Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Emde, Gerhard von der, editor.
Warrant, Eric, 1962- editor.
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| ISBN: | 9783319254920
3319254928
9783319254906
3319254901
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 29, 2015).
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| Summary: | 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 ℓ́ℓmatched filtersℓ́ℓ for the characteristics of the most ecologically crucial stimuli that need to be detected, suppressing or even rejecting other less important stimuli. Not only do these matched filters allow essential sensory stimuli to be rapidly and reliably extracted for further processing, they do so with the most efficient use of the animalℓ́ℓs limited energy supply. The collection of chapters in this book explore these principles across the senses, in both vertebrates and invertebrates, with a rich smorgasbord of case studies that explain how matched sensory filters are an essential feature in the ecology of animal sensing.
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| Other form: | Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Von der Emde, Gerhard. The Ecology of Animal Senses . Matched Filters for Economical Sensing
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-25492-0
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