Publications
Journal Articles
Ghazanfar AA, Kelly LM, Takahashi DY, Winters S, Terrett R, Higham JP (2020) Domestication phenotype linked to vocal behavior in marmoset monkeys. Current Biology, In press.
Zhang YS and Ghazanfar AA (2020) A hierarchy of autonomous systems for vocal production. Trends in Neurosciences, 43: 115-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2019.12.006 PDF
Gomez-Marin A and Ghazanfar AA (2019) The life of behavior. Neuron, 104: 25-36. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.09.017 PDF
Zhang YS, Takahashi DY, Liao DA, Ghazanfar AA* and Elemans CPH* (2019) Vocal state change through laryngeal development. Nature Communications, 10:4592 doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12588-6. PDF
Gustison ML, Borjon JI, Takahashi DY and Ghazanfar AA (2019) Vocal and locomotor coordination develops in association with the autonomic nervous system. eLife, 8: e41853. doi: 10.7554/eLife.41853 PDF
Ghazanfar AA, Liao DA and Takahashi DY (2019) Volition and learning in primate vocal behavior. Animal Behaviour, 151: 239-247. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.01.021 PDF
Liao DA, Zhang YS, Cai LX and Ghazanfar AA (2018) Internal states and extrinsic factors both determine monkey vocal production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 115: 3978-3983. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1722426115 PDF
Kulahci IG, Ghazanfar AA and Rubenstein DI (2018) Knowledgeable lemurs become more central in social networks. Current Biology, 28: 1306-1310. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.079 PDF
- Commentary by Andrew Whiten, "Social dynamics: Knowledgeable lemurs gain status" in Current Biology, 28: R344-R345. PDF
Zhang YS and Ghazanfar AA (2018) Vocal development through morphological computation. PLoS Biology, 16: e2003933. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2003933 PDF
- Commentary by Gabriel Mindlin, "Primer: Towards an integrated view of vocal development" in PLoS Biology, 16: e2005544. PDF
- Biomedical Picture of the Day (for April 7th, 2018) MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences.
Kulahci IG, Ghazanfar AA and Rubenstein DI (2018) Consistent individual variation across interaction networks indicates social personalities in lemurs. Animal Behaviour, 136: 217-226. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.11.012 PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Liao DA (2017) Constraints and flexibility during vocal development: Insights from marmoset monkeys. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 21: 27-32. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.11.015 PDF
Technical comments re: Fitch, de Boer, Mathur & Ghazanfar, "Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready."- Lieberman (2017) Science Advances , 3: e1700442. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1700442. PDF
- Fitch, de Boer, Mathur & Ghazanfar (2017) Science Advances , 3: e1701859. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1701859. PDF
Takahashi DY, Liao DA and Ghazanfar AA (2017) Vocal learning via social reinforcement by infant marmoset monkeys. Current Biology, 27: 1844-1852. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.004. PDF
- Current Biology cover
Teramoto Y*, Takahashi DY*, Holmes P and Ghazanfar AA (2017) Vocal development in a Waddington landscape. eLife, 6:e20782. doi: 10.7554/eLife.20782. PDF
- Science Editor's Choice
Krakauer JW, Ghazanfar AA, Gomez-Marin A, MacIver MA and Poeppel D (2017) Neuroscience needs behavior: correcting a reductionist bias. Neuron, 93: 480-490. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.12.041 PDF
- The Atlantic
- National Public Radio
- New York Magazine
- Speaking of Research
- Scientific American
- Massive
Fitch WT, de Boer B, Mathur N and Ghazanfar AA (2016) Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready. Science Advances, 2: e1600723. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600723. PDF
- Science
- Nature
- The New York Times
- National Public Radio
- New Scientist
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Gizmodo
- National Post
- Daily Mail UK
- The Scientist
- The Big Think
- The Telegraph
- The Smithsonian
- How Stuff Works NOW
- Seeker
Ghazanfar AA and Zhang YS (2016) The autonomic nervous system is the engine for vocal development through social feedback. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 40:155-160. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2016.07.016 PDF
Borjon JI, Takahashi DY, Cervantes DC and Ghazanfar AA (2016) Arousal dynamics drive vocal production in marmoset monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology, 116: 753-764. doi:10.1152/jn.00136.2016 PDF
Zhang YS and Ghazanfar AA (2016) Perinatally influenced autonomic nervous system fluctuations drive infant vocal sequences. Current Biology, 26: 1249-1260. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.023 PDF
- Commentary by Ofer Tchernichovski and D. Kimbrough Oller, "Vocal development: How marmoset infants express their feelings" in Current Biology, 26: R422-R424. PDF
