Neurons in the inferior colliculus of the mustached bat are tuned both to echo-delay and sound duration

• Published in: Neuroreport Vol. 24; no. 8; p. 404
• Main Authors: Macías, Silvio, Hechavarría, Julio C, Kössl, Manfred, Mora, Emanuel C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 29.05.2013
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation - methods; Action Potentials - physiology; Animals; Auditory Cortex - physiology; Auditory Pathways - physiology; Chiroptera; Echolocation - physiology; Inferior Colliculi - physiology; Neurons - physiology

Echolocation in bats requires a precise temporal processing of complex signals. This processing of time includes the encoding of echo-delay, which gives an estimation of target distance, and sound duration, which is considered to be important for own sound or echo recognition. In this study, we repo...