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Steroid-dependent auditory plasticity leads to adaptive coupling of sender and receiver.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 16 Jul 2004
Sisneros Joseph A, Forlano Paul M, Deitcher David L, Bass Andrew H
Abstract excerpt
For seasonally breeding vertebrates, reproductive cycling is often coupled with changes in vocalizations that function in courtship and territoriality. Less is known about changes in auditory sensitivity to those vocalizations. Here, we show that nonreproductive female midshipman fish treated with either testosterone or 17beta-estradiol exhibit an increase in the degree of temporal encoding of the frequency...
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