I'm fascinated by how bats use echolocation to perceive and navigate the world around them. My research focuses on how bats adapt their echolocation when in the presence of other echolocating bats, such as emerging from caves in big groups.
Research Interests
- Acoustics
- Animal Behavior/Ethology
- Animal cognition
- Comparative/Animal Psychology
- Hearing
Selected Publications
Fry, R., Tuninetti, A., Simmons, J., & Simmons, A. (n.d.). Manipulating Environmental Clutter Reveals Dynamic Active Sensing Strategies in Big Brown Bats. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 11(1), 61-78. doi:10.26451/abc.11.01.04.2024
Simmons, A. M., Tuninetti, A., Yeoh, B. M., & Simmons, J. A. (2022). Non-invasive auditory brainstem responses to FM sweeps in awake big brown bats.. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol, 208(4), 505-516. doi:10.1007/s00359-022-01559-w
