Modulation spectra of natural sounds and ethological theories of auditory processing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 3394-3411

  Singha, Nandini C ^a,b   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b National Brain Research Center   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; CORRELATION METHODS; MODULATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPEECH;

MODULATION SPECTRA;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHOLOGY; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ETHOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0346217014     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1624067     Document Type: Article

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