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Signals & signal detection


(Sensory mechanisms & development of cognition)




Animal Cognition arthropodaAndrews, K., Reed, S.M. & Masta, S.E. 2007. Spiders fluoresce variably across many taxa. Biology Letters. 3: 265-267.        June 2007



Animal Cognition avesAronov, D., Andalman, A.S. & Fee, M.S. 2008. A specialized forebrain circuit for vocal babbling in the juvenile songbird. Science 320: 630-634.       May 2008      
See also:
Learning & memory   
   Communication     


Animal Cognition mammaliaBarber, J.R., Conner, W.E. 2007. Acoustic mimicry in a predator-prey interaction. PNAS 104: 9331-9334.
May 2007


Animal Cognition mammaliaBates, L.A., Sayialel, K.N., Njiraini, N.W., Moss, C.J., Poole, J.H. & Byrne, R.W. 2007. Elephants classify human ethnic groups by odor and garment color. Current Biology 17: 1938-1942     November 2007
See also: Recognition   


Animal Cognition fishBorowsky, R. 2008. Restoring sight in blind cavefish. Current Biology 18: R23-R24.   
 January 2008


Animal CognitionBraun, J. 2007. Vision: Attending the invisible. Current Biology 17: R202-203.      April 2007



Animal Cognition arthropodaBush, A.A., Yu, D.W. & Herberstein, M.E. 2008. Function of bright coloration in the wasp spider Argiope bruennichi (Araneae: Araneidae). Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 1337-1342.      June 2008    
See also:
Communication   


Animal Cognition avesCarter, J., Lyons, N.J., Cole, H.L. & Goldsmith, A.R. 2008. Subtle cues of predation risk: starlings respond to a predator's direction of eye-gaze. Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 1709-1715.      August 2008



Animal Cognition mammaliaCartmill, E.A. & Byrne, R.W. 2007. Orangutans modify their gestural signaling according to their audience's comprehension. Current Biology 17: 1345-1448.         August 2007


Animal Cognition mammaliaCatania, K.C., Hare, J.F. & Campbel, K.L. 2008. Water shrews detect movement, shape, and smell to find prey underwater. PNAS 105: 571-576.          January 2008


Animal Cognition mammaliaCelikel, T., Sakmann, B. 2007. Sensory integration across space and in time for decision making in the somatosensory system of rodents. PNAS 104: 1395-1400.    January 2007   
See also: Decision-making



Animal Cognition arthropodaCervo, R., Dapparto, L., Beani, L., Strassmann, J.E., Turillazzi, S. 2008. On status badges and quality signals in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus: body size, facial colour patterns and hierarchical rank. Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 1189-1196   May 2008


Animal Cognition mammaliaCheetham, S.A., Thom, M.D., Jury, F., Ollier, W.E.R., Beynon, R.J. & Hurst, J.L. 2007. The genetic basis of individual-recognition signals in the mouse. Current Biology 17: 1771-1777.     October 2007    
See also: Recognition
   


Animal Cognition arthropodaChesler, A. & Firestein, S. 2008. Neuroscience: current views on odour receptors. Nature 452: 944.     April 2008



Animal Cognition arthropodaChiou, T-H., Kleinlogel, S., Cronin, T., Caldwell, R., Loeffler, B., Siddiqi, A., Goldizen, A. & Marshall, J. 2008. Circular polarization visioni in a stomatopod crustacean. Current Biology 18: 429-434.      March 2008


Animal Cognition arthropodaChuang, C., Yang, E. & Tso, I. 2008. Deceptive color signaling in the night: a nocturnal predator attracts prey with visual lures. Behavioral Ecology 19: 237-244.       March 2008


Animal Cognition avesClark, C.J. & Feo, T.J. 2008. The Anna's hummingbird chirps with its tail: a new mechanism of sonation in birds. Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 955-962.     April 2008   
See also:
 Communication        


Animal Cognition mammaliaClucas, B., Owings, D.H. & Rowe, M.P. 2008. Donning your enemy's cloak: ground squirrels exploit rattlesnake scent to reduce predation risk. Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 847-852.     April 2008   
See also: Recognition   
 


Animal Cognition arthropodaCouvillon, M.J. & Ratnieks, F.L.W. 2008. Odor transfer in stingless bee marmelada (Frieseomelitta varia) demonstrates that entrance guards use an "undesirable-absent" recognition system.  Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 62: 1099-1105.   May 2008
 See also:
Recognition       Group-dynamics      


Animal Cognition mammaliaCowing, J.A., Arrese, C.A., Davies, W.L., Beazley, L.D. & Hunt, D.M. 2008. Cone visual pigments in two marsupial species: the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) and the honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus). Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 1491-1499.      July 2008


Animal Cognition fishCummings, M.E.  2007. Sensory trade-offs predict signal divergence in Surfperch. Evolution 61: 530-544.
March 2007



Animal Cognition arthropodaDuistermars, B.J. & Frye, M.A. 2008. Crossmodal visual input for odor tracking during fly flight. Current Biology 18: 270-275.    February 2008



