How do animals produce and process sounds for communication? How do their brains encode the large amounts of sensory information so rapidly and how do they use ... » 

How do animals produce and process sounds for communication? How do their brains encode the large amounts of sensory information so rapidly and how do they use this to cope with their environment? These questions not only concern the evolution of sound communication systems but also aim to understand how arousal, motivation, emotion, and behavioral contexts are expressed vocally and how important sound attributes are recognized and perceived. «