ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2018
Emergence of an Adaptive Command for Orienting Behavior in Premotor Brainstem Neurons of Barn Owls.
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- Auditory Competition and Coding of Relative Stimulus Strength across Midbrain Space Maps of Barn Owls.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Barn owls specialized sound-driven behavior: Lessons in optimal processing and coding by the auditory system.Hearing research · 2024Review
- 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
- Two Types of Auditory Spatial Receptive Fields in Different Parts of the Chicken's Midbrain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for 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
- Strongly directional responses to tones and conspecific calls in the auditory nerve of the Tokay gecko,Journal of neurophysiology · 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
- New genome assembly of the barn owl (Ecology and evolution · 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
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Abstract
The midbrain map of auditory space commands sound-orienting responses in barn owls. Owls precisely localize sounds in frontal space but underestimate the direction of peripheral sound sources. This bias for central locations was proposed to be adaptive to the decreased reliability in the periphery of sensory cues used for sound localization by the owl. Understanding the neural pathway supporting this biased behavior provides a means to address how adaptive motor commands are implemented by neurons. Here we find that the sensory input for sound direction is weighted by its reliability in premotor neurons of the midbrain tegmentum of owls (male and female), such that the mean population firing rate approximates the head-orienting behavior. We provide evidence that this coding may emerge through convergence of upstream projections from the midbrain map of auditory space. We further show that manipulating the sensory input yields changes predicted by the convergent network in both premotor neural responses and behavior. This work demonstrates how a topographic sensory representation can be linearly read out to adjust behavioral responses by the reliability of the sensory input.
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