Overview
- Aimed at graduate students and postdoctoral investigators, as well as professionals and academics
- Covers a wide range of taxa and topics Of interest to researchers who study the acoustics, physiology, evolution, or neuroethology of sound production
- Provides easy to understand overviews of the various relevant theories and techniques related to vocal production in vertebrates
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (SHAR, volume 53)
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Although the fundamental principles of vocal production are well-understood, and are being increasingly applied by specialists to specific animal taxa, they stem originally from engineering research on the human voice. These origins create a double barrier to entry for biologists interested in understanding acoustic communication in their study species. The proposed volume aims to fill this gap, providing easy-to-understand overviews of the various relevant theories and techniques, and showing how these principles can be implemented in the study of all main vertebrate groups. The volume will have eleven chapters assembled from the world's leading researchers, at a level intelligible to a wide audience of biologists with no background in engineering or human voice science. Some will cover sound production in a particular vertebrate group; others will address a particular issue, such as vocal learning, across vertebrate taxa. The book will highlight what is known and how to implement useful techniques and methodologies, but will also summarize current gaps in the knowledge. It will serve both as a tutorial introduction for newcomers and a springboard for further research for all scientists interested in understanding animal acoustic signals.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Roderick Suthers is a professor in the Medical Sciences program at Indiana University Bloomington. He studies neural and physiological bases of acoustic behavior, particularly the neuroethology of vocal communication in birds and of echolocation in bats.
Tecumseh Fitch is an evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist. He is Professor of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna.
Tecumseh Fitch is an evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist. He is Professor of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vertebrate Sound Production and Acoustic Communication
Editors: Roderick A. Suthers, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper
Series Title: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27721-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27719-6Published: 09 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80201-5Published: 26 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27721-9Published: 27 April 2016
Series ISSN: 0947-2657
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1897
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 328
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Otorhinolaryngology, Neurobiology, Vertebrates