Richard R. Fay — Hearing and Sound Communication in Amphibians

Автор: Richard R. Fay
Название книги: Hearing and Sound Communication in Amphibians
Формат: PDF
Страницы: 376
Жанр: Зоология
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

As models for vertebrate auditory systems, amphibians have been the source of extensive, ground-breaking research on hearing, the nervous system and acoustic communication. This comprehensive review covers key issues in amphibian hearing and communication in depth. Topics are relevant to auditory research, neuroethology, herpetology, animal behavior and bioacoustics.
The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of comprehensive
and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory research.
The volumes are aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including
advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical investigators.
The volumes are intended to introduce new investigators to important
aspects of hearing science and to help established investigators to better understand
the fundamental theories and data in fields of hearing that they may not
normally follow closely.
Each volume presents a particular topic comprehensively, and each serves 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 volumes focus 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 a few substantial chapters on a particular
topic. In some cases, the topics will be ones of traditional interest for which
there is a substantial body of data and theory, such as auditory neuroanatomy
(Vol. 1) and neurophysiology (Vol. 2). Other volumes in the series deal with topics
that have begun to mature more recently, such as development, plasticity, and
computational models of neural processing. In many cases, the series editors are
joined by a co-editor having special expertise in the topic of the volume.
Richard R. Fay, Chicago, Illinois
Arthur N. Popper, College Park, Maryland