ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2010
Target-approaching behavior of barn owls (Tyto alba): influence of sound frequency.
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- Sound localization in barn owls studied with manipulated head-related transfer functions: beyond broadband interaural time and level differences.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- The barn owls' Minimum Audible Angle.PloS one · 2019Article
- Side peak suppression in responses of an across-frequency integration model to stimuli of varying bandwidth as demonstrated analytically and by implementation.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2014Article
- Transformation from a pure time delay to a mixed time and phase delay representation in the auditory forebrain pathway.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2012Article
- The representation of sound localization cues in the barn owl's inferior colliculus.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2012Article
- Properties of low-frequency head-related transfer functions in the barn owl (Tyto alba).Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2010Article
- Auditory processing, plasticity, and learning in the barn owl.ILAR journal · 2010Review
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Abstract
We studied the influence of frequency on sound localization in free-flying barn owls by quantifying aspects of their target-approaching behavior to a distant sound source during ongoing auditory stimulation. In the baseline condition with a stimulus covering most of the owls hearing range (1-10 kHz), all owls landed within a radius of 20 cm from the loudspeaker in more than 80% of the cases and localization along the azimuth was more accurate than localization in elevation. When the stimulus contained only high frequencies (>5 kHz) no changes in striking behavior were observed. But when only frequencies from 1 to 5 kHz were presented, localization accuracy and precision decreased. In a second step we tested whether a further border exists at 2.5 kHz as suggested by optimality models. When we compared striking behavior for a stimulus having energy from 2.5 to 5 kHz with a stimulus having energy between 1 and 2.5 kHz, no consistent differences in striking behavior were observed. It was further found that pre-takeoff latency was longer for the latter stimulus than for baseline and that center frequency was a better predictor for landing precision than stimulus bandwidth. These data fit well with what is known from head-turning studies and from neurophysiology.
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