Faculty Projects and Publications

Books

Nachtigall, P. E. and P. W. B. Moore, (1988) Animal Sonar: Processes and Performance. Plenum Press, New York,
862 pp.

Roitblat, H. L., L. M. Herman, and P. E. Nachtigall (1993) Language and Communication: Comparative Perspectives. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 502 pp.

Nachtigall, P.E., Lien, J., Au, W.W.L., and Read, A.J. (1995) Harbour Porpoises: Laboratory Studies to Reduce Bycatch. DeSpil Publishers, Woerden, The Netherlands, 167 pp.

Kastelein, R., J.A. Thomas, and P.E. Nachtigall (1996) Sensory Systems of Aquatic Mammals. DeSpil Publishers, Woerden, The Netherlands, 588 pp.

Read, Andrew J., Wiepkema, Piet R., and Nachtigall, P.E. (1997) The Biology of the Harbour Porpoise. DeSpil Publishers, Woerden, The Netherlands, 409 pp.

Original Peer-Reviewed Research Reports

Accepted (In Press)

Nachtigall, P.E., Mooney, T.A., Taylor, K.A., and Yuen, M.L. Hearing and Auditory Evoked Potential Methods Applied to Odontocete Cetaceans. (Invited, Aquatic Mammals – Special Edition)

Taylor, K.A., Nachtigall, P.E. Mooney, T.A., Supin, A. Ya., and Yuen, M.L. A portable system for the evaluation of marine mammals’ auditory capabilities. (Aquatic Mammals – Special Edition)

André, M. and Nachtigall, P.E. Electrophysiological measurements of hearing in marine mammals. (Aquatic Mammals – Special Edition)

Nachtigall, P.E. Studying Sensory Systems in Dolphins and Whales. (Invited – Proceedings of the Discussion Group on Reducing Cetacean Interactions with Pelagic Longline Gear of the Third International Fishers Forum, Yokohama Japan)

Nachtigall, P.E., Supin A. Ya, Amundin, M., Röken, B., Møller, T., Mooney, T.A.,Taylor, K.A., & Yuen, M.E., Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) hearing measured with auditory evoked potentials. Journal of Experimental Biology

Yuen, M.L., Nachtigall, P.E., Breese, M. and Vlachos, S. The discrimination of complex and pure tones by a false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Published

Supin A.Ya, Nachtigall, P.E., and Breese, M. (2007) Evoked-potential recovery during double click stimulation in a whale: A possibility of biosonar automatic gain control. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, (1) 618-625

Supin A.Ya, Nachtigall, P.E., and Breese, M. Source level to sensation level ratio of transmitted biosonar pulses in an echolocating false killer whale. (2006) Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, (1) 518-526

Mooney, T.A., Nachtigall, P.E., and Yuen, M.E., (2006) Rapid auditory evoked responses and high temporal resolution in a Risso’s dolphin, Grampus griseus.Journal of Comparative Physiology-A 192, 373-380

Yuen, M.E., Nachtigall, P.E., and Supin, A.Ya., and Breese, M. (2005) Behavioral and auditory evoked potential audiograms of a false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118 (4) 2688-2695

Nachtigall, P.E., Yuen, M.E., Mooney, T.A., and Taylor, K.A. 2005 Hearing measurements from a stranded infant Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus). Journal of Experimental Biology, 208:4181-4188

Supin, A. Ya., Nachtigall, P.E., Au, W.W.L, and Breese, M. (2005) Invariance of echo-responses to target strength and distance in an echolocating false killer whale: evoked potential study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117 (6), 3928-3935

Nachtigall, P.E., Supin, A.Ya. Pawloski, J. L and Au, W.W.L. (2004) Temporary threshold shifts after noise exposure in a bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) measured using evoked auditory potentials. Marine Mammal Science, 20 (4), 673-687

Nachtigall, P.E. (2004) Low Frequency Hearing in Odontocetes and Evoked Auditory Potentials Measuring Recovery from Temporary threshold shifts in the Bottlenosed dolphin (TursiopsTruncatus). Polarforschung, 72, 75-76.

