Neural Coding of Signal Duration and Complex Acoustic Objects

Neurons selective for signal duration have been reported from the auditory midbrain and cortex in a variety of echolocating bats. The first part of this chapter discusses the importance of signal duration to echolocation by bats. It examines the different types of auditory duration-tuned neurons that have been described, explores the neural mechanisms that create their temporally selective response properties in the auditory midbrain or …