TY  - JOUR
A1  - Beetz, M. Jerome
A1  - Hechavarría, Julio C.
T1  - Neural processing of naturalistic echolocation signals in bats
JF  - Frontiers in Neural Circuits
N2  - Echolocation behavior, a navigation strategy based on acoustic signals, allows scientists to explore neural processing of behaviorally relevant stimuli. For the purpose of orientation, bats broadcast echolocation calls and extract spatial information from the echoes. Because bats control call emission and thus the availability of spatial information, the behavioral relevance of these signals is undiscussable. While most neurophysiological studies, conducted in the past, used synthesized acoustic stimuli that mimic portions of the echolocation signals, recent progress has been made to understand how naturalistic echolocation signals are encoded in the bat brain. Here, we review how does stimulus history affect neural processing, how spatial information from multiple objects and how echolocation signals embedded in a naturalistic, noisy environment are processed in the bat brain. We end our review by discussing the huge potential that state-of-the-art recording techniques provide to gain a more complete picture on the neuroethology of echolocation behavior.
KW  - biosonar
KW  - neural coding
KW  - naturalistic stimuli
KW  - bats
KW  - acoustic stream
KW  - neuroethology
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-274605
SN  - 1662-5110
VL  - 16
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zupanc, Günther K. H.
A1  - Rössler, Wolfgang
T1  - Government funding of research beyond biomedicine: challenges and opportunities for neuroethology
JF  - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
N2  - Curiosity-driven research is fundamental for neuroethology and depends crucially on governmental funding. Here, we highlight similarities and differences in funding of curiosity-driven research across countries by comparing two major funding agencies—the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). We interviewed representatives from each of the two agencies, focusing on general funding trends, levels of young investigator support, career-life balance, and international collaborations. While our analysis revealed a negative trend in NSF funding of biological research, including curiosity-driven research, German researchers in these areas have benefited from a robust positive trend in DFG funding. The main reason for the decrease in curiosity-driven research in the US is that the NSF has only partially been able to compensate for the funding gap resulting from the National Institutes of Health restricting their support to biomedical research using select model organisms. Notwithstanding some differences in funding programs, particularly those relevant for scientists in the postdoctoral phase, both the NSF and DFG clearly support curiosity-driven research.
KW  - German Research Foundation
KW  - Government research funding
KW  - National Science Foundation
KW  - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
KW  - neuroethology
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-325113
VL  - 208
IS  - 3
ER  -