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ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2020

Best sensitivity of temporal modulation transfer functions in laboratory mice matches the amplitude modulation embedded in vocalizations.

Huaizhen Cai, Micheal L Dent

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Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Huaizhen CaiDepartment of Psychology, University at Buffalo-SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA.
Micheal L DentDepartment of Psychology, University at Buffalo-SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA.
University at Buffalo, State University of New York · US

Funding

Complex Sound Perception in MiceR01DC012302 · NIDCD · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · PI DENT, MICHEAL L · 2013 to 2017
$1.9M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC012302
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The perception of spectrotemporal changes is crucial for distinguishing between acoustic signals, including vocalizations. Temporal modulation transfer functions (TMTFs) have been measured in many species and reveal that the discrimination of amplitude modulation suffers at rapid modulation frequencies. TMTFs were measured in six CBA/CaJ mice in an operant conditioning procedure, where mice were trained to discriminate an 800 ms amplitude modulated white noise target from a continuous noise background. TMTFs of mice show a bandpass characteristic, with an upper limit cutoff frequency of around 567 Hz. Within the measured modulation frequencies ranging from 5 Hz to 1280 Hz, the mice show a best sensitivity for amplitude modulation at around 160 Hz. To look for a possible parallel evolution between sound perception and production in living organisms, we also analyzed the components of amplitude modulations embedded in natural ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) emitted by this strain. We found that the cutoff frequency of amplitude modulation in most of the individual USVs is around their most sensitive range obtained from the psychoacoustic experiments. Further analyses of the duration and modulation frequency ranges of USVs indicated that the broader the frequency ranges of amplitude modulation in natural USVs, the shorter the durations of the USVs.

Indexed as

Auditory PerceptionSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedSound SpectrographyVocalization, AnimalAcoustic StimulationAnimalsConditioning, OperantFemaleMaleMice, Inbred CBANoisePsychoacousticsUltrasonics

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PMID32006990
PMCPMC7043865
OpenAlexW3004131587

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