An Overrepresentation of High Frequencies in the Mouse Inferior Colliculus Supports the Processing of Ultrasonic Vocalizations

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 8; p. e0133251
• Main Authors: Garcia-Lazaro, Jose A., Shepard, Kathryn N., Miranda, Jason A., Liu, Robert C., Lesica, Nicholas A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 05.08.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Anesthesia; Animal models; Animal vocalizations; Animals; Audiometry; Auditory nerve; Auditory pathway; Auditory Pathways - physiology; Auditory Perception - physiology; Auditory system; Biology; Brain stem; Cochlea; Cochlear Nerve - physiology; Cochlear nuclei; Cochlear Nucleus - physiology; Colliculus; Communication; Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem - physiology; High frequencies; Inferior Colliculi - physiology; Inferior colliculus; Information processing; Mesencephalon; Mice; Neurology; Neurosciences; Phenotyping; Sensitivity; Specialization; Ultrasonic Waves; Vocalization behavior; Vocalization, Animal - physiology; United States; Atlanta Georgia; Georgia; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US

Mice are of paramount importance in biomedical research and their vocalizations are a subject of interest for researchers across a wide range of health-related disciplines due to their increasingly important value as a phenotyping tool in models of neural, speech and language disorders. However, the...