Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology

by Ghazanfar; Asif A.

• ISBN13: 9780849309564
• ISBN10: 0849309565
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-28
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Like speech, the species-specific vocalizations or calls of non-human primates mediate social interactions, convey important emotional information, and in some cases refer to objects and events in the caller's environment. These functional similarities suggest that the selective pressures which shaped primate vocal communication are similar to those that influenced the evolution of human speech. As such, investigating the perception and production of vocalizations in extant non-human primates provides one avenue for understanding the neural mechanisms of speech and for illuminating the substrates underlying the evolution of human language.Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology is the first book to bridge the epistemological gap between primate ethologists and auditory neurobiologists. It brings together the knowledge of world experts on different aspects of primate auditory function. Leading ethologists, comparative psychologists, and neuroscientists who have developed new experimental approaches apply their methods to a variety of issues dealing with primate vocal behavior and the neurobiology of the primate auditory system.With the advent of new signal processing techniques and the exponential growth in our knowledge of primate behavior, the time has arrived for a neurobiological investigation of the primate auditory system based on principles derived from ethology. The synthesis of ethological and neurobiological approaches to primate vocal behavior presented in Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology is likely to yield the richest understanding of the acoustic and neural bases of primate audition and possibly shed light on the evolutionary precursors to speech.

Table of Contents

Primates as Auditory Specialists	1	(12)
Asif A. Ghazanfar
Laurie R. Santos
Causal Knowledge in Free-Ranging Diana Monkeys	13	(14)
Klaus Zuberbuhler
Auditory Temporal Integration in Primates: A Comparative Analysis	27	(16)
Kevin N. O'Connor
Mitchell L. Sutter
Mechanisms of Acoustic Perception in the Cotton-Top Tamarin	43	(18)
Cory T. Miller
Daniel J. Weiss
Marc D. Hauser
Psychophysical and Perceptual Studies of Primate Communication Calls	61	(26)
Colleen G. Le Prell
David B. Moody
Primate Vocal Production and Its Implications for Auditory Research	87	(22)
W. Tecumseh S. Fitch
Developmental Modifications in the Vocal Behavior of Non-Human Primates	109	(18)
Julia Fischer
Ecological and Physiological Constraints for Primate Vocal Communication	127	(24)
Charles H: Brown
Neural Representation of Sound Patterns in the Auditory Cortex of Monkeys	151	(26)
Michael Brosch
Henning Scheich
Representation of Sound Location in the Primate Brain	177	(22)
Kristin A. Kelly
Ryan Metzger
O'Dhaniel A. Mullette-Gillman
Uri Werner-Reiss
Jennifer M. Groh
The Comparative Anatomy of the Primate Auditory Cortex	199	(28)
Troy A. Hackett
Auditory Communication and Central Auditory Mechanisms in the Squirrel Monkey: Past and Present	227	(20)
John D. Newman
Cortical Mechanisms of Sound Localization and Plasticity in Primates	247	(12)
Gregg H. Recanzone
Anatomy and Physiology of Auditory-Prefrontal Interactions in Non-Human Primates	259	(20)
Lizabeth M. Romanski
Cortical Processing of Complex Sounds and Species-Specific Vocalizations the Marmoset Monkey (Callithrix jacchus)	279	(22)
Xiaoqin Wang
Siddhartha C. Kadia
Thomas Lu
Li Liang
James A. Agamaite
Index	301