ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2016
Evolutionary trends in directional hearing.
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- Innervation Pattern of Inhibitory Projection Neurons in the Bird Sound Localization Circuit.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2026Article
- 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
- Revisiting the Chicken Auditory Brainstem Response: Frequency Specificity, Threshold Sensitivity, and Cross Species Comparison.Neuroscience insights · 2024Article
- Hearing without a tympanic ear.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Review
- Bone conduction pathways confer directional cues to salamanders.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- The Hair Cell α9α10 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Odd Cousin in an Old Family.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021Review
- Neuronal sensitivity to the interaural time difference of the sound envelope in the mouse inferior colliculus.Hearing research · 2020Article
- The evolution of hearing and balance.eLife · 2019Article
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- Inhibitory Neural Circuits in the Mammalian Auditory Midbrain.Journal of experimental neuroscience · 2018Review
- A circuit for detection of interaural time differences in the nucleus laminaris of turtles.The Journal of experimental biology · 2017Article
- Evolution of Sound Source Localization Circuits in the Nonmammalian Vertebrate Brainstem.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
Tympanic hearing is a true evolutionary novelty that arose in parallel within early tetrapods. We propose that in these tetrapods, selection for sound localization in air acted upon pre-existing directionally sensitive brainstem circuits, similar to those in fishes. Auditory circuits in birds and lizards resemble this ancestral, directionally sensitive framework. Despite this anatomically similarity, coding of sound source location differs between birds and lizards, although all show mechanisms for enhancing sound source directionality. Comparisons with mammals reveal similarly complex interactions between coding strategies and evolutionary history.
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