Mooney, T.A., Nachtigall, P.E., and Au, W.W.L . (2004) Target strengths of a nylon monofilament and an acoustically enhanced gillnet: Prediction of biosonar detection ranges. Aquatic Mammals, 30 (2), 220-226.

Supin, A. Ya., Nachtigall, P.E., Au. W.W.L. and Breese, M. (2004) The interaction of outgoing echolocation pulses and echoes in the false killer whale’s auditory system: evoked potential study Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 115 (6) 3218-3225

Nachtigall, P.E. and Supin, A. Ya. (2004) Measuring Hearing with Auditory Brainstem Responses. Active Sonar Workshop Proceedings, Las Palmas, Canary Islands: EuropeanCetacean Society Special Publication Number 42, 48-52.

Lammers, M.O., Au, W.W.L., Aubauer, R., and Nachtigall, P.E. (2004) A comparative analysis of the pulsed emissions of free-ranging Hawaiian Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris). In: Thomas, J., Moss, C. and Vater, M.: Echolocation in bats and dolphins, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 414-419

Philips, J., Au, W.W.L., Nachtigall, P.E., Pawloski, J.L., and Roitblat, H.L. (2004) Echolocation in the Risso’s dolphin, Grampus griseus, a preliminary report. In: Thomas, J., Moss, C., and Vater, M.: Echolocation in bats and dolphins, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 43-50.

Aubauer, R. Au ,W W. L., and Nachtigall P. E. (2004)Acoustic Simulation of Phantom Target Echoes in Dolphin Behavioral Experiments. In: Thomas, J., Moss, C., and Vater, M.: Echolocation in bats and dolphins, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 514-518

Nachtigall, P.E., Pawlowski, J. L., and Au W.W.L. (2003) Temporary threshold shifts and recovery following noise exposure in the Atlantic Bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(6) 3425-3429

Madsen P.T., D.A. Carder, W.W.L. Au, B. Møhl, P.E.Nachtigall and S.H. Ridgway. (2003) Sound production in neonate sperm whales. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113 (6) 2988-2991

Supin, A.Ya., Nachtigall, P.E., Pawloski, J.L., and Au, W.W.L. (2003) Evoked potential recording during echolocation in a false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113 (5), 2408-2411

Philips, J.D., Nachtigall, P.E., Au, W.W.L., Pawloski, J.L and Roitblat, H.L. (2003). Echolocation in the Risso’s dolphin, Grampus Griseus. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113 (1), 605-617.

Mœhl, B., P. T. Madsen, M. Wahlberg, W. W. L. Au, P. E. Nachtigall, & S. H. Ridgway. (2003), Sound transmission in the spermaceti complex of a recently expired sperm whale calf. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Acoustics Research Letters Online, (4) 1, 19-24.

Nachtigall, P.E. Book Review: Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Perrin, W.F., Wursig, B. & Thewissen, J.G.M. Invited review: (2002) Aquatic Mammals, 28 (3), 324.

Au, W.W.L., Lemonds, D.W., Vlachos, S. Nachtigall, P.E., and Roitblat, H.L. (2002) Atlantic Bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Hearing thresholds for brief broadband signals. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 116 (2), 151-157.

Nachtigall, P.E. Book Review: The Sensory Physiology of Aquatic Mammals (2002) Supin, A. Ya, Popov, V.V. & Mass, A.M. Invited Review. Aquatic Mammals, 28(2): 218-219

Nachtigall, P.E., (2002) Invited – Forward. Molecular and Cell Biology of Marine Mammals. Carl J. Pfeiffer (Ed), Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida.

Nachtigall, P.E. Au, W.W.L., Pawloski, J.L. & Andrews, K. Measurements of the low frequency components of active and passive sounds produced by dolphins. (2000) Aquatic Mammals, 26 (3), 167-175.

