A modeling approach to explain pulse design in bats

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-172

  Boonman, Arjan ^a   Ostwald, Joachim ^b  

^a Institut de neurosciences cognitives de la Méditerranée   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

ECHOLOCATION PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY CHANNELS; HEARING MODEL; PULSE DESIGN;

MAMMALS;

VESPERTILIONIDAE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOLOCATION; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHIROPTERA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOLOCATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34547600286     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-007-0164-2     Document Type: Article

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