"This is an excellent historical account of the achievements of Fay and Popper primarily. ... I recommend this book for all auditory researchers." (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, April, 2016)
Preface.- Fishy hearing: a short biography of Arthur N. Popper.- A most interesting man of science: the life and research of Richard Rozzell Fay.- It started in Hawai’I Kai: reminiscences of 43 years (and counting) of collaboration and friendship.- A soliloquy for Art and Dick by Robert J. Dooling.- Acoustic communication in butterfly fishes: Anatomical novelties, physiology, evolution and behavioral ecology.- Convergent aspects of acoustic communication in darters, scuplins and gobies.- Directional hearing and sound source localization in fishes.- Revisiting psychoacoustic methods for the assessment of fish hearing.- Hearing in cavefishes.- What the toadfish ear tells the toadfish brain about sound.- Comparison of electrophysiological auditory measures in fishes.- The potential overlapping roles of the ear and lateral line in driving ‘acoustic’ responses.- Multimodal sensory input in the utricle and lateral line of the toadfish, Opsanus tau.- The development of structure and sensitivity of the fish inner ear.- Peripheral hearing structures in fishes: diversity and sensitivity of catfishes and cichlids by Friedrich Ladich.- Diversity of inner ears in fishes: possible contribution towards hearing improvements and evolutionary considerations.- Causes and consequences of sensory hair cell damage and recovery in fishes.- Chemical ototoxicity of the fish inner ear and lateral line.- Neuroanatomical evidence for catecholamines as modulators of audition and acoustic behavior in a vocal teleost.