Roderick A. Suthers Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine Head of Physiology Section, Medical Sciences Program Professor of Neural Science, Department of Psychology Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana  47405  USA

Research: Neuroethology; comparative physiology and bioacoustics; neural basis of vocal communication; physiology of vocal learning; motor basis of vocal diversity in songbirds Teaching: (sample of courses) Neuroethology

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University

Ph.D. 1965

Biology

Harvard University

A.M. 1961

Biology

Harvard University

B.A. 1960

Zoology (with honors)

Ohio Wesleyan University

Selected Representative Publications:
Suthers, R.A. 1990. Contributions to birdsong from the left and right sides of the intact syrinx. Nature 347:473-477.

Suthers, R.A., F.Goller, & R.S. Hartley. 1994. Motor dynamics of song production by mimic thrushes. Journal of Neurobiology 25:917-936.

Allan, S.E. & R.A. Suthers. 1994. Lateralization and motor sterotypy of song production in the brown-headed cowbird. Journal of Neurobiology 25:1154-1166.

Goller, F. & R.A. Suthers. 1995. Implications for lateralization of bird song from unilateral gating of bilateral motor patterns. Nature 373:63-66

Suthers, R.A., F. Goller, & R.S. Hartley. 1996. Motor stereotypy and diversity in songs of mimic thrushes. Journal of Neurobiology 30:231-245.

Suthers, R.A. 1997. Peripheral control and lateralization of birdsong. Journal of Neurobiology 33:632-652.

Suthers, R.A. & F. Goller. 1997. Motor correlates of vocal diversity in songbirds. In V. Nolan Jr., E. Ketterson, & C.F. Thompson (Eds.), Current Ornithology, Plenum Press, New York, vol. 14, pp. 235-288.

Publications (1998 only):
Wild, J. Martin, Franz Goller and Roderick A. Suthers. 1998. Inspiratory muscle activity during birdsong. J. Neurobiology. 36:441-453.

Suthers, Roderick A. 1998. The motor basis of vocal performance in songbirds. In: Causal Mechanisms of Animal Communication. M. Hauser and M. Konishi, editors. MIT Press. Cambridge MA. In press.

Suthers, Roderick A., Franz Goller and Carolyn Pytte. 1999. The neuromuscular control of birdsong. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Biological Sciences. In press.

Submitted:
Pytte, C.L. and Suthers, R. A. 1999. A sensitive period for sensorimotor integration in vocal learning. Submitted.

In preparation:
Suthers, Roderick A., Franz Goller and Martin Wild. 1999. Sensory feedback modulates the motor program of crystallized birdsong. In prep.

Goller, Franz and Roderick A. Suthers. 1999. Bilaterally symmetrical respiratory activity during lateralized birdsong. In prep.

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1984-89   Editorial Board, Experimental Biology

1991-94   Biomedical Sciences Review Panel, NSF Graduate Fellowship Program

1999     Predoctoral Fellowship Panel, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Research Council

1999     NIH Review Panel, Integrative, Functional & Cognitive Neuroscience-5

American Physiological Society American Ornithologists' Union American Association for the Advancement of Science International Society for Neuroethology Association for Research in Otolaryngology Association of Chairmen of Departments of Physiology

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