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Spatial cue reliability drives frequency tuning in the barn Owl's midbrain.
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- Neural Responses Underlying Interaural Time Difference Discrimination as a Function of Sensory Reliability in the Barn Owl.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Developmental fine-tuning of medial superior olive neurons mitigates their predisposition to contralateral sound sources.PLoS biology · 2024Article
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- Single trial Bayesian inference by population vector readout in the barn owl's sound localization system.PloS one · 2024Article
- The continued importance of comparative auditory research to modern scientific discovery.Hearing research · 2023Review
- Development of frequency tuning shaped by spatial cue reliability in the barn owl's auditory midbrain.eLife · 2023Article
- A biologically oriented algorithm for spatial sound segregation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Barn Owl's Auditory Space Map Activity Matching Conditions for a Population Vector Readout to Drive Adaptive Sound-Localizing Behavior.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Diverse processing underlying frequency integration in midbrain neurons of barn owls.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Redundancy between spectral and higher-order texture statistics for natural image segmentation.Vision research · 2021Article
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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
- Synthesis of Hemispheric ITD Tuning from the Readout of a Neural Map: Commonalities of Proposed Coding Schemes in Birds and Mammals.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- The barn owls' Minimum Audible Angle.PloS one · 2019Article
- Emergence of an Adaptive Command for Orienting Behavior in Premotor Brainstem Neurons of Barn Owls.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Optimal nonlinear cue integration for sound localization.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2017Article
- Stimulus-specific adaptation to visual but not auditory motion direction in the barn owl's optic tectum.The European journal of neuroscience · 2017Article
- Development of a Bayesian Estimator for Audio-Visual Integration: A Neurocomputational Study.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2017Article
- Cue Reliability Represented in the Shape of Tuning Curves in the Owl's Sound Localization System.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
The robust representation of the environment from unreliable sensory cues is vital for the efficient function of the brain. However, how the neural processing captures the most reliable cues is unknown. The interaural time difference (ITD) is the primary cue to localize sound in horizontal space. ITD is encoded in the firing rate of neurons that detect interaural phase difference (IPD). Due to the filtering effect of the head, IPD for a given location varies depending on the environmental context. We found that, in barn owls, at each location there is a frequency range where the head filtering yields the most reliable IPDs across contexts. Remarkably, the frequency tuning of space-specific neurons in the owl's midbrain varies with their preferred sound location, matching the range that carries the most reliable IPD. Thus, frequency tuning in the owl's space-specific neurons reflects a higher-order feature of the code that captures cue reliability.
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