Treefrogs as animal models for research on auditory scene analysis and the cocktail party problem

MA Bee - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2015 - Elsevier
The perceptual analysis of acoustic scenes involves binding together sounds from the same
source and separating them from other sounds in the environment. In large social groups …

Sound source perception in anuran amphibians

MA Bee - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Sound source perception refers to the auditory system's ability to parse incoming sensory
information into coherent representations of distinct sound sources in the environment. Such …

Anuran acoustic signal perception in noisy environments

A Vélez, JJ Schwartz, MA Bee - Animal communication and noise, 2013 - Springer
Choruses of acoustically signaling frogs and toads are among the most impressive acoustic
spectacles known from the natural world. They are loud, raucous social environments that …

Does traffic noise alter calling time in frogs and toads? A case study of anurans in Eastern Ontario, Canada

F Vargas-Salinas, GM Cunnington, A Amézquita… - Urban …, 2014 - Springer
In habitats disturbed by anthropogenic noise, acoustically communicating species may
develop behavioral responses that help them transmit information and overcome signal …

Receiver psychology turns 20: is it time for a broader approach?

CT Miller, MA Bee - Animal Behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
Twenty years ago, a new conceptual paradigm known as 'receiver psychology'was
introduced to explain the evolution of animal communication systems. This paradigm …

Dip listening and the cocktail party problem in grey treefrogs: signal recognition in temporally fluctuating noise

A Vélez, MA Bee - Animal Behaviour, 2011 - Elsevier
Dip listening refers to our ability to catch brief 'acoustic glimpses' of speech and other
sounds when fluctuating background noise levels momentarily decrease. Exploiting dips in …

Interactions between complex multisensory signal components result in unexpected mate choice responses

N Stange, RA Page, MJ Ryan, RC Taylor - Animal Behaviour, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Túngara frogs assess acoustic and visual components of multimodal mating
signals.•The vocal sac increases attractiveness of simple acoustic signals.•The relative …

[PDF][PDF] Neural basis of acoustic species recognition in a cryptic species complex

S Gupta, RK Alluri, GJ Rose… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Sexual traits that promote species recognition are important drivers of reproductive isolation,
especially among closely related species. Identifying neural processes that shape species …

Within-individual variation in sexual displays: signal or noise?

JC Tanner, MA Bee - Behavioral Ecology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Animal sexual displays are typically repeated over time and consist of components that are
also repeated within a display, creating potential for within-individual variation in signal …

Frogs exploit statistical regularities in noisy acoustic scenes to solve cocktail-party-like problems

N Lee, JL Ward, A Vélez, C Micheyl, MA Bee - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Noise is a ubiquitous source of errors in all forms of communication [1]. Noise-induced errors
in speech communication, for example, make it difficult for humans to converse in noisy …