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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1988 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Catherine E. Carr is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Neuroscience, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, there is a particular focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Sensory Systems, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics including Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Marine animal studies, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, and Genetics. Other notable topics are Neural dynamics and brain function, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Grace Capshaw, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, Paula T. Kuokkanen, Ira Kraemer, and Richard Kempter.

Catherine E. Carr has published extensively in several scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in the Journal of Experimental Biology and the Journal of Neuroscience. Other common publication outlets include Brain Behavior and Evolution, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Selected recent publications by Catherine E. Carr and colleagues are:

  • Experience-Dependent Plasticity in Nucleus Laminaris of the Barn Owl, 2023, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Hearing without a tympanic ear, 2022, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Theoretical Relationship Between Two Measures of Spike Synchrony: Correlation Index and Vector Strength, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Seismic sensitivity and bone conduction mechanisms enable extratympanic hearing in salamanders, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • The continued importance of comparative auditory research to modern scientific discovery, 2023, Hearing Research

Their contributions extend across studies investigating auditory processes and mechanisms, with comparative approaches to animal hearing and neural plasticity.

Awards received by Catherine E. Carr include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1988.

Best Publications

  • A circuit for detection of interaural time differences in the brain stem of the barn owl

    CE Carr;M Konishi

  • The role of dendrites in auditory coincidence detection

    Hagai Agmon-Snir;Catherine E. Carr;John Rinzel;John Rinzel

  • Axonal delay lines for time measurement in the owl's brainstem.

    Catherine E. Carr;Masakazu Konishi

  • Processing of Temporal Information in the Brain

    Catherine E. Carr

  • Peripheral organization and central projections of the electrosensory nerves in gymnotiform fish.

    Catherine E. Carr;Leonard Maler;Emilia Sas

  • Laminar organization of the afferent and efferent systems of the torus semicircularis of gymnotiform fish: morphological substrates for parallel processing in the electrosensory system.

    C. E. Carr;L. Maler;W. Heiligenberg;E. Sas

  • Sound localization: Jeffress and beyond.

    Go Ashida;Catherine E Carr

  • A time-comparison circuit in the electric fish midbrain. I. Behavior and physiology.

    CE Carr;W Heiligenberg;GJ Rose

  • Distribution of GABAergic neurons and terminals in the auditory system of the barn owl

    C. E. Carr;I. Fujita;M. Konishi

  • On hearing with more than one ear: lessons from evolution.

    Jan W H Schnupp;Catherine E Carr

  • Organization of the nucleus magnocellularis and the nucleus laminaris in the barn owl: encoding and measuring interaural time differences.

    C. E. Carr;R. E. Boudreau

  • Central projections of auditory nerve fibers in the barn owl.

    C. E. Carr;R. E. Boudreau

  • Single electrocytes produce a sexually dimorphic signal in South American electric fish,Hypopomus occidentalis (Gymnotiformes, Hypopomidae)

    Mary Hagedorn;Mary Hagedorn;Catherine Carr;Catherine Carr

  • Maps of interaural time difference in the chicken’s brainstem nucleus laminaris

    Christine Köppl;Catherine E. Carr

  • Efferent projections of the posterior lateral line lobe in gymnotiform fish

    Leonard Maler;Emilia Sas;Catherine E. Carr;Joanne Matsubara

  • Expression of the Kv3.1 potassium channel in the avian auditory brainstem.

    Suchitra Parameshwaran;Catherine E. Carr;Teresa M. Perney

  • A time-comparison circuit in the electric fish midbrain. II. Functional morphology

    CE Carr;L Maler;B Taylor

  • Evolutionary convergence and shared computational principles in the auditory system.

    C.E. Carr;D. Soares

  • Input to the medullary pacemaker nucleus in the weakly electric fish, Eigenmannia (sternopygidae, gymnotiformes).

    W Heiligenberg;T Finger;J Matsubara;C Carr

  • The Evolution of Central Pathways and Their Neural Processing Patterns

    Benedikt Grothe;C. Fritzsch;J. H. Casseday;C. E. Carr

  • Processing of temporal information in the brain

    Catherine E. Carr;Satoshi Amagai

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Kempter
Richard Kempter Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jonathan Z. Simon
Jonathan Z. Simon University of Maryland, College Park
John Rinzel
John Rinzel New York University
Masakazu Konishi
Masakazu Konishi California Institute of Technology
Arthur N. Popper
Arthur N. Popper University of Maryland, College Park
Leonard Maler
Leonard Maler University of Ottawa
Alberto Priori
Alberto Priori University of Milan
Benedikt Grothe
Benedikt Grothe Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jan W. H. Schnupp
Jan W. H. Schnupp City University of Hong Kong
Silvestro Micera
Silvestro Micera Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

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