Brian S. Nelson

    NIH Fellow
    Terry Takahashi Lab
    Institute of Neuroscience
    1254 University of Oregon
    Eugene, OR 97403-1254
    home: (541) 510-4190

    bsnelson @
    uoregon.edu
   
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   Research interests

   Publications
  • Nelson BS, Takahashi TT (2008) "Independence of echo-threshold and echo-delay in the barn owl" PLoS ONE 3(10): e3598. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003598  PLoS ONE
  • Nelson BS, Beckers GJL, & Suthers RA (2005) "Vocal tract filtering and sound radiation in a songbird" Journal of Experimental Biology 208:297-308 [PDF]   JEB
  • Nelson BS & Suthers RA (2004) "Sound localization in a small passerine bird: discrimination of azimuth as a function of head orientation and sound frequency" Journal of Experimental Biology  207:4121-4133 [PDF]   JEB
  • Beckers GJL, Nelson BS, & Suthers RA (2004) "Vocal tract filtering by lingual articulation in a parrot" Current Biology  14:1592-1597  [PDF]   CB
  • Suthers RA, Beckers GJL, & Nelson BS (2006) "Vocal Mechanisms for Avian Communication" In: Behaviour and Neurodynamics for Auditory Communication (Ed. by Kanwal JS and G Ehret)   Cambridge press
  • Kolodziejski H, Nelson BS, & Smith TG (2004) "Sex and species differences in neuromodulatory input to a premotor nucleus: A comparative study of substance P and communication behavior in weakly electric fish" Journal of Neurobiology  [PDF]   JNB
  • Nelson BS (2004) "Dynamics of frequency and amplitude modulations in vocalizations produced by eastern towhees, Pipilo erythrophthalmus" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115:1333-1344 [PDF]   JASA
  • Nelson BS (2003) "Reliability of sound attenuation in Florida scrub habitat and behavioral implications" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113:2900-2910 [PDF]   JASA
  • Nelson BS (2002) "Duplex auditory distance assessment in a small passerine bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)" Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 53:42-50   [PDF]   BES
  • Nelson BS(2000) "Avian dependence on sound pressure level as an auditory distance cue" Animal Behaviour 59:57-67  [PDF]   ABS
  • Nelson BS & Stoddard PK (1998) "Accuracy of auditory distance and azimuth perception by a passerine bird in natural habitat" Animal Behaviour 56:467-477  [PDF]   ABS
  • Woolfenden GE, Pranty B, Fitzpatrick, JW, & Nelson BS (1996) "Western wood-pewee recorded in highlands county, Florida" Florida Field Naturalist 24:62-67

   Posters
  • Nelson BS & Takahashi TT (2008) "The end of localization dominance in the barn owl" ARO, Phoenix, AZ, February 16-21 [PDF]
  • Nelson BS & Takahashi TT (2008) "Effects of amplitude modulation on the localization of direct sounds and reflections with synchronized onsets and offsets in the barn owl" ARO, Phoenix, AZ, February 16-21 2008 [PDF]
  • Nelson BS (2002) "Duplex auditory distance assessment in a small passerine bird" Animal Behavior Society, Indiana University, July 17-21 [PDF]
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      updated April 27, 2009