Hearing and Sound Communication in Amphibians is an integrated approach that guides each chapter and provides a neuroethologically-driven and evolutionary basis for our understanding of acoustic communication and its underlying mechanisms.

Contents

1. Hearing and Sound Communication in Amphibians: Prologue and Prognostication
2. An Integrated Phylogeny of Amphibia
3. The Behavioral Ecology of Anuran Communication
4. Call Production and Neural Basis of Vocalization
5. Recognition and Localization of Acoustic Signals
6. Pathways for Sound Transmission to the Inner Ear in Amphibians
7. Anatomy, Physiology, and Function of Auditory End Organs in the Frog Inner Ear
8. Central Auditory Pathways in Anuran Amphibians: The Anatomical Basis of Hearing and Sound Communication
9. Function of the Amphibian Central Auditory System
10. Plasticity in the Auditory System Across Metamorphosis
11. Sound Processing in Real-World Environments

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