NROS314

043385

How do animals communicate and navigate using sound? How do they alter their vocalizations in response to the auditory environment? How do their brains enable these abilities? These are among the questions that we will address in this CURE course. We will examine these topics by looking at two different organisms. First, how do bats alter their vocalizations, including social calls and echolocation, in different environments? Second, how do individual birds change their courtship songs throughout the breeding season? And/or, how do different birds change their courtship songs based upon the environment in which they live? To answer these questions, you'll do original research in auditory neuroscience with a team of undergraduates focused on recording and processing ultrasonic bat vocalizations and the songs of birds.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate