Publications
2023
Rivera, M., Edwards, J.A., Hauber, M.E. et al. Machine learning and statistical classification of birdsong link vocal acoustic features with phylogeny. Sci Rep 13, 7076 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33825-5
2022
Yeh YT, Rivera M, Woolley SMN. Auditory sensitivity and vocal acoustics in five species of estrildid songbirds. Animal Behaviour. PMID 36582925 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.11.002
2020
So NLT, Edwards JA, Woolley SMN. Auditory selectivity for spectral contrast in cortical neurons and behavior. The Journal of Neuroscience: the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. PMID 31826944 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1200-19.2019
Woolley, SC, Woolley, SMN. Integrating Form and Function in the Songbird Auditory Forebrain. Handbook on Auditory Research: The Neuroethology of Birdsong, Vol. XX. Eds. Sakata, J., Woolley, SC, Fay, R.R., Popper, A.
2019
Moore JM, Woolley SMN. Emergent tuning for learned vocalizations in auditory cortex. Nature Neuroscience. PMID 31406364 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-019-0458-4
2017
Woolley, SMN. Early Experience and Auditory Development in Songbirds. In: Springer Handbook on Auditory Research: Auditory Development and Plasticity, Vol. 63. Eds. Cramer, K., Coffin, A., Fay, R.R., Popper, A.
Buesing, L, Calabrese, A, Woolley, SMN, Paninki, L (2017). A statistical model of shared variability in the songbird auditory system. bioRxiv. 113670; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/113670
2016
Hall IC, Woolley SM, Kwong-Brown U, Kelley DB. Sex differences and endocrine regulation of auditory-evoked, neural responses in African clawed frogs (Xenopus). Journal of Comparative Physiology. a, Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology. PMID 26572136 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-1049-9
2015
Calabrese A, Woolley SM. Coding principles of the canonical cortical microcircuit in the avian brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 3517-22. PMID 25691736 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1408545112
Woolley S, Sanes D. Introduction to the special issue on neural mechanisms of behavioral maturation. Developmental Neurobiology. 75: 1049-1050. DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22334
2013
Schneider DM, Woolley SM. Sparse and background-invariant coding of vocalizations in auditory scenes. Neuron. 79: 141-52. PMID 23849201 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.04.038
Woolley SM, Portfors CV. Conserved mechanisms of vocalization coding in mammalian and songbird auditory midbrain. Hearing Research. 305: 45-56. PMID 23726970 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.05.005
Woolley, SMN. The Songbird Auditory System. In: Animal Models of Speech and Language Disorders. S. Helekar ed. New York, Springer Press.
Woolley SM. Mechanisms of perceiving communication sounds in scenes. Proceedings of Meetings On Acoustics. 19. DOI: 10.1121/1.4800672
Hauber ME, Woolley SM, Cassey P, Theunissen FE. Experience dependence of neural responses to different classes of male songs in the primary auditory forebrain of female songbirds. Behavioural Brain Research. 243: 184-90. PMID 23333401 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.01.007
2012
Woolley SM. Early experience shapes vocal neural coding and perception in songbirds. Developmental Psychobiology. 54: 612-31. PMID 22711657 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21014
2011
Sanes DH, Woolley SM. A behavioral framework to guide research on central auditory development and plasticity. Neuron. 72: 912-29. PMID 22196328 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.12.005
Gess A, Schneider DM, Vyas A, Woolley SM. Automated auditory recognition training and testing. Animal Behaviour. 82: 285-293. PMID 21857717 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.003
Schneider DM, Woolley SM. Extra-classical tuning predicts stimulus-dependent receptive fields in auditory neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 31: 11867-78. PMID 21849547 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5790-10.2011
Schumacher JW, Schneider DM, Woolley SM. Anesthetic state modulates excitability but not spectral tuning or neural discrimination in single auditory midbrain neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology. 106: 500-14. PMID 21543752 DOI: 10.1152/jn.01072.2010
Woolley SM, Moore JM. Coevolution in communication senders and receivers: vocal behavior and auditory processing in multiple songbird species. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1225: 155-65. PMID 21535002 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.05989.x
Ramirez AD, Ahmadian Y, Schumacher J, Schneider D, Woolley SM, Paninski L. Incorporating naturalistic correlation structure improves spectrogram reconstruction from neuronal activity in the songbird auditory midbrain. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 31: 3828-42. PMID 21389238 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3256-10.2011
Calabrese A, Schumacher JW, Schneider DM, Paninski L, Woolley SM. A generalized linear model for estimating spectrotemporal receptive fields from responses to natural sounds. Plos One. 6: e16104. PMID 21264310 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016104
Lewi J, Schneider DM, Woolley SM, Paninski L. Automating the design of informative sequences of sensory stimuli. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 30: 181-200. PMID 20556641 DOI: 10.1007/s10827-010-0248-1
2010
Schneider DM, Woolley SM. Discrimination of communication vocalizations by single neurons and groups of neurons in the auditory midbrain. Journal of Neurophysiology. 103: 3248-65. PMID 20357062 DOI: 10.1152/jn.01131.2009
Ranjard, L, Anderson, MG, Rayner, MJ, Payne, RJ, McLean, I, Briskie, JV, Ross, HA, Brunton, D, Woolley, SMN, Hauber, ME. Bioacoustic distances between begging calls of brood parasites and their host species: a comparison of bioacoustic techniques. Behav Ecol and Sociobiol 64: 1915-1926.
Hauber, ME, Campbell, DLM, Woolley, SMN. Functional role and female perception of male song in the zebra finch. Emu 110: 209-218.
Woolley SM, Hauber ME, Theunissen FE. Developmental experience alters information coding in auditory midbrain and forebrain neurons. Developmental Neurobiology. 70: 235-52. PMID 20039264 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.2078
2009
Woolley, SMN, Gill, PR, Fremouw, TE, and Theunissen. Functional groups in the avian auditory system. J Neuroscience. 29: 2780-93.
2008
Theunissen, FE, Amin, N, Shaevitz, S, Woolley, SMN, Fremouw, T and Hauber, ME. Song selectivity and the songbird brain. In: Neuroscience of Birdsong. P Zeigler and P Marler eds. New York, Cambridge University Press.
Woolley, SMN. Auditory feedback and singing in adult birds. In: Neuroscience of Birdsong. HP Zeigler and P Marler eds. New York, Cambridge University Press.
Gill, PR, Woolley, SMN, Fremouw, TE, and Theunissen FE (2008) What’s that sound? Auditory area CLM encodes stimulus surprise, not intensity or intensity changes. J Neurophys 99: 2809-2820.
2007
Hauber, ME, Cassey, P, Woolley, SMN and Theunissen, FE (2007) Neurophysiological response selectivity for conspecific songs over synthetic sounds in the auditory forebrain of non-singing female songbirds. J Comp Physiol- A 193: 765-774.
Hauber, ME, Woolley, SMN, and Theunissen, FE (2007) Learning, memory and mate choice: Early experience and neuronal discrimination of songs by female Zebra Finches. J Ornithol 48: 231-239.
2006
Woolley, SMN, Gill, PR, Fremouw, TE, and Theunissen. Functional groups in the avian auditory system. J Neuroscience. 29: 2780-93.
Woolley, SMN, Gill, P, and Theunissen, FE. Stimulus-dependent auditory tuning results in synchronized population coding of vocalizations in the songbird midbrain. J Neurosci 26:2499-2512.
2005
Woolley, SMN, Fremouw, TE, Hsu, A, and Theunissen, FE. Tuning for spectro-temporal modulations as a mechanism for auditory discrimination of natural sounds. Nat Neurosci 8: 1371- 1379.
Woolley, SMN and Casseday, JH. Processing of modulated sounds in the zebra finch auditory midbrain: responses to noise, frequency sweeps and sinusoidal amplitude modulations. J Neurophysiol 94: 1143-1157.
2004
Woolley, SMN. Auditory Experience and Adult Song Plasticity. In: Behavioral Neurobiology of Birdsong. PH Zeigler and P Marler eds. Ann NY Academy of Sciences 1016: 208-221.
Theunissen, FE, Woolley, SMN, Hsu, A, and Fremouw, T. Methods for analysis of auditory processing in the brain. In: Behavioral Neurobiology of Birdsong. PH Zeigler and P Marler eds. Ann NY Academy of Sciences 1016: 187-207.
Hsu, A, Woolley, SMN, Fremouw, TE and Theunissen, FE. Modulation and phase spectrum of natural sounds enhance neural discrimination performed by single auditory neurons. J Neurosci 24: 9201 -9211.
Woolley, SMN and Casseday, JH. Response properties of single neurons in the zebra finch auditory midbrain: response patterns, frequency coding, intensity coding and spike latencies. J Neurophysiol 91: 136-151.
Brenowitz, EA and Woolley, SMN. The avian song control system: a model for understanding changes in neural structure and function. In: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Plasticity of the Auditory System. TN Parks, EW Rubel, AN Popper and RR Fay eds. Springer, New York.
2003
Rubel, EW, Woolley, SMN, Goode, CT and Fuchs, AF. Hair cell regeneration reveals central nervous system plasticity in the avian brain. Sem Hearing: 24(2).
2002
Woolley, SMN and Rubel, EW. Vocal memory and learning in adult Bengalese finches with regenerated hair cells. J Neurosci 22: 7774-7787.
2001
1999
1997
Woolley, SMN, Wissman, AM, and Rubel, EW. Auditory thresholds and hair cell regeneration following aminoglycoside ototoxicity in Bengalese finches. Hear Res 153: 181-195.
Stone, JS, Choi, Y-S, Woolley, SMN, Yamashita, H and Rubel. Progenitor cell cycling during hair cell regeneration in the vestibular and auditory epithelia of the chick. J Neurocytol 28: 863-876.
Woolley, SMN and Rubel, EW. High frequency auditory feedback is not required for adult song maintenance in Bengalese finches. J Neurosci 19: 358-371.
Woolley, SMN and Rubel, EW. Bengalese finches Lonchura Striata domestica depend upon auditory feedback for the maintenance of adult song. J Neurosci 17: 6380-6390.