Representing multiple discrimination cues in a computational model of the bottlenose dolphin auditory system

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2459-2468

  Branstetter, Brian K ^a   Mercado III, Eduardo ^b   Au, Whitlow L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOW PASS FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN AUDITORY SYSTEMS; ECHOLOCATION; GAMMATONE FILTERS; SPECTROGRAMS;

SONAR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EAR; ECHOLOCATION; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34848912795     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2772214     Document Type: Article

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