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Temporal resolution in frog auditory-nerve fibers
Authors:R Dunia  P M Narins
Institution:Department of Biology and Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
Abstract:Sinusoidally amplitude-modulated (SAM) noise was monaurally presented to the neotropical frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui, while recording intracellularly from auditory-nerve fibers. Neuronal phase locking was measured to the SAM noise envelope in the form of a period histogram. The modulation depth was changed (in 10% steps) until the threshold modulation depth was determined. This was repeated for various modulation frequencies (20-1200 Hz) and different levels of SAM noise (34-64 dB/Hz). From these data, temporal modulation transfer functions (TMTFs) were produced and minimum integration time (MIT) for each auditory fiber was calculated. The median MIT was 0.42 ms (lower quartile 0.32, upper quartile 0.68 ms). A noise level-dependent effect was noted on the shape of the TMTF as well as the minimum integration time. The latter results may be explained as a loss in spectral resolution with increasing noise level, which is consistent with the correlation that was found between minimum integration time and bandwidth.
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