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Comparisons of the Electric and Acoustic Senses and their Central Processing

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Hearing and Sound Communication in Fishes

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Abstract

Hearing is but one member of a large family of modalities that we call, collectively, the octavolateralis system, a better term than the older acousticolateralis system. This system embraces receptors for gravity, angular acceleration, vibration, water flow, turbulence and other aspects of aquatic disturbance not yet distinguished, acoustic and electric fields, indirectly magnetic fields, by the induced electric currents, not to mention the claims of chemosensitivity (Katsuki and Onada 1973, Yoshioka et al. 1978) and thermosensitivity (Hoagland 1933,1935, Sand 1938).

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Bullock, T.H. (1981). Comparisons of the Electric and Acoustic Senses and their Central Processing. In: Tavolga, W.N., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) Hearing and Sound Communication in Fishes. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7186-5_27

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  • Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-4615-7188-9

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4615-7186-5

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

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