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SUMMARY:RABL Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Moss, Professor of Psychological 
 and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University: 
 The role of action in perception of the natural 
 environment
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DESCRIPTION:
 Dr. Cynthia Moss, Professor of Psychological and 
 Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University will 
 give a talk titled:  The role of action in perception 
 of the natural environment.\n
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 As we move through the natural environment, our 
 distance and direction to objects continuously 
 change. How does movement influence perception 
 of the surroundings? Decades of research on perception 
 has measured performance of stationary subjects 
 viewing visual stimuli, and far less is known 
 about perception of freely moving animals that 
 rely on auditory information to guide their actions 
 in the physical world. My lecture will attempt 
 to bridge this gap by considering the behavior 
 of animals engaged in natural tasks in complex 
 environments. I will present a variety of examples 
 but will focus on echolocating bats, animals that 
 produce high frequency sounds and process auditory 
 information carried by returning echoes to guide 
 behavioral decisions for object localization, 
 target discrimination, and navigation. I will 
 present research findings that demonstrate the 
 remarkable spatial resolution of animal sonar, 
 which exceeds that of human vision along some 
 dimensions.\n\n

LOCATION:Warch Campus Cinema
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