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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 208, Issue 5-6, Pages 605-613Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-022-01582-x
Keywords
Dolphins; Hearing; Masking; Spatial selectivity
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- Russian Science Foundation [22-25-00025]
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The study investigated forward masking in bottlenose dolphins and found that binaural convergence in the higher levels of their auditory system makes the forward masking nearly equal for both ipsilateral and contralateral positions of the masker and test.
Forward masking was investigated by the auditory evoked potentials (AEP) method in a bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus using stimulation by two successive acoustic pulses (the masker and test) projected from spatially separated sources. The positions of the two sound sources either coincided with or were symmetrical relative to the head axis at azimuths from 0 to +/- 90 degrees. AEPs were recorded either from the vertex or from the lateral head surface next to the auditory meatus. In the last case, the test source was ipsilateral to the recording side, whereas the masker source was either ipsi- or contralateral. For lateral recording, AEP release from masking (recovery) was slower for the ipsi- than for the contralateral masker source position. For vertex recording, AEP recovery was equal both for the coinciding positions of the masker and test sources and for their symmetrical positions relative to the head axis. The data indicate that at higher levels of the auditory system of the dolphin, binaural convergence makes the forward masking nearly equal for ipsi- and contralateral positions of the masker and test.
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