Comodulation detection differences in the hooded crow (Corvus corone cornix), with direct comparison to human subjects

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1783-1789

  Jensen, Kenneth Kragh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

COMODULATION DETECTION DIFFERENCE (CDD); CORVUS CORONE CORNIX; CROW;

BIRDS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CROWS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 34147189032     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2434246     Document Type: Article

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