This report examines temporal features of facilitation and suppression that underlie spectrally integrative responses to complex vocal signals. Auditory responses were recorded from 160 neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC) of awake mustached bats.…
In vertebrate auditory systems, specialized combination-sensitive neurons analyze complex vocal signals by integrating information across multiple frequency bands. We studied combination-sensitive interactions in neurons of the inferior colliculus…
For analyses of complex sounds, many neurons integrate information across different spectral elements via suppressive effects that are distant from the neurons' excitatory tuning. In the mustached bat, suppression evoked by sounds within the first…
The superior olivary complex (SOC) and inferior colliculus (IC) are targets of cortical projections as well as sources of major ascending auditory pathways. This study examines whether the cortical projections contact cells in the SOC or IC that…