Herbert F. Voigt, Ph.D.

Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Research Professor, Otolaryngology, School of Medicine
Auditory Neurophysiology Laboratory
Hearing Research Center
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
B.E. (E.E.), City College of New York
Phone: (617) 353-2817; Fax: (617) 353-6766
Email: hfv@bu.edu
Office: ERB 414C
Office hours: By appointment

Research Interests

Auditory neurophysiology; neural circuitry; neural modeling.

Current Research

Dr. Voigt is currently engaged in experimental and theoretical studies of the neuronal circuitry in the cochlear nucleus. He uses single- and multi-unit recording and analysis techniques to study the responses of neurons and neural nets to acoustic stimulation. Other interests include brainstem auditory evoked responses and neural modeling of the cochlear nucleus.

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Selected Recent Publications

Voigt, H.F. Zheng, X. “The Cochlear Nucleus – the New Frontier In: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research” Book Chapter A. Popper and R. Fay Series Editors, New York, Springer-Verlag pp. 39-63. (2010)

Voigt, H.F., Krishnan, SM. “Editorial comment on Malkin and Keane” DOI 10.1007/s11517-010-0631-0 Med Biol Eng Comput. 48: 719–720 (2010). *Online since May 27, 2010*

Navawongse,R., Voigt, H.F. “Single Neuron Recordings in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Awake Gerbil” Hearing Research. 255 (1-2): 44-57. (2009)

Voigt, H.F. “The Rights of Scientists and Engineering” (Editorial) Med Biol Eng Comput. (2008)

Grace, S.M., Quaranta, E., Shinn-Cunningham, B.G., Voigt, H.F. “Simulation of the Binaural Environmental Transfer Function for Gerbils Using a Boundary Element Method” Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 94: 310-320. (2007)

Zheng, X., Voigt, H.F. “Erratum A Modeling Study of Notch Noise Responses of Type III Units in the Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus” Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 34: 1935-1946. (2006)

Zheng, X., Voigt, H.F. “Computational Model of Response Maps in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus” Biological Cybernetics. 95: 233-242. (2006)

Zheng, X., Voigt, H.F. “A Modeling Study of Notch Noise Responses of Type III Units in the Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus” Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 34: 697-708. (2006)

Hancock, K.E., Voigt, H.F. “Intracellularly Labeled Fusiform Cells in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of the Gerbil II: Comparison of Physiology and Anatomy” Journal of Neurophysiology. 87: 2520-2530. (2002)