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Stereotypical sound patterns in humpback whale songs: Usage and function Mercado, E., III, Herman, L. M., & Pack, A. A. 
Aquatic Mammals, 29, 37-52 (2003)
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A connectionist model of septohippocampal dynamics during conditioning: Closing the loop Rokers, B., Mercado, E., III, Allen, M. T., Myers, C. E., & Gluck, M. A. 
Behavioral Neuroscience, 116, 48-62 (2002)
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Spectrotemporal sensitivities in rat auditory cortex
Orduna, I., Mercado, E., III, Gluck, M. A., & Merzenich, M. M. 
Hearing Research, 160, 47-57 (2001)
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Humpback whale song or humpback whale sonar? A reply to Au et al.
Mercado, E., III, & Frazer, L. N. 
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 26, 406-415 (2001)
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Basal forebrain stimulation changes cortical sensitivities to complex sound
Mercado, E., III, Bao, S., Orduna, I., Gluck, M. A., & Merzenich, M. M. 
Neuroreport, 12, 2283-2288 (2001)
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Experiments are the key to understanding socially acquired knowledge in cetaceans. Commentary on Rendell & Whiteheads' (2001) "Culture in whales and dolphins"
Mercado, E., III, & DeLong, C. M. 
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 345 (2001)
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Sound production of a neonate bottlenose dolphin
Killebrew, D. A., Mercado, E., III, Herman, L. M., & Pack, A. A. 
Aquatic Mammals, 27, 34-44 (2001)
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A computational model of mechanisms controlling experience-dependent reorganization of representational maps in auditory cortex
Mercado, E., III, Myers, C. E., & Gluck, M. A. 
Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 1, 37-55 (2001)
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Generalization of `same-different' classification abilities in bottlenosed dolphins
Mercado, E., III, Killebrew, D. A., Pack, A. A., Macha, I. V. B., & Herman, L. M. 
Behavioural Processes, 50, 79-94 (2000)
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A possible relationship between waveguide properties and bandwidth utilization in humpback whales
Mercado, E., III, Michalopoulou, Z.-H., & Frazer, L. N. 
OCEANS 2000 MTS/IEEE Conference Proceedings, 1743-1747 (2000)
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Modeling auditory cortical processing as an adaptive chirplet transform
Mercado, E., III, Myers, C. E., & Gluck, M. A. 
Neurocomputing, 32-33, 913-919 (2000)
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A sonar model for humpback whale song
Frazer, L. N., & Mercado, E., III 
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 25, 160-182 (2000)
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Explicit knowledge in dolphins? Commentary on Dienes & Perners' (1999) "A theory of implicit and explicit knowledge"
Mercado, E., III, & Murray, S. O. 
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 774-775 (1999)
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Environmental constraints on sound transmission by humpback whales
Mercado, E., III, & Frazer, L. N.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106, 3004-3016 (1999) .
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Memory for action events in the bottlenosed dolphin
Mercado, E., III, Uyeyama, R. K., Herman, L. M., & Pack, A. A. 
Animal Cognition, 2, 17-25 (1999)
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The neural network classification of false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) vocalizations
Murray, S. O., Mercado, E., & Roitblat, H. L. 
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 3626-3633 (1998)
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Characterizing the graded structure of false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) vocalizations
Murray, S. O., Mercado, E., & Roitblat, H. L. 
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 1679-1688 (1998)
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Memory for recent actions in the bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): Repetition of arbitrary behaviors using an abstract rule
Mercado, E., III, Murray, S. O., Uyeyama, R. K., Herman, L. M., & Pack, A. A. 
Animal Learning & Behavior, 26, 210-218 (1998)
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Classification of humpback whale vocalizations using a self-organizing neural network
Mercado, E., III, & Kuh, A. 
Proceedings of IJCNN'98, 1584-1589 (1998)
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Computational models of sound production and reception in the humpback whale
Mercado, E., III 
Unpublished MS thesis, University of HI, Honolulu (1998)
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Humpback whale bioacoustics: From form to function
Mercado, E., III 
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of HI, Honolulu (1998)
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  Chapter 1. Introduction [pp. 1-13] Paper in Postscript
  Chapter 2. Sound Transmission [pp. 14-57] Paper in Postscript
  Chapter 3. Sound Reception [pp. 58-86] Paper in Postscript
  Chapter 4. Characteristics of Sounds [pp. 87-126] Paper in Postscript
  Chapter 5. Possible Functions of Sounds [pp. 127-154] Paper in Postscript
  Chapter 6. Extensions and Conclusions [pp. 155-163] Paper in Postscript
  Appendices [pp. 164-174] Paper in Postscript
  References [pp. 175-216] Paper in Postscript