Vocal Adaptation Experiment

Vocal Adaptation Experiment

Literature

A couple articles to get you started can be found here.

Stimuli

We’ll provide a sample of bat distress calls. What parameters do you think the stimuli should have?, i.e.:

  • How many pulses in a “bout”?

  • What ISI between pulses?

  • What ISI between bouts?

Methods

  • What conditions might best help us answer the question? (E.g. silent recordings, distress bouts, distress bouts with different timings)

  • What call parameters would you consider for your analysis?

  • How many bats/groups/sessions might be sufficient to test this hypothesis? How long should each condition be?