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Science 26 February 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5406, pp. 1272 - 1273
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5406.1272
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Perspectives

BEHAVIOR:
Communication Goes Multimodal

Sarah Partan and Peter Marler

Communication depends on the simultaneous receipt of multiple sensory stimuli. The Perspective by Partan and Marler in this week's issue postulates a new classification system for multimodal sensory signals. Combinations of sensory signals are classified according to the behavioral responses they elicit.

The authors are in the Center for Animal Behavior and Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. E-mail: srpartan{at}ucdavis.edu

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