Acoustic communication and hearing
- Phonetic communication in socially living bats
- Mother-child communication
- Audio-vocal learning
- Acoustic individual recognition
- Sound processing in the auditory cortex
- Sound processing in the auditory midbrain
- Echolocation in bats
Neuronal plasticity in the amygdala
- Influence of stress on neuronal morphology
Spatial cognition
- Gender specificity of orientation behavior
- 3D spatial cognition
Visual physiology
- Spectral sensitivity of the retina (e.g. electroretinography)
- Light/dark adaptation
Electrolocation
- Species specificity of the electrolocation signals of African Nile pikes
Equipment
Signal analysis laboratory (animal sounds, speech, electro-location signals), neurophysiology laboratory (e.g. single cell derivations, EEG), psychophysiology (ECG, respiration, skin resistance) and psychoacoustics laboratory, set-up for recording and analysis of electro-location signals, flight channel with 3D flight path tracking, neurohistology laboratory (cryostat, fluorescence microscopy, microphotography, digital image processing), breeding of neotropical bats, husbandry of low-electric fishes
Services
Evaluation of systems for sound presentation, sound detection and sound analysis especially in the field of life sciences, consulting of scientific institutions and authorities in the field of keeping, breeding and transport of bats, extensive teaching activities at the Leibniz University Hannover
