Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) echoic angular discrimination: Effects of object separation and complexity

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 626-635

  Branstetter, Brian K ^a   Mevissen, Sonja J ^b   Pack, Adam A ^a,b   Herman, Louis M ^a,b   Roberts, Scott R ^b   Carsrud, Lea K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Dolphin Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; SONAR; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

ANGULAR DIFFERENCES; OBJECT SEPARATION; PVC RODS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; ECHO; ECHOLOCATION; HEARING ACUITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846257304     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2400664     Document Type: Article

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