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Jiping Zhang

Jiping Zhang

Professor, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University

Email: jpzhang@bio.ecnu.edu.cn

Phone: 021-6223-2017

Office: B305 Science Building, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai

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Research Interests

Auditory information processing, Environmental and experience-dependent plasticity of auditory functions, Auditory learning

Research Summary

Professor Zhang’s major research interests include: 1) neural mechanism of auditory information processing in a complex acoustic environment; 2) molecular and neural mechanisms in environmental and experience-dependent plasticity of auditory functions; 3) neural mechanism of binaural hearing; 4) auditory social learning.

Education Background

1999 Ph.D., Physiology, East China Normal University

1991 M.S., Physiology, East China Normal University

Work/Research Experience

2000 – 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine

1997 – 1999 Visiting scholar, University of Missouri-Columbia

Representative Publications
  1. Wang X., Liu J., Zhang J.*, Chronic unilateral hearing loss disrupts neural tuning to sound-source azimuth in the rat primary auditory cortex, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019,13:477. 
  2. Wang F., Liu J., Zhang J.*, Early postnatal noise exposure degrades the stimulus-specific adapation of neurons in the rat auditory cortex in adulthood, Neuroscience, 2019, 404:1-13. 
  3. Gao F., Chen L., Zhang J.*, Nonuniform impacts of forward suppression on neural responses to preferred stimuli and nonpreferred stimuli in the rat auditory cortex, European Journal of Neuroscience, 2018, 47(11): 1320-1338. 
  4. Jiang C., Xu X., Yu L., Xu J.*, Zhang J.*, Environmental enrichment rescues the degraded auditory temporal resolution of cortical neurons induced by early noise exposure, European Journal of Neuroscience, 2015, 42 (5):2144-2154. 
  5. Zhao Y., Xu X., He J., Xu J., Zhang J.*, Age-related changes in neural gap detection thresholds in the rat auditory cortex, European Journal of Neuroscience., 2015, 41(3): 285-292. 
  6. Peng Y.‚ Sun X.‚ Zhang J.*‚ Contextual modulation of frequency tuning of neurons in the rat auditory cortex‚ Neuroscience‚ 2010‚ 169(3):1403-1413.