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This book reviews the growing literature that is consistent with
the hypothesis that hormones can regulate auditory physiology and
perception across a broad range of animal taxa, including humans.
Understanding how hormones modulate auditory function has far
reaching implications for advancing our knowledge in the basic
biomedical sciences and in understanding the evolution of acoustic
communication systems. A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to
understand how hormones modulate neural circuits and behavior. For
example, steroids such as estrogens and androgens are well-known
regulators of vocal motor behaviors used during social acoustic
communication. Recent studies have shown that these same hormones
can also greatly influence the reception of social acoustic
signals, leading to the more efficient exchange of acoustic
information.
Fish Hearing and Bioacoustics is an anthology of review papers that
were presented at a special symposium to honor Arthur Popper and
Richard Fay on May 25th 2013 at the Mote Marine Laboratory in
Sarasota, FL. The research presentations at this conference spanned
the range of disciplines covered by Fay and Popper during their
long and productive careers. The book includes the following
thematic areas for the papers in this special volume: morphology
and anatomy of the inner ear and lateral line systems; physiology
of inner ear, lateral line, and central auditory systems;
acoustically mediated behavior, including communication and sound
localization; and environmental influences on fish hearing and
bioacoustics, including anthropogenic effects of noise on fishes.
Each chapter reviews and summarizes the past studies of particular
area that will lead the reader up to the current work presented at
the symposium. In addition, each chapters includes a perspective of
how Arthur Popper and Richard Fay have influenced their particular
area of fish bio acoustic research. Each manuscript also includes a
hypotheses for future studies. These hypotheses will provide a
springboard for future work in each field.
The concept of the “Soundscapes” includes all of the sounds in
one’s environment and focuses not only on the sounds itself.
Instead, it focuses on the interrelationships between person and
activity and place, both in space and time. Soundscape also include
influences on the acoustic environment through auditory sensation,
its interpretation, and the responses to the acoustic environment
in context. The conceptual framework of Soundscape describes the
“process of perceiving or experiencing and/or understanding an
acoustic environment, highlighting general concepts and their
relationships: context, sound sources, acoustic environment,
auditory sensation, interpretation of auditory sensation,
responses, and outcomes” (International Organization for
Standardization, ISO 12913-1:2014 Acoustics Soundscape Part
Definition and Conceptual Framework, ISO, Geneva, 2014). With
soundscape, one achieves a deeper understanding of acoustic
environment and its effects on people. The ISO standard
12931-1 on soundscape provides an important, and rigorous,
distinction in the use of “Soundscape.” But, it is recognizable
that some individuals, particularly planners, designers, lay
persons, and even those primarily interested in management of the
acoustic environment through environmental noise control, will find
it convenient to use “Soundscape” as a synonym for the physical
acoustic environment. When it comes to noise management and urban
planning, soundscape research has the potential to promote healthy
urban environments by sharing and incorporating the significant
knowledge of all concerned parties. Understandably, this shows that
the communication with regard to noise management has to be forced
to guarantee that the specifics of Soundscapes (i.e., the relevance
of perception) are seriously considered alongside the whole. This
book will bridge the gap between soundscape theory and practice and
therefore it will be different from our earlier
publications as “Soundscape and the built environment” (ed. by
J. Kang and B. Schulte-Fortkamp CRC Press, Taylor and Francis
Group, Boca Raton, Fl 2016) and also from the respective
Special Issues on Soundscapes in 2012 in The Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America (ed. by B. Schulte-Fortkamp and J.
Kang), and also the Special Issue in Acta Acustica 2006 *(ed. by B.
Schulte-Fortkamp and D. Dubois), and the E-book on
soundscape This volume will be driven by the difficult
process of standardization of Soundscape and its evaluation
procedures. The main goal of the proposed volume is to present and
review the developments in Soundscape, reflecting the
standardization procedure and the diverse inputs. the
needs in management and planning in urban acoustic environments,
the book will also focus on the difficulties, as well as the
solutions, in interdisciplinary grounded communication, that is, on
the one hand, related to science, but on the other to application,
that needs guidance.
A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to understand how the nervous
system extracts biologically relevant information from the natural
environment and how it uses that information to guide and
coordinate behavior necessary for reproduction and survival. The
electrosensory systems of weakly electric teleost fishes and those
of nonteleost fishes are attractive systems for addressing basic
questions about neuronal information processing and its
relationship to natural behavior. Comparative approaches in these
fishes have led to the identification of fundamental mechanisms
that have shaped the adaptive evolution of sensory systems across
animal taxa. Understanding how sensory systems encode and integrate
information about the natural world has far reaching implications
for advancing our knowledge in the basic biomedical sciences and in
understanding how the nervous system has evolved to control
behavior. The primary goal of this book is to provide a comparative
perspective on the topic of electroreception and review some of the
fundamental insights gained from studies of electrosensory and
electromotor systems. Although totally independent, this book
follows from volume 21 in the Springer Handbook of Auditory
Research series, Electroreception (Bullock, T. H., Hopkins, C. D.,
Popper, A. N., and Fay, R. R., 2005, Springer-Verlag, New York).
This book reviews the growing literature that is consistent with
the hypothesis that hormones can regulate auditory physiology and
perception across a broad range of animal taxa, including humans.
Understanding how hormones modulate auditory function has far
reaching implications for advancing our knowledge in the basic
biomedical sciences and in understanding the evolution of acoustic
communication systems. A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to
understand how hormones modulate neural circuits and behavior. For
example, steroids such as estrogens and androgens are well-known
regulators of vocal motor behaviors used during social acoustic
communication. Recent studies have shown that these same hormones
can also greatly influence the reception of social acoustic
signals, leading to the more efficient exchange of acoustic
information.
Fish Hearing and Bioacoustics is an anthology of review papers that
were presented at a special symposium to honor Arthur Popper and
Richard Fay on May 25th 2013 at the Mote Marine Laboratory in
Sarasota, FL. The research presentations at this conference spanned
the range of disciplines covered by Fay and Popper during their
long and productive careers. The book includes the following
thematic areas for the papers in this special volume: morphology
and anatomy of the inner ear and lateral line systems; physiology
of inner ear, lateral line, and central auditory systems;
acoustically mediated behavior, including communication and sound
localization; and environmental influences on fish hearing and
bioacoustics, including anthropogenic effects of noise on fishes.
Each chapter reviews and summarizes the past studies of particular
area that will lead the reader up to the current work presented at
the symposium. In addition, each chapters includes a perspective of
how Arthur Popper and Richard Fay have influenced their particular
area of fish bio acoustic research. Each manuscript also includes a
hypotheses for future studies. These hypotheses will provide a
springboard for future work in each field.
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