Bats achieve high-resolution echolocation despite using wide acoustic beams through specialized neural processing
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Bats achieve high-resolution spatial perception and target localization despite wide acoustic sonar beams through specialized neural processing and active acoustic scanning mechanisms.
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Acoustic scanning of natural scenes by echolocation in the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus.
2009 · cited by 95
Paper 0 shows that despite using broad sonar beams covering a wide cone, big brown bats achieve high-resolution target scanning by sequentially aiming and shifting their sonar gaze.
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A comprehensive computational model of animal biosonar signal processing.
2021 · cited by 18
Paper 5 details computational models demonstrating how bats process wideband biosonar signals through specialized auditory mechanisms like amplitude-latency trading to extract fine target shape and range.