Effect of background clutter on neural discrimination in the bat auditory midbrain

Abstract

Bats are powerful animal models for investigating the encoding of auditory objects under acoustically challenging conditions. Although past work has considered the effect of acoustic clutter on sonar target detection, less is known about target discrimination in clutter. Our work shows that the neural encoding of auditory objects was affected by clutter in a distance-dependent manner. These findings advance the knowledge on auditory object detection and discrimination and noise-dependent stimulus enhancement.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2021
Source ID
10.1152/jn.00109.2021

Entities

People

  • Angeles Salles
  • Cynthia F. Moss
  • Kathryne M Allen
  • Mounya Elhilali
  • Sangwook Park

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Human Frontier Science Program
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
  • Office of Naval Research

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Neuroscience
  • Radar Systems Engineering.