Thane Fremouw

Contact Information

Email/web:
thane.fremouw@umit.maine.edu

Address:
University of Maine
372 Little Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5742

Education

Ph.D. University of Utah, 1998

Selected Publications

Gill, P. R., Woolley, S. M., Fremouw, T. & Theunissen, F. E. (2008).Whatâ€™s that sound? Auditory areas CLM encodes stimulus surprise, not intensity or intensity changes. Journal of Neurophysiology, 99, 2809-20.
Theunissen F. E., Amin, N., Shaevitz, S., Woolly, S. M. N., Fremouw, T., & Hauber, M. E., (2008) Song selectivity and the songbird brain. In: Neuroscience of Birdsong. P. Zeigler & P. Marler eds. New York, Cambridge University Press.
Shimp, C. P., Herbranson, W. T., Fremouw, T., & Froehlich, A. (2006). Rule learning, memorization strategies, switching attention between local & global levels of perception, and optimality in avian visual categorization. In E. Wasserman, & T. Zentall (Eds.) Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence. Oxford University Press. pp. 388-404.
Gill, P. R., Zhang, J., Woolley, S. M., Fremouw, T. & Theunissen, F. E. (2006). Sound representation methods for spectro-temporal receptive field estimation. Journal of Computational Neurosciences, 21, 5-20.
Fremouw, T., Faure, P. A., Casseday, J. H., & Covey E. (2005). Duration selectivity of neurons in the inferior colliculus of the big brown bat: tolerance to changes in sound level. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94, 1869-1878.
Woolley, S. M. N., Fremouw, T, Hsu, A, Theunissen, F. E. (2005). Tuning for spectro-temporal modulations as a mechanism for auditory discrimination of natural sounds. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 1371-1379.
Theunissen, F. E., Woolley, S. M. N., Hsu, A., & Fremouw, T. (2004). Methods for the analysis of auditory processing in the brain. Annals of the New York Academy of Siences, 1016, 187-207.
Theunissen, F. E., Amin, N., Shaevitz, S. S., Woolley, S. M. N., Fremouw, T., & Hauber, M. E. (2004). Song selectivity in the song system and in the auditory forebrain. Annals of the New York Academy of Siences, 1016, 222-245.
Hsu, A., Woolley, S. M. N., Fremouw, T., Theunissen, F. E. (2004). Modulation power and phase spectrum of natural sounds enhance neural encoding performed by single auditory neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 9201-9211.
Rosenberger, M. H., Fremouw, T., Casseday, J. H., & Covey E. (2003). Expression of the Kv1.1 ion channel subunit in the auditory brainstem of the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 462, 101-120.
Faure, P. A., Fremouw, T. Casseday, J. H., & Covey E. (2003). Temporal masking reveals properties of sound-evoked inhibition in duration-tuned neurons of the inferior colliculus. Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 3052-3065.
Casseday, J. H., Fremouw, T., & Covey, E. (2002). The inferior colliculus: A hub for the central auditory system. In D. Ortel, R. R. Fay, & A. N. Popper (Eds.) Springer Handbook of Auditory Research Volume 15: Integrative Functions in the Mammalian Auditory Pathway, New York: Springer. pp 238-318.
Herbranson, W. T., Fremouw T., & Shimp, C. P. (2002). Categorizing a moving target in terms of its speed, direction, or both. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 78, 249-270.
Fremouw, T., Herbranson, W. T., & Shimp, C. P. (2002). Dynamic shifts of pigeon local/global attention. Animal Cognition, 5, 233-243.
Shimp, C. P., Herbranson, W. T., & Fremouw, T. (2001). Avian visual attention; laboratory and cultural perspectives. In R. G. Cook (Ed.) Avian Visual Cognition, [On-line.]. Available: www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc/
Herbranson W. T., Fremouw, T., & Shimp, C. P. (1999). The randomization procedure in the study of categorization of multi-dimensional stimuli by pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 25, 113-134.
Fremouw, T., Herbranson, W. T., & Shimp, C. P. (1998). Priming of attention to local or global levels of visual analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 24, 278-290.
Fremouw, T., Jackson-Smith, P., & Kesner, R. P. (1997). Impaired place learning and unimpaired cue learning in hippocampal-lesioned pigeons. Behavioral Neuroscience, 111, 963-975.
Shimp, C. P., Long K. A., & Fremouw, T. (1996). Intuitive statistical inference: Categorization of binomial samples depends on sampling context. Animal Learning & Behavior, 24, 82-91.
Shimp, C. P., Fremouw, T., Ingebritsen, L. M., & Long, K. A. (1994). Molar function depends on molecular structure of behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 20, 96-106.