Fear conditioned discrimination of frequency modulated sweeps within species-specific calls of mustached bats.

Social and echolocation vocalizations of bats contain different patterns of frequency modulations. An adult bat's ability to discriminate between various FM parameters, however, is not well established. Using changes in heart rate (HR) as a quantitative measure of associative learning, we demon...

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Main Authors: Jie Ma, Robert T Naumann, Jagmeet S Kanwal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2868862?pdf=render