ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2012
Acoustic signal perception in a noisy habitat: lessons from synchronising insects.
Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Neuronal processing of complex sounds in the prothoracic ganglion of a bushcricket.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- A New Genus of Andean Katydid with Unusual Pronotal Structure for Enhancing Resonances.Biology · 2024Article
- Tonotopic CaJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024Article
- Collective synchrony of mating signals modulated by ecological cues and social signals in bioluminescent sea fireflies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Rhythm interaction in animal groups: selective attention in communication networks.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Evolutionarily conserved coding properties favour the neuronal representation of heterospecific signals of a sympatric katydid species.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Article
- Rhythm Generation and Rhythm Perception in Insects: The Evolution of Synchronous Choruses.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2016Article
- Competition and cooperation in a synchronous bushcricket chorus.Royal Society open science · 2014Article
- Genomics: moving behavioural ecology beyond the phenotypic gambit.Animal behaviour · 2014Article
- The importance of invertebrates when considering the impacts of anthropogenic noise.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
- Species interactions and the structure of complex communication networks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014Article
- From microseconds to seconds and minutes-time computation in insect hearing.Frontiers in physiology · 2014Review
- Maintaining acoustic communication at a cocktail party: heterospecific masking noise improves signal detection through frequency separation.The Journal of experimental biology · 2013Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Acoustically communicating animals often have to cope with ambient noise that has the potential to interfere with the perception of conspecific signals. Here we use the synchronous display of mating signals in males of the tropical katydid Mecopoda elongata in order to assess the influence of nocturnal rainforest noise on signal perception. Loud background noise may disturb chorus synchrony either by masking the signals of males or by interaction of noisy events with the song oscillator. Phase-locked synchrony of males was studied under various signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) using either native noise or the audio component of noise (<9 kHz). Synchronous entrainment was lost at a SNR of -3 dB when native noise was used, whereas with the audio component still 50% of chirp periods matched the pacer period at a SNR of -7 dB. Since the chirp period of solo singing males remained almost unaffected by noise, our results suggest that masking interference limits chorus synchrony by rendering conspecific signals ambiguous. Further, entrainment with periodic artificial signals indicates that synchrony is achieved by ignoring heterospecific signals and attending to a conspecific signal period. Additionally, the encoding of conspecific chirps was studied in an auditory neuron under the same background noise regimes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.