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Monkeys are perceptually tuned to facial expressions that exhibit a theta-like speech rhythmAsif A Ghazanfar
Neuroscience Institute, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:1959-63. 2013..Our data provide perceptual evidence for the theory that speech may have evolved from ancestral primate rhythmic facial expressions...- Cineradiography of monkey lip-smacking reveals putative precursors of speech dynamicsAsif A Ghazanfar
Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Curr Biol 22:1176-82. 2012..These data provide empirical support for the idea that the human speech rhythm evolved from the rhythmic facial expressions of ancestral primates... - Dynamic, rhythmic facial expressions and the superior temporal sulcus of macaque monkeys: implications for the evolution of audiovisual speechAsif A Ghazanfar
Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Eur J Neurosci 31:1807-17. 2010.... 
Multisensory integration: vision boosts information through suppression in auditory cortexAsif A Ghazanfar
Neuroscience Institute, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Curr Biol 20:R22-3. 2010..Recent findings show that vision enhances the information content of neural signals in auditory cortex, but in a counter-intuitive fashion...- The multisensory roles for auditory cortex in primate vocal communicationAsif A Ghazanfar
Neuroscience Institute, Departments of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Hear Res 258:113-20. 2009..Such action-specific representations would be overlayed on top of traditional mapping schemes and would help mediate motor and multisensory processes related to a particular type of behavior... - Speech production: how does a word feel?Asif A Ghazanfar
Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Curr Biol 18:R1142-4. 2008.... 
Evolution of human vocal productionAsif A Ghazanfar
Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
Curr Biol 18:R457-60. 2008- Interactions between the superior temporal sulcus and auditory cortex mediate dynamic face/voice integration in rhesus monkeysAsif A Ghazanfar
Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
J Neurosci 28:4457-69. 2008.... - Speech perception: linking comprehension across a cortical networkAsif A Ghazanfar
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
Curr Biol 17:R420-2. 2007..A recent fMRI study of the interaction between noise and semantic predictability has identified a cortical network involved in speech comprehension... - Vocal-tract resonances as indexical cues in rhesus monkeysAsif A Ghazanfar
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
Curr Biol 17:425-30. 2007.... - Paving the way forward: integrating the senses through phase-resetting of cortical oscillationsAsif A Ghazanfar
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Neuron 53:162-4. 2007..reveals that, in the primary auditory cortex, the phase of neural oscillations is reset by somatosensory inputs, and subsequent auditory inputs are enhanced or suppressed, depending on their timing relative to the oscillatory cycle... - Language evolution: loquacious monkey brains?Asif A Ghazanfar
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
Curr Biol 16:R879-81. 2006..Using PET imaging, a recent study suggests that monkeys share a circuit for vocal perception with humans, adding some empirical data to the debate... - Is neocortex essentially multisensory?Asif A Ghazanfar
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 10:278-85. 2006..Indeed, the multisensory nature of most, possibly all, of the neocortex forces us to abandon the notion that the senses ever operate independently during real-world cognition... - Eye movements of monkey observers viewing vocalizing conspecificsAsif A Ghazanfar
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
Cognition 101:515-29. 2006..The data therefore suggest that the sensorimotor strategies underlying bimodal speech perception may have a homologous counterpart in a closely related primate ancestor... - Multisensory integration of dynamic faces and voices in rhesus monkey auditory cortexAsif A Ghazanfar
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
J Neurosci 25:5004-12. 2005..These multisensory processes in the auditory cortex likely occur via reciprocal interactions with the superior temporal sulcus...
Research Grants
- Multisensory integration of faces and voices in the primate temporal lobeASIF GHAZANFAR; Fiscal Year: 2007..In part at least, this deficit is likely due to the autistics' specific impairment in face and voice processing, but not in other domains of visual and auditory function. ..
- Multisensory integration of faces and voices in the primate temporal lobeASIF GHAZANFAR; Fiscal Year: 2009..In part at least, this deficit is likely due to the autistics' specific impairment in face and voice processing, but not in other domains of visual and auditory function. ..
- Multisensory integration of faces and voices in the primate temporal lobeASIF GHAZANFAR; Fiscal Year: 2010..In part at least, this deficit is likely due to the autistics'specific impairment in face and voice processing, but not in other domains of visual and auditory function. ..