Underwater Hearing
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Title | Underwater Hearing |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2008 |
Authors | Popper, A. N., and D. R. Ketten |
Editors | Basbaum, A., M. Bushnell, D. Smith, G. Beauchamp, S. Firestein, P. Dallos, D. Oertel, R. Masland, T. Albright, J. Kaas, and E. Gardner |
Book Title | The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference, Six-Volume Set |
Volume | 3 |
Number of Volumes | 6 |
Chapter | Underwater hearing |
Pagination | 225-236 |
Publisher | Elsevier Press |
City | Oxford, England |
ISBN Number | 978-0-12-370880-9 |
ISBN | 0-12-639482-2 |
Keywords | acoustics, auditory system, cognition, marine mammal audiometrics, marine mammal hearing, neuroscience, sensory function, sensory systems, underwater hearing |
Abstract | This chapter examines the structure and function of hearing and the auditory system in fishes and marine mammals. Hearing is considered in terms of the evolution of the vertebrate auditory system in fishes and the readaption of mammals to the aquatic environment. |