Table 1.
Description of the four different phonotaxis trials that females crickets (G. bimaculatus) were exposed to
Trial | # Stimuli | Stimuli presented | STD1 stimulus position |
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Bandwidth (BW) | 7 | 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2 kHz | 1 |
Duty cycle (DC) | 7 | 10, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 90% | 4 |
Frequency (FQ) | 9 | 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5, 7 kHz | 5 |
Syllable period (SP) | 10 | 23, 28, 35, 39, 43, 48, 53, 58, 67, 81 ms | – |
Each stimulus was played back for a duration of one minute per speaker from two different speakers situated at different locations (210° and 90°, respectively). All trials except SP (see text) had two standard stimuli (STD1 and STD2) with the following specifications 5 kHz frequency, 43 ms SP, 50% duty cycle, 4 syllables/chirp and 2 chirps/s. The STD2 stimulus was the final stimulus of a trial (not indicated in the table)