Flow Sensing in Air and Water (eBook)

Part I: Spatio-Temporal Structure of Natural Aero- and Hydrodynamic Stimuli.- Natural Hydrodynamic Stimuli.- Laser-Based Optical Methods for the Sensory Ecology of Flow Sensing: From Classical PIV to Micro-PIV and Beyond.- Part II: Flow Sensing and Animal Behavior.- The Role of Flow and the Lateral Line in the Multisensory Guidance of Orienting Behaviours.- Hydrodynamic Perception in Seals and Sea Lions.- Hydrodynamic Imaging by Blind Mexican Cave Fish.- Flow Sensing in Sharks: Lateral Line Contributions to Navigation and Prey Capture.- The Slightest Whiff of Air: Airflow Sensing in Arthropods.- Air Flow Sensing by Bats.- Flies, Optic Flow and Multisensory Stabilization Reflexes.- Part III: Biomechanics of Flow Sensors.- Techniques for Studying Neuromast Function in Zebrafish.- Part IV: Evolution and Development of Flow Sensors.- Structural Diversity in the Lateral Line System of Fishes: Evolution, Development and Implications for Function.- Evolution of Polarized Hair Cells in Aquatic Vertebrates and Their Connection to Directionally Sensitive Neurons.- Patterning the Posterior Lateral Line in Teleosts: Evolution of Development.- Functional Architecture of Lateral Line Afferent Neurons in Larval Zebrafish.- Part V: Physiology of Flow Sensing.- Neuronal Basis of Source Localisation and the Processing of Bulk Water Flow with the Fish Lateral Line.- Hydrodynamic Object Formation: Perception, Neuronal Representation, and Multimodal Integration.- Part VI: Artificial Flow Sensors.- Crickets as Bio-Inspiration for MEMS-Based Flow-Sensing.- Complex Flow Detection by Fast Processing of Sensory Hair-Arrays.- Stress-Driven Artificial Hair Cell for Flow Sensing.- Snookie: an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Artificial Lateral-Line System.