Responsibilities
Managing Director Munich Center for Neurosciences - Brain & Mind
Contact
Depart. Biology II
Munich Center for Neurosciences - Brain & Mind
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-74363
Email:
o.behrend@lmu.de
Website:
http://neuro.bio.lmu.de/members/systems_neuro_grothe/behrend_o/index.html
Further Information
Research focus: Amphibian lateral line: central processing, localisation of surface wave sources in amphibians, sound localisation in mammals
Key words: Central processing and localisation of surface wave sources in amphibians, mammalian sound localisation
Selected publications:
Branoner F, Zhivko Z, Ziehm U and Behrend O. (2012) Central representation of spatial and temporal surface wave parameters in the African clawed frog. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 198(11), 797-815. link
Behrend O, Branoner F and Ziehm U. (2008) Lateral line units in the amphibian brain could integrate wave curvatures. Journal of Comparative Physiology. A, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioural Physiology 194: 777–783.
Pecka M, Brand A, Behrend O and Grothe B. (2008) Interaural time difference processing in the mammalian medial superior olive: the role of glycinergic inhibition. Journal of Neuroscience 28: 6914–6925.
Behrend O, Branoner F, Zhivkov Z and Ziehm U. (2006) Neural responses to water surface waves in the midbrain of the aquatic predator Xenopus laevis laevis. European Journal of Neuroscience 23: 729–744.
Behrend O, Dickson B, Clarke E, Jin C and Carlile S. (2004) Neural responses to free field and virtual acoustic stimulation in the inferior colliculus of the guinea pig. Journal of Neurophysiology 92: 3014–3029.
Brand A, Behrend O, Marquardt T, McAlpine D and Grothe B. (2002) Precise inhibition is essential for microsecond interaural time difference coding. Nature 417: 543–547.