Spatial release from masking of aerial tones in pinnipeds

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1219-1225

  Holt, Marla M ^a,b   Schusterman, Ronald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; WHITE NOISE;

AERIAL TONES; PINNIPEDS; TARGET SIGNALS; UNMASKED THRESHOLDS;

BIODIVERSITY;

WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; MALE; MASKING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SOUND; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WHITE NOISE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SEA LIONS; SEALS, EARLESS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846684192     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2404929     Document Type: Article

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