Primate Hearing and Communication

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Quam, Rolf M. (Editor), Ramsier, Marissa A. (Editor), Fay, Richard R. (Editor), Popper, Arthur N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 63
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Primate Hearing and Communication provides unique insights into the evolution of hearing and communication in primates, including humans. ·         Introduction to Primate Hearing and Communication Marissa A. Ramsier and Rolf M. Quam ·         The Primate Peripheral Auditory System and the Evolution...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Functional Anatomy of Sound Production & Reception in Primates
• Functional anatomy of sound production in primates.- The primate peripheral auditory system.- Neural processing, perception & psychoacoustics.- Primate auditory sensitivity.- Habitat Acoustics and Vocal Communication.- Habitat acoustics.- Modeling the origins of primate vocal communication: a comparative approach to nocturnal prosimians.- Vocal communication in “family-living”/pair-bonded primates.- Vocal communication in large social groups.- Evolution of hearing and language in humans.