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1. Krahe R, Larsen ON, Ronacher B (2000) Directional hearing is only weakly dependent on the rise time of acoustic stimuli. J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 107, 1067-1070
   
   
2. Ronacher B, Gallizzi K, Wohlgemuth S, Wehner R (2000): Lateral optic flow does not influence distance estimation in the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis. J. Exp. Biol. 203, 1113-1121
   
   
3. Ronacher B, Krahe R (2000) Temporal integration versus parallel processing: coping with the variability of neuronal messages in directional hearing of insects. Europ. J. Neurosci. 12, 2147-2156
   
   
4. Efler D, Ronacher B (2000). Evidence against a retinotopic template matching in honeybees' pattern recognition. Vision Research 40, 3391-3403
   
   
5. Ronacher B, Krahe R, Hennig M (2000): Effects of signal duration on the recognition of masked communication signals by a grasshopper. J Comp Physiol A, 186, 1065-1072
   
   
6. Machens CK, Stemmler MB, Prinz P, Krahe R, Ronacher B, Herz AVM (2001a): Representation of acoustic communication signals by insect auditory receptor neurons. J. Neurosci. 21, 3215-3227
   
   
7. Machens CK, Prinz P, Stemmler MB, Ronacher B, Herz AVM (2001b): Discrimination of behaviorally relevant signals by auditory receptor neurons. Neurocomp. Vol 38-40, 263-268
   
   
8. Wohlgemuth S, Ronacher B, Wehner R (2001) Ant odometry in the third dimension. Nature 411, 795-798
   
   
9. Krahe R, Budinger E, Ronacher B (2002) Coding of a sexually dimorphic song feature by auditory interneurons of grasshoppers: The role of leading inhibition. J Comp Physiol A 187, 977-985
   
   
10. Franz A, Ronacher B (2002) : Temperature dependence of time resolution in an insect nervous system. J Comp Physiol A 188, 261-271
    
    
11. Wohlgemuth S, Ronacher B, Wehner R (2002). Distance estimation in the third dimension in desert ants. J Comp Physiol A 188, 273-281
    
    
12. Prinz P, Ronacher B (2002). Temporal modulation transfer functions in auditory receptor fibres of the locust (Locusta migratoria L.). J Comp Physiol A 188, 577-587
    
    
13. Machens CK, Schütze H, Franz A, Stemmler MB, Ronacher B, Herz AVM (2003). Auditory receptor neurons preserve characteristic differences between conspecific communication signals. Nature Neurosci 6: 341-342
    
    
14. Ronacher B, Hoffmann C (2003). Influence of amplitude modulated noise on the recognition of communication signals in the grasshopper Chorthippus biguttulus. J Comp Physiol A, 189: 419-425
    
    
15. Ronacher B, Hennig RM (2004) Neuronal adaptation improves the recognition of temporal patterns in a grasshopper. J Comp Physiol A190: 311-319
    
    
16. Ronacher B, Franz A, Wohlgemuth S, Hennig RM (2004) Variability of spike trains and the processing of temporal patterns of acoustic signals – problems, constraints, and solutions. J Comp Physiol A 190: 257-277
    
    
17. Vogel A, Hennig, RM, Ronacher, B (2005) Increase of neuronal response variability at higher processing levels as revealed by simultaneous recordings. J Neurophysiol 93 (6): 3548-3559
    
18. Grah G, Wehner R, Ronacher B (2005) Path integration in a three-dimensional maze: ground distance estimation keeps desert ants Cataglyphis fortis on course. J Exp Biol 208: 4005-4011.
    
