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How do birds scream without deafening themselves?

HARRY R. ERWIN herwin at mason2.gmu.edu
Thu May 16 13:36:29 EST 1996


When a bat cries, it mutes the middle ear by muscle action and applies
inhibitory reafference on the spiral ganglion cells to reduce their
spiking. I suspect bird audition is similar.

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Harry Erwin, Internet: herwin at gmu.edu, Web Page: http://osf1.gmu.edu/~herwin 
PhD student in computational neurosci and lecturer for CS 211 (advanced C++)



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