TY - JOUR
T1 - Neurobiology of echolocation in bats
AU - Moss, Cynthia F.
AU - Sinha, Shiva R.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful for grant support from the National Institutes of Mental Health (R01 MH56366), the Whitehall Foundation (2000-08-03-REN (S97-20), National Science Foundation (IBN-0111973) to CF Moss and an Institutional National Research Service Award (5-T32-DC00046) to SR Sinha. We also acknowledge support of an NIH P30 grant to the Center of Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (R. Dooling PI). In addition, we thank A Perez and W Xian for technical assistance and M Aytekin and K Ghose for comments on an earlier draft of the manuscript.
PY - 2003/12
Y1 - 2003/12
N2 - Echolocating bats (sub-order: Microchiroptera) form a highly successful group of animals, comprising approximately 700 species and an estimated 25% of living mammals. Many echolocating bats are nocturnal predators that have evolved a biological sonar system to orient and forage in three-dimensional space. Acoustic signal processing and vocal-motor control are tightly coupled, and successful echolocation depends on the coordination between auditory and motor systems. Indeed, echolocation involves adaptive changes in vocal production patterns, which, in turn, constrain the acoustic information arriving at the bat's ears and the time-scales over which neural computations take place.
AB - Echolocating bats (sub-order: Microchiroptera) form a highly successful group of animals, comprising approximately 700 species and an estimated 25% of living mammals. Many echolocating bats are nocturnal predators that have evolved a biological sonar system to orient and forage in three-dimensional space. Acoustic signal processing and vocal-motor control are tightly coupled, and successful echolocation depends on the coordination between auditory and motor systems. Indeed, echolocation involves adaptive changes in vocal production patterns, which, in turn, constrain the acoustic information arriving at the bat's ears and the time-scales over which neural computations take place.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.conb.2003.10.016
DO - 10.1016/j.conb.2003.10.016
M3 - Review article
C2 - 14662378
AN - SCOPUS:0344255692
SN - 0959-4388
VL - 13
SP - 751
EP - 758
JO - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
JF - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
IS - 6
ER -