The brain limit

Elife. 2021 Nov 5:10:e74096. doi: 10.7554/eLife.74096.

Abstract

How fast the brain and muscles can respond to information about prey location constrains visual and echolocating predators in similar ways.

Keywords: Blainville's beaked whale; biosonar; echolocation; ecology; harbour porpoise; predator-prey interactions; response latency.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Acoustics
  • Animals
  • Brain
  • Echolocation*
  • Whales