Animal CognitionEdwards, D.P. & Yu, D.W. 2007. The roles of sensory traps in the origin, maintenance, and breakdown of mutualism. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 1321-1327            August 2007



Animal Cognition arthropodaEgelhaaf, M. 2008. Fly vision: neural mechanisms of motion computation. Current Biology 18: R339-R341.  
April 2008



Animal Cognition fishEngeszer, R.E., Wang, G., Ryan, M.J. & Parichy, D.M. 2008. Sex-specific perceptual spaces for a vertebrate basal social aggregative behavior. PNAS 105: 929-933.           January 2008  
See also: Group-dynamics
       


Animal Cognition avesEvans, C.S. & Evans, L. 2007. Representational signalling in birds. Biology Letters 3: 8-11.     February 2007
See also: Communication


Animal Cognition fishFerrari, M.C.O., Gonzalo, A., Messier, F. & Chievers, D.P. 2007. Generalization of learned predator recognition: an experimental test and framework for future studies.  Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 1853-1859.     August 2007   
See also:
  Learning & memory        Recognition
          


Animal Cognition avesFuller, R. A., Warren, P.H., Gaston, K.J. 2007. Daytime noise predicts nocturnal singing in urban robins. Biology Letters 3: 368-370.      August 2007    
See also:
Communication       


Animal Cognition fishGerlach. G., Atema, J., Kingsford, M.J., Black, K.P., Miller-Sims V. 2007. Smelling home can prevent dispersal of reef fish larvae. PNAS 104: 858-863.    January 2007 


Animal Cognition mammalia5Gibson, B.M., Lazareva, O.F., Gosselin, F., Schyns, P.G., Wasserman E.A. 2007. Nonaccidental properties underlie shape recognition in mammalian and nonmammalian vision. Current Biology 17: 336-340.         February 2007   
 

Animal Cognition arthropodaGilbert, C. 2007. Visual neuroscience: Hypercomplex cells in the arthropod visual system. Current Biology 17: R412-R414.
  June 2007


Animal Cognition arthropodaGilbert, C. & Kuenen, L.P.S. 2008. Multimodal integration: visual cues help odor-seeking fruit flies. Current Biology 18: R295-R297.   April 2008



Animal Cognition arthropodaGoulson, D., Cruise, J.L., Sparrow, K.R., Harris, A.J., Park, K.J., Tinsley, M.C. & Gilburn, A.S. 2007. Choosing rewarding flowers; perceptual limitations and innate preferences influence decision making in bumblebees and honeybees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 61: 1523-1529.     August 2007   See also: Decision-making             


Animal Cognition amphibiaGrafe, T.U. & Wagner, T.C. 2007. Multimodal signaling in male and female foot-flagging frogs Staurois guttatus (Ranidae): an altering function of calling. Ethology 113: 772- 781.         August 2007          
See also:
Communication             


Animal Cognition arthropodaGreiner, B., Narendra, A., Reid, S.F., Dacke, M., Ribi, W.A. & Zeil, J. 2007. Eye structure correlates with distinct foraging-bout timing in primitive ants.  Current Biology 17: R879-R880.         October 2007


Animal Cognition arthropodaGruter, C., Balbuena, M.S. & Farina, W.M. 2008. Informational conflicts created by the waggle dance. Proc. R. Soc. B. 1640: 1321-1327.      June 2008  
See also:
Group-dynamics  
   Communication     


Animal Cognition mammaliaHadj-Bouziane, F., Bell, A.H., Knusten, T.A., Ungerleider, L.G. & Tootell, R.B.H. 2008. Perception of emotional expressions is independent of face selectivity in monkey inferior temporal cortex. PNAS 105: 5591-5596.     April 2008
See also:  Emotions            Neuroethology     


Animal Cognition arthropodaHarris, R.A., Graham, P., Collett, T.S. 2007. Visual cues for the retrieval of landmark memories by navigating wood ants. Current Biology 17:93-102.          February 2007   


Animal Cognition mammaliaHe, J., Ma, L., Kim, S., Nakai, J. & Yu, C.R. 2008. Encoding gender and individual information in the mouse vomeronasal organ. Science 320: 535-538.          April 2008


Animal Cognition arthropodaHeinze, S., Homberg, U. 2007. Maplike representation of celestial E-vector orientations in the brain of an insect. Science 315: 995- 997.         February 2007   


Animal Cognition fishHeuschele, J., Candolin, U. 2007. An increase in pH boosts olfactory communication in sticklebacks. Biology Letters 3: 411-413.           August 2007
See also: Communication    


Animal Cognition amphibiaHobel, G. & Gerhardt, H.C. 2007. Sources of selection on signal timing in a tree frog. Ethology 113: 973-982.  
October 2007




Animal Cognition mammaliaHoffman, K.L., Gothard, K.M., Schmid, M.C., Logothetis, N.K. 2007. Facial-expression and gaze-selective responses in the monkey amygdala. Current Biology 17: 766-772.      May 2007
See also:
 Emotions
  


Animal Cognition arthropodater Hofstede, H.M., Ratcliffe, J.M. & Fullard, J.H. 2008. Nocturnal activity positively correlated with auditory sensitivity in noctuoid moths. Biology Letters 4: 262-265.     June 2008



