Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Spectral cues are necessary to encode azimuthal auditory space in the mouse superior colliculus

  • Shinya Ito,
  • Yufei Si,
  • David A. Feldheim,
  • Alan M. Litke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14897-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Interaural timing and level differences had been considered the two important cues for horizontal sound localization. Here, the authors show that the third cue, spectral information, plays an essential role in the encoding of the azimuthal auditory map in the mouse superior colliculus.