Temporally selective processing of communication signals by auditory midbrain neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1620-1632

  Elliott, Taffeta M ^a   Christensen Dalsgaard, Jakob ^b   Kelley, Darcy B ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Advertisement calls; Animal communication; Anura; Inferior colliculus; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CLICK; EARDRUM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; TORUS SEMICIRCULARIS; VIBRATION; VOCALIZATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 79955147776     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00261.2009     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Alder TB, Rose GJ. Integration and recovery processes contribute to the temporal selectivity of neurons in the midbrain of the northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens. J Comp Physiol A 186: 923-937, 2000.
2. Atzori M, Lei S, Evans DI, Kanold PO, Phillips-Tansey E, McIntyre O, McBain CJ. Differential synaptic processing separates stationary from transient inputs to the auditory cortex. Nat Neurosci 4: 1230-1237, 2001.
3. Behrend O, Branoner F, Zhivkov Z, Ziehm U. Neural responses to water surface waves in the midbrain of the aquatic predator Xenopus laevis laevis. Eur J Neurosci 23: 729-744, 2006.
4. Blair WF. Isolating mechanisms and interspecies interactions in anuran amphibians. Q Rev Biol 39: 334-344, 1964.
5. Brahic CJ, Kelley DB. Vocal circuitry in Xenopus laevis: telencephalon to laryngeal motor neurons. J Comp Neurol 464: 115-130, 2003.
6. Buonomano DV. Decoding temporal information: A model based on short-term synaptic plasticity. J Neurosci 20: 1129-1141, 2000.
7. Butler AB, Hodos W. Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2005, p. 715.
8. Capranica RR. Evoked vocal response of the bullfrog: a study of communication in anurans. In: Research Monographs. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965, p. 73-75.
9. Carr CE. Processing of temporal information in the brain. Annu Rev Neurosci 16: 223-243, 1993.
10. Casseday JH, Ehrlich D, Covey E. Neural tuning for sound duration: role of inhibitory mechanisms in the inferior colliculus. Science 264: 847-850, 1994.
11. Christensen-Dalsgaard J. Directional hearing in the non-mammalian tetrapods. In: Sound Source Localization, edited by Popper AN, and Fay RR. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2005, p. 67-123.
12. Christensen-Dalsgaard J, Elepfandt A. Biophysics of underwater hearing in the clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. J Comp Physiol A 176: 317-324, 1995.
13. Christensen-Dalsgaard J, Elliott TM. Amphibian underwater hearing: bio-physics and neurophysiology. Bioacoustics 17: 60-62, 2008.
14. Dayan P, Abbott LF. The Neural Code. In: Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001, p. 34-39.
15. Edwards CJ, Alder TB, Rose GJ. Auditory midbrain neurons that count. Nat Neurosci 5: 934-936, 2002.
16. Edwards CJ, Kelley DB. Auditory and lateral line inputs to the midbrain of an aquatic anuran: neuroanatomic studies in Xenopus laevis. J Comp Neurol 438: 148-162, 2001.
17. Edwards CJ, Leary CJ, Rose GJ. Counting on inhibition and rate-dependent excitation in the auditory system. J Neurosci 27: 13384-13392, 2007.
18. Eggermont JJ, Epping WJ. Sensitivity of neurons in the auditory midbrain of the grassfrog to temporal characteristics of sound. III. Stimulation with natural and synthetic mating calls. Hear Res 24: 255-268, 1986.
19. Elliott TM, Christensen-Dalsgaard J, Kelley DB. Tone and call responses of units in the auditory nerve and dorsal medullary nucleus of Xenopus laevis. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 193: 1243-1257, 2007.
20. Elliott TM, Kelley DB. Male discrimination of receptive and unreceptive female calls by temporal features. J Exp Biol 210: 2836-2842, 2007.
21. Feng AS, Lin WY. Differential innervation patterns of three divisions of frog auditory midbrain (torus semicircularis). J Comp Neurol 306: 613-630, 1991.
22. Feng AS, Schellart NAM. Central auditory processing in fish and amphibians. In: Comparative Hearing: Fish and Amphibians, edited by Fay RR, and Popper AN. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1999, p. 218-268.
23. Fouquette MJ. Speciation in Chorus Frogs.1. Reproductive character displacement in Pseudacris-nigrita complex. Systematic Zoology 24: 16-23, 1975.
24. Fuzessery ZM, Feng AS. Frequency selectivity in the anuran auditory midbrain: single unit responses to single and multiple tone stimulation. J Comp Physiol A 146: 471-484, 1982.
25. Gerhardt HC. Acoustic properties used in call recognition by frogs and toads. In: The Evolution of the Amphibian Auditory System, edited by Fritzsch B, Hetherington TE, Ryan MJ, Wilczynski W, and Walkowiak W. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1988, p. 455-483.
26. Gerhardt HC. Discrimination of intermediate sounds in a synthetic call continuum by female green tree frogs. Science 199: 1089-1091, 1978.
27. Gerhardt HC, Doherty JA. Acoustic communication in the gray treefrog, Hyla versicolor: evolutionary and neurobiological implications. J Comp Physiol A 162: 261-278, 1988.
28. Gooler DM, Feng AS. Temporal coding in the frog auditory midbrain: the influence of duration and rise-fall time on the processing of complex amplitude-modulated stimuli. J Neurophysiol 67: 1-22, 1992.
