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Susanne Sterbing-D'Angelo
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Assistant Research Scientist 301/405-2877 TEL |
Research Interests
Sensorimotor Control
Echolocating bats exhibit an extraordinary array of solutions to the challenges of maneuvering in cluttered environments, pursuing evasive prey, taking food from water surfaces, and landing on the ceiling or walls of confined spaces (holes in trees, rafters in attics, ceiling of caves). Somatosensory signaling of airflow along the wing membrane contributes to this exquisite flight control, but successful navigation in the dark must also engage multisensory processes that guide a suite of adaptive motor behaviors. We are interested in the multisensory components of this sophisticated model system that are involved in flight control, like auditory (sonar), tactile, and proprioceptive components. The goal is to link changes in neural activity to behavioral changes, i.e., adaptive flight trajectories and vocal-motor patterns. Indices of state changes will play an important role in the development of hybrid control system models and algorithms for robotic platforms.
Publications
Sterbing-D'Angelo, S., Chadha, M., Chiu, C., Falk, B., Xian, W., Barcelo, J., Zook J.M., Moss, C.F. (2011) Bat wing sensors support flight control. PNAS 108: 11291-11296, DOI:10.1073/pnas.10187440108.
Kajikawa, Y., Camalier, C.R., de la Mothe, L.A., D’Angelo, W.R., Sterbing-D’Angelo, S.J., Hackett, T.A. (2011) Auditory cortical tuning to band-pass noise in primate A1 and CM: a comparison to pure tones. Neurosci. Res. 70:401-407.
Chadha, M., Moss, C.F., Sterbing-D’Angelo, S.J. (2010) Organization of the primary somatosensory cortex and wing representation in the Big Brown Bat, Eptesicus fuscus. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 197: 89-96. DOI 10.1007/s00359-010-0590-9
Sterbing-D’Angelo, S.J. (2009) Evolution of the auditory system. In: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Part 5, M.D. Binder, N. Hirokawa, U. Windhorst (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp.1286-1288. DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_3144.
Kajikawa, Y., de la Mothe, L.A., Blumell, S., Sterbing-D’Angelo, S.J., D’Angelo, W.R., Camalier, C., Hackett, T.A. (2008) Coding of FM sweep trains and twitter calls in area CM of marmoset auditory cortex. Hear. Res. 239, 107-125.
Sterbing-D’Angelo, S.J. (2007) Evolution of sound localization in mammals. In: Evolution of Nervous Systems, J. Kaas et al. (eds.), Elsevier (Imprint Academic Press), Chapter 3.20, Pages 253-260, (ISBN: 0-12-392560-6).
Schlack, A., Sterbing-D'Angelo, S.J., Hartung, K., Hoffmann, K.P., Bremmer, F. (2005) Multisensory space representations in the macaque ventral intraparietal area. J. Neuroscience 25, 4616 - 4625.
Hackett, T.A., Karmos, G., Schroeder, C.E., Ulbert, I., Sterbing-D’Angelo, S.J., D’Angelo, W.R., Kajikawa, Y., Blumell, S., de la Mothe, L. (2005) Neurosurgical access to cortical areas in the lateral fissure of primates, J. Neurosci. Meth. 141,103 -113.
D'Angelo, W.R., Sterbing, S.J., Ostapoff, E.M., Kuwada, S. (2005) The role of GABA-ergic inhibition in the coding of interaural time difference of low-frequency sounds in the inferior colliculus. J. Neurophysiology 93, 3390-3400.
Sivaramakrishnan, S., Sterbing-D’Angelo, S.J., Filipovic, B., D’Angelo, W.R., Oliver, D.L., Kuwada, S. (2004) GABAA Synapses Shape Neuronal Responses to Sound Intensity in the Inferior Colliculus, J. Neuroscience 24, 5031-5043.
D’Angelo, W.R., Sterbing, S.J., Ostapoff, E.M., Kuwada, S. (2003) Effects of amplitude modulation on the coding of interaural time differences of low-frequency sounds in the inferior colliculus. II. Neural mechanisms. J. Neurophysiol. 90, 2827-2836.
Sterbing, S.J., D’Angelo, W.R., Ostapoff, E.M., Kuwada, S. (2003) Effects of amplitude modulation on the coding of interaural time differences of low-frequency sounds in the inferior colliculus. I. Response properties. J. Neurophysiol. 90, 2818-2826.
Sterbing, S.J., Schrott-Fischer A. (2003) Neuronal responses in the inferior colliculus of
mutant mice (Bronx waltzer) with hereditary inner hair cell loss. Hear. Res. 177, 91-99.
Sterbing, S.J., Hartung, K., Hoffmann, K.-P. (2003), Spatial tuning to virtual sounds in the inferior colliculus of the guinea pig. J. Neurophysiol. 90, 2648-2659.
Sterbing, S.J., Hartung, K., Hoffmann, K.-P. (2002), Representation of sound source direction in the superior colliculus of the guinea pig in a virtual auditory environment, Exp. Brain Res. 142, 570-577.
Sterbing S.J., Schrott-Fischer, A. (2002) Electrophysiological characteristics of inferior colliculus neurons in mutant mice with hereditary absence of cochlear outer hair cells, Hear. Res. 170, 179-189.
Sterbing, S.J. (2002) The postnatal development of vocalizations and hearing in the phyllostomid bat, Carollia perspicillata, J. Mamm. 83, 515-525.
Hartung, K., Sterbing, S.J. (2001), A computational model of sound localization based on neurophysiological data. In: Computational models of auditory function, S. Greenberg and M. Slaney (eds.), IOS Press, NATO Science Series, Amsterdam, pp.113-126 ( ISBN: 90-5199-457-5).
Hartung, K., Braasch, J., Sterbing, S.J. (1999), Comparison of different methods for the interpolation of head-related transfer functions. In: Spatial sound reproduction, Audio Engineering Society Inc., pp. 319-329.
Hartung, K., Sterbing, S.J. (1999) A physiology-based computational model for sound localization. In: Psychophysics, physiology and models of hearing, Dau, T., Hohmann, V., Kollmeier, B. (eds.) World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, pp.179-184 (ISBN: 978-981-02-3741-7).
Sterbing, S.J., Hartung, K. (1999) Effects of sound pressure level, stimulus duration, and binaural correlation on virtual sound source coding in the inferior colliculus of the guinea pig. In: Psychophysics, physiology and models of hearing, Dau, T., Hohmann, V., Kollmeier, B. (eds.), World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, pp.27-30 (ISBN: 978-981-02-3741-7).
Hartung, K., Sterbing, S.J. (1997), Generation of virtual sound sources for the electrophysiological characterization of auditory spatial tuning in the guinea pig. In: Acoustical signal processing in the central auditory system. J. Syka (Ed.), Plenum Press, New York. pp. 407-412 (ISBN: 0-306-45608-7).
Sterbing, S.J., Schmidt U., Rübsamen R. (1994), The postnatal development of frequency-place code and tuning characteristics in the auditory midbrain of the phyllostomid bat, Carollia perspicillata. Hear. Res. 76,133-146.
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