Sound evoked fos-like immunoreactivity in the big brown bat.

ABSTRACT: Most bat species have highly developed audio-vocal systems, which allow them to adjust the features of echolocation calls that are optimized for different sonar tasks, such as detecting, localizing, discriminating and tracking targets. Furthermore, bats can also produce a wide array of social calls to communicate with conspecifics. The acoustic properties of some social calls differ only subtly from echolocation calls, yet bats have the ability to distinguish them and reliably produce appropriate behavioral responses. Little is known about the underlying neural processes that enable the correct classification of bat social communication sounds. One approach to this question is to identify the brain regions that are involved in the processing of sounds that carry behavioral relevance. Here,

SUBMITTER: Salles A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9210485 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature