Auditory cortex of squirrel monkey: response patterns of single cells to species-specific vocalizations.
Most of the neurons tested in the superior temporal cortex of awake squirrel monkeys responded to recorded species-specific vocalizations. Some cells responded with temporally complex patterns to many vocalizations. Other cells responded with simpler patterns to only one call. Most cells lay between these two extremes. On-line deletion of parts of a vocalization revealed the role of temporal interactions in determining the nature of some responses.
D000200:Action Potentials; D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D000882:Haplorhini; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014828:Vocalization, Animal