... and is reliably predicted by a computational model based on pattern and intensity cues. Decision making Acoustic communication Female choice Phonotaxis Mate choice can be viewed as a computational chain of information-processing steps at the end of which a decision is made ( Bateson and Healy...

... non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly cited and all further distributions of the work or adaptation are subject to the same Creative Commons License terms. symmetry female choice sensory processing cricket acoustic...

... effective stimulus is on one side. From an ultimate point of view, the finding that females take three times longer in their phonotactic approach towards alternating compared to synchronized signals strongly supports the view ( Dawkins and Guilford,1996 ) about the adaptiveness of female choice, if based...

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