Overview
- Elucidates the concept of matched sensory filters as an evolutionary process
- Summarizes examples of matched filters in all senses
- Outlines the key requirements to energy-efficient senses from a neurobiological perspective
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Chemoreception
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Mechanoreception and Audition
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Vision
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Infrared-Perception
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Electroreception
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Book Title: The Ecology of Animal Senses
Book Subtitle: Matched Filters for Economical Sensing
Editors: Gerhard von der Emde, Eric Warrant
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25492-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25490-6Published: 28 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79800-4Published: 29 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25492-0Published: 16 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 269
Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Physiology, Neurobiology, Animal Ecology