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Cetacean
sensory and perceptual processes
My research interests focus on the sensory and perceptual processes
of dolphins and small whales. Past research has focused on taste
reception, vision, hearing and echolocation of toothed whales and
dolphins. Currently conducting research on hearing (sound localization,
low frequency audiometrics, evoked auditory potential measurements
as a way to study hearing in large whales, examining hearing while
animals echolocate), echolocation (determining acoustic processes
of echolocation via phantom echo experiments, effects of noise on
dolphins, modeling discrimination abilities) with further interest
in aiding stranded animals and may be conducting future studies
on vision and taste reception.
Representative publications
Mooney, T.A., Nachtigall, P.E., Miller, L.,
Rasmussen, M., and Taylor, K.A. (2009) > Auditory temporal resolution
of a wild white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris ) Journal
of Comparative Physiology - A
Mooney T.A., Nachtigall, P.E. and Vlachos, S. (2009) Sonar induced
temporary hearing loss in dolphins. Biology Letters , 5, 565-567
Supin, A. Ya., Nachtigall, P.E., and Breese, M. (2009) Forward masking
based gain control in odontocete biosonar: an evoked-potential study.
J Acous Soc Am
Mooney T.A., Nachtigall, P.E. Breese, M. Vlachos,
S. and Au, W.L. (2009), Predicting temporary threshold shifts in
a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): the effects of noise
level and duration. J Acous Soc Am , 125, 1816-1826.
Nachtigall, P.E. Recent directions in Odontocete
cetacean hearing.(2008) Bioacoustics, 17, 82-85.
Southall, B.L., Bowles, A.E., Ellison,W.T. Finneran, J.J., Gentry,
R.L., Greene, C.R.Jr., Kastak, D., Ketten D.R., Miller J.H., Nachtigall,
P.E., Richardson, W.J., Thomas, J.A., and Tyack, P.L. (2008) Marine
mammal noise exposure criteria: initial scientific recommendations.
Edited by: Paul Lepper, Ross Compton, Simon Dible, Trevor Guymer,
Ed Harland, Simon Richards and Stephen Robinson. Underwater Noise
Measurement, Impact and Mitigation, 2008. Proceedings of the Institute
of Acoustics Conference on Underwater Noise Measurement, Impact
and Mitigation. Southampton, UK 14-15 October, 2008. Published by
the Institute for Acoustics: St Albans, UK. Pages 13-16.
Supin, A.Ya., Nachtigall, P.E. and Breese, M. (2008)
Forward masking as a mechanism of automatic gain control in whale
biosonar: a psychophysical study, Journal of the Acoustical Society
of America 124, 648-656.
Mooney, T.A.,Nachtigall, P.E. Castellote, M., Taylor,
K.A., Pacini, A.F. and Estaban, J.A. (2008)Hearing pathways and
directional sensitivity of the beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas.
Journal of Experimental Biology and Ecology. 362, 108-116.
Nachtigall, P.E., Reichmuth, C. and Schusterman, R.J. (2008) Healthy
stranded animals and laboratory research . Marine Mammal Science
23, 746.
Nachtigall, P.E. and Supin, A. Ya., (2008) A false killer whale
adjusts its hearing when it echolocates. Journal of Experimental
Biology, 211, 1714-1718
Nachtigall, P. E., Mooney T.A., Taylor K.A., Miller L.A., Rasmussen
M. H., Akamatsu T., TeilmanJ., Linnenschmidt M., and Vikingsson
G. A. (2008) Shipboard measurements of the hearing of the white-beaked
dolphin, Lagenorhynchus albirostris. Journal of Experimental Biology
211, 642-647.
Supin, A.Ya., Nachtigall, P.E. and Breese, M. (2008)
Hearing sensitivity during target presence and absence while a whale
echolocates. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123,
534-541
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