Echo features used by human listeners to discriminate among objects that vary in material or wall thickness: Implications for echolocating dolphins

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 605-617

  DeLong, Caroline M ^a   Au, Whitlow W L ^b   Stamper, Sarah A ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BIODIVERSITY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPHERES; STEEL;

ECHO FEATURES; ECHOES; ECHOLOCATING; HUMAN LISTENERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ALUMINUM; GLASS; NYLON; STEEL;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; LOUDNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 33846245115     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2400848     Document Type: Article

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