Characterizing noise in nonhuman vocalizations: Acoustic analysis and human perception of barks by coyotes and dogs

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 514-522

  Riede, Tobias ^a,d   Mitchell, Brian R ^b,e   Tokuda, Isao ^a,f   Owren, Michael J ^c,g  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^f MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; CHARACTERIZATION; COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

HARMONIC-TO-NOISE-RATIO (HNR); HUMAN PERCEPTION; MAMMALIAN VOCALIZATION; QUANTIFYING NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BARK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COYOTE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; HEARING; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COYOTES; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 22144450295     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1928748     Document Type: Article

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