Rickye S Heffner

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Affiliation: University of Toledo
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Primate hearing from a mammalian perspective
    Rickye S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
    Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 281:1111-22. 2004
  2. ncbi Hearing in American leaf-nosed bats. IV: The Common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus
    Rickye S Heffner
    Deptartment of Psychology 948, University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43606, USA Electronic address
    Hear Res 296:42-50. 2013
  3. ncbi Use of binaural cues for sound localization in two species of Phyllostomidae: the Greater spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus) and the Short-tailed fruit bat (Carollia perspicillata)
    Rickye S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
    J Comp Psychol 124:447-54. 2010
  4. ncbi Use of binaural cues for sound localization in large and small non-echolocating bats: Eidolon helvum and Cynopterus brachyotis
    Rickye S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, MS 948, 2801 West Bancroft Street, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
    J Acoust Soc Am 127:3837-45. 2010
  5. ncbi Sound localization acuity and its relation to vision in large and small fruit-eating bats: II. Non-echolocating species, Eidolon helvum and Cynopterus brachyotis
    R S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, United States
    Hear Res 241:80-6. 2008
  6. ncbi Sound-localization acuity and its relation to vision in large and small fruit-eating bats: I. Echolocating species, Phyllostomus hastatus and Carollia perspicillata
    R S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, MS 948, University of Toledo, 2801 W Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43606, United States
    Hear Res 234:1-9. 2007
  7. ncbi Hearing in large (Eidolon helvum) and small (Cynopterus brachyotis) non-echolocating fruit bats
    R S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
    Hear Res 221:17-25. 2006
  8. ncbi Hearing in American leaf-nosed bats. III: Artibeus jamaicensis
    Rickye S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
    Hear Res 184:113-22. 2003
  9. ncbi Hearing in American leaf-nosed bats. II: Carollia perspicillata
    Gimseong Koay
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
    Hear Res 178:27-34. 2003
  10. ncbi Hearing in American leaf-nosed bats. I: Phyllostomus hastatus
    Gimseong Koay
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 2801 Bancroft St, Toledo, OH 43606 USA
    Hear Res 171:96-102. 2002

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Publications16

  1. ncbi Primate hearing from a mammalian perspective
    Rickye S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
    Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 281:1111-22. 2004
    ..Multiple lines of evidence support the view that sound localization is the selective pressure on smaller primates and on other mammals with short interaural distances for hearing high frequencies...
  2. ncbi Hearing in American leaf-nosed bats. IV: The Common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus
    Rickye S Heffner
    Deptartment of Psychology 948, University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43606, USA Electronic address
    Hear Res 296:42-50. 2013
    ..Selective pressures affecting high-frequency hearing in bats and mammals in general are discussed...
  3. ncbi Use of binaural cues for sound localization in two species of Phyllostomidae: the Greater spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus) and the Short-tailed fruit bat (Carollia perspicillata)
    Rickye S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
    J Comp Psychol 124:447-54. 2010
    ..We now know of 3 bat species that cannot use binaural time cues and 2 that can. Further exploration of localization in bats may provide insight into the neural analysis of time cues in species that do not hear low frequencies...
  4. ncbi Use of binaural cues for sound localization in large and small non-echolocating bats: Eidolon helvum and Cynopterus brachyotis
    Rickye S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, MS 948, 2801 West Bancroft Street, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
    J Acoust Soc Am 127:3837-45. 2010
    ..The authors now know of eight mammals that do not use binaural phase cues for localization, and some possible reasons for this inability are explored...
  5. ncbi Sound localization acuity and its relation to vision in large and small fruit-eating bats: II. Non-echolocating species, Eidolon helvum and Cynopterus brachyotis
    R S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, United States
    Hear Res 241:80-6. 2008
    ..Absolute visual acuity and the magnitude of the binaural locus cues available to a species remain unreliable predictors of sound-localization acuity...
  6. ncbi Sound-localization acuity and its relation to vision in large and small fruit-eating bats: I. Echolocating species, Phyllostomus hastatus and Carollia perspicillata
    R S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, MS 948, University of Toledo, 2801 W Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43606, United States
    Hear Res 234:1-9. 2007
    ....
  7. ncbi Hearing in large (Eidolon helvum) and small (Cynopterus brachyotis) non-echolocating fruit bats
    R S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
    Hear Res 221:17-25. 2006
    ....
  8. ncbi Hearing in American leaf-nosed bats. III: Artibeus jamaicensis
    Rickye S Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
    Hear Res 184:113-22. 2003
    ..With respect to low-frequency hearing, all bats tested so far belong to the group of mammals with poor low-frequency hearing, i.e., those unable to hear below 500 Hz...
  9. ncbi Hearing in American leaf-nosed bats. II: Carollia perspicillata
    Gimseong Koay
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
    Hear Res 178:27-34. 2003
    ..The behavioral audiogram is compared to previously published physiological estimates of hearing...
  10. ncbi Hearing in American leaf-nosed bats. I: Phyllostomus hastatus
    Gimseong Koay
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 2801 Bancroft St, Toledo, OH 43606 USA
    Hear Res 171:96-102. 2002
    ..Its behavioral pure-tone thresholds are lower than the multi-unit thresholds in the inferior colliculus...
  11. ncbi Laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus) do not use binaural phase differences to localize sound
    Christina M Wesolek
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
    Hear Res 265:54-62. 2010
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  12. ncbi Comparison of behavioral and auditory brainstem response measures of threshold shift in rats exposed to loud sound
    Henry E Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
    J Acoust Soc Am 124:1093-104. 2008
    ..Thus, it appears that the noise-evoked ABR is more accurate in estimating threshold shift than the tone-evoked ABR...
  13. ncbi Behavioral assessment of hearing in mice--conditioned suppression
    Henry E Heffner
    University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
    Curr Protoc Neurosci . 2006
    ..Because it is a cognitively simple procedure, conditioned suppression can be used to determine the ability of brain-damaged and genetically altered as well as normal animals to detect and discriminate sounds...
  14. ncbi Hearing ranges of laboratory animals
    Henry E Heffner
    Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
    J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci 46:20-2. 2007
    ..As a result, a sound that is easily audible to one species may be less audible, or even inaudible, to another. The purpose of this review is to describe the variation in the hearing ranges of common laboratory animals...
  15. ncbi The sound-localization ability of cats
    Henry E Heffner
    J Neurophysiol 94:3653; author reply 3653-5. 2005
  16. ncbi Cross-modal neuroplasticity in neonatally enucleated hamsters: structure, electrophysiology and behaviour
    Ruth Izraeli
    Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    Eur J Neurosci 15:693-712. 2002
    ..Behaviourally it appears that enucleated hamsters, compared with their normal littermates, are slower to habituate in their response to an unexpected source of sound...