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1.- Dolphins have a very wide hearing range up to 150 kHz, far exceeding humans, which they use for echolocation to navigate.

2.- Dolphins emit loud, broadband clicks from their forehead and hear echoes through their jaws to build an acoustic representation of their environment.

3.- Dolphin hearing is most sensitive at the high frequencies used for echolocation. Their auditory system is adapted for their underwater environment.

4.- Dolphin brains have more surface area and cortical folds than human brains. Brain anatomy and electrode placement options differ between species.

5.- Early dolphin auditory processing research in the 1960s-70s involved invasive intracranial recordings that identified auditory responses and mapped auditory cortex.

6.- The first detailed non-invasive dolphin EEG study published in the 1980s found the strongest auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) at midline electrodes.

7.- When the lecturer joined the dolphin EEG project in 2018, there were only a few previous non-invasive and invasive recording studies.

8.- The dolphins were tested in netted ocean enclosures. Sounds were played underwater while electrodes recorded EEG from the dolphin's head surface.

9.- Dolphins were positioned on a "bite plate" to keep their heads still relative to the sound source during EEG recordings.

10.- Out-of-water recordings were also done with dolphins temporarily beached on mats. Sounds were played through a "jawphone" for in-air testing.

11.- The lecturer used gold cup electrodes housed in silicone suction cups to isolate the recording sites from the surrounding saltwater.

12.- The 16-channel EEG amplifier was mounted in a splash-proof housing with panel mount electrode connections to protect it in the ocean environment.

13.- Long electrode cables of 20-30 meters were needed to connect the dolphins to recording equipment on the dock.

14.- There was little standardization of recording methods across previous dolphin EEG studies, so the lecturer explored different techniques empirically.

15.- The lecturer found that a mastoid-like reference behind the ear provided the best signal-to-noise ratio for AEPs compared to other locations.

16.- More stimulus repetitions were needed to obtain clear dolphin AEPs compared to human studies. Hundreds to a few thousand trials were typical.

17.- Faster stimulus presentation rates of 2-8 stimuli per second reduced the amplitude but preserved the pattern of the dolphin AEPs.

18.- Habituation was observed, with the AEP magnitude decreasing after dolphins listened to the same stimuli over many blocks of trials.

19.- The dolphin AEPs showed a polarity reversal between anterior and posterior electrodes, as previously reported in the early Russian studies.

20.- An average reference across all 16 electrodes provided a cleaner AEP signal than a single mastoid reference or strong low-pass filtering.

21.- Dolphin AEPs recorded with the animal fully submerged were attenuated compared to in-air recordings, likely due to saltwater shunting effects.

22.- A "shallow bite plate" setup with the blowhole and EEG electrodes in air but the lower jaw underwater enabled clearer recordings.

23.- The lecturer aimed to study auditory attention in dolphins using an oddball paradigm with standard, deviant, and target tone stimuli.

24.- Dolphins were trained to respond when they heard a louder target tone and ignore quieter background tones of low and high pitch.

25.- The dolphin AEPs tended to be larger in magnitude for the deviant tones compared to the standard tones in the oddball task.

26.- Preliminary results from one dolphin suggested AEP magnitude was larger when attending to deviants but smaller when ignoring them.

27.- Dolphin AEPs are noisier and more challenging to record than human EEG, but multiple techniques can help improve the signal quality.

28.- In-air recordings are cleaner but unnatural. Fully submerged recordings are natural but prone to saltwater shunting. A compromise is needed.

29.- Other researchers have started to develop wearable EEG loggers for aquatic mammals to enable recording brain activity during natural behaviors.

30.- This dolphin EEG research was a collaborative effort involving government, military, academic and non-profit organizations as well as animal trainers.

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