Monaural and binaural spectral cues created by the external ears of the pallid bat

Hearing Research

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 1-17

  Fuzessery, Zoltan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat; External ear; Pinna; Sound localization; Spectral cue; Spectral notche

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; BINAURAL HEARING; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EXTERNAL EAR; MICROPHONE; MONAURAL HEARING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0029890242     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(95)00223-5     Document Type: Article

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