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Title: Fish Bioacoustics
Editors: Jacqueline F. Webb, Arthur N. Popper, and Richard R. Fay Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-0-387-73028-8
Pages: 322
Binding: Hardcover
The study of how fish make and respond to sound has important implications for com- munication, physiology, behavior, and commercial techniques. Fish Bioacoustics, volume 32 in the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research series, presents a new definitive volume on fish auditory systems that will interest investigators in both basic research of fish bioa- coustics as well as investigators in applied aspects of fisheries and resource management. Topics cover structure, physiology, localization, and acoustic behavior as well as more applied topics such as using sound to detect and locate fish. The importance of under- standing fish is not only because it was in fish that the vertebrate auditory system origi- nally arose, but also because fishes comprise the largest group of vertebrates by far. Indeed, there are more extant species of fishes than there are of all other vertebrate species combined. And, with this diversity in species, fishes show remarkable diversity and adap- tations in the ways in which they deal with the aquatic environment including noise. The diversity of structure and function in sensory systems is exceptional, and suggests that, as
fishes have evolved, they have found “new” ways to gather information about their highly diverse environments. This diversi- ty is particularly evident in the octavolateralis system of fishes, the inner ear and the lateral line—the senses that detect water motion and sound.
Title: Music Perception
Editors: Mari Riess Jones, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-1-4419-6113-6
Pages: 264
Binding: Hardcover
Volume 36 in the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research series considers Music Perception. The volume presents an overview of this relatively new field of psychoacoustic and hearing research that involves the perception of musical sound patterns. The material is considered in a set of chapters that reflect the current status of scientific scholarship related to music per- ception. Each chapter aims to synthesize a range of findings associated with one of several major research areas in the field of music perception.
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