The combination of echolocation emission and ear reception enhances directional spectral cues of the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1723-1733

  Wotton, Janine M ^a   Jenison, Rick L ^a   Hartley, David J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EARDRUM; ECHOLOCATION; EXTERNAL EAR; HEARING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHIROPTERA; EAR, EXTERNAL; ECHOLOCATION;

EID: 0031055710     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418271     Document Type: Article

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