Bats: Seeing With Sound
In short: Bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt in total darkness by interpreting the echoes of high-frequency calls, a skill mirrored by some expert human echolocators.
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Sources used in this film: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “Neural Processing of Naturalistic Echolocation Signals in Bats”; Higher Education Press, “Adaptive mechanisms underlying the bat biosonar behavior”; National Institutes of Health, “Object-Oriented Echo Perception and Cortical Representation in Echolocating Bats”; National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Echolocating bats detect but misperceive a multidimensional incongruent acoustic stimulus”; Smithsonian Institution, “Bat Facts | Smithsonian Institution”; Nature, “African bat database: curated data of occurrences, distributions and conservation metrics for sub-Saharan bats”; PLOS ONE, “Echolocating Bats Cry Out Loud to Detect Their Prey”; PLoS Comput Biol, “Mouth-clicks used by blind expert human echolocators – signal description and model based signal synthesis”; PLoS One, “Neural Correlates of Natural Human Echolocation in Early and Late Blind Echolocation Experts”.
Sources used in this film
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) — Neural Processing of Naturalistic Echolocation Signals in Bats · View →
- Higher Education Press — Adaptive mechanisms underlying the bat biosonar behavior · View →
- National Institutes of Health — Object-Oriented Echo Perception and Cortical Representation in Echolocating Bats · View →
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) — Echolocating bats detect but misperceive a multidimensional incongruent acoustic stimulus · View →
- Smithsonian Institution — Bat Facts | Smithsonian Institution · View →
- Nature — African bat database: curated data of occurrences, distributions and conservation metrics for sub-Saharan bats · View →
- PLOS ONE — Echolocating Bats Cry Out Loud to Detect Their Prey · View →
- PLoS Comput Biol — Mouth-clicks used by blind expert human echolocators – signal description and model based signal synthesis · View →
- PLoS One — Neural Correlates of Natural Human Echolocation in Early and Late Blind Echolocation Experts · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): Neural Processing of Naturalistic Echolocation Signals in Bats
- Also: Higher Education Press: Adaptive mechanisms underlying the bat biosonar behavior
- Also: National Institutes of Health: Object-Oriented Echo Perception and Cortical Representation in Echolocating Bats
- Also: National Institutes of Health (NIH): Echolocating bats detect but misperceive a multidimensional incongruent acoustic stimulus
- Also: Smithsonian Institution: Bat Facts | Smithsonian Institution
- Also: Nature: African bat database: curated data of occurrences, distributions and conservation metrics for sub-Saharan bats
- Also: PLOS ONE: Echolocating Bats Cry Out Loud to Detect Their Prey
- Also: PLoS Comput Biol: Mouth-clicks used by blind expert human echolocators – signal description and model based signal synthesis
- Also: PLoS One: Neural Correlates of Natural Human Echolocation in Early and Late Blind Echolocation Experts
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