Auditory looming perception in rhesus monkeys

被引:98
作者
Ghazanfar, AA
Neuhoff, JG
Logothetis, NK
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Biol Cybernet, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany
[2] Coll Wooster, Dept Psychol, Wooster, OH 44691 USA
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10.1073/pnas.242469699
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The detection of approaching objects can be crucial to the survival of an organism. The perception of looming has been studied extensively in the visual system, but remains largely unexplored in audition. Here we show a behavioral bias in rhesus monkeys orienting to "looming" sounds. As in humans, the bias occurred for harmonic tones (which can reliably indicate single sources), but not for broadband noise. These response biases to looming sounds are consistent with an evolved neural mechanism that processes approaching objects with priority.
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