The mammalian cochlear map is optimally warped

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 896-906

  LePage, Eric L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^b Australian Hearing   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; FREQUENCIES;

MAMMALIAN COCHLEAR;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

BODY SIZE; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; CONFERENCE PAPER; COW; ECHOLOCATION; ELEPHANT; EVOLUTION; GENDER; GERBIL; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; MACACA; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; COCHLEA; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS;

EID: 0043069909     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1587150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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