Hearing by Bats

Herausgegeben von Fay, Richard R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

To auditory researchers, echolocating mammals are the most intriguing of all vertebrate groups. Among the echolocators, bats are the most intensively studied species and the best understood with regard to hearing. As noted in chapter 1 of this volume, the study of bat hearing and bioacoustics represents "one of the triumphs of neuroethology". Hearing by Bats is the first modern book to address bat echolocation in a systematic and comprehensive manner. It provides detailed insights and masterful summaries of our current understanding of bat acoustics and hearing, while demonstrating that these animals provide invaluable model systems for the study of mammalian hearing in general.

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The Springer Handbook oj Auditory Research presents a series of com prehensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory research. It is aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical investigators. The volumes will introduce new investigators to important aspects of hearing science and will help established investigators to better understand the fundamental theories and data in fields of hearing that they may not normally follow closely. Each volume is intended to present a particular topic comprehensively, and each chapter will serve as a synthetic overview and guide to the literature. As such, the chapters present neither exhaustive data reviews nor original research that has not yet appeared in peer-reviewed journals. The series focuses on topics that have developed a solid data and conceptual foundation rather than on those for which a literature is only beginning to develop. New research areas will be covered on a timely basis in the series as they begin to mature. Each volume in the series consists of five to eight substantial chapters on a particular topic. In some cases, the topics will be ones of traditional interest for which there is a solid body of data and theory, such as auditory neuroanatomy (Vol. 1) and neurophysiology (Vol. 2). Other volumes in the series will deal with topics which have begun to mature more recently, such as development, plasticity, and computational models of neural processing.

Produktdetails

• Springer Handbook of Auditory Research .5
• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4612-7577-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 840g
• ISBN-13: 9781461275770
• ISBN-10: 1461275776
• Artikelnr.: 36116395

Inhaltsangabe

1 Hearing in Bats: An Overview.
2 Natural History and Biosonar Signals.
3 Behavioral Studies of Auditory Informatio Processing.
4 Auditory Dimensions of Acoustic Images in Echolocation.
5 Cochlear Structure and Function in Bats.
6 The Lower Brainstem Auditory Pathways.
7 The Inferior Colliculus.
8 The Auditory Thalamus in Bats.
9 The Bat Auditory Cortex.
10 Perspectives on the Functional Organization of the Mammalian Auditory System: Why Bats Are Good Models.