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Manfred Kössl is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. They have a notable focus on subfields such as Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their work addresses a range of topics, concentrating on Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Neural dynamics and brain function, Marine animal studies overview, Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Manfred Kössl has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, including Julio C. Hechavarría, Luciana López-Jury, Francisco García-Rosales, Eugenia González-Palomares, and Johannes Wetekam.

Publication venues where their work has appeared multiple times include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, and European Journal of Neuroscience, along with contributions to Scientific Reports and Nature Communications.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Manfred Kössl include:

  • Bats distress vocalizations carry fast amplitude modulations that could represent an acoustic correlate of roughness, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Acoustic Context Modulates Natural Sound Discrimination in Auditory Cortex through Frequency-Specific Adaptation, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Echolocation-related reversal of information flow in a cortical vocalization network, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The frugivorous bat Carollia perspicillata dynamically changes echolocation parameters in response to acoustic playback, 2021, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Correlates of deviance detection in auditory brainstem responses of bats, 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Reduced Anxiety, Conditioned Fear, and Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation in Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Type 1 Receptor-Deficient Mice

    Rudolph Marsch;Elisabeth Foeller;Gerhard Rammes;Mirjam Bunck

  • A targeted deletion in alpha-tectorin reveals that the tectorial membrane is required for the gain and timing of cochlear feedback.

    P.Kevin Legan;Victoria A. Lukashkina;Richard J. Goodyear;Manfred Kössl

  • Correlating Stimulus-Specific Adaptation of Cortical Neurons and Local Field Potentials in the Awake Rat

    Wolfger von der Behrens;Peter Bäuerle;Manfred Kössl;Bernhard H. Gaese

  • The functional role of GABA and glycine in monaural and binaural processing in the inferior colliculus of horseshoe bats.

    Marianne Vater;Hartmann Habbicht;Manfred Kössl;Benedikt Grothe

  • The cochlear frequency map of the mustache bat, Pteronotus parnellii.

    M Kössl;M Vater

  • Nonlinear mechanical responses of mouse cochlear hair bundles.

    Ian John Russell;M. Kössl;Guy Peel Richardson

  • Comparative aspects of cochlear functional organization in mammals.

    Marianne Vater;Manfred Kössl

  • GAD- and GABA-immunoreactivity in the ascending auditory pathway of horseshoe and mustached bats

    Marianne Vater;Manfred Kössl;Anja K. E. Horn

  • Stimulus-specific adaptation in the gerbil primary auditory thalamus is the result of a fast frequency-specific habituation and is regulated by the corticofugal system.

    Peter Bäuerle;Wolfger von der Behrens;Manfred Kössl;Bernhard H. Gaese

  • Laminar analysis of inhibition in the gerbil primary auditory cortex.

    Elisabeth Foeller;Marianne Vater;Manfred Kössl

  • Evoked acoustic emissions and cochlear microphonics in the mustache bat, Pteronotus parnellii

    Manfred Kössl;Marianne Vater

  • Chronotopically Organized Target-Distance Map in the Auditory Cortex of the Short-Tailed Fruit Bat

    Cornelia Hagemann;Karl-Heinz Esser;Manfred Kössl

  • Otoacoustic emissions from the cochlea of the ‘constant frequency’ bats, Pteronotus parnellii and Rhinolophus rouxi

    Manfred Kössl

  • Cochlear Structure and Function in Bats

    Manfred Kössl;Marianne Vater

  • Development of Echolocation Calls in the Mustached Bat, Pteronotus parnellii

    M. Vater;M. Kössl;E. Foeller;F. Coro

  • Basilar membrane resonance in the cochlea of the mustached bat.

    M Kössl;I J Russell

  • Specializations for aerial hawking in the echolocation system of Molossus molossus (Molossidae, Chiroptera).

    E. C. Mora;S. Macías;M. Vater;F. Coro

  • Micromechanical Responses to Tones in the Auditory Fovea of the Greater Mustached Bat’s Cochlea

    I. J. Russell;M. Kössl

  • The voltage responses of hair cells in the basal turn of the guinea‐pig cochlea.

    I J Russell;M Kössl

  • Stereocilia bundle stiffness: effects of neomycin sulphate, A23187 and concanavalin A

    M Kössl;G.P Richardson;I.J Russell

  • Comparison of properties of cortical echo delay-tuning in the short-tailed fruit bat and the mustached bat

    Cornelia Hagemann;Marianne Vater;Manfred Kössl

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian J. Russell
Ian J. Russell University of Brighton
Anja K. E. Horn
Anja K. E. Horn Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Benedikt Grothe
Benedikt Grothe Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jeffrey J. Wenstrup
Jeffrey J. Wenstrup Northeast Ohio Medical University
Berthold Hedwig
Berthold Hedwig University of Cambridge
Carsten T. Wotjak
Carsten T. Wotjak Max Planck Society
Yuval Nir
Yuval Nir Tel Aviv University
Georg Auburger
Georg Auburger Goethe University Frankfurt
Gerhard Rammes
Gerhard Rammes Technical University of Munich
Frank Jülicher
Frank Jülicher Max Planck Society

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