Barn owls can capture prey in pitch darkness or by diving into snow, while homing in on the
sounds made by their prey. First, the neural mechanisms by which the barn owl localizes a …

Studies of animal acoustic communication have found that the frequency and temporal
structure of acoustic signals can be shaped by selection for efficient communication. The …

Bayesian models are often successful in describing perception and behavior, but the neural
representation of probabilities remains in question. There are several distinct proposals for …

Barn owls process sound-localization information in two parallel pathways, the midbrain and
the forebrain pathway. Exctracellular recordings of neural responses to auditory stimuli from …

In the brainstem, the auditory system diverges into two pathways that process different
sound localization cues, interaural time differences (ITDs) and level differences (ILDs). We …

Space-specific neurons in the barn owl's auditory space map gain spatial selectivity through
tuning to combinations of the interaural time difference (ITD) and interaural level difference …

The brainstem auditory pathway is obligatory for all aural information. Brainstem auditory
neurons must encode the level and timing of sounds, as well as their time-dependent …

A recurring theme in theoretical work is that integration over populations of similarly tuned
neurons can reduce neural noise. However, there are relatively few demonstrations of an …

The auditory space map in the optic tectum (OT)(also known as superior colliculus in
mammals) relies on the tuning of neurons to auditory localization cues that correspond to …

Performing sound recognition is a task that requires an encoding of the time-varying spectral
structure of the auditory stimulus. Similarly, computation of the interaural time difference …