Nobuo Suga

Work

Suga's work revealed much about the location and function of auditory system in the brain. Whilst at Washington University in St. Louis, he mapped the areas of the bat brain involved in processing

Selected publications

• Suga, N. and Ma, X. (2003) Multiparametric corticofugal modulation and plasticity in the auditory system. Nature Rev. Neurosci. 4: 783-794.
• Xiao, Z. and Suga, N. (2004) Reorganization of the auditory cortex specialized for echo-delay processing in the mustached bat. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 1769-1774.
• Xiao, Z. and Suga, N. (2005) Asymmetry in corticofugal modulation of frequency-tuning in mustached bat auditory system. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102: 19162-19167.
• Ma, X. and Suga, N. (2005) Long-term plasticity evoked by electric stimulation and acetylcholine applied to the auditory cortex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102: 9335-9340.
• Ji, W., Suga, N. and Gao, E. (2005) Effects of agonists and antagonists of NMDA and ACh receptors on plasticity of bat auditory system elicited by fear conditioning. J. Neurophysiol. 94: 1199-1211.

Honors and awards

• 1992: Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1998: Membership of the United States National Academy of Sciences
• 2003: Membership of the Academy of Sciences in St. Louis, MO
• 2004: Ralph W. Gerard Prize, The Society for Neuroscience

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