Presenting knowledge on primate auditory function, this book intends to bridge the epistemological gap between primate ethologists and auditory neurobiologists. It presents the synthesis of ethological and neurobiological approaches to primate vocal behavior that yields an understanding of the acoustic and neural bases of primate audition.

This book is the first to synthesize the latest information on both primate vocal behavior and primate auditory neurobiology. It contains chapters by the foremost experts in the fields of ethology, comparative psychology, and neuroscience who have developed new experimental approaches and applied them to a variety of issues dealing with primate vocal behavior and the neurobiology of the primate auditory system.