Projektnummer

0053563

Zusammenfassung

Mammals have an extraordinary ability to identify auditory objects like communcation calls and speech. Echolocating mammals identify real, three-dimensional objects exclusively through the auditory analysis of echoes. For reliable object recognition, the auditory system must segregate information about object size from information about object structure. This results in a size-invariant object representation; the auditory object is normalized. Within this joint project a comprehensive set of psychophysical, imaging and electrophysiological studies have been carried out. In the final ph...