Data for: Integration of conflicting acoustic cues in sound localization in Cope’s gray treefrog

However, many species must localize sounds in challenging conditions with high noise and signal degradation, which in some cases generate conflicting directional cues. Neural integration of repeated signal elements could improve the accuracy of sound localization, but little is known about how directional cues are integrated in natural animal acoustic communication.

We studied how female Cope’s gray treefrogs (<i>Hyla chrysoscelis</i>) integrate conflicting directional information in male acoustic advertisement calls. We performed two-speaker phonotaxis experiments in which two speakers broadcast overlapping synthetic advertisement calls in which we systematically manipulated the timing relationships of pulses within the calls such that some pulses were leading in time on one speaker and the remaining pulses were leading on the other speaker.