Takahashi DY, Fenley AR, and Ghazanfar AA (2016) Early development of turn-taking with parents shapes vocal acoustics in infant marmoset monkeys. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 371: 20150370. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0370 PDF
Kulahci IG, Rubenstein DI and Ghazanfar AA (2015) Lemurs groom-at-a-distance through vocal networks. Animal Behaviour, 110: 179-186. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.09.016 PDF
- Science Editor's Choice PDF
- New York Magazine
- Pacific Standard
- Bustle
- Daily Mail UK
- Science News
Takahashi DY, Fenley AR, Teramoto Y, Narayanan DZ, Borjon JI, Holmes P and Ghazanfar AA (2015) The developmental dynamics of marmoset monkey vocal production. Science, 349: 734-738. doi: 10.1126/science.aab1058 PDF
- Commentary by Dan Margoliash and Ofer Tchernichovski, "Marmoset kids actually listen" in Science, 349: 688-689. PDF
- Science cover
- Science podcast
- Science video
- National Public Radio All Things Considered
- Deutschlandfunk Wie Äffchen sprechen lernen
- Science News
Baby marmosets imitate parents’ sounds
Choi JY, Takahashi DY and Ghazanfar AA (2015) Cooperative vocal control in marmoset monkeys via vocal feedback. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114: 274-283. doi: 10.1152/jn.00228.2015 PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Takahashi DY (2014) The evolution of speech: vision, rhythm, cooperation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18: 543-553. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.06.004 PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Eliades SJ (2014) The neurobiology of primate vocal communication. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 28: 128-135. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.06.015 PDF
Borjon JI and Ghazanfar AA (2014) Convergent evolution of vocal cooperation without convergent evolution of brain size. Brain, Behavior & Evolution, 84: 93-102. doi: 10.1159/000365346 PDF
Kulahci IG, Drea CM, Rubenstein DI and Ghazanfar AA (2014) Individual recognition through olfactory-auditory matching in lemurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281:20140071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0071 PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Takahashi DY (2014) Facial expressions and the evolution of the speech rhythm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26: 1196-1207. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00575 PDF
Chandrasekaran C, Lemus L, and Ghazanfar AA (2013) Dynamic faces speed-up the onset of auditory cortical spiking responses during vocal detection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 110: E4668-4677. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1312518110 PDF
Takahashi DY, Narayanan DZ and Ghazanfar AA (2013) Coupled oscillator dynamics of vocal turn-taking in monkeys. Current Biology, 23: 2162-2168. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.09.005 PDF
- Commentary by J Flack, "Animal communication: Hidden complexity" in Current Biology, 23: R967-R969. PDF
- Nature Marmosets prove to be polite conversationalists
- Science Marmosets chat like we do
- National Geographic's Not Exactly Rocket Science Are marmosets taking turns to talk?
- Wired Some monkeys have conversations that resemble ours
- BBC World Service Science in Action Radio New understanding in primate communication
- BBC News Monkeys take turns in conversation
- Daily Mail UK Marmosets take it in turns to 'talk' so they don't interrupt each other
- io9 Marmosets have conversations that sound strikingly human
- The Independent Not so cheeky monkey: Marmoset calls follow 'etiquette' with manners similar to human conversation
- National Geographic News Watch Talkative marmoset monkeys take turns
- Decoded Science Marmoset monkeys have mastered the art of conversation
Ghazanfar AA, Morrill RJ and Kayser C (2013) Monkeys are perceptually tuned to facial expressions that exhibit a theta-like speech rhythm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 110: 1959-1963. doi:10.1073/pnas.1214956110 PDF
- Nature News & Views Speech science: Tuned to the rhythm
- PNAS New & Newsworthy Macaques are attuned to rhythmic communication
- Daily Mail UK How speech evolved from monkeys smacking their lips
Ghazanfar AA (2013) Multisensory vocal communication in primates and the evolution of rhythmic speech. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 67: 1441-1448. doi:10.1007/s00265-013-1491-z PDF
Grossmann T, Missana M, Friederici AD and Ghazanfar AA (2012) Neural correlates of perceptual narrowing in cross-species face-voice matching. Developmental Science, 15: 830-839. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01179.x PDF
Ghazanfar AA, Takahashi DY, Mathur NA and Fitch WT (2012) Cineradiography of monkey lipsmacking reveals the putative origins of speech dynamics. Current Biology, 22: 1176-1182. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.04.055 PDF
- Nature Highlight Evolution: Monkey lips smack of speech
- Daily Mail UK Did human speech evolve from monkeys pulling faces?
