfar AA, Votaw S, Chapin J, Lin RCS, Nelson RJ and Kaas JH (1995) Chronic and simultaneously recordings of neuronal ensembles across multiple cortical areas in behaving primates. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.
Ghazanfar AA, Faggin B and Nicolelis MAL (1995) Distributed processing of tactile information by multiple cortical areas in the rat. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Sawby R, Ghazanfar AA, Morrey C, DeSantis M and Grober MS (1995) Differential regulation of AVT peptide and mRNA correlates with naturally occurring adult sex change. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
Ghazanfar AA and Grober MS (1994) Unique distribution of CRH-ir relative to AVT-ir in the brain of the Saddleback Wrasse: a novel characteristic of sex- reversing vs. gonochoristic fish. Society for Neuroscience abstracts.
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