Infrasound responses in the midbrain of the guinea fowl.
The electrophysiological audiogram of the Guinea fowl has been obtained using auditory evoked potentials from the MLD of unanesthetized birds. In restricted regions of MLD, phase-coupled responses to extreme low-frequency sinusoids (2-10 Hz) could be recorded at moderate intensities. The tonotopy of MLD extends continuously to the infrasound region at the rostrodorsal margin. Single-cell recording of infrasound responses show phase-locked firing of neurons with different phase delays for different cells.
D000818:Animals; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D001717:Birds / Q000502:physiology*; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D008636:Mesencephalon / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity