ArticleHearing research2009
Sex differences and androgen influences on midbrain auditory thresholds in the green treefrog, Hyla cinerea.
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- The continued importance of comparative auditory research to modern scientific discovery.Hearing research · 2023Review
- Tuned in to communication sounds: Neuronal sensitivity in the túngara frog midbrain to frequency modulated signals.PloS one · 2022Article
- Sex Differences in the Triad of Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Estrogenic Modulation of Retinal Sensitivity in Reproductive Female Túngara Frogs.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Article
- The paradox of hearing at the lek: auditory sensitivity increases after breeding in female gray treefrogs (Hyla chrysoscelis).Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
- Behavioral and neural auditory thresholds in a frog.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Earless toads sense low frequencies but miss the high notes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Serotonin, estrus, and social context influence c-Fos immunoreactivity in the inferior colliculus.Behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
- Hearing conspecific vocal signals alters peripheral auditory sensitivity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Evolutionary adaptations for the temporal processing of natural sounds by the anuran peripheral auditory system.The Journal of experimental biology · 2015Article
- Treefrogs as animal models for research on auditory scene analysis and the cocktail party problem.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2015Article
- Assessing stimulus and subject influences on auditory evoked potentials and their relation to peripheral physiology in green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea).Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology · 2014Article
- Auditory brainstem responses in Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis): effects of frequency, level, sex and size.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2014Article
- Context-dependent fluctuation of serotonin in the auditory midbrain: the influence of sex, reproductive state and experience.The Journal of experimental biology · 2014Article
- Sound-by-sound thalamic stimulation modulates midbrain auditory excitability and relative binaural sensitivity in frogs.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2014Article
- Songbird frequency selectivity and temporal resolution vary with sex and season.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2013Article
- From behavioral context to receptors: serotonergic modulatory pathways in the IC.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2012Article
- Social regulation of serotonin in the auditory midbrain.Behavioral neuroscience · 2011Article
- Ultrasonic frogs show extraordinary sex differences in auditory frequency sensitivity.Nature communications · 2011Article
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Abstract
Reproductive hormones can modulate communication-evoked behavior by acting on neural systems associated with motivation; however, recent evidence suggests that modulation occurs at the sensory processing level as well. The anuran auditory midbrain processes communication stimuli, and is sensitive to steroid hormones. Using multiunit electrophysiology, we tested whether sex and circulating testosterone influence auditory sensitivity to pure tones and to the natural vocalization in the green treefrog, Hyla cinerea. Sex did not influence audiogram best frequencies although sexes did differ in the sensitivities at those frequencies with males more sensitive in the lower frequency range. Females were more sensitive than males in response to the natural vocalization, despite showing no difference in response to pure tones at frequencies found within the advertisement call. Thresholds to frequencies outside the range of the male advertisement call were higher in females. Additionally, circulating testosterone increased neural thresholds in females in a frequency-specific manner. These results demonstrate that sex differences are limited to frequency ranges that relate to the processing of natural vocalizations, and depend on the type of stimulus. The frequency-dependent and stimulus-dependent nature of sex and testosterone influences suggests that reproductive hormones influence the filtering properties of the auditory system.
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