5 papers
Noise-induced stability of insect swarms
Justin Faber, Annabelle Boots, Dolores Bozovic
Flying insect swarms exhibit cohesion without the local velocity alignment observed in flocks of birds or schools of fish. The interaction rules and channels of communication betwe…
Sound Masking Strategies for Interference with Mosquito Hearing
Justin Faber, Alexandros C Alampounti, Marcos Georgiades +2
The use of auditory masking has long been of interest in psychoacoustics and for engineering purposes, in order to cover sounds that are disruptive to humans or to species whose ha…
Estimating Free Parameters in Stochastic Oscillatory Models Using a Weighted Cost Function
Joseph M. Marcinik, Dzmitry Vaido, Dolores Bozovic
In this study, we estimate parameters in stochastic oscillatory systems by developing a novel cost function. This function incorporates power spectral density, analytic signal, and…
Antennal-Based Strategies for Sound Localization by Insects
Justin Faber, Alexandros C Alampounti, Marcos Georgiades +2
Insects rely on their hearing in order to communicate, identify and locate potential mates, and avoid predators. Due to their small sizes, many insect species are not able to utili…
A Mosquito-Inspired Theoretical Framework for Acoustic Signal Detection
Justin Faber, Alexandros C Alampounti, Marcos Georgiades +2
Distortion products are tones produced through nonlinear effects of a system simultaneously detecting two or more frequencies. These combination tones are ubiquitous to vertebrate…