Evaluation of an auditory model for echo delay accuracy in wideband biosonar

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1648-1659

  Sanderson, Mark I ^a   Neretti, Nicola ^b   Intrator, Nathan ^b   Simmons, James A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; JITTER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SONAR; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

COHERENT PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIOACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BAT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOLOCATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING ACUITY; INNER EAR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR, INNER; ECHOLOCATION; HAIR CELLS, INNER; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0043193923     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1598195     Document Type: Article

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