Au, W.W.L., Mobley, J., Burgess, W.C., Lammers, M. and Nachtigall, P.E. Seasonal and diurnal trends of chorusing humpback whales wintering in waters off West Maui. (2000) MarineMammal Science, 16(3), 530-544.

Aubauer, R., Au, W.W.L., Nachtigall, P.E., Pawloski, D.A. and DeLong, C.M. (2000) Classification of electronically generated phantom targets by an Atlantic bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107, 2750-2754.

Nachtigall, P.E. Au, W.W.L., Roitblat, H.L. and Pawloski, J.L. (2000) Dolphin Biosonar: A model for Biomimetic Sonars. In: Proceedings of the first International Symposium on Aqua Bio-Mechanisms, pp 115-121.

Nachtigall, P.E., Lemonds, D.W., and Roitblat, H. L. (2000) Psychoacoustic Studies of Whale and Dolphin Hearing. In: Au, W.W.L, Popper, A.N. and Fay R.J. (eds) Hearing By Whales, Springer-Verlag, New York pp. 330-364.

Atkinson, S., Combelles, C., Vincent, D., Nachtigall,P.E., Pawloski, J. and Breese, M.(1999) Monitoring of progesterone in captive female false killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens. General and Comparative endocrinology, 115, 323-332.

Møhl, B., Au, W.W.L., Pawloski, J.L. and Nachtigall, P.E. (1999) Dolphin hearing: Relative sensitivity as a function of point of application of a contact sound source in the jaw and head region. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 105, 3421-3424

Roitblat, H. L., Nachtigall, P. E., Au, W. W. L., Shizumura, R., & Moons,G. (1999). Classifying buried targets by mimicking dolphin echolocation.In Y.-C. Teng, E.-C. Shang, Y.-H. Pao, M. H. Schultz, and A.D. Pierce (Eds.): Theoretical and computational acoustics '97. (pp. 553-559). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.

Au, W.W.L., Nachtigall, P.E., and Pawloski, J.L. (1997) Acoustic effects of the ATOC signal (75 Hz, 195 dB) on dolphins and whales. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101, 2973-2977.

Au, W.W.L, and Nachtigall, P.E. (1997) Acoustics of echolocating dolphins and small whales. Marine and Freshwater Physiology and Behavior, 29, 127-162

Harley, H., Roitblat, H.L. and Nachtigall, P.E. (1997) Object representation in the bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): Integration of visual and echoic information. Journal of ExperimentalPsychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22 (2), 164-174.

Nachtigall, P.E., Au, W.W.L. and Pawloski, J.L. and Moore, P.W.B. (1996) Risso's dolphin hearing thresholds in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. In: Sensory Systems of Aquatic Mammals. R. A. Kastelein, J.A. Thomas, and P.E. Nachtigall (Eds) 49-55.

Helweg, D.A., Au, W.W.L., Roitblat, H.L., and Nachtigall, P.E. (1996) Acoustic basis for recognition of aspect-dependent three- dimensional targets by an echolocating bottlenose dolphin. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99 (1) 2409-2420.

Helweg, D.A., Roitblat, H.L., Nachtigall, P. E. & Hautus, M.J. (1996) Recognition of aspect-dependent three-dimensional objects by an echolocating Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 19-31.

Au, W.W.L., Anderson, L,. Rasmussen, A., Roitblat, H.L. and Nachtigall, P.E. (1995) Neural network modeling of a dolphin's sonar discrimination capabilities. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 43-50.

Dolphin, W.F., Au, W.W.L., Nachtigall, P.E. and Pawloski, J.L. (1995) Modulation rate transfer functions to low frequency carriers by three species of cetaceans, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 177, 235-245.

Au, W.W.L., Pawloski, J.L, Nachtigall, P.E., Blonz, M.E. and Gisiner, R.C. (1995) Echolocation signals and transmission beam pattern of a false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens).Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 51-59.

