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Comparison of Bandwidths in the Inferior Colliculus and the Auditory Nerve. I. Measurement Using a Spectrally Manipulated Stimulus

Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Submitted 25 May 2007; accepted in final form 18 September 2007

A defining feature of auditory systems across animal divisions is the ability to sort different frequency components of a sound into separate neural frequency channels. Narrowband filtering in the auditory periphery is of obvious advantage for the representation of sound spectrum and manifests itself pervasively in human psychophysical studies as the critical band. Peripheral filtering also alters coding of the temporal waveform, so that temporal responses in the auditory periphery reflect both the stimulus waveform and peripheral filtering. Temporal coding is essential for the measurement of the time delay between waveforms at the two ears—a critical component of sound localization. A number of human psychophysical studies have shown a wider effective critical bandwidth with binaural stimuli than with monaural stimuli, although other studies found no difference. Here we directly compare binaural and monaural bandwidths (BWs) in the anesthetized cat. We measure monaural BW in the auditory nerve (AN) and binaural BW in the inferior colliculus (IC) using spectrally manipulated broadband noise and response metrics that reflect spike timing. The stimulus was a pair of noise tokens that were interaurally in phase for all frequencies below a certain flip frequency (f_flip) and that had an interaural phase difference of above f_flip. The response was measured as a function of f_flip and, using a separate stimulus protocol, as a function of interaural correlation. We find that both AN and IC filter BW depend on characteristic frequency, but that there is no difference in mean BW between the AN and IC.

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				M. Mc Laughlin, J. N. Chabwine, M. van der Heijden, and P. X. Joris Comparison of Bandwidths in the Inferior Colliculus and the Auditory Nerve. II: Measurement Using a Temporally Manipulated Stimulus J Neurophysiol, October 1, 2008; 100(4): 2312 - 2327. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]