Nobuo Suga

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Nobuo Suga (born December 17, 1933 in Kobe ) is a Japanese-American neurobiologist .

Life

Suga received his PhD in biology from Tokyo Metropolitan University (from which he also received his bachelor's degree in 1958) in 1963 with Yasuji Katsuki . There he dealt with the neural processing of audio data in insects. From 1958 he was at Tokyo Medial and Dental University. He was a post-doctoral student at Harvard University in 1963/64 with Donald Griffin , in 1965 at the University of California, Los Angeles (with Theodore H. Bullock ) and from 1966 to 1968 at the University of California, San Diego , Medical School, where he went he followed Bullock. In 1969 he became associate professor and in 1976 professor of biology at the University of Washington .

He deals with the neurophysiology of hearing and the processing of auditory signals for echolocation and speed determination (via the Doppler effect ) in the bats' brain, including cortex maps. More recently, he has been researching the corticofugal system (and other parts of the bat brain besides the auditory cortex) and its role in the processing and learning of audio information.

Suga is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992) and the Academy of Sciences in St. Louis. In 2004 he received the Ralph W. Gerard Prize . In 1993 he became a US citizen.

Fonts

  • with Katsuki: Neural mechanisms of hearing in insects . Journal of Experimental Biology, Volume 37, 1960, pp. 279-290
  • Biosonar and Neural Computation in Bats. Scientific American, Volume 262, June 1990
  • The extent to which biosonar information is represented in the bat auditory cortex. in: Gerald Edelman (Ed.): Dynamical aspects of neocortical function. Wiley 1984
  • with Koichi Tsuzuki: Inhibition and level tolerant frequency tuning in the auditory cortex of the mustached bat . Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol. 53, 1985, pp. 1109-1145
  • with X. Ma: Multiparametric corticofugal modulation and plasticity in the auditory system. Nature Review Neuroscience, Volume 4, 2003, pp. 783-794.
  • with Z. Xiao: Reorganization of the auditory cortex specialized for echo-delay processing in the mustached bat . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Volume 101, 2004, pp. 1769-1774.
  • with Z. Xiao: Asymmetry in corticofugal modulation of frequency-tuning in mustached bat auditory system . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Vol. 102, 2005, pp. 19162-19167.
  • with X. Ma: Long-term plasticity evoked by electric stimulation and acetylcholine applied to the auditory cortex . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Vol. 102, 2005, pp. 9335-9340.
  • with W. Ji, E. Gao: Effects of agonists and antagonists of NMDA and ACh receptors on plasticity of bat auditory system elicited by fear conditioning . J. Neurophysiol., Vol. 94, 2005, pp. 1199-1211.

literature

  • Nobuo Suga . In: Larry R. Squire (Ed.): The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography . Vol. 6. Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-538010-1 , pp. 480-513 ( PDF, 261 kB ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Men and Women of Science . Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Nobuo Suga . In: Larry R. Squire (Ed.): The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography . Vol. 6. Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-538010-1 , pp. 480-513 ( PDF ).
  3. ^ "Nobuo Suga" in: Neurotree (linked to The Academic Family Tree ).
personal data
SURNAME Suga, Nobuo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese neurobiologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe