Three-dimensional auditory localization in the echolocating bat

MJ Wohlgemuth, J Luo, CF Moss - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Echolocating bats use acoustic information to build a 3D representation of
space.•Auditory selectivity to direction and distance are integrated in 3D space …

[HTML][HTML] Sound localization in a changing world

P Keating, AJ King - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Auditory spatial processing is updated as behavioral goals and sensory
conditions change.•Adaptation to monaural deprivation can occur throughout the …

Distress vocalization sequences broadcasted by bats carry redundant information

JC Hechavarría, MJ Beetz, S Macias… - Journal of Comparative …, 2016 - Springer
Distress vocalizations (also known as alarm or screams) are an important component of the
vocal repertoire of a number of animal species, including bats, humans, monkeys and birds …

Neuronal coding of multiscale temporal features in communication sequences within the bat auditory cortex

F García-Rosales, MJ Beetz, Y Cabral-Calderin… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Experimental evidence supports that cortical oscillations represent multiscale temporal
modulations existent in natural stimuli, yet little is known about the processing of these …

Task rule and choice are reflected by layer-specific processing in rodent auditory cortical microcircuits

MM Zempeltzi, M Kisse, MGK Brunk, C Glemser… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
The primary auditory cortex (A1) is an essential, integrative node that encodes the
behavioral relevance of acoustic stimuli, predictions, and auditory-guided decision-making …

Echo-acoustic flow dynamically modifies the cortical map of target range in bats

SK Bartenstein, N Gerstenberg, D Vanderelst… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Echolocating bats use the delay between their sonar emissions and the reflected echoes to
measure target range, a crucial parameter for avoiding collisions or capturing prey. In many …

Bats distress vocalizations carry fast amplitude modulations that could represent an acoustic correlate of roughness

JC Hechavarría, M Jerome Beetz, F García-Rosales… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Communication sounds are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, where they play a role in
advertising physiological states and/or socio-contextual scenarios. Human screams, for …

Temporal tuning in the bat auditory cortex is sharper when studied with natural echolocation sequences

MJ Beetz, JC Hechavarría, M Kössl - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Precise temporal coding is necessary for proper acoustic analysis. However, at cortical level,
forward suppression appears to limit the ability of neurons to extract temporal information …

Quantification of mid and late evoked sinks in laminar current source density profiles of columns in the primary auditory cortex

MK Schaefer, JC Hechavarría, M Kössl - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Current source density (CSD) analysis assesses spatiotemporal synaptic activations at
somatic and/or dendritic levels in the form of depolarizing current sinks. Whereas many …

Echo-acoustic flow shapes object representation in spatially complex acoustic scenes

W Greiter, U Firzlaff - Journal of neurophysiology, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Echolocating bats use echoes of their sonar emissions to determine the position and
distance of objects or prey. Target distance is represented as a map of echo delay in the …