... work is properly attributed. Summary: Quantitative comparison of the 3D geometry of the whisker arrays of harbor seals, Norway rats, and house mice reveals common geometric features across species in different mammalian orders. Comparative anatomy Multimodal Flow sensing Trigeminal...

... developed here will help researchers generate naturalistic, multimodal patterns of stimulation for neurophysiological experiments and allow the generation of synthetic datasets and simulations to close the loop between brain, body and environment. * Present address: Department of Psychology...

...-dependent signals that supply either the same (redundant) or different (non-redundant) information to the receiver. Despite the importance of multimodal communication, there are relatively few species in which information on sender signals and receiver responses are known. Further, little is known about...

... of Biologists Ltd 2022 Summary: Plant vibrations excited by frog calls prove highly important to the function of those calls. Sexual selection Animal communication Multimodal Substrate vibration Biotremology Anura Smithsonian Institution http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000014...

... interactions reported between multisensory (e.g. visual and vibratory) elements displayed during courtship (reviewed in Hebets, 2005 ; Hebets and McGinley, 2019 ). Multisensory interactions may also include functional binding of multimodal cues, or configural representations ( Pearce, 2002 ). A good...

... during upwind flight in a wind tunnel, but floral sensory stimuli override this behavior. Sensory ecology Behavior Lepidoptera Multimodal Environment Animals use different types of sensory information, including visual and olfactory cues, to identify flowers as sources of nectar, pollen...

... The authors declare no competing financial interests. 15 4 2014 20 6 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Video playback Vision Anuran Multimodal Phototaxis The visual ecology of nocturnal anurans is relatively poorly understood ( Roth et al., 1998...

.... Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 vision chemoreception top-down processing attention multimodal crossmodal interactions Productive habitats, such as forests, grasslands and coral reefs, abound with a diversity of arthropods, many with overlapping microhabitat ranges...

... as multimodal responses, rather than as ‘hearing’. The results also suggest that in natural situations both the ear and lateral line likely play an integrative role in detecting and localising many types of ‘acoustic’ stimuli. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS...

... significance of our results for our understanding of signal evolution. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 7 10 2010 © 2011. 2011 signal detection theory complex signals mimicry signal evolution multimodal foraging color learning Bombus impatiens peak...

... listing see Dent and Dooling ( Dent and Dooling, 2004 )]. [email protected] 27 7 2010 © 2010. 2010 owls binaural cocktail party effect multimodal precedence effect sound localization When a barn owl ( Tyto alba ) hears a sound of interest, it turns its head rapidly...

... ) 21 2 2010 © 2010. 2010 Drosophila melanogaster modelling multimodal olfaction optomotor vision Animals interact with their environment using a number of sensory modalities. Consider, for example, an airborne fly searching for food. It could be alerted to the possibility...

... spatial behaviours of the species are consistent with the ‘multimodal foraging strategy’ hypothesis which proposes that birds use a combination of olfactory and visual cues while foraging at sea. The ‘multimodal foraging strategy’ hypothesis, however, still suffers from a lack of experimental evidence...

... to quantitatively compare multisensory responses to their component unisensory responses. Principally, we discovered that multisensory novelty responses are significantly larger than their arithmetically summed component unisensory responses. Additionally, multimodal stimulation yielded a significant increase...

...Nicole D. VanderSal; Eileen A. Hebets SUMMARY The production of multimodal signals during animal displays is extremely common, and the function of such complex signaling has received much attention. Currently, the most frequently explored hypotheses regarding the evolution and function of complex...

... of the disk. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 13 2 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 pollination Lepidoptera sensory multimodal Sphingidae One of the `mysteries of nature' revealed by Sprengel's landmark( Sprengel, 1793...

... success was used as a measure of female choice on rocks, desert sand and leaf litter. Courtship duration did not differ between treatments for either phase 1(visual only; F 2,41 =1.640, P =0.206; Fig. 4 ) or multimodal (phases 2–4; F 2,41 =2.866, P =0.068; Fig. 4 ) courtship. Males did...

... at a speed of 66 frames s −1 for subsequent analysis. * e-mail: [email protected] 21 12 2000 26 2 2001 © 2001 by Company of Biologists 2001 fish muskellunge Esox masquinongy predator prey multimodal sensory integration sensorimotor Animals use information...

... of Veterinary Science, Park Row, Bristol BS1 5LS, England. 20 10 1986 © 1987 by Company of Biologists 1987 multimodal convergence flight intemeurones locust Sensory information has a powerful influence upon the neural control of posture and locomotion. This information...