Steering by hearing: A bat's acoustic gaze is linked to its flight motor output by a delayed, adaptive linear law

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1704-1710

  Ghose, Kaushik ^a   Moss, Cynthia F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat; Computation; Echolocation; Flight; Locomotion; Sensorimotor control

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; FLIGHT; GAZE; HEARING ACUITY; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DARKNESS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HEARING; INSECTS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 32544449622     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4315-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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