Roitblat, H.L., Au, W.W.L., Nachtigall, P.E., Shizamura, R., and Moons J. (1995) Sonar recognition of targets embedded in sediment. Neural Networks, 8 (8), 1263-1273

Au, W.W.L. and Nachtigall P.E. Artificial neural network modeling of dolphin echolocation. In: Sensory Systems of Aquatic Mammals. R. A. Kastelein, J.A. Thomas, and P.E. Nachtigall (Eds), 1995, 183-201.

Helweg, D.A., Roitblat H.L., Nachtigall, P.E., Au, W.W.L., and Irwin, R.J. Discrimination of echoes from aspect dependent targets by a bottlenose dolphin and human listeners. In: Sensory Systems of Aquatic Mammals. R. A. Kastelein, J.A. Thomas, and P.E. Nachtigall (Eds), 1995, 129-136.

Nachtigall, P.E., Au, W.W.L., Pawloski, J.L., and Roitblat, H.L. (1994) Animal echolocation and signal processing. Oceans 94: Proceedings of the IEEE., I, 259-263.

Au, W.W.L. and Nachtigall, P.E. (1994) Dolphin Acoustics and Echolocation. Acoustical Bulletin (August-September Issue).

Nachtigall, P. E. (1993). Book Review: Sensory abilities of cetaceans: Laboratory and field evidence, J. Thomas and R. Kastelein (Eds), Marine Mammal Science, 9,(1):112-114.

Helweg, D.A., Roitblat, H.L., and Nachtigall P.E.(1993) Using a Neural Network to Model Dolphin Echolocation. In: Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems. N. Kasabov (Ed) IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, 247-251.

Dawson, W. W., P. E. Nachtigall, J. C. Dawson, G. M. Hope, and J. P. Schroeder, (1992) Cetacean lens-zones of discontinuity-indices of health and development, Marine Mammal Science, 8(4): 379-386.

Dawson, W. W., J. P. Schroeder, J. C. Dawson, and P. E. Nachtigall, (1992) Cyclic ocular hypertension in cetaceans, Marine Mammal Science 8(2): 135-142.

Moore, P. W., H. L. Roitblat, R. H. Penner, and Nachtigall, P.E, (1991) Recognizing successive dolphin echoes with an integrator gateway network. Neural Networks, 4, 701-709.

Roitblat, H. L., P. W. B. Moore, P. E. Nachtigall, and R. H. Penner. Biomimetic sonar processing: From dolphin echolocation of artificial neural networks. From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the first International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. J. A. Meyer and S. Wilson (Eds), 1991, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Roitblat, Herbert L., Patrick W. B. Moore, Paul E. Nachtigall, and Ralph H. Penner, Natural dolphin echo recognition using an integrator gateway network. In: Advances in NeuralInformation Processing Systems 3. Richard P. Lippmann, John E. Moody, and David S. Touretzky (Eds), 1991, pp. 273-281, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, California.

Roitblat, H. L., R. A. Penner, and P. E. Nachtigall, (1990) Attention and decision making in echolocation matching-to-sample by a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): The microstructure of decision making. In: Sensory Abilities of Cetaceans: Laboratory and Field Evidence. J. A. Thomas and R. A. Kastelein (Eds), 1991 (pp. 665-667), Plenum Press, London, England.

Nachtigall, P.E., (1990) Book Review: Biology of the genus cephalorhynchus, Aquatic Mammals, 16(3) 92-95.

Friedl, W. A., P. E. Nachtigall, P. W. Moore, N. K. W. Chun, J. E. Haun, R. W. Hall, and J. L. Richards, (1990) Taste reception in the Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus gilli) and the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus). In: Sensory Abilities of Cetaceans: Laboratory and Field Evidence. J. A. Thomas and R. A. Kastelein (Eds), 1990, Plenum Press, New York.

Nachtigall, P. E., J. L. Pawloski, J. P. Schroeder, and S. Sinclair, (1990) Successful maintenance and research with a formerly stranded Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), Aquatic Mammals, 16(1) 8-13.