- Big Picture Science radio Animal instinct
Shepherd SV, Lanzilotto M and Ghazanfar AA (2012) Facial muscle coordination in monkeys during rhythmic facial expression and ingestive movement. Journal of Neuroscience, 32: 6105-6116. PDF
Morrill RJ, Paukner A, Ferrari PF and Ghazanfar AA (2012) Monkey lip-smacking develops like the human speech rhythm. Developmental Science, 15: 557-568. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01149.x PDF
Hasson U, Ghazanfar AA, Galantucci B, Garrod S and Keysers C (2012) Brain-to-brain coupling: a mechanism for creating and sharing a social world. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16: 114-121, doi:10.1016/j.tics.2011.12.007 PDF
Lewkowicz DJ and Ghazanfar AA (2012) The development of the uncanny valley in infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 54: 124-132. doi: 10.1002/dev.20583 PDF
Chandrasekaran C, Lemus L, Trubanova A, Gondan M and Ghazanfar AA (2011) Monkeys and humans share a common computation for face/voice integration. PLoS Computational Biology, 7: e1002165, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002165. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Shepherd SV (2011) Monkeys at the movies: what evolutionary cinematics tells us about film. Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, 5: 1-25. dx.doi.org/10.3167/proj.2011.050202. PDF
- National Geographic's Only Human How monkeys watch movies and people tell stories
- Andrew Sullivan's The Dish The monkey gaze
Turesson HK and Ghazanfar AA (2011) Statistical learning of social signals and its implications for the social brain hypothesis. Interaction Studies, 12: 397-417. doi:10.1075/is.12.3.02tur. PDF
Borjon JI*, Shepherd SV*, Todorov A and Ghazanfar AA (2011) Eye-gaze and arrow cues influence elementary sound perception. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278: 1997-2004. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2306. PDF
*these authors contributed equally
Chandrasekaran C, Turesson HK, Brown CH and Ghazanfar AA (2010) The influence of natural scene dynamics on auditory cortical activity. Journal of Neuroscience, 30: 13919-13931. PDF Supplementary Materials
Teufel C, Ghazanfar AA and Fischer J (2010) On the relationship between lateralized brain function and orienting asymmetries. Behavioral Neuroscience, 124: 437-445. PDF
Ghazanfar AA, Chandrasekaran C and Morrill RJ (2010) Dynamic, rhythmic facial expressions and the superior temporal sulcus of macaque monkeys: implications for the evolution of audiovisual speech. European Journal of Neuroscience, 31: 1807-1817. doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07209.x. PDF
Shepherd SV, Steckenfinger SA, Hasson U and Ghazanfar AA (2010) Human-monkey gaze correlations reveal convergent and divergent patterns of movie viewing. Current Biology, 20: 649-656. PDF
- National Geographic's Only Human How monkeys watch movies and people tell stories
- Andrew Sullivan's The Dish The monkey gaze
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"
- National Public Radio's All things considered "Hollywood Eyes Uncanny Valley In Animation"
- National Geographic's Not Exactly Rocket Science Monkeys fall into the uncanny valley
Lewkowicz DJ and Ghazanfar AA (2009) The emergence of multisensory systems through perceptual narrowing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 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, 258: 113-120. 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
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 Sciences, 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 Sciences, 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
Ghazanfar AA and Poeppel D (2014) The neurophysiology and evolution of the speech rhythm. In The Cognitive Neurosciences V. Edited by Michael S. Gazzaniga and Ronald Mangun. MIT Press. In press.
Chandrasekaran C and Ghazanfar AA (2013) Coding across sensory modalities: Integrating the dynamic face with the voice. In Principles of neural coding. Edited by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga and Stefano Panzeri. Taylor & Francis Press. Pp. 263-284.
Ghazanfar AA and Chandrasekaran C (2012) The influence of vision on auditory communication in primates. In Neural Correlates of Auditory Cognition. Springer Handbook for Auditory Research (SHAR). Edited by Y.E. Cohen, A.N. Popper & R.R. Fay. Springer Press. Pp. 193-214.
Kulahci I and Ghazanfar AA (2012) Multisensory recognition in vertebrates (especially primates). In Integrating Face and Voice in Person Perception. Edited by Pascal Belin, Savaltore Campanella & Thomas Ethofer. Springer Press. Pp. 3-27.
Ghazanfar AA and Chandrasekaran C (2012) Non-human primate models of audiovisual communication. In The New Handbook of Multisensory Processes. Edited by Barry E. Stein. MIT Press. Pp. 407-420.
van Wassenhove V, Ghazanfar AA, Munhall KG and Schroeder CE (2012) Bridging the gap between human and nonhuman studies of audiovisual integration. In The New Handbook of Multisensory Processes. Edited by Barry E. Stein. MIT Press. Pp. 153-167.
