GABAergic circuits sharpen tuning curves and modify response properties in the mustache bat inferior colliculus

L Yang, GD Pollak, C Resler - Journal of neurophysiology, 1992 - journals.physiology.org
… influence on the formation of response properties (Pollak and Park 1992a,b). Presumably …
Address reprint requests to GD Pollak. to the response characteristics of auditory units in the …

Syllable acoustics, temporal patterns, and call composition vary with behavioral context in Mexican free-tailed bats

…, B Schmidt-French, ST Ma, GD Pollak - The Journal of the …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Recent research has shown that some bat species have rich vocal repertoires with diverse
syllable acoustics. Few studies, however, have compared vocalizations across different …

Neural delays shape selectivity to interaural intensity differences in the lateral superior olive

TJ Park, B Grothe, GD Pollak, G Schuller… - Journal of …, 1996 - Soc Neuroscience
Neurons in the lateral superior olive (LSO) respond selectively to interaural intensity differences
(IIDs), one of the chief cues used to localize sounds in space. LSO cells are innervated …

[HTML][HTML] Versatility and stereotypy of free-tailed bat songs

…, C Schwartz, M Smotherman, GD Pollak - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
In mammals, complex songs are uncommon and few studies have examined song composition
or the order of elements in songs, particularly with respect to regional and individual …

Reversible inactivation of the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus reveals its role in the processing of multiple sound sources in the inferior colliculus of bats

RM Burger, GD Pollak - Journal of Neuroscience, 2001 - Soc Neuroscience
Neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC) that are excited by one ear and inhibited by the other [excitatory—inhibitory
(EI) neurons] can code interaural intensity disparities (IIDs), the cues …

GABA and glycine in the central auditory system of the mustache bat: structural substrates for inhibitory neuronal organization

JA Winer, DT Larue, GD Pollak - Journal of Comparative …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution and morphology of neurons and axonal endings (puncta) were analyzed in
auditory brainstem, thalamic, and cortical centers in the mustache bat. The goals of the study …

[BOOK][B] The neural basis of echolocation in bats

GD Pollak, JH Casseday - 2012 - books.google.com
The brain of an echo locating bat is devoted, in large part, to analyzing sound and conducting
behavior in a world of sounds and echoes. This monograph is about analysis of sound in …

Dissecting the circuitry of the auditory system

GD Pollak, RM Burger, A Klug - Trends in neurosciences, 2003 - cell.com
The brainstem auditory system is a complex system composed of numerous parallel and serial
pathways that converge on a common destination in the inferior colliculus (IC). The exact …

Spectrotemporal receptive fields in the inferior colliculus revealing selectivity for spectral motion in conspecific vocalizations

S Andoni, N Li, GD Pollak - Journal of Neuroscience, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
Frequency modulations are a prominent feature of animal vocalizations and human speech.
Here we investigated how neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC) of Mexican free-tailed bats …

Response selectivity for species-specific calls in the inferior colliculus of Mexican free-tailed bats is generated by inhibition

…, L Hurley, J Meitzen, GD Pollak - Journal of …, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
Here we show that inhibition shapes diverse responses to species-specific calls in the inferior
colliculus (IC) of Mexican free-tailed bats. We presented 10 calls to each neuron of which …