A multichannel electronic monitor of acoustic behaviors, and software to parse individual channels

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 201-210

  Hedrick, Ann V ^a   Mulloney, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Cricket; Individual differences; Temporal structure

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

EID: 0742306841     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2003.10.018     Document Type: Article

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