[HTML][HTML] A perspective on neuroethology: what the past teaches us about the future of neuroethology

MJ Beetz - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2024 - Springer
For 100 years, the Journal of Comparative Physiology-A has significantly supported
research in the field of neuroethology. The celebration of the journal's centennial is a great …

[HTML][HTML] Neural processing of naturalistic echolocation signals in bats

MJ Beetz, JC Hechavarría - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Echolocation behavior, a navigation strategy based on acoustic signals, allows scientists to
explore neural processing of behaviorally relevant stimuli. For the purpose of orientation …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of stimulus history on directional coding in the monarch butterfly brain

MJ Beetz, B El Jundi - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2023 - Springer
The central complex is a brain region in the insect brain that houses a neural network
specialized to encode directional information. Directional coding has traditionally been …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal coding of multiscale temporal features in communication sequences within the bat auditory cortex

F García-Rosales, MJ Beetz, Y Cabral-Calderin… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Experimental evidence supports that cortical oscillations represent multiscale temporal
modulations existent in natural stimuli, yet little is known about the processing of these …

[HTML][HTML] Bats distress vocalizations carry fast amplitude modulations that could represent an acoustic correlate of roughness

JC Hechavarría, M Jerome Beetz, F García-Rosales… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Communication sounds are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, where they play a role in
advertising physiological states and/or socio-contextual scenarios. Human screams, for …

Natural echolocation sequences evoke echo-delay selectivity in the auditory midbrain of the FM bat, Eptesicus fuscus

S Macías, J Luo, CF Moss - Journal of neurophysiology, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Echolocating bats must process temporal streams of sonar sounds to represent objects
along the range axis. Neuronal echo-delay tuning, the putative mechanism of sonar ranging …

The frugivorous bat Carollia perspicillata dynamically changes echolocation parameters in response to acoustic playback

MJ Beetz, M Kössl… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Animals extract behaviorally relevant signals from 'noisy'environments. Echolocation
behavior provides a rich system testbed for investigating signal extraction. When …

Auditory communication processing in bats: What we know and where to go.

A Salles, KM Bohn, CF Moss - Behavioral neuroscience, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Bats are the second largest mammalian order, with over 1,300 species. These animals show
diverse behaviors, diets, and habitats. Most bats produce ultrasonic vocalizations and …

[HTML][HTML] Auditory processing of communication calls in interacting bats

A Salles, E Loscalzo, J Montoya, R Mendoza… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
There is strong evidence that social context plays a role in the processing of acoustic
signals. Yet, the circuits and mechanisms that govern this process are still not fully …

Echo interval and not echo intensity drives bat flight behavior in structured corridors

M Warnecke, S Macías, B Falk… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
To navigate in the natural environment, animals must adapt their locomotion in response to
environmental stimuli. The echolocating bat relies on auditory processing of echo returns to …