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ArticleJournal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO2015

Reverse correlation analysis of auditory-nerve fiber responses to broadband noise in a bird, the barn owl.

Bertrand Fontaine, Christine Köppl, Jose L Peña

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Article in Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. Single Neuron Contributions to the Auditory Brainstem EEG.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  3. Multidimensional stimulus encoding in the auditory nerve of the barn owl.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2018
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3 authors.

Bertrand FontaineDominick P. Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA, bertrand.fontaine@med.kuleuven.be.
Christine Köppl
Jose L Peña

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Coding of Auditory Space in the Avian BrainR01DC007690 · NIDCD · ALBERT EINSTEIN COL OF MED YESHIVA UNIV · PI PENA, JOSE L · 2005 to 2025
$7.5M
NIDCD NIH HHS DC007690NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC007690
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While the barn owl has been extensively used as a model for sound localization and temporal coding, less is known about the mechanisms at its sensory organ, the basilar papilla (homologous to the mammalian cochlea). In this paper, we characterize, for the first time in the avian system, the auditory nerve fiber responses to broadband noise using reverse correlation. We use the derived impulse responses to study the processing of sounds in the cochlea of the barn owl. We characterize the frequency tuning, phase, instantaneous frequency, and relationship to input level of impulse responses. We show that, even features as complex as the phase dependence on input level, can still be consistent with simple linear filtering. Where possible, we compare our results with mammalian data. We identify salient differences between the barn owl and mammals, e.g., a much smaller frequency glide slope and a bimodal impulse response for the barn owl, and discuss what they might indicate about cochlear mechanics. While important for research on the avian auditory system, the results from this paper also allow us to examine hypotheses put forward for the mammalian cochlea.

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AnimalsCochleaCochlear NerveHearingNerve FibersStrigiformes

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PMID25315358
PMCPMC4310858

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