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ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2011

Neuronal precision and the limits for acoustic signal recognition in a small neuronal network.

Daniela Neuhofer, Martin Stemmler, Bernhard Ronacher

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Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Robustness of an innate releasing mechanism against degradation of acoustic communication signals in the grasshopper Chorthippus biguttulus.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018
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  4. Computational principles underlying recognition of acoustic signals in grasshoppers and crickets.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015
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  5. Computational themes of peripheral processing in the auditory pathway of insects.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015
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  6. Asymmetrical integration of sensory information during mating decisions in grasshoppers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Daniela NeuhoferDepartment of Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115, Berlin, Germany. neuhofda@cms.hu-berlin.de
Martin Stemmler
Bernhard Ronacher
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recognition of acoustic signals may be impeded by two factors: extrinsic noise, which degrades sounds before they arrive at the receiver's ears, and intrinsic neuronal noise, which reveals itself in the trial-to-trial variability of the responses to identical sounds. Here we analyzed how these two noise sources affect the recognition of acoustic signals from potential mates in grasshoppers. By progressively corrupting the envelope of a female song, we determined the critical degradation level at which males failed to recognize a courtship call in behavioral experiments. Using the same stimuli, we recorded intracellularly from auditory neurons at three different processing levels, and quantified the corresponding changes in spike train patterns by a spike train metric, which assigns a distance between spike trains. Unexpectedly, for most neurons, intrinsic variability accounted for the main part of the metric distance between spike trains, even at the strongest degradation levels. At consecutive levels of processing, intrinsic variability increased, while the sensitivity to external noise decreased. We followed two approaches to determine critical degradation levels from spike train dissimilarities, and compared the results with the limits of signal recognition measured in behaving animals.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsAuditory PerceptionBehavior, AnimalFemaleGrasshoppersMaleNerve NetSensory Receptor CellsSexual Behavior, AnimalSocial BehaviorVocalization, Animal

Identifiers

PMID21063712
PMCPMC3040818
OpenAlexW2028645278

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