TY - JOUR
T1 - Acoustic Pattern Recognition and Courtship Songs
T2 - Insights from Insects
AU - Baker, Christa A.
AU - Clemens, Jan
AU - Murthy, Mala
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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 insectscrickets, grasshoppers, and fruit fliesreveals common strategies for extracting ethologically relevant information from acoustic patterns and how these findings might translate to other systems.
AB - 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 insectscrickets, grasshoppers, and fruit fliesreveals common strategies for extracting ethologically relevant information from acoustic patterns and how these findings might translate to other systems.
KW - Animal Communication
KW - Auditory Circuits
KW - Auditory Processing
KW - Courtship Songs
KW - Temporal Pattern Recognition
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-neuro-080317-061839
DO - 10.1146/annurev-neuro-080317-061839
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30786225
SN - 0147-006X
VL - 42
SP - 129
EP - 147
JO - Annual Review of Neuroscience
JF - Annual Review of Neuroscience
ER -