Integrating vision and echolocation for navigation and perception in bats.

ABSTRACT: How animals integrate information from various senses to navigate and generate perceptions is a fundamental question. Bats are ideal animal models to study multisensory integration due to their reliance on vision and echolocation, two modalities that allow distal sensing with high spatial resolution. Using three behavioral paradigms, we studied different aspects of multisensory integration in Egyptian fruit bats. We show that bats learn the three-dimensional shape of an object using vision only, even when using both vision and echolocation. Nevertheless, we demonstrate that they can classify objects using echolocation and even translate echoic information into a visual representation. Last, we show that in navigation, bats dynamically switch between the modalities: Vision was given more we

SUBMITTER: Danilovich S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594759 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature