Responses of cerebellar units to stimuli simulating sound source movement and visual moving stimuli

1975 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 819-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. N. Bechtěrev ◽  
J. Syka ◽  
J. A. Altman
2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (29) ◽  
pp. 8308-8313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Wigderson ◽  
Israel Nelken ◽  
Yosef Yarom

Discriminating external from self-produced sensory inputs is a major challenge for brains. In the auditory system, sound localization must account for movements of the head and ears, a computation likely to involve multimodal integration. Principal neurons (PNs) of the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) are known to be spatially selective and to receive multimodal sensory information. We studied the responses of PNs to body rotation with or without sound stimulation, as well as to sound source rotation with stationary body. We demonstrated that PNs are sensitive to head direction, and, in the presence of sound, they differentiate between body and sound source movement. Thus, the output of the DCN provides the brain with enough information to disambiguate the movement of a sound source from an acoustically identical relative movement produced by motion of the animal.


1974 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anssi R.A. Sovija¨rvi ◽  
Juhani Hyva¨rinen

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara S. Muller ◽  
Pierre Bovet

Twelve blindfolded subjects localized two different pure tones, randomly played by eight sound sources in the horizontal plane. Either subjects could get information supplied by their pinnae (external ear) and their head movements or not. We found that pinnae, as well as head movements, had a marked influence on auditory localization performance with this type of sound. Effects of pinnae and head movements seemed to be additive; the absence of one or the other factor provoked the same loss of localization accuracy and even much the same error pattern. Head movement analysis showed that subjects turn their face towards the emitting sound source, except for sources exactly in the front or exactly in the rear, which are identified by turning the head to both sides. The head movement amplitude increased smoothly as the sound source moved from the anterior to the posterior quadrant.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Mayr ◽  
Gunnar Regenbrecht ◽  
Kathrin Lange ◽  
Albertgeorg Lang ◽  
Axel Buchner

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agoston Torok ◽  
Daniel Mestre ◽  
Ferenc Honbolygo ◽  
Pierre Mallet ◽  
Jean-Marie Pergandi ◽  
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