Auditory spatial discrimination by barn owls in simulated echoic conditions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1631-1645

  Spitzer, Matthew W ^a   Bala, Avinash D S ^a   Takahashi, Terry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; REVERBERATION;

AUDITORY SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

SOUND;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; MYDRIASIS; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0037337747     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1548152     Document Type: Article

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