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Dependence of defensive behavior of altricial nestlings upon alarm-signal parameters. Neuroethological approach

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    Pure tones corresponding to the maxima of SAS energy and repeated at a frequency of 0.8–4 per second evoke passively defensive behavior in nestlings.

  2. 2.

    The basis for the identification by nestlings of SAS and for differentiating it from the feeding signal is the tone frequency of bursts.

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    The signal repetition frequency performs a function connected with maintaining a defensive tonic activity throughout signal action.

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    The basis for maintaining defensive tonic activation is a specific level of trace excitability of auditory mechanisms retained for a fixed interval of time after the end of the action of the preceding burst.

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  1. Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR

    S. N. Khayutin, Yu. V. Grinchenko & L. P. Dmitrieva

  2. Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

    S. N. Khayutin, Yu. V. Grinchenko & L. P. Dmitrieva

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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 251–258, March–April, 1984.

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Khayutin, S.N., Grinchenko, Y.V. & Dmitrieva, L.P. Dependence of defensive behavior of altricial nestlings upon alarm-signal parameters. Neuroethological approach. Neurosci Behav Physiol 16, 104–110 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01186507

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