Beschreibung:
<jats:p>For well over 40 years, Dick Fay has been making broad, significant, and insightful contributions to our understanding of vertebrate, and particularly fish, hearing. His work has range from psychoacoustics to physiology to, most recently, behavioral responses. While Dick has worked on a number of different species, his primary research animal has been the goldfish (though he has also worked with sharks, cichlids, toadfish, and other species). Through ingenious studies that involved a variety of different psychophysical techniques, Dick not only asked question about what fish can hear, but also did pioneering work on things like masking, critical bands, and auditory scene analysis. Dick’s physiological studies have been of equal importance. These often involved the use of an ingenious “shaker table” that he developed which allow very precise control of the stimulus in three-dimensions. Using this approach, Dick has asked questions about function at many levels of the auditory system, providing important insight not only in fish hearing and their potential for sound source localization, but also in the evolution of the vertebrate auditory system.</jats:p>