Underwater localization of pure tones by harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2263-2269

  Bodson, Anaïs ^a   Miersch, Lars ^a   Dehnhardt, Guido ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

INTERAURAL INTENSITY DIFFERENCES (IID); INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES (ITD); MINIMUM AUDIBLE ANGLES (MAAS); SEALS (PHOCA VITULINA);

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOCA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION;

ANIMALS; IMMERSION; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOCA; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 34848862710     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2775424     Document Type: Article

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