Computational principles underlying recognition of acoustic signals in grasshoppers and crickets

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-71

  Ronacher, Bernhard ^a   Hennig, R Matthias ^a   Clemens, Jan ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Behavioral preference functions; Gabor filter; Linear nonlinear model; Perceptual decision making

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAELIFERA; GRYLLIDAE; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; GRASSHOPPERS; GRYLLIDAE; HEARING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 84920503494     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-014-0946-7     Document Type: Review

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