The Neural Basis of Echolocation in Bats
The brain of an echo locating bat is devoted, in large part, to analyzing sound and conducting behavior in a world of sounds and echoes. This monograph is about analysis of sound in the brainstem of echolocating bats and concerns the relationship between
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Editors S. D. Bradshaw W Burggren H.C. Heller S. Ishii H. Langer G. Neuweiler D.1. Randall
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G. D. Pollak 1. H. Casseday
The Neural Basis of Echolocation in Bats
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Professor Dr. GEORGE D. POLLAK Department of Zoology The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712, USA Professor Dr. JOHN H. CASSEDAY Departments of Surgery and Neurobiology Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Cover illustration: Pteronotus parnellii drawn after a photograph by Ellen Covey
ISBN -13: 978-3-642-83664-0 e- ISBN -13: 978-3-642-83662-6 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-83662-6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Pollak, G. D. (George D.), 1942- . The neural basis of echolocation in bats/G. D. Pollak, J. H. Casseday. p. cm. - (Zoophysiology: v. 25) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Bats - Physiology. 2. Echolocation (Physiology). 3. Mammals - Physiology. I. Casseday, J. H. (John H.), 1934- . II. Title. III. Series. QL737.C5P65 1989 599.4'01852-dc 19 89-4081 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfIlms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts th
