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Active head rolls enhance sonar-based auditory localization performance.

Lakshitha P Wijesinghe¹, Melville J Wohlgemuth², Richard H Y So³

¹Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

Plos Computational Biology

|May 10, 2021

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Active head rolls in echolocating bats (Eptesicus fuscus) improve sound localization accuracy and speed. This study models bat head movements to understand their role in auditory perception and prey tracking.

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