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Communication breakdown : limits of spectro-temporal resolution for the perception of bat communication calls
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dc.contributor.author | Hörpel, Stephen Gareth | |
dc.contributor.author | Baier, A Leonie | |
dc.contributor.author | Peremans, Herbert | |
dc.contributor.author | Reijniers, Jonas | |
dc.contributor.author | Wiegrebe, Lutz | |
dc.contributor.author | Firzlaff, Uwe | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-10T11:30:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-11-10T11:30:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-07-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hörpel , S G , Baier , A L , Peremans , H , Reijniers , J , Wiegrebe , L & Firzlaff , U 2021 , ' Communication breakdown : limits of spectro-temporal resolution for the perception of bat communication calls ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 11 , 13708 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92842-4 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 281839990 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: d1caa380-4956-4b83-9a67-3556011fc2aa | |
dc.identifier.other | PubMed: 34211004 | |
dc.identifier.other | PubMedCentral: PMC8249457 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85109153619 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/26359 | |
dc.description | Funding: Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This work was supported by the Human Frontier Science Program (Grant RGP0058 to UF). | en |
dc.description.abstract | During vocal communication, the spectro-temporal structure of vocalizations conveys important contextual information. Bats excel in the use of sounds for echolocation by meticulous encoding of signals in the temporal domain. We therefore hypothesized that for social communication as well, bats would excel at detecting minute distortions in the spectro-temporal structure of calls. To test this hypothesis, we systematically introduced spectro-temporal distortion to communication calls of Phyllostomus discolor bats. We broke down each call into windows of the same length and randomized the phase spectrum inside each window. The overall degree of spectro-temporal distortion in communication calls increased with window length. Modelling the bat auditory periphery revealed that cochlear mechanisms allow discrimination of fast spectro-temporal envelopes. We evaluated model predictions with experimental psychophysical and neurophysiological data. We first assessed bats' performance in discriminating original versions of calls from increasingly distorted versions of the same calls. We further examined cortical responses to determine additional specializations for call discrimination at the cortical level. Psychophysical and cortical responses concurred with model predictions, revealing discrimination thresholds in the range of 8-15 ms randomization-window length. Our data suggest that specialized cortical areas are not necessary to impart psychophysical resilience to temporal distortion in communication calls. | |
dc.format.extent | 15 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Scientific Reports | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © The Author(s) 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en |
dc.subject | Animals | en |
dc.subject | Auditory perception | en |
dc.subject | Chiroptera/physiology | en |
dc.subject | Echolocation | en |
dc.subject | Female | en |
dc.subject | Male | en |
dc.subject | Vocalization, animal | en |
dc.subject | QL Zoology | en |
dc.subject | NDAS | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QL | en |
dc.title | Communication breakdown : limits of spectro-temporal resolution for the perception of bat communication calls | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92842-4 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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