Passive soma facilitates submillisecond coincidence detection in the owl's auditory system

G Ashida, K Abe, K Funabiki… - Journal of …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
Neurons of the avian nucleus laminaris (NL) compute the interaural time difference (ITD) by
detecting coincident arrivals of binaural signals with submillisecond accuracy. The cellular …

Computation of interaural time difference in the owl's coincidence detector neurons

K Funabiki, G Ashida, M Konishi - Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Both the mammalian and avian auditory systems localize sound sources by computing the
interaural time difference (ITD) with submillisecond accuracy. The neural circuits for this …

[HTML][HTML] Biophysical basis of the sound analog membrane potential that underlies coincidence detection in the barn owl

G Ashida, K Funabiki, CE Carr - Frontiers in computational …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Interaural time difference (ITD), or the difference in timing of a sound wave arriving at the two
ears, is a fundamental cue for sound localization. A wide variety of animals have specialized …

Coding interaural time differences at low best frequencies in the barn owl

CE Carr, C Köppl - Journal of Physiology-Paris, 2004 - Elsevier
In birds and mammals, precisely timed spikes encode the timing of acoustic stimuli, and
interaural acoustic disparities propagate to binaural processing centers. The Jeffress model …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical foundations of the sound analog membrane potential that underlies coincidence detection in the barn owl

G Ashida, K Funabiki, CE Carr - Frontiers in computational …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
A wide variety of neurons encode temporal information via phase-locked spikes. In the avian
auditory brainstem, neurons in the cochlear nucleus magnocellularis (NM) send phase …

Effect of instantaneous frequency glides on interaural time difference processing by auditory coincidence detectors

BJ Fischer, LJ Steinberg, B Fontaine… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Detection of interaural time differences in the alligator

CE Carr, D Soares, J Smolders… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
The auditory systems of birds and mammals use timing information from each ear to detect
interaural time difference (ITD). To determine whether the Jeffress-type algorithms that …

Evaluation of the limiting acuity of coincidence detection in nucleus laminaris of the chicken

H Kuba, R Yamada, H Ohmori - The Journal of Physiology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The localization of sounds requires the detection of very brief inter‐aural time differences
(ITDs). In birds, ITDs are first encoded in neurons of the nucleus laminaris (NL) through the …

Variability reduction in interaural time difference tuning in the barn owl

BJ Fischer, M Konishi - Journal of neurophysiology, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
The interaural time difference (ITD) is the primary auditory cue used by the barn owl for
localization in the horizontal direction. ITD is initially computed by circuits consisting of …

Mechanisms for adjusting interaural time differences to achieve binaural coincidence detection

AH Seidl, EW Rubel, DM Harris - Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Understanding binaural perception requires detailed analyses of the neural circuitry
responsible for the computation of interaural time differences (ITDs). In the avian brainstem …