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Title: Acoustic Pattern Recognition and Courtship Songs: Insights from Insects
Across the animal kingdom, social interactions rely on sound production and perception. From simple cricket chirps to more elaborate bird songs, animals go to great lengths to communicate information critical for reproduction and survival via acoustic signals. Insects produce a wide array of songs to attract a mate, and the intended receivers must differentiate these calls from competing sounds, analyze the quality of the sender from spectrotemporal signal properties, and then determine how to react. Insects use numerically simple nervous systems to analyze and respond to courtship songs, making them ideal model systems for uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying acoustic pattern recognition. We highlight here how the combination of behavioral studies and neural recordings in three groups of insects—crickets, grasshoppers, and fruit flies—reveals common strategies for extracting ethologically relevant information from acoustic patterns and how these findings might translate to other systems.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1734030
PAR ID:
10169911
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Annual Review of Neuroscience
Volume:
42
Issue:
1
ISSN:
0147-006X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
129 to 147
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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