Sound localization in chinchillas III: Effect of pinna removal

Hearing Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 13-21

  Heffner, Rickye S ^a   Koay, Gim ^a   Heffner, Henry E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

binaural; elevation; lateral field; monaural; spectrum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINCHILLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL EAR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHINCHILLA; EAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0030587176     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(96)00074-3     Document Type: Article

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