Roitblat, H.L., R. H. Penner, and P. E. Nachtigall, (1990) Matching-to-sample by an echolocating dolphin, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 16(1) 85-95.

Thomas, J. A., P. W. B. Moore, P. E. Nachtigall, and W. G. Gilmartin, (1990) A new sound from a stranded pygmy sperm whale, Aquatic Mammals, 16(1) 28-30.

Roitblat, H. L., P. W. B. Moore, P. E. Nachtigall, R. H. Penner, and W. W. L. Au, (1989) Dolphin echolocation: Identification of returning echoes using a counter propagation network, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vol 1, pp. 295-300, IEEE, Piscataway, New Jersey.

Roitblat, H. L., P. W. B. Moore, P. E. Nachtigall, R. H. Penner, and W. W. L. Au, (1989), Natural echolocation with an artificial neural network, International Journal of Neural Networks, 1(4): 239-248.

Nachtigall, P. E., Vision, Audition, and Chemoreception in Dolphins and other Marine Mammals. In: Dolphin Cognition and Behavior: A Comparative approach. R. J. Schusterman, F. G. Wood, and J. Thomas (Eds.) 1986, Erlbaum, New York.

Haun, J. E. and P. E. Nachtigall, Artificial Intelligence and Bionics Workshop Report, Technical Report 1003, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California, November 1985.

Nachtigall, P. E. and R. Hall, Taste Reception in the Bottlenosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). (1985) Acta Zoologica Fennica , 172:147-148.

Moore, P. W. B., R. W. Hall, W. A. Friedl, and P. E. Nachtigall, (1984) The critical interval in dolphin echolocation: What is it,? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 76, 314-317.

Nachtigall, P. E., (1980) Odontocete Echolocation Performance on Object size, Shape, and Material. In: Animal Sonar Systems (R. G. Busnel and J. F. Fish Eds.) Plenum Press: New York.

Nachtigall, P. E., A. E. Murchison, and W. W. L. Au, (1980) Discrimination by an Echolocating Blindfolded Bottlenosed Dolphin. In: Animal Sonar Systems (R. G. Busnel and J. F. Fish Eds.) Plenum Press: New York.

Nachtigall, P. E., (1980) Bibliography of Echolocation Papers on Aquatic Mammals published between 1966 and 1978. In: Animal Sonar Systems (R. G. Busnel and J. F. Fish Eds.) Plenum Press: New York.

Nachtigall, P. E., (1980) Echolocation Sameness-Difference Discrimination by the Atlantic Bottlenosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 68, S98.

Nachtigall, P. E., A. E. Murchison, and W. Au, (1978) Discrimination of solid cylinders and cubes by a blindfolded echolocating bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Journal oftheAcoustical Society of America, 64, S87.

Nachtigall, P. E., Food-Intake and Food-Rewarded Instrumental Performance in Dolphins as a Function of Feeding Schedule. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Hawaii, May 1976.

Colgrove, G. S., T. R. Sawa, J. T. Brown, R. F. McDowell, and P. E. Nachtigall, (1975) Necrotic stomatitis in a dolphin. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 11, 460-464.

Beach III, F. A., R. L. Pepper, J. V. Simmons, Jr., P. A. Siri, and P. E. Nachtigall, (1974) Spatial habit reversal in two species of marine mammals. Psychological Record, 24, 385-391.

Pepper, R. L., F. A. Beach III, J. V. Simmons, Jr., and P. E. Nachtigall, (1972) Visual acuity of the bottlenose dolphin in air. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Biological Sonarand Diving Mammals. Stanford Research Institute Press, 1972, 9, 1-7.

Nachtigall, P. E., (1971) Spatial discrimination and reversal based on differential magnitude of reward in the dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference onBiological Sonar and Diving Mammals. Stanford Research Institute Press, 8, 67-71.

Nachtigall, P. E., (1969) Visual size discrimination in the East Asian Clawless Otter (Amblyonyx cineria) in air and under water. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Biological Sonarand Diving Mammals, Stanford Research Institute Press, 6, 83-86.