Ebook: Hearing and Sound Communication in Fishes

This volume is a compilation of the papers presented at a meeting that took place in April 1980 at the Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida. The meeting and this volume are outgrowths of two earlier international meetings on marine bio-acoustics that occurred in 1963 and 1966 (Tavolga 1964, 1967). The first meeting took place at the Lerner Marine Laboratory of the American Museum of Natural History, while the second meeting was at the American Museum itself, and was under the sponsorship of the Department of Animal Behavior. It is apparent that these two volumes have had immense impact on the current study of marine bio-acoustics, and particularly on fish audition. In a preliminary conference in Sarasota in 1979 we decided that it was time for another such meeting, to bring together as many as possible of the investigators interested in fish acoustics in order to assess the current state of our knowledge and predict directions for research for the next several years. Such a meeting appeared par­ ticularly timely, since over the past four or five years there have been many new studies that have provided new empirical and theoretical work on basic mechanisms of fish audition. Furthermore, it became evident, as we made up preliminary lists of possible participants, that few of the currently active workers were in the field back in 1966. In fact, of the current participants, only Drs.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Fine Structure and Function of the Ear....Pages 3-38
Acousticolateralis System in Clupeid Fishes....Pages 39-59
The Swimbladder and Hearing....Pages 61-71
Audition in Elasmobranchs....Pages 73-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-105
The Hearing Abilities of Fish....Pages 107-107
Segregation of Directional and Nondirectional Acoustic Information in the Cod....Pages 109-137
Interspecific Differences in Hearing Capabilities for Select Teleost Species....Pages 139-171
Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Intensity Discrimination in the Goldfish....Pages 173-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-186
Coding of Acoustic Information in the Eighth Nerve....Pages 187-187
Frequency Characteristics of Primary Auditory Neurons from the Ear of the Cod, Gadus morhua L.....Pages 189-221
Frequency Discrimination in Teleosts—Central or Peripheral?....Pages 223-241
Mismatch between Sound Production and Hearing in the Oyster Toadfish....Pages 243-255
Front Matter....Pages 257-263
Models of Acoustic Localization....Pages 265-265
Directional Characteristics of Primary Auditory Neurons from the Cod Ear....Pages 267-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-328
Audition and the Central Nervous System of Fishes....Pages 329-329
Central Processing of Acousticolateralis Signals in Elasmobranchs....Pages 331-355
Comparative Neuroanatomy of the Octavolateralis Area of Fishes....Pages 357-373
Some Central Connections of Medullary Octavolateral Centers in a Mormyrid Fish....Pages 375-382
Front Matter....Pages 383-392
Sound Communication and Interception in Fishes....Pages 393-393
Front Matter....Pages 395-426
Neural Control of Teleost Sound Production....Pages 393-393
Sound Production in the Naked Goby, Gobiosoma bosci (Pisces, Gobiidae)—A Preliminary Study....Pages 427-445
Front Matter....Pages 447-456
The Lateral Line and Sound Reception....Pages 457-457
Stimulation of Lateral-Line Sensory Cells....Pages 459-480
Modeling the Effects of Stimulus Frequency and Intensity on Hair Cell Potentials....Pages 481-505
Lateral Line Function and the Internal Dynamics of Fish Schools....Pages 507-513
Front Matter....Pages 515-522
Comparisons of the Electric and Acoustic Senses and their Central Processing....Pages 523-523
Retrospect and Prospect—Listening through a Wet Filter....Pages 525-571
Back Matter....Pages 573-588
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