29. Hall J, Feng AS. Neural analysis of temporally patterned sounds in the frog's thalamus: processing of pulse duration and pulse repetition rate. Neurosci Lett 63: 215-220, 1986.
30. Hall JC, Feng AS. Influence of envelope rise time on neural responses in the auditory system of anurans. Hear Res 36: 261-276, 1988.
31. Imaizumi K, Pollack GS. Neural representation of sound amplitude by functionally different auditory receptors in crickets. J Acoust Soc Am 109: 1247-1260, 2001.
32. Joris PX, Louage DH, Cardoen L, van der Heijden M. Correlation Index: A new metric to quantify temporal coding. Hear Res 216-217: 19-30, 2006.
33. Kanneworff M. Neural processing of directional cues in the frog dorsal medullary nucleus. In: Center for Sound Communication, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Science and Engineering. Odense, Denmark: University of Southern Denmark, 2004, p. 100.
34. Kelley DB. Auditory and vocal nuclei in the frog brain concentrate sex hormones. Science 207: 553-555, 1980.
35. Kelley DB, Tobias ML. Vocal communication in Xenopus laevis. In: The Design of Animal Communication, edited by Hauser MD, and Konishi M. Boston, MA: MIT Press, 1999, p. 9-35.
36. Liang L, Lu T, Wang X. Neural representations of sinusoidal amplitude and frequency modulations in the primary auditory cortex of awake primates. J Neurophysiol 87: 2237-2261, 2002.
37. Loftus-Hills JJ, Littlejohn MJ. Pulse repetition rate as the basis for mating call discrimination by two sympatric species of Hyla. Copeia 1971: 154-156, 1971.
38. Louage DH, van der Heijden M, Joris PX. Temporal properties of responses to broadband noise in the auditory nerve. J Neurophysiol 91: 2051-2065, 2004.
39. Luksch H, Walkowiak W, Munoz A, Donkelaar HJ. The use of in vitro preparations of the isolated amphibian central nervous system in neuroanatomy and electrophysiology. J Neurosci Methods 70: 91-102, 1996.
40. Marin O, Gonzalez A, Smeets WJ. Basal ganglia organization in amphibians: afferent connections to the striatum and the nucleus accumbens. J Comp Neurol 378: 16-49, 1997.
41. Megela AL, Capranica RR. Response patterns to tone bursts in peripheral auditory system of anurans. J Neurophysiol 46: 465-478, 1981.
42. Narins PM, Capranica RR. Communicative significance of the two-note call of the treefrog Eleutherodactylus coqui. J Comp Physiol A 127: 1-9, 1978.
43. Narins PM, Capranica RR. Neural adaptations for processing the two-note call of the Puerto Rican treefrog, Eleutherodactylus coqui. Brain Behav Evol 17: 48-66, 1980.
44. Oswald AM, Schiff ML, Reyes AD. Synaptic mechanisms underlying auditory processing. Curr Opin Neurobiol 16: 371-376, 2006.
45. Paton JA, Kelley DB, Sejnowski TJ, Yodlowski ML. Mapping the auditory central nervous system of Xenopus laevis with 2-deoxyglucose autoradiography. Brain Res 249: 15-22, 1982.
46. Pauly GB, Bernal XE, Rand AS, Ryan MJ. The vocal sac increases call rate in the Tungara frog Physalaemus pustulosus. Physiol Biochem Zool 79: 708-719, 2006.
47. Rees A, Palmer AR. Neuronal responses to amplitude-modulated and puretone stimuli in the guinea pig inferior colliculus, and their modification by broadband noise. J Acoust Soc Am 85: 1978-1994, 1989.
48. Rieke F, Warland D, De Ruyter van Steveninck R, Bialek W. Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999, p. 416.
49. Rose GJ, Gooler DM. Function of the amphibian central auditory system. In: Hearing and Sound Communication in Amphibians, edited by Narins PM, and Feng AS. New York: Springer, 2006, p. 250-290.
50. Shadlen MN. Rate versus temporal coding of information in the cerebral cortex. In: Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. New York: Macmillan, 2002, p. 819-825.
51. Staude B, Rotter S, Grün S. Can spike coordination be differentiated from rate covariation? Neural Comput 20: 1973-1999, 2008.
52. Straughan IR. An analysis of the mechanisms of mating call discrimination in the frogs Hyla regilla and H. cadaverina. Copeia 3: 415-424, 1975.
53. Tobias ML, Barnard C, O'Hagan R, Horng SH, Rand M, Kelley DB. Vocal communication between male Xenopus laevis. Anim Behav 67: 353-365, 2004.
54. Tobias ML, Viswanathan SS, Kelley DB. Rapping, a female receptive call, initiates male-female duets in the South African clawed frog. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95: 1870-1875, 1998.
55. Vignal C, Kelley DB. Significance of temporal and spectral acoustic cues for sexual recognition in Xenopus laevis. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 274: 479-488, 2007.
56. Wang Y, Manis PB. Short-term synaptic depression and recovery at the mature mammalian endbulb of Held synapse in mice. J Neurophysiol 100: 1255-1264, 2008.
57. Wilczynski W, Resler C, Capranica RR. Tympanic and extratympanic sound transmission in the leopard frog. J Comp Physiol A 161: 659-669, 1987.