Head-related transfer functions of the barn owl: Measurement and neural responses

Hearing Research

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 13-34

  Keller, Clifford H ^a   Hartung, Klaus ^b   Takahashi, Terry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory; Binaural; Ear; Inferior colliculus; Sound localization; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FILTER; MICROPHONE; MIDDLE EAR PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; EAR CANAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FRONTAL LOBE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOFTWARE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 0031945757     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(98)00014-8     Document Type: Article

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