Remarkably precise sound duration discrimination in rodents: Behavioral and neuronal insights from a naturalistic paradigm
Miguel Bengala, Valentin R. Winhart, Gökce Dogu, Andrey Sobolev, Benedikt Grothe, Dardo N. Ferreiro, Michael Pecka · FENS Forum 2024
Studies on sound duration discrimination in rodents have consistently reported extraordinarily higher (approx. 2-3x) threshold levels compared to humans and other primates. This finding sharply contrasts with the notion of high temporal precision being a general hallmark of mammalian auditory processing, and raises the question: what other factors might be causing the reported high perceptual thresholds? Here, we investigate duration discrimination in gerbils using the Sensory Island Task (SIT, Ferreiro et al. 2020, Fig. 1A). This paradigm combines closed-loop auditory feedback during self-mot
ePoster · Neuroscience