The chinchilla animal model for noise-induced hearing loss has an extensive history
spanning more than 50 years. Many behavioral, anatomical, and physiological …

Neurons in the medial superior olive (MSO) and lateral superior olive (LSO) of the auditory
brainstem code for sound-source location in the horizontal plane, extracting interaural time …

Tinnitus, the perception of sound in the absence of an external stimulus, is a particularly
challenging condition to demonstrate in animals. In any animal model, objective …

Evolutionary medicine has been a fast-growing field of biological research in the past
decade. One of the strengths of evolutionary medicine is to use non-traditional model …

Naked mole-rats are highly vocal, eusocial, subterranean rodents with, counterintuitively,
poor hearing. The causes underlying their altered hearing are unknown. Moreover, whether …

In mammals, localization of sound sources in azimuth depends on sensitivity to interaural
differences in sound timing (ITD) and level (ILD). Paradoxically, while typical ILD-sensitive …

Interaural time difference (ITD) is a major cue to sound localization in humans and animals.
For a given subject and position in space, ITD depends on frequency. This variation is …

Physiological and anatomical studies have suggested that alligators have unique
adaptations for spatial hearing. Sound localization cues are primarily generated by the …

Conductive hearing loss (CHL) is known to produce hearing deficits, including deficits in
sound localization ability. The differences in sound intensities and timing experienced …

Currently, there is controversy around whether rats can use interaural time differences (ITDs)
to localize sound. Here, naturalistic pulse train stimuli were used to evaluate the rat's …