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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Experimental and Theoretical Network Neuroscience,Molecular Biology and Physiology of Neurons and Glial Cells,Sensory and Behavioural Biology |
| Keywords | Sinnesphysiologie, Hören, Schallortung |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | College Park |
| Institution | University of Maryland at College Park |
| Institute | Department of Biology |
| Homepage | http://www.glue.umd.edu/~cecarr/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Geoffrey A. Manley | Lehrstuhl für Zoologie, Technische Universität München, Garching |
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| Prof. Dr. Hermann Wagner | Institut für Biologie I, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Aachen |
| Prof. Dr. Christine Köppl | Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften (IBU), Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/08/2004 |
Programme(s)
| 2003 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Using electric fish and birds as animal models, Prof. Carr has shown that the nervous system can encode time differences in stimuli down into the microsecond range - that is, a few millionths of a second! She is a recognized authority on how the brain uses these tiny differences between the stimuli at the two ears to localize a sound source. She has highlighted the cellular specializations and the salient connections between nerve cells which together achieve this amazing feat. During her Humboldt stay in Germany, Prof. Carr will work in Munich and Aachen and conduct experiments addressing the evolution of the sound localization systems in birds and mammals. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2016 | Carr CE, Christensen-Dalsgaard J. Evolutionary trends in directional hearing. . In: Curr Opin Neurobiol., 2016, 111-117 |
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