Dr. George Pollak
Some Recent Publications from the Pollak Lab
Xie, R., Gittleman, J. and Pollak, G.D. Rethinking tuning: In-vivo whole cell recordings from the inferior colliculus of awake bats. J Neurosci. (2007) 27:9469-9481. pdf
Andoni, S., Li, N. and Pollak, G.D. Spectrotemporal receptive fields reveal the roles of inhibition in shaping responses to natural calls. J. Neurosci. (2007) 27: 4882-4893. pdf
Pecka, M., Zahn, T.P., Pollak, G.D., and Grothe, B. Inhibiting the inhibition: A neuronal network for sound localization in reverberant environments. J. Neurosci. (2007) 27:1782-1790. pdf
Xie, R., Meitzen, J and Pollak, G.D. Differing roles of inhibition in heirarchical processing of species-specific calls in auditory brainstem nuclei. J. Neurophysiol. (2005) 6:4019-4037. pdf
Hurley, L.M. and Pollak, G.D. Serotonin modulates responses to species specific calls J. Comp. Physiol. (2005)191:535-546. pdf
Hurley, L.M. and Pollak, G.D. Serotonin shifts first-spike latencies in inferior colliculus neurons. J.Neurosci. (2005): 25:7876-7886. pdf
Pollak, George D., R. Michael Burger and Achim Klug (2003) Dissecting the circuitry of the auditory system. TRENDS in Neurosciences 26:33-39. pdf
Klug, A, Bauer, E.E., Hanson, J.T., Hurley, L., Meitzen, J. and Pollak, G.D. (2002) Inhibition generates response selectivity for species-specific calls in the the inferior colliculus of Mexican free-tailed bats. J. Neurophysiol. 88:1941-1954. pdf
Bauer, E.E., Klug, E. and Pollak, G.D. (2002) Spectral determination of species-specific calls in the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemnisucs. J. Neurophysiol. 88:1955-1967. pdf
Pollak, G.D., (2002) Model Hearing. Nature 417: 502-503. pdf
Pollak, G.D., Burger, R.M, Park, T.J., Klug, A. and Bauer, E. (2002) Roles of inhibition for transforming binaural properties in the brainstem auditory system. Hearing Res. 3889: 1-19 pdf
Burger, R.M and Pollak, G.D. (2001) Reversible inactivation of the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus in bats reveals its role in the processing of multiple sound sources in the inferior colliculus. J. Neurosci. 21: 4830-4843. pdf
Hurley, L.A. and Pollak G.D.(2001) Serotonin modulates frequency response areas in the inferior colliculus. J. Neurophysiol. 85:808-819. pdf
Bauer, E.E., Klug.A. and Pollak, G.D. (2000) Features of contralaterally evoked inhibition in the inferior colliculus. Hearing Res. 141:80-96. pdf
Hurley, L.A. and Pollak G.D. (1999) Serotonin differentially modulates responses to tones and frequency-modulated sweeps in the inferior colliculus. J. Neurosci. 19: 8071-8082. pdf
Klug, A, Bauer, E.E., and Pollak, G.D. (1999) Multiple components of ipsilaterally evoked inhibition in the inferior colliculus. J. Neurophysiol. 82: 593-610. pdf
Burger, R.M. and Pollak, G.D. (1998) Analysis of the role of inhibition in shaping responses to sinusoidally amplitude modulated signals in the inferior colliculus. J. Neurophysiol. 80:1686-1701. pdf