Ghazanfar AA (2012) The evolution of primate vocal communication and influence of developmental timing. In Multisensory development. Edited by Andrew Bremner, Charles Spence & David Lewkowicz. Oxford University Press. Pp. 360-371.
Ghazanfar AA (2011) The unity of the senses in primate vocal communication. In The neural bases of multisensory processes. Edited by Micah J. Murray & Mark Wallace. Taylor & Francis Press. Pp. 653-666.
Lewkowicz DJ and Ghazanfar AA (2011) Paradoxical psychological functioning in early childhood development. In The parodoxical brain. Edited by N. Kapur. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Pp. 110-129.
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. Pp. 139-153. PDF
Shepherd SV and Ghazanfar AA (2010) 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. Pp. 105-122.
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. Pp. 500-524.
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. Pp. 36-37.
Cohen YE and Ghazanfar AA (2008) Primate vocal communication. In Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences. Edited by Patrick Hogan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Pp. 661-664.
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. Pp. 1037-1044.
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 (2015) Self-made. Review of "Life unfolding: How the human body creates itself" by Jamie A. Davies. Times Literary Supplement, April 24th.
Takahashi DY and Ghazanfar AA (2014) Vocal communication is multi-sensorimotor coordination within and between individuals. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 37: 572-573.
Narayanan DZ and Ghazanfar AA (2014) Developmental neuroscience: How twitches make sense. Current Biology, 24: R971-R972. PDF
Ghazanfar AA (2012) Missed connections. Review of "Connectome: How the brain's wiring makes us who we are" by Sebastian Seung. Times Literary Supplement, September 4th.
ten Brink M and Ghazanfar AA (2012) Social neuroscience: more friends, more problems...more gray matter? Current Biology, 22: R84-R85. PDF
Chandrasekaran C and Ghazanfar AA (2011) When what you see is not what you hear. Nature Neuroscience, 14: 675-676. PDF
Ghazanfar AA (2010) Watch the jay. Review of "The Lives of the Brain" by John S. Allen. Times Literary Supplement, August 6th.
Ghazanfar AA (2010) Auditory neuroscience: recalibration of space perception requires cortical feedback. Current Biology, 20: R282-R284. PDF
Ghazanfar AA and Lemus L (2010) Multisensory integration: vision boosts information through suppression in auditory cortex. Current Biology, 20: R22-R23. PDF
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
Takahashi DY, Narayanan D and Ghazanfar AA (2012) A computational model for vocal exchange dynamics and their development in marmoset monkeys. IEEE Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics. San Diego, CA.
Kulahci IG, Drea CM, Rubenstein DI and Ghazanfar AA (2012) Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) recognize others by matching odors and sounds. Animal Behavioral Society Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
Borjon JI, Shepherd SV, Jones W, Klin A and Ghazanfar AA (2012) Socially contextualized multisensory integration in autism. 11th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
Narayanan D, Takahashi DY and Ghazanfar AA (2011) Fetal origins of ÒinnateÓ orofacial behaviors in marmoset monkeys. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.
Narayanan D, Takahashi DY and Ghazanfar AA (2011) Fetal mouth movements mimic postnatal vocalization-related facial movements in marmoset monkeys. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, Washington, D.C.
Lemus L, Chandrasekaran C and Ghazanfar AA (2011) Detection of vocal signals in natural scenes by macaque monkeys. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, Washington, D.C.
Chandrasekaran C, Lemus L and Ghazanfar AA (2011) Dynamic faces speed up vocal processing in the auditory cortex of behaving monkeys. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, Washington, D.C.
Shepherd SV, Lanzilotto M and Ghazanfar AA (2011) Motor dynamics during monkey facial movement and expressive signaling. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, Washington, D.C.
Takahashi DY, Chandrasekaran C, Turesson HK and Ghazanfar AA (2011) State- versus stimulus-dependent coherent activity in primary auditory cortex. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, Washington, D.C.
Borjon JI, Shepherd SV, Jones W, Klin A, and Ghazanfar AA (2011) The influence of perceived gaze cues on elementary sound perception in individuals with autism. 10th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
Chandrasekaran C, Lemus L, Gondan M and Ghazanfar AA (2010) Behavioral and neural integration of faces and voices in macaque monkeys. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, San Diego, CA.
Chandrasekaran C, Lemus L, Gondan M and Ghazanfar AA (2010) Behavioral and neural integration of faces and voices in macaque monkeys. Advances & Progress in Auditory Neurophysiology (APAN) abstracts, San Diego, CA.
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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