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The Echobot: An automated system for stimulus presentation in studies of human echolocation.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Echolocation is the detection and localization of objects by listening to the sounds they reflect. Early studies of human echolocation used real objects that the experimental leader positioned manually before each experimental trial.
Carlos Tirado +2 more
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eLife, 2015 Perceptual abilities of animals, like echolocating bats, are difficult to study because they challenge our understanding of non-visual senses. We used novel acoustic tomography to convert echoes into visual representations and compare these cues to ...
Elizabeth L Clare, Marc W Holderied
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We integrated short‐read and long‐read RNA‐seq data from cochlear tissues of echolocating and non‐echolocating bats to disentangle transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation. Echolocating bats showed neural‐function enrichment among differentially expressed genes, while alternatively spliced genes were linked to epigenetic regulation. Overlaps
Jianyu Wu +3 more
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Pregnancy-related sensory deficits might impair foraging in echolocating bats
BMC Biology, 2023 Background Reproduction entails substantial demands throughout its distinct stages. The mammalian gestation period imposes various energetic costs and movement deficits, but its effects on the sensory system are poorly understood.
Mor Taub, Omer Mazar, Yossi Yovel
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Echolocation in humans: an overview [PDF]
WIREs Cognitive Science, 2016 Bats and dolphins are known for their ability to use echolocation. They emit bursts of sounds and listen to the echoes that bounce back to detect the objects in their environment. What is not as well‐known is that some blind people have learned to do the same thing, making mouth clicks, for example, and using the returning echoes from those clicks to ...
Thaler, L., Goodale, M.A.
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.The transition of cetaceans from a terrestrial to an aquatic environment involved a crucial sensory adaptation to environments with limited visibility. Vibrissae, important mechanoreceptors, undergo an ontogenetic transformation in odontocetes. This research describes the histomorphology of vibrissae and crypts at different developmental stages ...
Cecilia Mariana Krmpotic +10 more
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Understanding species interactions is critical for ecology and conservation, yet conventional network construction methods often lack spatiotemporal resolution and important contextual information. The growing field of ecoacoustics enables remote sensing across large spatiotemporal scales and the monitoring of otherwise cryptic communities ...
Will Dawson +5 more
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Ranging in human sonar: effects of additional early reflections and exploratory head movements.
PLoS ONE, 2014 Many blind people rely on echoes from self-produced sounds to assess their environment. It has been shown that human subjects can use echolocation for directional localization and orientation in a room, but echo-acoustic distance perception--e.g.
Ludwig Wallmeier, Lutz Wiegrebe
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Guessing at Ghosts in the Machine
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As AI grows ever more complex and ubiquitous, its moral status becomes increasingly pressing. But knowing whether an AI has moral status is only part of the ethical puzzle. To determine how we ought to treat such entities, we must know not only whether AIs have moral status, but also about the content of their interests—what contributes to ...
Helen Yetter‐Chappell
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BiomimeticsIn this paper, we introduce SonoNERFs, a novel approach that adapts Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) to model and understand the echolocation process in bats, focusing on the challenges posed by acoustic data interpretation without phase information ...
Wouter Jansen, Jan Steckel
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