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Principles of Animal Communication

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Part 1 Production, transmission, and reception of signals: the properties of sound fourier analysis sound production sound propogation sound reception properties of light production and transmission of light signals light signal reception chemical signals electroreception.
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Part 1 Production, transmission, and reception of signals: the properties of sound fourier analysis sound production sound propogation sound reception properties of light production and transmission of light signals light signal reception chemical signals electroreception. Part 2 Optimizing information transfer: optimizing communication the amount of information the value of information coding signal evolution costs and constraints on signal evolution signal design rules. Part 3 Game theory and signalling strategies: evolutionary game theory signal honesty conflict resolution territorial signalling games mating games and signalling social integration environmental signals autocommunication.

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The eyes have it: the neuroethology, function and evolution of social gaze

TL;DR: The hypothesis that gaze following is "hard-wired" in the brain, and may be localized within a circuit linking the superior temporal sulcus, amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex is discussed.
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Acoustic Communication in Noise

TL;DR: This chapter reviews recent advancements in studies of vocal adaptations to interference by background noise and relates these to fundamental issues in sound perception in animals and humans.
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Complex signal function: developing a framework of testable hypotheses

TL;DR: This work builds a framework of functional hypotheses of complex signal evolution based on content-driven (ultimate) and efficacy-driven selection pressures (sensu Guilford and Dawkins 1991), and point out key predictions for various hypotheses and discuss different approaches to uncovering complex signal function.
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The Evolution of Language

TL;DR: The authors exploit newly available massive natu- ral language corpora to capture the language as a language evolution phenomenon. But their work is limited to a subset of the languages in the corpus.
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Graded persistent activity in entorhinal cortex neurons

TL;DR: It is shown that individual neurons from layer V of the entorhinal cortex—which link the hippocampus to extensive cortical regions—respond to consecutive stimuli with graded changes in firing frequency that remain stable after each stimulus presentation, which constitutes an elementary mechanism for working memory.