Lizabeth Romanski
| Title | Associate Professor |
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| Institution | School of Medicine and Dentistry |
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| Department | Neurobiology and Anatomy |
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| Address | University of Rochester Medical Center
School of Medicine and Dentistry
601 Elmwood Ave, Box 603
Rochester NY 14642
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| Title | Associate Professor |
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| Institution | University of Rochester, River Campus |
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| Department | Center for Visual Science A&S |
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| 1980 |
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| 1984 | Henry Rutgers Academic Scholarship | | 1984 |
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| Henry Rutgers Academic Excellence Undergraduate Research Award | | 1990 |
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| Vincent DiVigneau Prize | Cornell University Medical College, New York. | | 1991 |
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| Vincent DiVigneau Prize | Cornell University Medical College, New York. | | 1992 |
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| Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience, | (The Grass Foundation/Society for Neuroscience). | | 1993 |
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| 1996 | McDonnell-Pew Postdoctoral Training Grant in Cognitive Neuroscience. | | 1998 |
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| 2000 | Cure Autism Now Young Investigator Award. | | 2000 |
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| Whitehall Foundation Research Award. | | 2006 |
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| Excellence in Medical Research Incentive Award | University of Rochester |
While auditory and visual information are combined in many sites of the human brain, the combining of face and vocal information for effective communication has been shown to occur in specialized regions of the temporal and frontal lobes. Work in my laboratory is focused on how the ventral prefrontal cortex represents high level auditory information and the neuronal mechanisms which underlie integration of complex auditory and visual information, primarily face and vocal information during communication. Studies in our laboratory have shown that neurons within specific regions of the ventral prefrontal cortex are robustly responsive to complex sounds including species-specific vocalizations, while previous studies have shown that adjacent ventral prefrontal regions are selectively responsive to faces. We have shown that neurons within ventral prefrontal cortex are multisensory and respond to both faces and to the corresponding vocalizations. We are also interested in the factors that affect the integration of dynamic faces and vocalizations in the frontal lobe including temporal coincidence, stimulus congruence, as well as the emotional expression conveyed in the face-vocalization and the identity of the speaker. Collaborations with University of Rochester faculty are aimed at characterizing sensory integration deficits in children with autism and the role the frontal lobe may play in autism spectrum disorders. Further analysis of the neural mechanisms which support face and voice integration in non-human primates may help us to understand the mechanisms underlying social communication and social cognition.
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Romanski LM. Integration of faces and vocalizations in ventral prefrontal cortex: Implications for the evolution of audiovisual speech. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jun 26; 109 Suppl 1:10717-24.
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Romanski LM, Hwang J. Timing of audiovisual inputs to the prefrontal cortex and multisensory integration. Neuroscience. 2012 Jul 12; 214:36-48.
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Romanski LM, Diehl MM. Neurons responsive to face-view in the primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Neuroscience. 2011 Aug 25; 189:223-35.
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Romanski LM, Averbeck BB. The primate cortical auditory system and neural representation of conspecific vocalizations. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2009; 32:315-46.
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Romanski LM. Representation and integration of auditory and visual stimuli in the primate ventral lateral prefrontal cortex. Cereb Cortex. 2007 Sep; 17 Suppl 1:i61-9.
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Averbeck BB, Romanski LM. Probabilistic encoding of vocalizations in macaque ventral lateral prefrontal cortex. J Neurosci. 2006 Oct 25; 26(43):11023-33.
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Sugihara T, Diltz MD, Averbeck BB, Romanski LM. Integration of auditory and visual communication information in the primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. J Neurosci. 2006 Oct 25; 26(43):11138-47.
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Romanski LM. Domain specificity in the primate prefrontal cortex. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2004 Dec; 4(4):421-9.
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Romanski LM, Averbeck BB, Diltz M. Neural representation of vocalizations in the primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. J Neurophysiol. 2005 Feb; 93(2):734-47.
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Averbeck BB, Romanski LM. Principal and independent components of macaque vocalizations: constructing stimuli to probe high-level sensory processing. J Neurophysiol. 2004 Jun; 91(6):2897-909.
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Romanski LM, Goldman-Rakic PS. An auditory domain in primate prefrontal cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2002 Jan; 5(1):15-6.
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Romanski LM, Tian B, Fritz J, Mishkin M, Goldman-Rakic PS, Rauschecker JP. Dual streams of auditory afferents target multiple domains in the primate prefrontal cortex. Nat Neurosci. 1999 Dec; 2(12):1131-6.
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Romanski LM, Bates JF, Goldman-Rakic PS. Auditory belt and parabelt projections to the prefrontal cortex in the rhesus monkey. J Comp Neurol. 1999 Jan 11; 403(2):141-57.
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Romanski LM, Giguere M, Bates JF, Goldman-Rakic PS. Topographic organization of medial pulvinar connections with the prefrontal cortex in the rhesus monkey. J Comp Neurol. 1997 Mar 17; 379(3):313-32.
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Armony JL, Servan-Schreiber D, Romanski LM, Cohen JD, LeDoux JE. Stimulus generalization of fear responses: effects of auditory cortex lesions in a computational model and in rats. Cereb Cortex. 1997 Mar; 7(2):157-65.
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Morgan MA, Romanski LM, LeDoux JE. Extinction of emotional learning: contribution of medial prefrontal cortex. Neurosci Lett. 1993 Nov 26; 163(1):109-13.
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Romanski LM, LeDoux JE. Information cascade from primary auditory cortex to the amygdala: corticocortical and corticoamygdaloid projections of temporal cortex in the rat. Cereb Cortex. 1993 Nov-Dec; 3(6):515-32.
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Romanski LM, LeDoux JE. Organization of rodent auditory cortex: anterograde transport of PHA-L from MGv to temporal neocortex. Cereb Cortex. 1993 Nov-Dec; 3(6):499-514.
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Romanski LM, Clugnet MC, Bordi F, LeDoux JE. Somatosensory and auditory convergence in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala. Behav Neurosci. 1993 Jun; 107(3):444-50.
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Romanski LM, LeDoux JE. Equipotentiality of thalamo-amygdala and thalamo-cortico-amygdala circuits in auditory fear conditioning. J Neurosci. 1992 Nov; 12(11):4501-9.
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Romanski LM, LeDoux JE. Bilateral destruction of neocortical and perirhinal projection targets of the acoustic thalamus does not disrupt auditory fear conditioning. Neurosci Lett. 1992 Aug 17; 142(2):228-32.
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LeDoux JE, Farb CR, Romanski LM. Overlapping projections to the amygdala and striatum from auditory processing areas of the thalamus and cortex. Neurosci Lett. 1991 Dec 16; 134(1):139-44.
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LeDoux JE, Cicchetti P, Xagoraris A, Romanski LM. The lateral amygdaloid nucleus: sensory interface of the amygdala in fear conditioning. J Neurosci. 1990 Apr; 10(4):1062-9.
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Jarrell TW, Gentile CG, Romanski LM, McCabe PM, Schneiderman N. Involvement of cortical and thalamic auditory regions in retention of differential bradycardiac conditioning to acoustic conditioned stimuli in rabbits. Brain Res. 1987 Jun 2; 412(2):285-94.
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Jarrell TW, Romanski LM, Gentile CG, McCabe PM, Schneiderman N. Ibotenic acid lesions in the medial geniculate region prevent the acquisition of differential Pavlovian conditioning of bradycardia to acoustic stimuli in rabbits. Brain Res. 1986 Sep 10; 382(1):199-203.
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