    
19. Ronacher B., Westwig E., Wehner R. (2006) Integrating two-dimensional paths: do desert ants process distance information in the absence of celestial compass cues? J Exp Biol 209 (17): 3301-3308
    
    
20. Wohlgemuth S, Ronacher B. (2007) Auditory discrimination of amplitude modulations based on metric distances of spike trains.
    J Neurophysiol 97(4):3082-92
    
    
21. Vogel A, Ronacher B (2007) Neural correlations increase between consecutive processing levels in the auditory system of locusts.
    J Neurophysiol 97(5): :3376-85
    
    
22. Grah G, Wehner R, Ronacher B (2007) Desert ants do not acquire and use a three-dimensional global vector. Front Zool. 3;4:12
    
    
23. Ronacher B, Wohlgemuth S, Vogel A, Krahe R (2007) Discrimination of acoustic communication signals by grasshoppers: temporal resolution, temporal integration, and the impact of intrinsic noise. Submitted to J Comp Psychol
    
    
24. Schmidt A, Ronacher B, Hennig RM (2007) The role of frequency, phase and timer for processing amplitude modulated signals by grasshoppers. Submitted to J Comp Physiol A
    
25. Weschke G, Ronacher B (2008) Influence of sound pressure level on the processing of amplitude modulations by auditory neurons of the locust. J Comp Physiol A, 194: 255-265
    
    
26. Grah G, Ronacher B (2008) 3-D orientation in desert ants: Context-independent memorisation and recall of sloped path segments. J Comp Physiol A 194: 517-522
    
    
27. Neuhofer D, Wohlgemuth S, Stumpner A, Ronacher B ( 2008) Evolutionarily conserved coding properties of auditory neurons across grasshopper species. Proc Roy Soc Lond B, 208: 1965-1974
    
    
28. Ronacher B (2008) Path integration as the basic orientation mechanism of desert ants. Myrmecological News 11, 53-62 (invited review)
    
    
29. Creutzig F, Wohlgemuth S, Stumpner A, Benda J, Ronacher B, Herz AVM (2009) Time-scale invariant representation of acoustic communication signals by a bursting neuron. J. Neurosci 29: 2575 - 2580
    
    
30. Granada, A, Hennig M, Ronacher B, Kramer A, Herzel HP (2009) Phase response curves: elucidating the dynamics of coupled oscillators. Methods in Enzymology 454: 1-27
    
    
31. Heß D, Koch, J, Ronacher B (2009) Desert ants do not rely on sky compass information for the perception of inclined path segments. J Exp Biol 212: 1528-1534
    
    
32. Creutzig F, Benda J, Wohlgemuth S, Stumpner A, Ronacher B, Herz AVM (2010) Timescale-invariant pattern recognition by feed-forward inhibition and parallel signal processing. Neural Computation 22: 1493-1510
    
    
33. Clemens J, Weschke G, Vogel A, Ronacher B (2010) Encoding of pattern and intensity information in a small sensory system. J. Comp Physiol A 196: 285-297
    
    
34. Wohlgemuth S, Vogel A, Ronacher B (2011) Encoding of amplitude modulations by auditory neurons of the locust: influence of modulation frequency, rise time, and modulation depth. J Comp Physiol A 197: 61-74
    
    
35. Neuhofer D, Stemmler M, Ronacher B (2011) Neuronal Precision and the Limits for Acoustic Signal Recognition in a Small Neuronal Network. J Comp Physiol A 197: 251-265
    
    
36. Einhäupl A, Stange N, Hennig, RM, Ronacher B (2011) Attractiveness of grasshopper songs correlates with their robustness against noise. Behav. Ecol. Advance Access published May 9, 2011. doi:10.1093/beheco/arr064
    

1. Clemens J, Kutzki O, Ronacher B, Schreiber S, Wohlgemuth S ( ). The early auditory system of grasshoppers sparsens and decorrelates the neural representation of song. In revision
   

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2. Ronacher B (2010) Die Entwicklung des Instituts für Biologie seit 1993. pp 607-610 in R vom Bruch, H-E Tenorth (Hsg.) 1810-2010 - 200 Jahre Universität unter den Linden. Geschichte der Universität zu Berlin. Akademie-Verlag Berlin (2010)
   
   
3. Ronacher B (2011) Ein "Zick-Zack"-Experiment. In H. Zappe (ed.) Von der Lust am Unbekannten. Humboldts Erben auf Forschungsreisen. Panama Verlag, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-938714-14-0