Techniques for Use on.-Google Books Result Hearing in vertebrates: A psychophysics databook. Get this from a library! Hearing in vertebrates: a psychophysics databook. Richard R Fay Hearing in vertebrates: a psychophysics databook / Richard R. Fay The chapters of this volume review what is understood about the similarities and differences among mammals in their sense of hearing, defined behaviorally, .

No abstract

Auditory and vestibular nerve fibers of the goldfish are strongly directionally sensitive to whole-body acceleration at audio frequencies. The three-dimensional pattern of sensitivity shows that input from a receptor ensemble (hair cells) is essentially equivalent to that expected from a single hair cell having a given three-dimensional orientation of best sensitivity. Fibers from the sacculus, lagena, and utriculus differ with respect to distributions of directional orientation, but are similar in best threshold (less than 1 nanometer, root mean square, at 140 hertz). In combination with other mechanisms for detection of sound pressure, this directionality is a likely basis for directional hearing in fishes, and it could allow the determination of underwater acoustic intensity.