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Günter Ehret

Günter Ehret

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Neuroscience

D-Index
58
Citations
9537
World Ranking
4240
National Ranking
367

Overview

Günter Ehret is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a notable focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology as subfields. Additional subfields of study include Sensory Systems, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics of Günter Ehret's work encompass neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neural dynamics and brain function, paranormal experiences and beliefs, stress responses and cortisol, cephalopods and marine biology, autism spectrum disorder research, as well as child development and digital technology.

Günter Ehret has contributed research articles to several publication venues, including Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, The EMBO Journal, PLoS ONE, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

  • Awareness and consciousness in humans and animals - neural and behavioral correlates in an evolutionary perspective (2022) - Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
  • Activation of the medial preoptic area (MPOA) ameliorates loss of maternal behavior in a Shank2 mouse model for autism (2021) - The EMBO Journal
  • Frequency response areas of neurons in the mouse inferior colliculus. III. Time-domain responses: Constancy, dynamics, and precision in relation to spectral resolution, and perception in the time domain (2020) - PLoS ONE
  • Neuro-functional modeling of near-death experiences in contexts of altered states of consciousness (2023) - Frontiers in Psychology
  • Brain aromatase and its relationship with parental experience and behavior in male mice (2023) - bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Günter Ehret include R. Romand, Paula Duarte-Guterman, Dimitri A. Skandalis, Ariane Merkl, and Diana B. Geissler.

In addition to articles, Günter Ehret has published a book titled Near-Death Experiences, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Best Publications

  • The auditory cortex of the house mouse: left-right differences, tonotopic organization and quantitative analysis of frequency representation.

    I Stiebler;R Neulist;I Fichtel;G Ehret

  • Infant rodent ultrasounds -- a gate to the understanding of sound communication.

    Günter Ehret

  • Impaired synaptic plasticity and motor learning in mice with a point mutation implicated in human speech deficits.

    Matthias Groszer;David A. Keays;Robert M.J. Deacon;Joseph P. de Bono

  • Left hemisphere advantage in the mouse brain for recognizing ultrasonic communication calls

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  • The Central Auditory System

    Gunter Ehret;Raymond Romand

  • Complex sound analysis (frequency resolution, filtering and spectral integration) by single units of the inferior colliculus of the cat.

    Günter Ehret;Michael M. Merzenich

  • Development of absolute auditory thresholds in the house mouse (Mus musculus).

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  • The auditory cortex.

    G Ehret

  • Inferior colliculus of the house mouse. I. A quantitative study of tonotopic organization, frequency representation, and tone-threshold distribution

    Imme Stiebler;Günter Ehret

  • Neuronal activity and tonotopy in the auditory system visualized by c-fos gene expression.

    Günter Ehret;R. Fischer

  • Age-dependent hearing loss in normal hearing mice.

    Günter Ehret

  • Zinc deficiency dysregulates the synaptic ProSAP/Shank scaffold and might contribute to autism spectrum disorders

    Stefanie Grabrucker;Linda Jannetti;Matti Eckert;Simone Gaub

  • Corticofugal modulation of midbrain sound processing in the house mouse.

    Jun Yan;Günter Ehret

  • Categorical perception of mouse-pup ultrasounds in the temporal domain

    Günter Ehret

  • Development of tonotopy in the inferior colliculus - I. Electrophysiological mapping in house mice

    Raymond Romand;Günter Ehret

  • Ultrasound recognition in house mice: key-stimulus configuration and recognition mechanism

    Günter Ehret;Bernd Haack

  • Corticofugal shaping of frequency tuning curves in the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus of mice

    Jun Yan;Yunfeng Zhang;Günter Ehret

  • Frequency response areas of neurons in the mouse inferior colliculus. I. Threshold and tuning characteristics.

    Marina Egorova;Günter Ehret;Inna Vartanian;Karl-Heinz Esser

  • Immunocytochemical localization and quantitation of estrogen-binding cells in the male and female (virgin, pregnant, lactating) mouse brain

    Michael Koch;Gu¨nter Ehret

  • Inferior colliculus of the house mouse

    Günter Ehret;Anne J. M. Moffat

  • Auditory perception vs. recognition: representation of complex communication sounds in the mouse auditory cortical fields.

    Diana B. Geissler;Günter Ehret

  • Development of Auditory and Vestibular Systems 2

    Günter Ehret

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Koch
Michael Koch University of Bremen
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society
Christoph E. Schreiner
Christoph E. Schreiner University of California, San Francisco
Michael M. Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich University of California, San Francisco
Uwe Jürgens
Uwe Jürgens German Primate Center
Michael R. Kreutz
Michael R. Kreutz Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Markus Kiefer
Markus Kiefer University of Ulm
Steve D.M. Brown
Steve D.M. Brown Medical Research Council
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Robert M. J. Deacon
Robert M. J. Deacon University of Oxford

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