关键词：
Grasshopper stridulation
Laser interfer ometry
Laser vibrometry
Tympanic membrane
Auditory information processing
摘要：
During stridulation in the gomphocerine grasshopperOmocestus viridulusthe leg movements, sound pattern and either summed auditory nerve activity or single interneuron activity were recorded. Simultaneous laser interferometric and vibrometric measurements of the displacement and velocity of the tympanic membrane were performed at the pyriform vesicle (d-receptor group). Slow displacements of the tympanic membrane occur in phase with the ventilatory and stridulatory rhythm and reach 10 μmpeak-peakand 1–3 μmpeak-peakin amplitude, respectively. Additionally, the tympanic membrane oscillates maximally in the range 5–10 kHz. These high-frequency oscillations are due to sound production and motor activity and correspond in amplitude to oscillations evoked by sound pressures of 90-dB SPL. They activate the auditory receptors during most of the stridulatory cycle even during mute stridulation. Only at the lower reversal point of the leg movement are membrane vibrations and receptor activity at a minimum. As a consequence the response of receptors and interneurons to auditory stimuli are generally impaired and an auditory response of receptors and interneurons can be elicited only during a short period at the lower reversal point. Although in this phase of the stridulatory cycle auditory sensitivity is present, males do not show phonotactic responses towards female songs during ongoing own stridul
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