Modeling individual differences in ferret external ear transfer functions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 2021-2030

  Schnupp, Jan W H ^a   Booth, John ^a   King, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EAR SIZE;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CEPHALOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; FERRET; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; FERRETS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0037380933     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1547460     Document Type: Article

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