Abstract：
:ICE stands for internally coupled ears. More than half of the terrestrial vertebrates, such as frogs, lizards, and birds, as well as many insects, are equipped with ICE that utilize an air-filled cavity connecting the two eardrums. Its effect is pronounced and twofold. On the basis of a solid experimental and mathematical foundation, it is known that there is a low-frequency regime where the internal time difference (iTD) as perceived by the animal may well be 2-5 times higher than the external ITD, the interaural time difference, and that there is a frequency plateau over which the fraction iTD/ITD is constant. There is also a high-frequency regime where the internal level (amplitude) difference iLD as perceived by the animal is much higher than the interaural level difference ILD measured externally between the two ears. The fundamental tympanic frequency segregates the two regimes. The present special issue devoted to "internally coupled ears" provides an overview of many aspects of ICE, be they acoustic, anatomical, auditory, mathematical, or neurobiological. A focus is on the hotly debated topic of what aspects of ICE animals actually exploit neuronally to localize a sound source.
journal_name
Biol Cybernjournal_title
Biological cyberneticsauthors
van Hemmen JL,Christensen-Dalsgaard J,Carr CE,Narins PMdoi
10.1007/s00422-016-0702-xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-10-01 00:00:00pages
237-246issue
4-5eissn
0340-1200issn
1432-0770pii
10.1007/s00422-016-0702-xjournal_volume
110pub_type
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