Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication

Mark A. BeeDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA email: mbee@umn.edu, phone: ++1-612-624-6749 Cory T. MillerDepartment of Psychology, Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USAemail: corymiller@ucsd.edu, phone: ++1-858-361-9191

• Signaler and Receiver Psychology.- Avian Auditory Processing at Four Different Scales: Variation Among Species, Seasons, Sexes and Individuals.- Perceptual and Neural Mechanisms of Auditory Scene Analysis in the European Starling.- Mate Searching Animals as Model Systems for Understanding Perceptual Grouping.- Why Complex Signals Matter, Sometimes.- Communication through a Window of Error: Proportional Processing and Signal Categorization.- Social Recognition in Anurans.- Referents and Semantics in Animal Vocalizations.- Social Concepts and Communication in Non-human Primates.- Decisions to Communicate in Primate Ecological and Social Landscapes.- Overcoming Sensory Uncertainty: Factors Affecting Foraging Decisions in Frog-eating Bats.