From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2010-08-11 18:38:34 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] abstract
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
> J Comp Psychol. 2010 Aug;124(3):317-30.
> Behavioral measures of auditory streaming in ferrets (Mustela
> putorius).
> Ma L, Micheyl C, Yin P, Oxenham AJ, Shamma SA.
> Neural Systems Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, University
> of Maryland.
> Abstract
> An important aspect of the analysis of auditory "scenes" relates to
> the perceptual organization of sound sequences into auditory
> "streams." In this study, we adapted two auditory perception tasks,
> used in recent human psychophysical studies, to obtain behavioral
> measures of auditory streaming in ferrets (Mustela putorius). One
> task involved the detection of shifts in the frequency of tones
> within an alternating tone sequence. The other task involved the
> detection of a stream of regularly repeating target tones embedded
> within a randomly varying multitone background. In both tasks,
> performance was measured as a function of various stimulus
> parameters, which previous psychophysical studies in humans have
> shown to influence auditory streaming. Ferret performance in the two
> tasks was found to vary as a function of these parameters in a way
> that is qualitatively consistent with the human data. These results
> suggest that auditory streaming occurs in ferrets, and that the two
> tasks described here may provide a valuable tool in future
> behavioral and neurophysiological studies of the phenomenon.
> (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
> PMID: 20695663 [PubMed - in process]
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