Fay R R, Popper A N
Department of Psychology and Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60626, USA.
Hear Res. 2000 Nov;149(1-2):1-10. doi: 10.1016/s0378-5955(00)00168-4.
This paper considers aspects of the evolution of the vertebrate auditory system from an 'ichthyocentric' perspective. It is argued that all vertebrate auditory systems are required to do certain basic tasks including acoustic feature discrimination, sound source localization, frequency analysis, and auditory scene analysis, among others. These sorts of capabilities arose very early in the evolution of the vertebrates and have been modified by selection in different species. In some cases the same structures have been involved in detection and analysis throughout the vertebrates, while in other cases the mechanism by which the same type of analysis takes place may have changed.
本文从“以鱼类为中心”的视角探讨了脊椎动物听觉系统的演化方面。有人认为，所有脊椎动物的听觉系统都需要完成某些基本任务，包括声学特征辨别、声源定位、频率分析以及听觉场景分析等。这些能力在脊椎动物演化的早期就已出现，并在不同物种中通过选择而发生了改变。在某些情况下，整个脊椎动物中相同的结构都参与了检测和分析，而在其他情况下，进行相同类型分析的机制可能已经发生了变化。
