The role of pressure difference reception in the directional hearing of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 192, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1063-1072

  Larsen, Ole N ^a   Dooling, Robert J ^b   Michelsen, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Directionality; Hearing; Melopsittacus undulatus; Pressure difference receiver

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARDRUM; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PARAKEET; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MELOPSITTACUS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORIENTATION; PRESSURE; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; VIBRATION;

EID: 33749233856     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-006-0138-1     Document Type: Article

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