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Frequency Discrimination in the Locust Ear by means of Four Groups of Receptor Cells

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HORRIDGE found some frequency discrimination in the tympanal organ of locusts by recording from the tympanal nerve and central connectives1,2. The response of the insect ear was previously thought to be determined by changes in amplitude of the sound. Frequency was not considered essential. Popov3, by selective destruction, and I4, by recording from individual receptor cells, have found evidence for two groups of receptor cells with different characteristic frequencies (that is, frequencies of maximum sensitivity). I have shown that the four anatomical groups of receptors cells in the tympanal organ of the desert locust have different frequency responses.

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MICHELSEN, A. Frequency Discrimination in the Locust Ear by means of Four Groups of Receptor Cells. Nature 220, 585–586 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220585a0

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