Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone.
Bats are well known for their ability to “see” with sound, using echolocation to find food and their roosts. Some bats may ...
Researchers have demonstrated that echolocating bats use an acoustic cognitive map to navigate long distances in complete ...
In the new study, the team wanted to investigate whether screening movies during fMRI scanning could give any insight into how the brain’s functional networks respond to a series of complex audio and ...
But it turns out echolocation for bats is much more than just a short-range obstacle-avoidance and ... thousands of sound signatures into acoustic maps they use to successfully navigate several ...
Some bats were fitted solely with the ATLAS system, while others were additionally manipulated to assess how their vision, ...
Bats navigate effectively using echolocation and memory. This study shows how they use past experiences to map their ...
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Who said watching movies all day can’t be educational? Scientists have just unveiled the most detailed functional map of the ...
When research on an intriguing material called for hundreds of samples, secondary-school students, teachers and technicians stepped up.