Perceptual interaction between carrier periodicity and amplitude-modulation in the gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)

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

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 305-312

  Wiegrebe, Lutz ^a   Sonnleitner, Veronika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gerbil; Modulation; Periodicity; Pitch; Psychoacoustics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GERBIL; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERIODICITY; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 33847179522     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-006-0188-4     Document Type: Article

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