Changes in signal parameters over time for an echolocating Atlantic bottlenose dolphin performing the same target discrimination task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2446-2450

  Ibsen, Stuart D ^a,b   Au, Whitlow W L ^a   Nachtigall, Paul E ^a   DeLong, Caroline M ^a   Breese, Marlee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRASS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STAINLESS STEEL;

ECHOLOCATION; SIGNAL PARAMETERS; SOURCE LEVELS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

STAINLESS STEEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34848880424     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2772213     Document Type: Article

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