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Echo-acoustic flow shapes object representation in spatially complex acoustic scenes.

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:Echolocating bats use echoes of their sonar emissions to determine the position and distance of objects or prey. Target distance is represented as a map of echo delay in the auditory cortex (AC) of bats. During a bat's flight through a natural complex environment, echo streams are reflected from multiple objects along its flight path. Separating such complex streams of echoes or other sounds is a challenge for the auditory system of bats as well as other animals. We investigated the representation of multiple echo streams in the AC of anesthetized bats (Phyllostomus discolor) and tested the hypothesis that neurons can lock on echoes from specific objects in a complex echo-acoustic pattern while the representation of surrounding objects is suppressed. We combined naturalistic pulse/echo sequences simulating a bat's flight through a virtual acoustic space with extracellular recordings. Neurons could selectively lock on echoes from one object in complex echo streams originating from two different objects along a virtual flight path. The objects were processed sequentially in the order in which they were approached. Object selection depended on sequential changes of echo delay and amplitude, but not on absolute values. Furthermore, the detailed representation of the object echo delays in the cortical target range map was not fixed but could be dynamically adapted depending on the temporal pattern of sonar emission during target approach within a simulated flight sequence.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Complex signal analysis is a challenging task in sensory processing for all animals, particularly for bats because they use echolocation for navigation in darkness. Recent studies proposed that the bat's perceptional system might organize complex echo-acoustic information into auditory streams, allowing it to track specific auditory objects during flight. We show that in the auditory cortex of bats, neurons can selectively respond to echo streams from specific objects.

journal_name

J Neurophysiol

journal_title

Journal of neurophysiology

authors

Greiter W,Firzlaff U

doi

10.1152/jn.00860.2016

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-06-01 00:00:00

pages

2113-2124

issue

eissn

0022-3077

issn

1522-1598

pii

jn.00860.2016

journal_volume

117

pub_type

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Echo-acoustic flow shapes object representation in spatially complex acoustic scenes.