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Overview

George D. Pollak is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with contributions spanning subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sensory Systems, and Neurology.

The scientist has published research covering a range of topics including:

  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders

George D. Pollak's recent scholarly output includes two papers published in 2020 at UNC Libraries:

  • "The dominance of inhibition in the inferior colliculus," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Inhibitory projections from the ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus and superior paraolivary nucleus create directional selectivity of frequency modulations in the inferior colliculus: A comparison of bats with other mammals," 2020, UNC Libraries

Their frequent collaborators consist of:

  • Ruili Xie
  • Joshua X. Gittelman
  • Sari Andoni
  • Na Li

George D. Pollak's work has been frequently published in UNC Libraries, indicating a consistent focus within this venue.

Best Publications

  • Disproportionate frequency representation in the inferior colliculus of doppler-compensating Greater Horseshoe bats: Evidence for an acoustic fovea

    Gerd Schuller;George D Pollak

  • GABA and glycine in the central auditory system of the mustache bat: Structural substrates for inhibitory neuronal organization

    Jeffery A. Winer;David T. Larue;George D. Pollak

  • The Neural Basis of Echolocation in Bats

    George D. Pollak;John H. Casseday

  • GABA shapes sensitivity to interaural intensity disparities in the mustache bat's inferior colliculus: implications for encoding sound location

    Thomas J. Park;George D. Pollak

  • Topology of the central nucleus of the mustache bat's inferior colliculus: correlation of single unit properties and neuronal architecture.

    J. M. Zook;J. M. Zook;J. A. Winer;George D Pollak;R. D. Bodenhamer

  • Syllable acoustics, temporal patterns, and call composition vary with behavioral context in Mexican free-tailed bats

    Kirsten M. Bohn;Barbara Schmidt-French;Sean T. Ma;George D. Pollak

  • GABA shapes a topographic organization of response latency in the mustache bat's inferior colliculus

    Thomas J. Park;George D. Pollak

  • Spectrotemporal Receptive Fields in the Inferior Colliculus Revealing Selectivity for Spectral Motion in Conspecific Vocalizations

    Sari Andoni;Na Li;George D. Pollak

  • The effects of GABAergic inhibition on monaural response properties of neurons in the mustache bat's inferior colliculus

    George D. Pollak;Thomas J. Park

  • Dissecting the circuitry of the auditory system

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  • Neural Delays Shape Selectivity to Interaural Intensity Differences in the Lateral Superior Olive

    Thomas J. Park;Benedikt Grothe;George D. Pollak;Gerd Schuller

  • Reversible inactivation of the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus reveals its role in the processing of multiple sound sources in the inferior colliculus of bats

    R. Michael Burger;R. Michael Burger;George D. Pollak

  • Response selectivity for species-specific calls in the inferior colliculus of Mexican free-tailed bats is generated by inhibition.

    Achim Klug;Eric E. Bauer;Joshua T. Hanson;Laura Hurley

  • Time is traded for intensity in the bat's auditory system

    George D Pollak

  • Origin of ascending projections to an isofrequency region of the mustache bat's inferior colliculus.

    Linda S. Ross;George D. Pollak;John M. Zook

  • Specialized characteristics of single units in inferior colliculus of mustache bat: frequency representation, tuning, and discharge patterns.

    George D Pollak;R. D. Bodenhamer

  • Binaural response organization within a frequency-band representation of the inferior colliculus: implications for sound localization

    JJ Wenstrup;LS Ross;GD Pollak

  • Versatility and Stereotypy of Free-Tailed Bat Songs

    Kirsten M. Bohn;Kirsten M. Bohn;Barbara Schmidt-French;Christine Schwartz;Michael Smotherman

  • Glycine and GABA influence binaural processing in the inferior colliculus of the mustache bat

    Achim Klug;T. J. Park;G. D. Pollak

  • Analysis of the role of inhibition in shaping responses to sinusoidally amplitude-modulated signals in the inferior colliculus.

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  • Determinants of sound location selectivity in bat inferior colliculus: a combined dichotic and free-field stimulation study.

    Z. M. Fuzessery;George D Pollak

  • Characteristics of phasic on neurons in inferior colliculus of unanesthetized bats with observations relating to mechanisms for echo ranging

    George D Pollak;D. S. Marsh;R. Bodenhamer;A. Souther

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey J. Wenstrup
Jeffrey J. Wenstrup Northeast Ohio Medical University
John H. Casseday
John H. Casseday University of Washington
Benedikt Grothe
Benedikt Grothe Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jeffery A. Winer
Jeffery A. Winer University of California, Berkeley

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