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The Neural Basis of Echolocation in Bats (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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The Neural Basis of Echolocation in Bats (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
Series: Zoophysiology, 25
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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 brain
structure and brain function. Echolocating bats are unique subjects
for the study of such relationships. Like man, echolocating bats
emit sounds just for the purpose of listening to them. Simply by
observing the bat's echolocation sounds, we know what the bat
listens to in nature. We therefore have a good idea what the bat's
auditory brain is designed to do. But this alone does not make the
bat unique. The brain of the bat is, by mammalian standards, rather
primitive. The unique aspect is the combination of primitive
characteristics and complex auditory processing. Within this small
brain the auditory structures are hypertrophied and have an
elegance of organization not seen in other mammals. It is as if the
auditory pathways had evolved while the rest of the brain remained
evolutionary quiescent.
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