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SUBMITTER: Fischer BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3207647 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fischer Brian J BJ Steinberg Louisa J LJ Fontaine Bertrand B Brette Romain R Peña Jose L JL
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20111017 44
Detecting interaural time difference (ITD) is crucial for sound localization. The temporal accuracy required to detect ITD, and how ITD is initially encoded, continue to puzzle scientists. A fundamental question is whether the monaural inputs to the binaural ITD detectors differ only in their timing, when temporal and spectral tunings are largely inseparable in the auditory pathway. Here, we investigate the spectrotemporal selectivity of the monaural inputs to ITD detector neurons of the owl. We ...[more]