By William E. S. Carr (auth.), Jelle Atema, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, William N. Tavolga (eds.)

This quantity constitutes a chain of invited chapters according to shows given at a world convention at the Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals held June 24-28, 1985 on the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida. The instant goal of the convention was once to spark an alternate of rules, thoughts, and strategies between investigators enthusiastic about different sensory modalities hired via a large choice of animal species in extracting details from the aquatic atmosphere. through necessity, so much investigators of sensory biology are experts in a single sensory approach: various stimulus modalities require varied equipment of stimulus keep watch over and, often, diversified animal types. but, it truly is transparent that each one sensory structures have ideas in universal, comparable to stimulus filtering via peripheral buildings, tuning of receptor cells, signal-to-noise ratios, adaption and disadaptation, and powerful dynamic diversity. different positive factors, comparable to hormonal and efferent neural keep watch over, circadian reorganization, and receptor recycling are recognized in a few and never in different senses. The convention afforded an elevated wisdom of recent discoveries in different sensory platforms that has successfully encouraged a clean glance by means of many of the members at their very own sector of specialization to determine even if comparable ideas follow. This notion was once came across not just in theoretical concerns, yet both in thoughts and techniques of process. The myopy of sensory specialization used to be damaged in a single unforeseen approach by means of exhibiting boundaries of person experience organs and their integration inside of each one organism. for example, learning imaginative and prescient, one in most cases chooses a visible animal as a model.