...) Synthetic data Multimodal Sensorimotor integration Active sensing Vibrissa Whisker Touch Tactile Vision Audition Nares Sniffing Neuromechanics Summary: A morphological model of the whiskers and facial features of mice can be used in behavioral simulations and to generate naturalistic...

... to conspecific acoustic communication. Plasticity Hearing Audition Lek Social signals Amphibian For organisms that communicate acoustically with one another in social groups, background noise generated by other signaling conspecifics can make detecting vocalizations and discriminating among...

... no competing financial interests. 10 3 2014 17 4 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Audition Morphology Otolith Pearlfish Natural abiotic and biotic sounds as well as anthropogenic sounds are very abundant in underwater environments ( Slabbekoorn...

..., the inclined position of the swimbladder may help the fish to catch their prey more easily, as the swimbladder will be horizontal when they are picking up benthic prey. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 12 5 2011 © 2011. 2011 acoustic audition swimbladder...

... also indicate that rather than having only strictly group-specific frequency ranges, amniote vertebrate hearing is strongly influenced by species-specific physical and ecological constraints. 16 2 2010 © 2010. 2010 lizard hearing audition lizard vocalization gecko reptile...

... sensitivity CF characteristic frequency REFERENCES Bass A. H. ( 1990 ). Sounds from the intertidal zone: vocalizing fish . Bio-science 40 , 249 - 258 . Bass A. H. , Lu Z. ( 2007 ). Neural and behavioral mechanisms of audition . In Sensory Systems Neuroscience...

... that they have the ability to localize both manatee vocalizations and recreational boat engine noises. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 2 4 2009 2009 audition Sirenian hearing spatial hearing The Florida manatee ( Trichechus manatus latirostris L...

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... The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 audition defence behaviour Dictyoptera echolocation insect hearing Parasphendale affinis mantid Mantodea neuroethology neurophysiology. Echolocating insectivorous bats pose a threat to insects flying at night. Many insects possess...

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... by Company of Biologists 2000 directional hearing biological microphone sensory ecology audition grasshopper Chorthippus biguttulus During the course of evolution, the sense of hearing has developed several times independently in many orders and families. It serves to identify...

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... the amount of information available to the central nervous system. * Present address: Department of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. 05 01 1996 ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1996 noctuid moths audition call apparency bats auditory sensitivity Agrotis...

... noctuid moth audition auditory sensitivity Agrotis segetum bat echolocation Noctuid moths have auditory systems sensitive to ultrasound ( Roeder and Treat, 1957 ). It is widely believed that these ears have evolved in response to predation pressure from echolocating bats which hunt using...

... dB, depending upon sound frequency. However, the pinna gain was not always maximal at the acoustic axis for a given frequency. * Author for correspondence. 15 05 1995 © The Company of Biologists Limited 1995 audition directionality mouse Mus musculus pinna sound...

... against eared prey. * To whom offprint requests should be addressed. 18 1 1993 © 1993 by Company of Biologists 1993 audition bat echolocation moth neuroethology sensory ecology Myotis septentrionalis Myotis lucifugus Catocala spp A classic example...

... system, and the general neural mechanisms which are probably shared with many different types of animals. © 1989 by Company of Biologists 1989 audition hearing parallel-hierarchical processing feature extraction For capture of prey (flying insects) and orientation, the mustached bat...