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SUBMITTER: Pavao R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7661036 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pavão Rodrigo R Sussman Elyse S ES Fischer Brian J BJ Peña José L JL
eLife 20201012
A neural code adapted to the statistical structure of sensory cues may optimize perception. We investigated whether interaural time difference (ITD) statistics inherent in natural acoustic scenes are parameters determining spatial discriminability. The natural ITD rate of change across azimuth (ITDrc) and ITD variability over time (ITDv) were combined in a Fisher information statistic to assess the amount of azimuthal information conveyed by this sensory cue. We hypothesized that natural ITD sta ...[more]