Rapid sensorimotor adaptation to auditory midbrain silencing in free-flying bats.

ABSTRACT: Echolocating bats rely on rapid processing of auditory information to guide moment-to-moment decisions related to echolocation call design and flight path selection. The fidelity of sonar echoes, however, can be disrupted in natural settings due to occlusions, noise, and conspecific jamming signals. Behavioral sensorimotor adaptation to external blocks of relevant cues has been studied extensively, but little is known about adaptations that mitigate internal sensory flow interruption. How do bats modify their sensory-guided behaviors in natural tasks when central auditory processing is interrupted? Here, we induced internal sensory interruptions by reversibly inactivating excitatory neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC) using ligand-activated inhibitory designer receptors exclusively act

SUBMITTER: Diebold CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11614681 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature