Temporal modulation transfer functions in the barn owl (Tyto alba)

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 187, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 937-943

  Dent, Micheal L ^a,b   Klump, Georg M ^a,c   Schwenzfeier, Christian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; Barn owl; Signal envelope; Temporal modulation transfer function

Indexed keywords

STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; OWL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0036008947     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-001-0259-5     Document Type: Article

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