Model Systems
- Bat echolocation – nocturnal flight navigation and prey capture; location of objects using echo returns of its own call
- Oscine bird song – Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata), Canary (Serinus canaria) and White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys); song learning as a model for human speech development
- Electric fish – navigation, communication, Jamming Avoidance Response (JAR), corollary discharge, expectation generators, and spike timing dependent plasticity
- Barn Owl auditory spatial map – nocturnal prey location and capture
- Toad vision – discrimination of prey versus predator --Video „Image processing in the toad’s visual system: behavior, brain function, artificial neuronal net“
- Circadian rhythm - influence of various circadian controlled behaviors by the suprachiasmatic nucleus
- Cricket song – mate attraction and corollary discharge
- Fish Mauthner cells – C-start escape response and underwater directional hearing
- Fly – Microscale directional hearing in Ormia ochracea, sex differences of the visual system in Bibionidae, and spatial navigation in chasing behavior of Fannia canicularis
- Noctuid moths – ultrasound avoidance response to bat calls
- Aplysia – learning and memory in startle response
- Rat – spatial memory and navigation
- Salmon homing – olfactory imprinting and thyroid hormones
- Crayfish – escape and startle behaviors, aggression and formation of social hierarchies
- Cichlid fish – aggression and attack behaviors
- Honey bee – learning, navigation, vision, olfaction, flight, aggression, foraging
- Monarch butterfly – navigational mechanisms
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