Dolphin hearing: Relative sensitivity as a function of point of application of a contact sound source in the jaw and head region

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3421-3424

  Mohl B ^a   Au, W W L ^b   Pawloski, J ^b   Nachtigall, P E ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY STIMULATION; DOLPHIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEAD; HEARING; JAW; NONHUMAN; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HEAD; HEARING; JAW; PORPOISES; SOUND;

EID: 0033010440     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426959     Document Type: Review

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