Brian J. Fischer

TL;DR: This work identifies wind-sensitive neurons in Johnston’s organ, a structure that has been primarily associated with hearing, and reveals how the brain can distinguish different types of air particle movements using a common sensory organ.

TL;DR: It is proposed that there is a bias in the neural coding of auditory space, which, at the expense of inducing errors in the periphery, achieves high behavioral accuracy at the ethologically relevant range.

TL;DR: Testing the hypothesis that the daily rhythm of the glucocorticoid, corticosterone, is regulated by both light responsive and light-dissociated circadian oscillators in the ventrolateral and dorsomedial SCN suggests that both the vlSCN and dmSCN contribute to the cortic testosterone rhythm by both reducing plasma ACTH and differentially regulating plasma cortiosterone through an ACTH- and sympathetic nervous system-independent pathway.

TL;DR: It is found that, in barn owls, at each location there is a frequency range where the head filtering yields the most reliable IPDs across contexts, and frequency tuning in the owl's space-specific neurons reflects a higher-order feature of the code that captures cue reliability.

TL;DR: This work sets forth both the methodology to answer whether cross-correlation describes coincidence detector responses and a demonstration that in the barn owl, the result is that expected by theory.