Kohta Kobayashi

Current status & Contact Information
Research fellow of Walter Metzner Lab. UCLA, Department of Physiological Science.

Address: 621 Charles E. Young Drive South.
Box 951606 Zip 90095-1606 Los Angeles CA.

    

EDUCATION/TRAINING  

A. Positions and Honors.

Position

1998-2000 Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Neuroethology Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

2000-2003 Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Animal Behavior Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

2000-2003 Research Assistant at Japan Sciences and Technology Corporation, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

2003-2004 Research Fellow of Department of Natural Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

2004-present Postgraduate research, Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Investigating the neurobiology underlying audio-vocal integration in echolocating bats (with Dr. Walter Metzner)

 

Honors

2000 Winner of the Nanohana Venture Competition, Chiba University.

2001 Competition awarded from the Venture Egg Forum, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Service

Reviewer for: Neuroscience Research

Reviewer for: Journal of Ethology
 

B.Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).
 
Kobayashi K, Okanoya K (2001) Song selective auditory activity in the avian cortex-basal ganglia loop in the Bengalese Finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica). In: The Acoustical Society of Japan: Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, pp 595-602. link

 
Kobayashi K, Uno H, Okanoya K (2001) Partial lesions in the anterior forebrain pathway affect song production in adult Bengalese finches. Neuroreport 12:353-358. link
 

Kobayashi K, Okanoya K (2002) Frequency dependent responses in the avian basal ganglia-cortex loop. In: The Acoustical Society of Japan: Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, pp 259-264. link

 
Kobayasi IK, Okanoya K (2003) Sex differences in amplitude regulation of distance calls in Bengalese finches, Lunchula striata var domestica. Animal Biology 53:173-182. link
 

Kobayasi IK, Okanoya K (2003) Context-dependent song amplitude control in Bengalese finches. Neuroreport 14:521-524.link

Smotherman M, Kobayasi IK, Ma J, Zhang S, Metzner W (2006) A Mechanism for Vocal-Respiratory Coupling in the Mammalian Parabrachial Nucleus.
J. Neurosci 26: 4860 - 4869. link

 

Review articles:

Kobayasi IK, Okumura T, Tani J, Okanoya, K (2003) Neural mechanisms for bird song learning. Advances in Neurological Sciences 47: 653-666.link

 
C. Research Support.

2000 First Prize in Venture Business Research Grant,Venture Competition, Chiba University (Study and Development of Algorism for Vocal Learning).

2000 Research Grant, Japan Science Society (Neurophysiological mechanisms of Stuttering: Songbird Model)

2006 Research Grant, The Sound Technology Promotion Foundation (Neural Mechanisms of Feedback Control of Vocalization: Horseshoe bat model)

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