Neural adaptation shifts spatial receptive fields to encode auditory motion direction.

Evidence

Neurophysiological studies on directional sensitivity in auditory motion processing by the owl have applied a wide range of angular velocities. Witten et al. ( 2006 ) presented simulated motion based on ITD change at a speed of 32°/s observing shifts of auditory spatial receptive fields in relation to motion direction that could be explained by adaptation. Similarly, Wang and Peña ( 2013 ) showed that adaptation affected direction selectivity for simulated motion of 470°/s in free-field stimulation. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3181

Categorization

• XREF: Adaptation as a motion-direction mechanism connects to the reader’s interest in cognition/psychoacoustics — a low-level physiological basis for a perceived dynamic property.