Discrimination of rippled-spectrum noise from flat-spectrum noise by chinchillas: Evidence for a spectral dominance region

Hearing Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 15-24

  Shofner, William P ^a   Yost, William A ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinchilla; Dominance region; Pitch; Rippled noise

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINCHILLA; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PITCH; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINCHILLA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030758628     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(97)00063-4     Document Type: Article

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