Dick Fay

Richard Fay
312-508-2710
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1970

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Research in my lab focuses on the mechanisms of the nervous system that synthesize perceptions of sound sources. We study fish to investigate these questions because they have simple and primitive vertebrate auditory systems, and because we are able to carry out both behavioral (psychophysical) and single-cell neurophysiological experiments under comparable acoustic conditions in the laboratory. Our present experiments investigate the perceptions and neural representations of pitch, timbre, temporal pattern, and sound source location in goldfish and toadfish.
I am also a series editor for the "Springer Handbook of Auditory Research", published by Springer-Verlag, New York. For more detailed information on each volume in the series, for prices, or to order volumes visit their web site.

Auditory Neuroscience Papers (out of print):

• Two-tone Interaction in Primary Afferents and Midbrain Neurons of the Goldfish
• The Sound of a Sinusoid: Perception and Neural Representations in the Goldfish

Recent papers:

Edds-Walton, P.L., Fay, R.R., and Highstein, S.M. (1999) Dendritic arbors and central projections of physiologically characterized auditory fibers from the saccule of the toadfish (Opsanus tau). J. Comp. Neurol. 411:212-238.

Fay, R.R. (1998) Auditory stream segregation in goldfish (Carassius auratus). Hear. Res., Hearing Research, 120, 69-76.

Edds-Walton, P.L., and Fay, R.R. (1998) Directional auditory responses in the descending octaval nucleus of the toadfish (Opsanus tau). Biol. Bull., 195: 191-192.