Vowel discrimination in cats: Acquisition, effects of stimulus level, and performance in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3656-3668

  Hienz, Robert D ^a   Aleszczyk, Cynthia M ^a   May, Bradford J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CAT; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ANIMALS; CATS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0029895099     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.414980     Document Type: Article

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