Research Assistant Professor

Neuroscience

Office: 320A Wilson Hall
Phone: 615-322-5178
Fax: 615-343-8449
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Degrees

• M.Sc. - University Bonn, Germany - 1990
• Ph.D. - University Bochum, Germany - 1995

Research Area

• Auditory Neuroscience
  Sound Localization

Representative Publications

• Schlack A, Sterbing-D'Angelo SJ, Hartung K, Hoffmann KP, Bremmer F (2005) Multisensory space representations in the macaque ventral intraparietal area. J Neuroscience 25(18): 4616 - 4625.
• D'Angelo WR, Sterbing SJ, Ostapoff EM, Kuwada S (2005) The role of GABA-ergic inhibition in the coding of interaural time difference of low-frequency sounds in the inferior colliculus. J. Neurophysiology 93(6):3390-400.
• Hackett, T.A., Karmos G., Schroeder C.E., Ulbert I., Sterbing-D’Angelo S.J., D’Angelo W.R., Kajikawa Y., Blumell S., de la Mothe L. (2005) Neurosurgical access to cortical areas in the lateral fissure of primates, J. Neurosci. Meth. 141(1):103-113.
• Sivaramakrishnan S., Sterbing-D’Angelo S.J., Filipovic B., D’Angelo W.R., Oliver D.L., Kuwada S. (2004) GABAA Synapses Shape Neuronal Responses to Sound Intensity in the Inferior Colliculus, J. Neurosci. 24(21): 5031-5043.
• D’Angelo, W.R., Sterbing, S.J., Ostapoff, E.M., Kuwada, S. (2003) Effects of amplitude modulation on the coding of interaural time differences of low-frequency sounds in the inferior colliculus. II. neural mechanisms. J. Neurophysiol. 90(5): 2827-2836.
• Sterbing, S.J., D’Angelo, W.R., Ostapoff, E.M., Kuwada, S. (2003) Effects of amplitude modulation on the coding of interaural time differences of low-frequency sounds in the inferior colliculus. I. response properties. J. Neurophysiol.90(5): 2818-2826.
• Sterbing, S.J., Hartung, K., Hoffmann, K. P. (2003), Spatial tuning to virtual sounds in the inferior colliculus of the guinea pig. J. Neurophysiol. 90(4): 2648-2659.
• Sterbing, S.J., Schrott-Fischer A. (2003) Neuronal responses in the inferior colliculus of mutant mice (Bronx waltzer) with hereditary inner hair cell loss. Hear. Res. 177: 91-99.
• Sterbing, S.J., Hartung, K., Hoffmann, K. P. (2002), Representation of sound source direction in the superior colliculus of the guinea pig in a virtual auditory environment, Exp. Brain Res. 142(4): 570-577.
• Sterbing S.J., Schrott-Fischer, A. (2002) Electrophysiological characteristics of inferior colliculus neurons in mutant mice with hereditary absence of cochlear outer hair cells, Hear. Res. 170, 179-189.
• Sterbing, S.J. (2002) The postnatal development of vocalizations and hearing in the phyllostomid bat, Carollia perspicillata, J. Mamm. 83(2), 515-525.
• Hartung, K., Sterbing, S.J. (2001), A computational model of sound localization based on neurophysiological data. In: Computational models of auditory function, NATO ASI, S. Greenberg and M. Slaney (eds.), IOS Press, pp.113-126.
• Hartung, K., Braasch, J., Sterbing, S.J. (1999), Comparison of different methods for the interpolation of head-related transfer functions. In: Spatial sound reproduction, Audio Engineering Society Inc., pp. 319-329.
• Sterbing, S.J., Schmidt U., Rübsamen R. (1994), The postnatal development of frequency-place code and tuning characteristics in the auditory midbrain of the phyllostomid bat, Carollia perspicillata. Hear. Res. 76,133-146.