AUDITORY SENSITIVITY IN THE BULLHEAD CATFISH (Ictalurus nebulosis)*
Abstract
The auditory sensitivity of 4 specimens of the bullhead catfish (Ictalurus nebulosis) was determined by shock-avoidance training in an aquatic shuttle box. The range of hearing extended from 100 to 4000 cycles per second, with the maximum sensitivity around 600 to 700 cycles per second.
Footnotes
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↵ † Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass.
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↵ ‡ Auditory Research Laboratories Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
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↵ § Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.
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↵ * This investigation was supported in part by grant 5 RO1 NBO7459-02 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness and was aided by contract N00014-68-C-0186 with the Office of Naval Research. Permission is given for reproduction and use by the United States Government.
