Sound localization by barn owls in a simulated echoic environment

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3571-3584

  Spitzer, Matthew W ^a,b   Takahashi, Terry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEARING ACUITY; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33744926146     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00982.2005     Document Type: Article

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