Adaptive vocal behavior drives perception by echolocation in bats

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 645-652

  Moss, Cynthia F ^a   Chiu, Chen ^a   Surlykke, Annemarie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AMPLITUDE MODULATOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80052924404     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.05.028     Document Type: Review

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