... for the encoding of social signals versus preferences for those signals. Torus semicircularis Mating preferences Preoptic area Norepinephrine Species recognition Social preferences enable animals to selectively interact with some individuals over others and such preferences underpin a range...

..., and we measured expression of the neural activity-dependent gene egr-1 in the auditory brainstem and thalamus. We found that the behavioral relevance of the stimuli was the best predictor of egr-1 expression in the laminar nucleus of the torus semicircularis but not elsewhere. That is, the laminar...

... nucleus (DON) or the midbrain torus semicircularis (TS) using particle motion stimuli in the horizontal and mid-sagittal planes. The same stimuli were used during tipping of the saccular otolith to evaluate changes in the DRPs. Post-tipping DRPs were generated and compared with the pre-tipping DRPs...

... described in the central lateral line system of teleost fish at levels higher than the medulla, and evidence for midbrain lateral line maps in fish is still weak. We found two classes of units with different response patterns in the central lateral line nucleus in the torus semicircularis of the goldfish...

...R. J. Wubbels; N. A. M. Schellart ABSTRACT The response characteristics of auditory neurons in the multimodal midbrain torus semicircularis of rainbow trout were analyzed to examine their topography and functional differences. This analysis included the localization of recording sites...

...Nico A. M. Schellart; Walther E. I. Rikkert ABSTRACT In the mesencephalic torus semicircularis of fish, visual processing is carried out in addition to acousticolateral processing, and takes place in unimodal and bimodal units. To study the encoding of visual stimuli in the torus of the rainbow...