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The Evolution of Central Pathways and Their Neural Processing Patterns

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Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System

Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research ((SHAR,volume 22))

Abstract

A comprehensive and conclusive description of the evolution of the central auditory system in vertebrates is a difficult, if not impossible, task. We simply lack important basic information. For instance, we do not know how and what the common ancestors of all the terrestrial vertebrates could hear (certainly not airborne sound, because they had no tympanic middle ear) and how they might have processed basic sounds (such as substrate vibrations). However, a comparative approach allows us to define some principles of auditory processing that we find in all hearing vertebrates and a basic outline of its neural substrate. There is a striking similarity among all vertebrates concerning the principal design of the central auditory system. It. seems to result from the fact that all vertebrate central auditory systems are based on similar basic neural building blocks that work with similar underlying principles. These building blocks were then shaped by evolutionary constraints that were similar for all hearing vertebrates, simply because the acoustic cues that can be used for sound recognition or sound localizations are limited. However, an important issue in this chapter is the increasing evidence that the elaborated central auditory systems in the different clades of recent vertebrates are to a large extent a result of parallel, independent evolution.

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    Geoffrey A. Manley

  2. Department of Psychology and Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60626, USA

    Richard R. Fay

  3. Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742-4415, USA

    Arthur N. Popper

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Grothe, B., Carr, C.E., Casseday, J.H., Fritzsch, B., Köppl, C. (2004). The Evolution of Central Pathways and Their Neural Processing Patterns. In: Manley, G.A., Fay, R.R., Popper, A.N. (eds) Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 22. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8957-4_10

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