Steffen R. Hage Is There Underlying Rhythmicity in the Vocal Behavior of Marmoset Monkeys?
Steffen R. Hage is Leader of the Independent Junior Research Group ‘Neurobiology of Vocal Communication’ at the W. Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience at the University of Tübingen. Previous to this appointment he was Research Group Leader at the Institute for Neurobiology, also at the University of Tübingen. With his research, he aims at understanding the neuronal mechanisms underlying vocal communication. In 2016, he was part of the faculty at the Max Planck Institute Summer School ‘Language in Interaction’ and the FENS-Hertie Winter School ‘Neurobiology of Language and Communication’.
Area of Research
Neurobiology
since 2014
Independent Junior Research Group Leader 'Neurobiology of Vocal Communication'
University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN)
2009-2014
Research Group Leader
University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Institute for Neurobiology
2007-2009
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Physiological Science
2005-2007
Postdoctoral Fellow
German Primate Center
Deparmtent of Neurobiology
2014
Habilitation
University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Institute of Neurobiology
2005
PhD
University of Ulm (Universität Ulm)
Institute for Neurobiology
2001
Diploma in Biology
University of Ulm (Universität Ulm)
Institute for Neurobiology
- Science
- PLoS Biology
- PNAS
- Current Biology
- Bioacoustics
- Biology Letters
- Cognition
- European Journal of Neuroscience
- Hearing Research
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- Journal of Avian Biology
- Journal of Experimental Biology
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Journal of Neuroscience Methods
- et al.
- German Academic Association
- German Neuroscience Society
- International Society for Neuroethology
- Society for Neuroscience
- German Biological Association
When researchers want to delve deeper into the brain mechanisms of speech patterns, they cannot do all experiments on human subjects. This is why STEFFEN R. HAGE studies the vocalizations of marmoset monkeys. Particularly, as he explains in this video, he is interested in the long sounds these monkeys produce with durations up to three or four seconds. There is a debate whether these long sounds are produced out of smaller rhythmically produced syllables or whether these sounds are impartible. By observing an isolated marmoset monkey while it is producing calls and then perturbing these calls with noise stimuli, the researchers found that not only are these longer sounds built out of smaller subunits but also that the monkeys can interrupt their calls only at specific positions during their call. These findings suggest the marmoset monkey as a good model to study the underlying rhythmicity of vocal behavior and the underlying mechanisms in the brain.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10606
Precise Motor Control Enables Rapid Flexibility in Vocal Behavior of Marmoset Monkeys
- Thomas Pomberger, Cristina Risueno-Segovia, Julia Löschner and Steffen R. Hage
- Current Biology
- Published in 2018
