ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2015
Directional hearing: from biophysical binaural cues to directional hearing outdoors.
Review in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Scaled 3D-printed models of insect outer-ear with tympanic membranes and acoustic trachea preserving key acoustic features.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026Article
- The ground offers acoustic efficiency gains for crickets and other calling animals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Mapping the Auditory Space ofInsects · 2023Article
- Phonotactic steering and representation of directional information in the ascending auditory pathway of a cricket.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Functional Maps of Mechanosensory Features in the Drosophila Brain.Current biology : CB · 2018Article
- Evolution of directional hearing in moths via conversion of bat detection devices to asymmetric pressure gradient receivers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Inherent Directionality Determines Spatial Release from Masking at the Tympanum in a Vertebrate with Internally Coupled Ears.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2016Article
- The Auditory System of the Dipteran Parasitoid Emblemasoma auditrix (Sarcophagidae).Journal of insect science (Online) · 2016Article
- Insect hearing: from physics to ecology.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
When insects communicate by sound, or use acoustic cues to escape predators or detect prey or hosts they have to localize the sound in most cases, to perform adaptive behavioral responses. In the case of particle velocity receivers such as the antennae of mosquitoes, directionality is no problem because such receivers are inherently directional. Insects equipped with bilateral pairs of tympanate ears could principally make use of binaural cues for sound localization, like all other animals with two ears. However, their small size is a major problem to create sufficiently large binaural cues, with respect to both interaural time differences (ITDs, because interaural distances are so small), but also with respect to interaural intensity differences (IIDs), since the ratio of body size to the wavelength of sound is rather unfavorable for diffractive effects. In my review, I will only shortly cover these biophysical aspects of directional hearing. Instead, I will focus on aspects of directional hearing which received relatively little attention previously, the evolution of a pressure difference receiver, 3D-hearing, directional hearing outdoors, and directional hearing for auditory scene analysis.
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