3 papers
physics.bio-ph2025
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…
physics.bio-ph2025
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…
physics.bio-ph2025
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…