Free-field binaural unmasking in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 590-598

  Dent, Micheal L ^c   Larsen, Ole N ^a   Dooling, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BIRD; FEMALE; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; PARROTS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030904492     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.3.590     Document Type: Article

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