Ecological approaches to hearing aim to study the ability of human and non-human organisms to use sound to represent, understand, manipulate, and navigate the surrounding environment, emphasizing ecologically relevant sounds and tasks.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Statistics of natural auditory scenes
Detection, discrimination and identification of natural sounds
Principles of auditory scene analysis applied to natural environments
Causal perception of natural sounds
Neural correlates of natural sound perception
Effects of hearing loss and rehabilitation devices on natural sound perception
Biodiversity assessment via ecoacoustic approaches
Habitat assessment via ecoacoustic approaches
Population, community, landscape and conservation ecology
Restorative effects of natural sounds
Auditory perception of wilderness
Guest Editors:
Laurie Heller,
laurieheller@xxxxxxx --Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Christian Lorenzi
christian.lorenzi@xxxxxxxxxx --Ecole normale supérieure & Université Paris Sciences & Lettres, France
Camille Desjonquères
desjonqc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --CNRS & Université Grenoble – Alpes, France
Frederic Theunissen
theunissen@xxxxxxxxxxxx --University of California, Berkeley, USA