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JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 285-290Publisher
INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1007/BF02703937
Keywords
auditory system; non-human animals; sensory modalities; visual communication
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The visual and auditory systems are two major sensory modalities employed in communication. Although communication in these two sensory modalities can serve analogous functions and evolve in response to similar selection forces, the two systems also operate under different constraints imposed by the environment and the degree to which these sensory modalities are recruited for non-communication functions. Also, the research traditions in each tend to differ, with studies of mechanisms of acoustic communication tending to take a more reductionist tack often concentrating on single signal parameters, and studies of visual communication tending to be more concerned with multivariate signal arrays in natural environments and higher level processing of such signals. Each research tradition would benefit by being more expansive in its approach.
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