Animal Cognition amphibia
Hoke, K.L., Ryan, M.J. & Wilczynski, W. 2007. Integration of sensory and motor processing underlying social behavior in tundra frogs. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 641-649.          March 2007
See also:
Communication    


Animal Cognition avesIhalainen, E., Lindstrom, L., Mappes, J. & Puolakkainen, S. 2008. Can experienced birds select for Mullerian mimicry? Behavioral Ecology 19: 362-368.          March 2008



Animal Cognition arthropodaIhalainen, E., Lindstrom, L., Mappes, J. & Puolakkainen, S. 2008. Butterfly effects in mimicry? Combining signal and taste can twist the relationship of Mullerian co-mimics. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 1267-1276.      April 2008




Animal Cognition molluscaKelman, E.J., Baddeley, R.J., Shohet, A.J., Osorio, D. 2007. Perception of visual texture and the expression of distruptive camouflage by the cuttlefish, Sepia officinalisProc. R. Soc. B. 274: 1369-1375.       June 2007


Animal Cognition mammaliaKing, L.E., Douglas-Hamilton, I. & Vollrath, F. 2007. African elephants run from the sound of disturbed bees. Current Biology 17: R832-R833.            October 2007


Animal Cognition mammaliaKlein, J.T., Deaner, R.O. & Platt, M.L. 2008. Neural correlates of social target value in Macaque parietal cortex. Current Biology 18: 419- 424.     March 2008 
 
See also:  Communication         Neuroethology   


Animal Cognition arthropodaKoshitaka, H., Kinoshita, M., Vorobyev, M. & Arikawa, K. 2008. Tetrachromacy in a butterfly that has eight varieties of spectral receptors. Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 947-954.          April 2008



Animal Cognition arthropodaKulahci, I.G., Dornhaus, A. & Papaj, D.R. 2008. Multimodal signals enhance decision making in foraging bumblebees.     Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 797-802     April 2008
See also: 
Learning & memory       
  Decision-making       


Animal Cognition avesKurochkin, E.N., Dyke, G.J., Saveliev, S.V., Pervushov, E.M. & Popov, E.V. 2007. A fossil brain from the Cretaceous of European Russia and avian sensory evolution. Biology Letters. 3: 309-313.        June 2007


Animal Cognition avesLaidre, M.E. & Vehrencamp, S.L. 2008. Is bird song a reliable signal of aggressive intent? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 1207-1211.           May 2008



Animal Cognition molluscaLangridge, K.V., Broom, M. & Osorio, D. 2007. Selective signalling by cuttlefish to predators. Current Biology 17: 1044-1045.            December 2007



Animal Cognition mammaliaLeavens, D.A. 2007. Animal cognition: multimodal tactics of orangutan communication. Current Biology 17: R762-R764.
September 2007             
See also:
Communication     



Animal Cognition arthropodaLetzkus, P., Boeddeker, N., Wood, J.T., Zhang, S. & Srinivasan, M.V. 2007. Lateralization of visual learning in the honeybee.  Biology Letters 4: 16-18.         February 2008   
See also: Learning & memory
       


Animal Cognition arthropodaLi, J., Zhang, Z., Liu, F., Liu, Q., Gan, W., Chen, J., Lim, M.L.M. & Li, D. 2008. UVB-based mate-choice cues used by females of the jumping spider Phintella vittata. Current Biology 18: 699-703.          May 2008


Animal Cognition reptilia55Lohmann, K.J. 2007. Sea turtles: navigating with magnetism. Current Biology 17: R102-R107 . (about Luschi et al. January 2007)        February 2007  
See also:
 Orientation & Navigation 


Animal Cognition reptilia55Luschi, P., Benhamou, S., Girard, C., Ciccione, S., Roos, D., Sudre, J. & Benvenuti, S. 2007. Marine turtles use geomagnetic cues during open-sea homing. Current Biology 17: 126-133.    January 2007 
See also: 
 Orientation & navigation   
  

Animal Cognition arthropodaMattila, H.R., Burke, K.M. & Seeley, T.D. 2008. Genetic diversity within honeybee colonies increases signal production by waggle-dancing foragers. Proc. R. Soc. B.  275: 809-816.   April 2008 
See also: Communication       
    
 

Animal Cognition mammaliaMitchinson, B., Martin, C.J., Grant, R.A., Prescott, T.J. 2007. Feedback control in active sensing: rat exploratory whisking is modulated by environmental contact. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 1035-1041.         April 2007



Animal Cognition avesMoller, A.P., Mousseau, T.A. 2007. Birds prefer to breed in sites with low radioactivity in Chernobyl. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 1443-1448.           June 2007


Animal Cognition avesMoller, A.P., Mousseau, T.A., de Lope, F., Saino, N. 2007. Elevated frequency of abnormalities in barn swallows from Chernobyl. Biology Letters 3: 414-417.              August 2007



Animal Cognition mammaliaNadler, J.W., Angelaki, D.E. & DeAngelis, G.C.