Hearing and Sound Communication in Fishes

This volume is a compilation of the papers presented at a meeting that took place in April 1980 at the Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida. The meeting and this volume are outgrowths of two earlier international meetings on marine bio-acoustics that occurred in 1963 and 1966 (Tavolga 1964, 1967). The first meeting took place at the Lerner Marine Laboratory of the American Museum of Natural History, while the second meeting was at the American Museum itself, and was under the sponsorship of the Department of Animal Behavior. It is apparent that these two volumes have had immense impact on the current study of marine bio-acoustics, and particularly on fish audition. In a preliminary conference in Sarasota in 1979 we decided that it was time for another such meeting, to bring together as many as possible of the investigators interested in fish acoustics in order to assess the current state of our knowledge and predict directions for research for the next several years. Such a meeting appeared par­ ticularly timely, since over the past four or five years there have been many new studies that have provided new empirical and theoretical work on basic mechanisms of fish audition. Furthermore, it became evident, as we made up preliminary lists of possible participants, that few of the currently active workers were in the field back in 1966. In fact, of the current participants, only Drs.

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One Form and Function.- 1 Fine Structure and Function of the Ear (With 10 Figures).- 2 Acousticolateralis System in Clupeid Fishes (With 7 Figures).- 3 The Swimbladder and Hearing (With 9 Figures).- 4 The Utricle in Ictalurus punctatus (With 3 Figures).- 5 Audition in Elasmobranchs (With 17 Figures).- Two Auditory Capabilities and Psychophysics.- 6 The Hearing Abilities of Fish (With 7 Figures).- 7 Segregation of Directional and Nondirectional Acoustic Information in the Cod (With 6 Figures).- 8 Interspecific Differences in Hearing Capabilities for Select Teleost Species (With 2 Figures).- 9 Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Intensity Discrimination in the Goldfish (With 5 Figures).- Three Physiological Mechanisms of the Ear.- 10 Coding of Acoustic Information in the Eighth Nerve (With 16 Figures).- 11 Frequency Characteristics of Primary Auditory Neurons from the Ear of the Cod, Gadus morhua L. (With 12 Figures).- 12 Frequency Discrimination in Teleosts-Central or Peripheral? (With 5 Figures).- 13 Mismatch between Sound Production and Hearing in the Oyster Toadfish (With 1 Figure).- Four Sound Source Localization.- 14 Models of Acoustic Localization (With 14 Figures).- 15 Directional Characteristics of Primary Auditory Neurons from the Cod Ear (With 10 Figures).- Five Central Nervous System.- 16 Audition and the Central Nervous System of Fishes (With 8 Figures).- 17 Central Processing of Acousticolateralis Signals in Elasmobranchs (With 7 Figures).- 18 Comparative Neuroanatomy of the Octavolateralis Area of Fishes (With 2 Figures).- 19 Some Central Connections of Medullary Octavolateral Centers in a Mormyrid Fish (With 3 Figures).- Six Sound Production and Acoustical Behavior.- 20 Sound Communication and Interception in Fishes.- 21 Neural Control of Teleost Sound Production (With 9 Figures).- 22 Sound Production in the Naked Goby, Gobiosoma bosci (Pisces, Gobiidae)-A Preliminary Study (With 6 Figures).- Seven Lateral Line System.- 23 The Lateral Une and Sound Reception (With 11 Figures).- 24 Stimulation of Lateral-Line Sensory Cells (With 7 Figures).- 25 Modeling the Effects of Stimulus Frequency and Intensity on Hair Cell Potentials (With 4 Figures).- 26 Lateral Line Function and the Internal Dynamics of Fish Schools (With 1 Figure).- Eight Prospectives.- 27 Comparisons of the Electric and Acoustic Senses and their Central Processing (With 14 Figures).- 28 Retrospect and Prospect-Listening through a Wet Filter.- Author Index.