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The consistently short (1-5 ms) duration of echolocation calls emitted by the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus, permitted approximating the sounds heard during hunting with a train of short, constant-duration pulses. In contrast to standard approaches (in which acoustic parameters are changed one at a time), this study used non-linear techniques and measured responses to pulse trains in which both amplitude and inter-pulse gap were randomly varied. \"\"White noise\"\" analysis techniques, including both the calculation of system kernels and new cross-correlational measures, were used. Single-unit activity was recorded from 82 neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC). The power of the techniques is evident from their ability to reveal many different characteristics of the neurons' responses simultaneously. 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