Description
- Provides novel insights into the evolution of the auditory system
- Provides a comprehensive understanding of auditory system evolution and evolution of language
- Reviews the correlation of language plasticity with dementia in old age.
Table of Contents
Preface. Introduction. Defining novelty in the neurosensory system. Evolving mechanosensation for gravity and angular orientation, lateral line, and electroreception. Connecting a novel sensory input from the ear to the brain: how to make new neuronal networks and new connections of an auditory system. Defining the auditory system of tetrapods. Sound processing: boundaries for auditory signal processing revealed. The evolution of the auditory system as a blueprint for sensory expansions using established principles – evolving new or adding artificial senses to expand the perception of the world. Summary and conclusions
