Fish Hearing and Bioacoustics: An Anthology in Honor of Arthur N. Popper and Richard R. Fay

488 Pages·2016·3.05 MB·English

by  Joseph A. Sisneros (eds.)

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IRUN R. COHEN, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
ABEL LAJTHA, N.S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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Joseph A. Sisneros
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F ish Hearing and Bioacoustics
An Anthology in Honor of
Arthur N. Popper and Richard R. Fay
Editor
Joseph A. Sisneros
Department of Psychology
University of Washington
Seattle , WA , USA
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Prelude to the Anthology to Honor
Arthur N. Popper and Richard R. Fay
A special symposium was held on 25 May 2013 at the Mote Marine Laboratory in
Sarasota, Florida, USA, to honor the long and illustrious careers of Drs. Richard
R. Fay and Arthur N. Popper. During the past 38 years, Drs. Popper and Fay have
made substantial research contributions to the fi eld of fi sh hearing and bioacoustics,
which include Richard Fay’s elegant psychoacoustic and physiology experiments
on fi sh hearing and Arthur Popper’s seminal electron and light microscopy research
on fi sh inner ear structure. The work of Fay and Popper spans multiple disciplines
and topics including the ototoxicity, development and regeneration of hair cells,
sound communication and directional hearing in fi shes, and the effects of underwa-
ter noise on aquatic life. In addition to their many “classic” review papers, which
had major impacts on the fi eld of fi sh hearing, Popper and Fay have also made
important contributions to the understanding of broader issues in the fi elds of ani-
mal bioacoustics and auditory neuroscience through the many conferences they
have organized and books edited in the 50 plus volumes of the S pringer Handbook
of Auditory Research, of which Fay and Popper are the founding (and current)
series editors.
A t the formal one-day symposium in Sarasota, FL (Figs. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ,
1 0 , 1 1 , 1 2 , and 1 3 ), there were 12 presentations that covered a wide range of topics
on fi sh bioacoustics and hearing including a number of presentations by former
graduate students, postdocs, and colleagues who reviewed the historical contribu-
tions of “Art” Popper and “Dick” Fay and traced their academic heritage to Dick
and Art in terms of both research and training. From the original talks and posters
presented at the symposium plus a few additional contributions, an anthology of 15
book chapters were contributed for this volume in Advances in Experimental
Medicine and Biology. We asked the authors of this volume to include in their chap-
ters a signifi cant review of their area of study and conclude with 3–5 “burning ques-
tions” that should be addressed in future studies. It is hoped that this anthology of
papers will provide the inspiration and impetus for young (and old) scientists to
continue the study of fi sh hearing and bioacoustics in future studies.
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T he book chapters that follow the biographies of Dick Fay and Art Popper are
divided into three categories: acoustic communication and behavior, sensory
biology and physiology, and morphology and neuroanatomy. The fi rst chapter in
Part II on acoustic communication and behavior is by Tim Tricas and Jackie Webb
in which they review the current knowledge of sound producing mechanisms, hear-
ing capabilities, and the likely importance of the auditory and lateral systems, espe-
cially the laterophysic connection, in acoustic communication in butterfl yfi shes.
Jeffrey Zeyl and associates then present a review of sound production in darters,
sculpin, and gobioids in a phylogenetic context that details the effi cacy of signal
transmission from senders to receivers and evaluates the potential functional signifi -
cance of sound attributes in relation to reproductive and territorial behaviors. Next,
Joe Sisneros and Pete Rogers summarize the previous behavioral work on direc-
tional hearing and sound source localization in fi shes and review the current
theoretical models for fi sh sound localization. Ashwin Bhandiwad and Joe Sisneros
then review some of the common methods used in fi sh psychoacoustic studies
and discuss associative methods such as operant, avoidance, and classical condition-
ing and how they are used to construct audiograms, measure frequency selectivity,

Fig. 1 Group photograph of the attendees at the symposium to honor Arthur N. Popper and
Richard R. Fay in front of the aquarium at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida on
May 25, 2013
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Fig. 2 T he conference organizers at the reception following the symposium to honor the careers
of Richard R. Fay and Arthur N. Popper at Mote Marine Laboratory. From left to right are Chris
Platt, Alli Coffi n, David Mann, Sheryl Coombs, and Joe Sisneros. Other conference organizer
Pamela Lanford not shown

Fig. 3 C onference participants from near and far included from left to right John Montgomery
(New Zealand) and Bill Tavolga (Sarasota, FL)
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Fig. 4 D uring a break at the symposium to honor the outstanding careers of Arthur N. Popper and
Richard R. Fay. From left to right are Art Popper and Fritz Ladich

Fig. 5 E njoy a break during the symposium to honor Richard R. Fay and Arthur N. Popper. From
left to right are Craig Radford, Dennis Higgs, and Kirsten Poling
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Fig. 6 The symposium to honor Arthur N. Popper and Richard R. Fay in Sarasota was attended by
many of Art Popper’s former postdocs, students, and advisees. From left to right are Daphne Soares,
John Ramcharitar, Xiaohong Deng, Art Popper, David Zeddies, Alli Coffi n, and Michael Smith

Fig. 7 During the poster session at the symposium to honor Richard R. Fay and Arthur N. Popper,
Raquel Vasconcelos (left) explains her research on toadfi sh to Chris Platt (right)