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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 15, 1998, 18(6):2147-2160
Behavioral Studies of Sound Localization in the Cat
Luis C. Populin and Tom C. T. Yin Neuroscience Training Program and Department of Neurophysiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Using the magnetic search coil technique to measure eye and ear movements, we trained cats by operant conditioning to look in the direction of light and sound sources with their heads fixed. Cats were able to localize noise bursts, single clicks, or click trains presented from sources located on the horizontal and vertical meridians within their oculomotor range. Saccades to auditory targets were less accurate and more variable than saccades to visual targets at the same spatial positions. Localization accuracy of single clicks was diminished compared with the long-duration stimuli presented from the same sources. Control experiments with novel auditory targets, never associated with visual targets, demonstrated that the cats localized the sound sources using acoustic cues and not from memory.
The role of spectral features imposed by the pinna for vertical sound localization was shown by the breakdown in localization of narrow-band (one-sixth of an octave) noise bursts presented from sources along the midsagittal plane. In addition, we show that cats experience summing localization, an illusion associated with the precedence effect. Pairs of clicks presented from speakers at (±18°,0°) with interclick delays of ±300 µsec were perceived by the cat as originating from phantom sources extending from the midline to approximately ±10°.
Key words: sound localization; behaving cat; animal psychophysics; head-fixed cat; summing localization; bandpass stimuli
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/1862147-14$05.00/0
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