Open AccessActive Control of Acoustic Field-of-View in a Biosonar System
Author(s) -
Yossi Yovel,
Ben Falk,
Cynthia F. Moss,
Nachum Ulanovsky
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001150
Subject(s) - human echolocation , sonar , biology , acoustics , point (geometry) , beam (structure) , bioacoustics , field (mathematics) , computer science , physics , optics , mathematics , geometry , pure mathematics
Echolocating bats can actively change the area scanned by their biosonar sensory system (“field of view”), and they do so according to the complexity of the environment and depending on the distance to the target.
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