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Directional Characteristics of Primary Auditory Neurons from the Cod Ear

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Hearing and Sound Communication in Fishes

Part of the book series: Proceedings in Life Sciences ((LIFE SCIENCES))

Abstract

It is now well established that at least some teleosts have a directional hearing sense (see Schuijf and Buwalda 1980). The cod, Gadus morhua, detects a change in the direction of propagation of sound and can discriminate between spatially separated sound sources, both in the horizontal and median vertical planes (Chapman and Johnstone 1974, Schuijf 1975, Hawkins and Sand 1977). Indeed, cod can discriminate between frontally incident and caudally incident sound waves (Schuijf and Buwalda 1975) and even distinguish between diametrically opposed sound sources in both the median vertical and transverse vertical planes (Buwalda, Schuijf, and Hawkins 1981). Thus, the cod discriminates direction in circumstances that are ambiguous or confusing for man, whose directional capabilities in the median vertical plane are poor (Butler 1974).

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  1. Marine Laboratory, Victoria Road, Torry, Aberdeen, Scotland

    Kathleen Horner

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  1. Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 City Island Park, Sarasota, Florida, 33577, USA

    William N. Tavolga

  2. Department of Anatomy, Georgetown University, Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, 3900 Reservoir Road N.W., Washington, D.C., 20007, USA

    Arthur N. Popper

  3. Parmly Hearing Institute and Department of Psychology, Loyola University of Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois, 60626, USA

    Richard R. Fay

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Hawkins, A.D., Horner, K. (1981). Directional Characteristics of Primary Auditory Neurons from the Cod Ear. In: Tavolga, W.N., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) Hearing and Sound Communication in Fishes. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7186-5_15

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