Frequency tuning of the dolphin's hearing as revealed by auditory brain-stem response with notch-noise masking

J Acoust Soc Am. 1997 Dec;102(6):3795-801. doi: 10.1121/1.420142.

Abstract

Notch-noise masking was used to measure frequency tuning in a dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in a simultaneous-masking paradigm in conjunction with auditory brain-stem evoked potential recording. Measurements were made at probe frequencies of 64, 76, 90, and 108 kHz. The data were analyzed by fitting the rounded-exponent model of the auditory filters to the experimental data. The fitting parameter values corresponded to the filter tuning as follows: QER (center frequency divided by equivalent rectangular bandwidths) of 35 to 36.5 and Q10 dB of 18 to 19 at all tested frequencies.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acoustic Stimulation
  • Animals
  • Dolphins / physiology*
  • Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem*
  • Female
  • Hearing / physiology*
  • Models, Biological
  • Noise*
  • Perceptual Masking*