I am interested in the neural basis of hearing and auditory perception, as well as in the origins of extracellular field potentials.
Currently I model and analyze data from the barn owl auditory brain stem circuit for detecting interaural time differences, located in the nucleus laminaris, to solve the origin of the "neurophonic" extracellular signal.

Kuokkanen, P. T., Wagner, H., Ashida, G., Carr, C. E. and Kempter, R. (2010) On the Origin of the Extracellular Field Potential in the Nucleus Laminaris of the Barn Owl (Tyto alba) J Neurophysiol 104: 2274–2290

Kuokkanen PT, Carr CE, Wagner H, Kempter R (2010). Origin of the neurophonic: linear summation of the monaural responses predicts the binaural response in the nucleus laminaris of the barn owl. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: Bernstein Symposium 2010. doi: 10.3389/conf.fncom.2010.51.00011

Kuokkanen PT, Lautemann N, Carr CE, Wagner H, Kempter R (2009). Signal-to-noise ratio of the neurophonic potential in the laminar nucleus of the barn owl. Conference Abstract: BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10(Suppl 1):P243.

Kuokkanen PT, Wagner H, Carr CE, Kempter R (2009). Modelling and analysis of the neurophonic potential in the laminar nucleus of the barn owl. Conference abstract: 39th SFN Neuroscience Meeting.

Kuokkanen PT, Lautemann N., Wagner H, Kempter R (2009). Analysis and simulation of the neurophonic potential in the laminar nucleus of the barn owl. Abstr. Ass. Res. Otolaryngol. 32:895.

Lautemann N, Kuokkanen PT, Kempter R, Wagner H. (2008). The neurophonic potential in nucleus laminaris of birds. Proceedings MEA Meeting, 82-83, 2008.

Kuokkanen PT, Schaette R, Kempter R (2006). Modeling the Activity of the Auditory Nerve after Hearing Loss. Berlin Neuroscience Forum