ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2011
Temporally selective processing of communication signals by auditory midbrain neurons.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Convergent and divergent neural circuit architectures that support acoustic communication.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Pooled it
- A computational theory of short-term synaptic plasticity: synapses learn to tell time.Research square · 2026Article
- Time, space, memory and brain-body rhythms.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Organization of the Auditory Brainstem in a Lizard, Gekko gecko. II. Afferent and Efferent Projections of Nuclei of the Lateral Lemniscus and the Torus Semicircularis.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
- Response properties of spiking and non-spiking brain neurons mirror pulse interval selectivity.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Article
- Strongly directional responses to tones and conspecific calls in the auditory nerve of the Tokay gecko,Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Reciprocal Matched Filtering in the Inner Ear of the African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis).Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2020Article
- Generation, Coordination, and Evolution of Neural Circuits for Vocal Communication.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Review
- Tadpole bioacoustics: Sound processing across metamorphosis.Behavioral neuroscience · 2019Review
- Auditory perception exhibits sexual dimorphism and left telencephalic dominance inBiology open · 2018Article
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- Evolution of vocal patterns: tuning hindbrain circuits during species divergence.The Journal of experimental biology · 2017Article
- Probing forebrain to hindbrain circuit functions in Xenopus.Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) · 2017Review
- Sex differences and endocrine regulation of auditory-evoked, neural responses in African clawed frogs (Xenopus).Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2016Article
- An auditory feature detection circuit for sound pattern recognition.Science advances · 2015Article
- Representation of particle motion in the auditory midbrain of a developing anuran.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 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
- 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
- Time computations in anuran auditory systems.Frontiers in physiology · 2014Review
- Conserved mechanisms of vocalization coding in mammalian and songbird auditory midbrain.Hearing research · 2013Article
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Abstract
Perception of the temporal structure of acoustic signals contributes critically to vocal signaling. In the aquatic clawed frog Xenopus laevis, calls differ primarily in the temporal parameter of click rate, which conveys sexual identity and reproductive state. We show here that an ensemble of auditory neurons in the laminar nucleus of the torus semicircularis (TS) of X. laevis specializes in encoding vocalization click rates. We recorded single TS units while pure tones, natural calls, and synthetic clicks were presented directly to the tympanum via a vibration-stimulation probe. Synthesized click rates ranged from 4 to 50 Hz, the rate at which the clicks begin to overlap. Frequency selectivity and temporal processing were characterized using response-intensity curves, temporal-discharge patterns, and autocorrelations of reduplicated responses to click trains. Characteristic frequencies ranged from 140 to 3,250 Hz, with minimum thresholds of -90 dB re 1 mm/s at 500 Hz and -76 dB at 1,100 Hz near the dominant frequency of female clicks. Unlike units in the auditory nerve and dorsal medullary nucleus, most toral units respond selectively to the behaviorally relevant temporal feature of the rate of clicks in calls. The majority of neurons (85%) were selective for click rates, and this selectivity remained unchanged over sound levels 10 to 20 dB above threshold. Selective neurons give phasic, tonic, or adapting responses to tone bursts and click trains. Some algorithms that could compute temporally selective receptive fields are described.
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