The Evolution of Mammalian Hearing Henry E. Heffner and Rickye S. Heffner Dept. of Psychology University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio.

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The Evolution of Mammalian Hearing Henry E. Heffner and Rickye S. Heffner Dept. of Psychology University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio

The Evolution of Mammalian Hearing Abstract: The comparative study of mammals reveals systematic differences in their hearing abilities. First, the ability to hear above 10 kHz (which apparently evolved for using pinna cues to localize sound) varies inversely with the size of an animal’s head such that smaller animals usually have better high-frequency hearing than larger ones. Second, low-frequency hearing ability is bimodally distributed: Although most mammals can hear below 125 Hz, about one third do not hear much below 500 Hz and probably do not use temporal coding for pitch perception. Third, sound localization acuity varies directly with the width of the field of best vision, indicating that a major source of evolutionary pressure on hearing is to direct the eyes to the source of a sound. Finally, while some mammals do not use the binaural time-difference locus cue and a few others do not use the binaural intensity difference cue, it is likely that all mammals that possess pinnae use pinna locus cues to localize sound. Taken together, these findings suggest that some of the hearing abilities of extinct mammals may be inferred from fossil evidence bearing on their head size, eyes, and the presence of pinnae.

1.High-frequency hearing evolved for sound localization 2.Low-frequency hearing is bimodally distributed 3.Sound-localization acuity is related to vision 4.Not all mammals use all three sound- localization cues Mammalian Hearing

High-Frequency Hearing

High-Frequency Hearing and Functional Head Size

Variation in Low- Frequency Hearing

Low-Frequency Hearing: Encoding of Pitch

Sound Localization

Retinal Whole Mounts

Relation of Vision to Sound Localization Acuity

Use of Binaural Localization Cues Use only binaural time Pig Horse Cattle Use only binaural intensity Norway rat Big brown bat Greater spear-nosed bat Short-tailed fruit bat Spiny mouse Hedgehog Grasshopper mouse House mouse Use both binaural cues Elephant* Human Cat Macaque Jamaican fruit bat Least weasel Fox squirrel Chinchilla Goat* Gerbil Kangaroo rat Groundhog Chipmunk

Inferring Hearing from Fossil Evidence Presence of pinna Head size Subterranean (fossorial)