Auditory oddball responses in Tursiops truncatus

JASA Express Lett. 2021 Aug;1(8):081202. doi: 10.1121/10.0005991.

Abstract

Two previous studies suggest that bottlenose dolphins exhibit an "oddball" auditory evoked potential (AEP) to stimulus trains where one of two stimuli has a low probability of occurrence relative to another. However, they reported oddball AEPs at widely different latency ranges (50 vs 500 ms). The present work revisited this experiment in a single dolphin to report the AEPs in response to two tones each assigned probabilities of 0.2, 0.8, and 1 across sessions. The AEP was further isolated from background EEG using independent component analysis, and showed condition effects in the 40-60 ms latency range.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bottle-Nosed Dolphin* / physiology
  • Evoked Potentials, Auditory / physiology