Mark von Campenhausen

TL;DR: The barn owl, a nocturnal predator, derives its German name from the conspicuous ruff that covers the ear openings and gives the head a face-like appearance and the ruff also introduces a break of the front–back symmetry of ITD.

TL;DR: Recordings from the time-sensitive subnuclei of the barn owl's inferior colliculus show that the deviation of the representation of interaural time difference from optimal-coding models in the low-frequency range is attributable to the diminished importance of low frequencies for catching prey in this species.

TL;DR: Novel stimuli to simulate the removal of the barn owl's ruff in a virtual acoustic environment are created, thus creating a situation similar to passive listening in other animals, and open up the possibility to apply the results on autonomous agents, creation of virtual auditory environments for humans, or in hearing aids.

TL;DR: This report represents a first attempt to systematically describe important physiological properties of ICCcore neurons in the barn owl, with particular attention to the low‐frequency region (< 2 kHz).

TL;DR: It is suggested that neurons in the auditory system show dynamic coding properties to tonal double stimulation that might be relevant for faithful upstream signal propagation and the overall stimulus level of the masker also seems to affect the recovery capabilities of auditory neurons.