Site of Neural Attenuation of Responses to Self-Vocalized Sounds in Echolocating Bats
- 22 March 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 183 (4130) , 1211-1213
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.183.4130.1211
Abstract
Bats of the genus Myotis emit intense orientation sounds for echolocation. If such sounds directly stimulated their ears, the detection of echoes from short distances would be impaired. In addition to the muscular mechanism in the middle ear, the bat has a neural mechanism in the brain for attenuation of responses to self-vocalized orientation and nonorientation sounds. This neural attenuating mechanism operates in the nucleus of the lateral lemniscus, reducing its activity by about 15 decibels, and it is synchronized with vocalization.Keywords
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