The Ecology of Animal Senses Matched Filters for Economical Sensing /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: von der Emde, Gerhard (Editor), Warrant, Eric (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal ecology.; Animal physiology.; Neurobiology.; Life Sciences.; Animal Physiology.; Animal Ecology.

Sensory systems have evolved to deal with complex and seemingly infinite sensory information. However, during evolution the morphology and neural circuitry of sensory organs have become “matched filters” for the characteristics of the most ecologically crucial stimuli that need to be detected, suppr...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: sensory ecology and matched filters
• Energetic costs of neural tissue and its role in the evolution of sensory organs
• Visual matched filtering in arthropods
• Visual matched filtering in vertebrates
• Auditory matched filtering in invertebrates
• The ecology of olfaction
• The ecology of mechanoreception
• Magnetoreception
• Ecology of infrared sensing
• Matched filtering in two senses of one animal: partitioning of environmental sensing in African weakly electric fish
• The ecology of (active) whisking.